] There's really no evidence that she actually read more than just Uldofo while in Bath. Isabella had a list - but there's no mention of them actually getting on with their reading schedule. After all - that was the day that James and John showed up in town and things got a lot busier after that.

I wondered about that too. But her talk is littered with references to novels - the thing about the scenery in the South of France, in next week's chapters she mentions the character "Montini", there are a few others (which escape my memory now!)