FOOTNOTES [1] _Les Héros de Roman_, 1664, circulated in MS. and printed in 1688 without the consent of the author. Not included in Boileau's _Works_ until 1713. [2] The story of Tellisinda, who to avoid the reproach of barrenness imposes an adopted child upon her husband, but later bearing a son, is obliged to see a spurious heir inherit her own child's estate, was borrowed with slight changes from La Belle Assemblée, I, Day 5, and used in Mrs. Haywood's _Fruitless Enquiry_, (1727). [3] _La Pierre philosophale des dames, ou les Caprices de l'amour et du destin_, by Louis Adrien Duperron de Castera, (1723), 12mo. [4] _L'Illustre Parisienne_, (1679), variously attributed to Préchac and to Mme de Villedieu, had already been translated as _The Illustrious Parisian Maid, or The Secret Amours of a German Prince_, (1680). A synopsis is given by H.E. Chatenet, _Le Roman et les Romans d'une femme de lettres ... Mme de Villedieu_, (Paris, 1911), 253-9. [5] I have not seen a copy of the book. [6] Mrs. E. Griffith's comment on the work is typical of the tendency to moralize even the amusements of the day. See _A Collection of Novels_, (1777), II, 162. "The idea on which this piece is founded, has a good deal of merit in it; as tending to abate envy, and conciliate content; by shewing, in a variety of instances, that appearances are frequently fallacious; that perfect or permanent happiness is not the lot of mortal life; and that peace of mind and rational enjoyment are only to be found in bosoms free from guilt, and from intimate connection with the guilty." [7] I have omitted two or three unessential stories in the analysis. [8] Act I, sc. ii. In the novel the heroine is shut up by a miserly hunks of an uncle to force her into a detested mercenary match with his son. In the play the mistress is the wife of the old and jealous keeper of the asylum. [9] Preface to _The Mercenary Lover_, (1726). [10] _The Rash Resolve_, (1724). [11] _The Double Marriage_, (1726). [12] Lodge's _Rosalynde, ed._ E.C. Baldwin, p. 19. _Philidore and Placentia_ (1727), p. 12. [13] Miss C.E. Morgan, _The Novel of Manners_, (1911), 100. [14] A companion-piece to the third edition of _The Mercenary Lover_, (1728). [15] A companion-piece to _The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress_. [16] _Monthly Review_, XXXVIII, 412, May, 1768. _Clementina; or the History of an Italian Lady, who made her Escape from a Monastery,_ etc. [17] _Critical Review_, XXV, 59. [18] In both editions is advertised "Persecuted Virtue: or, the Cruel Lover. A True Secret History, Writ at the Request of a Lady of Quality," which was advertised also in the _Daily Post_, 28 Nov. 1728. I have not found a copy. [19] An anonymous poem prefixed to Mrs. Elizabeth Boyd's _The Happy Unfortunate; or, the Female Page_ (1737) testifies to Mrs. Haywood's reputation in the following terms: