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  NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

  1. Walter Allen, _The English Novel_ (New York, 1968), p. 4.

  2. Advertised in the _Term Catalogues_, Trinity Term, 1693 (II, 466);Wing L1784, L1785.

  3. It is listed in Harold C. Binkley, "Letter Writing in EnglishLiterature" (unpublished Harvard dissertation, 1923).

  4. They included _Familiar Letters [of] Rochester_ (2 vols., 1697),_Familiar and Courtly Letters [of] Voiture_ (2 vols., 1700), _A Pacquetfrom Will's_ (2nd ed., 1705), _The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown_ (2-4vols., 1707--), and _The Lady's Pacquet of Letters_ (1710). Briscoe wasnot in every case the printer of the first edition.

  5. "A Cologne. Chez *****. MDCXCV." A copy of the volume is in theBibliotheque de l'Arsenal in Paris.

  6. See DNB, _s. v._ "Cockburn, Catherine"; Edmund Gosse, "CatharineTrotter, the First of the Bluestockings," _Fortnightly Review_, N. S.,No. 594 (June 1916), pp. 1034-1048; Alison Fleming, "CatherineTrotter--'the Scots Sappho,'" _Scots Magazine_, XXXIII (1940), 305-314.The source from which all three are derived is Thomas Birch's _The Worksof Mrs. Catherine Cockburn_ (2 vols., 1751), including letters and aprefatory biography.

  7. The play is reproduced in the Augustan Reprint Society'sPublication No. 124 (Los Angeles, 1967), with an introduction by LucyleHook.

  8. Page references are to the "second edition" of 1715. See Paul B.Anderson, "Mistress Delariviere Manley's Biography," _MP_, XXXIII(1935-36), 270-271, for further details.

  9. _The Rise of the Novel_ (London, 1957), Chapter I.

  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

  The text of this facsimile of _Olinda's Adventures_ (from the secondvolume of _Familiar Letters of Love, Gallantry and Several Occasions_[1718]) is published with the permission of the Trustees of the NewberryLibrary. The unique recorded copy (in the Bodleian Library) of theduodecimo first edition of 1693 is too small and too poorly printed tobe reproduced in the present series.