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indicates its parentage. Flossy was the little dog given by the
Robinsons to Anne.
{325} The originals are in the possession of Mr. Alfred Morrison of
Carlton House Terrace, London.
{330} _De Quincey Memorials_, by Alexander H. Japp. 2 vols. 1891.
William Heinemann.
{332a} _Agnes Grey_, a novel, by Acton Bell. Vol. III. London, Thomas
Cautley Newby, publisher, 72 Mortimer Street, Cavendish Square.
{332b} And yet the error not infrequently occurs, and was recently made
by Professor Saintsbury (_Nineteenth Century Literature_), of assuming
that it was _Jane Eyre_ which met with many refusals.
{332c} Mr. Nicholls assures me that the manuscript was not rewritten
after his marriage, although I had thought it possible, not only on
account of its intrinsic merits, which have not been sufficiently
acknowledged, but on account of the singular fact that Mlle. Henri, the
charming heroine, is married in a white muslin dress, and that her
going-away dress was of lilac silk. These were the actual wedding
dresses of Mrs. Nicholls.
{333} Anne Marsh (1791-1874), a daughter of James Caldwell, J.P., of
Linley Wood, Staffordshire, married a son of the senior partner in the
London banking firm of Marsh, Stacey, & Graham. Her first volume
appeared in 1834, and contained, under the title of _Two Old Men's
Tales_, two stories, _The Admiral's Daughter_ and _The Deformed_, which
won considerable popularity.
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