1. See Jane Austen, Persuasion, ed. by Janet Todd and Antje Blank (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006), p. lviii.
2. Marilyn Butler, Jane Austen and the War of Ideas (Oxford: Clarendon, 1975), p. 290. A volume of Byron’s poetry appeared alongside editions of Scott’s Marmion and The Lady of the Lake in an exhibition of Jane Austen’s reading at Chawton House Library in 2009.
3. Jane Austen, Persuasion, ed. by Gillian Beer (London: Penguin, 1998), p. 94. Subsequent references will be given in the text.
4. Susan Allen Ford, ‘Learning Romance from Scott and Byron: Jane Austen’s Natural Sequel’, Persuasions, 26 (2004), pp. 72–88 (p. 73).
5. John Halperin, The Life of Jane Austen (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1984), p. 303.