"Assuming the editor's responsibility for the incriminated interpolations, who wrote the article itself? Secrets have a bad time of it in our day, and the authorship of the article is no longer a secret. As has been generally suspected, the writer was a woman, and that woman was Miss Rigby, the daughter of a Norwich doctor, and was better known as Lady Eastlake. "The well-kept secret has been brought to light by Doctor Robertson Nicoll in the 'Bookman' of September, 1892. Doctor Nicoll found the key to the mystery in a letter written on March 31, 1849, by Sara Coleridge to Edward Quillman, and published in the 'Memoirs and Letters of Sara Coleridge.' The following is the passage referred to: "'Miss Rigby's article on "Vanity Fair" was brilliant, as all her productions are. But I could not agree to the concluding remark about governesses. How could it benefit that uneasy class to reduce the number of their employers, which, if high salaries were considered in all cases indispensable, must necessarily be the result of such a state of opinion?' "The 'Quarterly' article on 'Vanity Fair' dealt also with 'Jane Eyre,' and with the 'Report of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution for 1847,' and it is without doubt the article referred to by Sara Coleridge. "On this matter Sara Coleridge was not likely to be under any mistake. Miss Rigby was her intimate friend, and not likely to conceal from her so important a literary event as the production of a 'Quarterly' review. "I am also informed that Mr. George Smith, the publisher of 'Jane Eyre,' declares without hesitation or doubt that he had always known that Lady Eastlake was the author of the 'Quarterly' article, and that he had declined to meet her at dinner on account of it. "The fact that the brilliant Miss Rigby was the writer of the review greatly strengthens my interpolation theory. To me it seems beyond the range of things probable, that the pharisaic part of the article could have come from the same source as 'Livonian Tales' and the 'Letters from the Shores of the Baltic.' "The article is therefore of a composite character. It was written by Miss Rigby the year before her marriage with Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, and heavily edited during the reign of Lockhart. I know it will be said that the genial Lockhart would not have added the objectionable fustian to the superior material supplied by Miss Rigby; but I must repeat that it was his duty, as a mere matter of business, and a purely editorial affair, to maintain the traditional tone of the 'Review.'"