Baillie, Joanna, 172. Balls— Bath, at, 222-225. Country, 119-120. Dances at, 121 (_see also_ Dancing). Dress at, 124-127; masculine, 126. Etiquette of, 121-123. _Evelina_, account in, 121-123. Formality of, 121. Partners at, 121-123. Bateson, Mary, _cited_, 238. Bath— Abbey, 219. Assembly Rooms, 220-221. Austens’ removal to, 212-213, 215-218; house in Sydney Place, 219; table of residences, 325. Balls at, 222-225. Characteristics of the town, 219. House-hunting in, 215-218. Nash’s renovation of, 220-221, 247-248. _New Guide_ on, 224. Pump Room, 219-220. Society of, reproduced in _Northanger Abbey_, 189-190. Besant, Sir Walter, _quoted_—on eighteenth-century morals, 95; on franking of letters, 113-114; on wigs, 235-236. “Blue-stocking,” origin of epithet, 7. Boothby, Capt. Charles, _quoted_, 156-157. Brabourne, Lord, family of, 18, 301; _cited_—on the Coopers, 117-118; on Fanny Knight, 270; _quoted_—on Godmersham, 251-252, 261. Brasbridge, Joseph, _cited_, 114. Bridges, Harriet, _see_ Moore. Bridges, Louisa, 148, 149. Bridges, Marianne, 253. Brontë, Charlotte, compared with George Eliot, 100-102; with Jane Austen, 103-104. Brydges, Sir Egerton, on Jane’s appearance, 57. Burnet, Bishop, _quoted_, 47. Burney, Fanny, works of, 86-87, 97; Macaulay’s criticism of, 164-165; Walpole’s criticism of, 165; lively environment of, 164; _cited_—on the Court, 305-306. Byron, 173. Cage, Lewis, 148, 149. _Camilla_, 165. Campbell, Thomas, 173. Caps, 230-232. Card games, 5, 127. _Cecilia_, 86, 87, 97, 165, 176. Charades, 264. Chawton Cottage, Austens’ home at, 266-270. Chawton House— Acquisition of, by Edward Knight, 17. Lawsuit concerning, 128, 297. Value of, 255, 297. _Cheverels of Cheverel Manor, The_, 8, 65, 67, 77; travelling described in, 154-155. Children— Books for, 28. Jane’s attitude towards, 23-24; her popularity with, 23; her delineation of, 24-27. Treatment of, 22, 27. Churches, 38-39. Clarence, Duke of (William IV.), 307. _Clarentine_, 168. Clarke, Mr., 304-305. Clergy— Examination of, for Orders, 46-47. Jane’s references to, 43. Livings of, 42. Position of, 34-37, 44-45. Types of, 40-43. Coaches, 156-158, 282. Coals and coal mines, 64-65. _Cœlebs in Search of a Wife_, estimate of, 167; _quoted_, 27, 30; _cited_, 96. Coleridge, 173. Comedy of Jane Austen, character of, 1, 88. Cooper, Dr., 117, 119. Cooper, Edward, 117-118. Cooper, Jane (Lady Williams), 118. _Country Clergyman_—_cited_, 40. Country gentlemen, 91. Cowper, William, Jane’s partiality for, 14, 58, 169, 170, 258; _quoted_—on the clergy, 37, 40; on condition of labourers, 74. Crabbe, 170-171, 293.