[5] Memoirs of the Court of Lilliput, 16.

[6] The Dunciad. 1728.  Book II, lines 137-48, and 170; Book III, lines 149-53.

[7] Elwin and Courthope ’s Pope, IV, 282.

[8] A second engraving by Vertue after Parmentier formed the frontispiece of Secret Histories, Novels, and Poems.

[9] E. Curll, Key to the Dunciad, 12.  Some copies apparently read “peer” for “poet.”  See Elwin and Courthope’s Pope, IV, 330, note pp.; and Sir Sidney Lee, article Haywood in the D.N.B.

[10] Elwin and Courthope’s Pope, IV, 330, note ss.

[11] Elwin and Courthope’s Pope, IV, 294.

[12] Elwin and Courthope’s Pope, IV, 232.  See also 159, note I.

[13] T.E.  Lounsbury, The Text of Shakespeare, 281. “‘The Popiad’ which appeared in July, and ‘The Female Dunciad’ which followed the month after ... were essentially miscellanies devoted to attacks upon the poet, and for them authors were not so much responsible as publishers.”

[14] Elwin and Courthope’s Pope, IV, 141, note 5.

[15] Notes and Queries, Ser.  I, X, 110.  The words italicized by me refer to Pope’s description of Theobald’s library, The Dunciad, (1728), Book I, line 106.

[16] T. R. Lounsbury, The Text of Shakespeare, 275.  “But the attack upon Mrs. Haywood exceeded all bounds of decency.  To the credit of the English race nothing so dastardly and vulgar can be found elsewhere in English literature.  If the influence of ‘The Dunciad’ was so all-powerful as to ruin the prospects of any one it satirized, it ought certainly to have crushed her beyond hope of any revival.  As a matter of fact Mrs. Haywood’s most successful and popular writings were produced after the publication of that poem, and that too at a period when Pope’s predominance was far higher than it was at the time the satire itself appeared.”

[17] A. Esdaile, English Tales and Romances, Introduction, xxviii.

[18] The Mercenary Lover....  Written by the Author of Memoirs of the said Island [Utopia] and described on the half-title as by E. H. and The Fair Captive, a tragedy not originally written by her.

[19] Philobillon Soc.  Misc., IV, 12.  “Clio must be allowed to be a most complete poetess, if she really wrote those poems that bear her name; but it has of late been so abused and scandalized, that I am informed she has lately changed it for that of Myra.”  Quoted from the British Journal, 24 September, 1726.  I am indebted to Miss Dorothy Brewster’s Aaron Hill, 189, for this reference.

[20] See Clara Reeve, The Progress of Romance (1785), I, 121. [I have re-arranged the passage for the sake of brevity.]

  “Soph. I have heard it often said that Mr. Pope was too severe in
  his treatment of this lady:  it was supposed that she had given some
  private offence, which he resented publicly, as was too much his way.