Note 10 — Front matter
Reading edition
I, 153. Ernest A. Baker makes a similar statement (The History of the English Novel [1937], III, 46). With respect to the influence of The Notorious Impostor on Mrs. Eliza Haywood, he should have cited Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751)—the very book praised by Captain Minikin as "worth reading" in Ferdinand Count Fathom (Chap. XXXIX).