4 On Collier’s early life and family circumstances, see Betty Rizzo, Companions Without Vows: Relationships among Eighteenth-Century British Women (Athens, Ga. and London: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 337 n. 8; and Tom Keymer, ‘Jane Collier, Reader of Richardson, and the Fire Scene in Clarissa’, in Albert J. Rivero (ed.), New Essays on Samuel Richardson (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), 141–61, at 144–5.