Note 77 — CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS: (continued 3)

Those who desire to further investigate the utter misery of female authorship may be referred to Whyte’s vivid description of an interview with Mrs. Clarke (the daughter of Colley Cibber), about the purchase of a novel. It is appended to an edition of his own poems, printed at Dublin, 1792; and has been reproduced in Hone’s “Table Book,” vol. i.—Ed.