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Lippi, Filippo and Filippino 60, 96

  ‘Loafing’ 103, 151

  Loch Fyne, Scotland 12, 21, 23, 62, 224

  Lochgilphead, Scotland 13–14

  London see individual area and place name

  London Scottish Regiment 63, 76, 82, 137, 226

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 15, 21, 177, 224; ‘My Lost Youth’ 15

  ‘Long Odds’ 7, 70

  Lorne, Lord 17

  ‘Love’s Reveille’ 144

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington 38, 223; Lays of Ancient Rome 3, 4, 48, 97

  ‘Magic Ring, The’ 135–6

  Marseilles, France 173

  Martineau, Harriet 228

  Mary I, Queen 49

  McGilp, Rory 16

  Methuen & Company 193–4

  Meredith, George 95

  Middleton, William Campbell 194

  Milne, A. A.: Toad of Toad Hall 241

  Milton, John: Paradise Lost 48

  Morris, William 58

  Moulton, John Fletcher 143, 152, 156, 157, 161, 182–3, 214

  Mount, The, Cookham Dean, Berkshire 23–31, 37, 38, 40, 42, 62, 71, 74, 91, 94, 100, 107, 116, 119, 136, 177, 178, 224

  ‘Mutabile Semper’ 139–40, 142

  National Gallery 60, 96

  National Observer 103, 104, 115, 116, 117, 121, 122, 132, 214

  New English Dictionary 64

  New Review 126, 134

  New Shakspere Society 61, 64, 76, 85, 137

  Odyssey, The (Homer) 8, 199–200

  ‘Of Smoking’ 103, 151

  Old Malthouse, The, Dorset 217, 220, 237

  ‘Olympians, The’ 33, 106, 107, 115–17, 121, 123, 125–6, 137, 180, 193, 198, 200, 214, 224, 243

  ‘Orion’ 70

  O’Shea, Katherine 102

  Oxford 37–50, 57–8, 76, 77, 92, 96, 184, 195, 227, 229, 237

  Oxford Movement 41, 96

  Oxford University 46, 48, 49, 50, 57–8, 76, 227

  Pagan Papers 117–19, 121, 126

  Pall Mall Gazette 82, 95, 132

  Pangbourne, Berkshire 184, 237, 238, 239–40, 242

  Paris, France 173, 219

  Parnell, Charles 102

  Payn, James 101–2

  Pinturicchio 60, 96

  Pitlochry, Scotland 61, 62, 97

  Pocock, Guy 239

  Potter, Beatrix: The Tale of Peter Rabbit 189, 194

  Presbyterianism 24

  Punch 84, 135, 197

  Purves, Austin 190, 194, 195–6, 207–8, 212, 213, 223, 226–7, 238

  Purves, Betsy 194

  Pyrenees 173

  Quarry Wood, Berkshire 23–4, 27, 205

  Quiller-Couch, Arthur ‘Q’ 159–60, 161, 173, 181, 183, 200, 206, 218, 222, 223, 225, 238, 241, 243

  Quiller-Couch, Bevill 218, 238

  Raeburn, Henry 103

  ‘Reluctant Dragon, The’ vii, 11, 38, 80–1, 123, 127–8, 172

  Richardson, Mary 91, 92

  Robert the Bruce 10

  Robertson, Graham 180–1, 192–3, 194, 206, 212, 223, 224, 225, 226

  Roberts, Tom 93

  Rodd, Sir Rennell 235

  ‘Romance of the Road, The’ 55, 114, 115

  ‘Roman Road, The’ 123, 169

  Rome, Italy 97, 234–5, 236

  Roosevelt, Theodore 190, 195, 198

  Rural Pan, The’ 59, 72, 103, 119

  Ruskin, John 60, 77; The Stones of Venice 77

  ‘Saga of the Seas, A’ 7–8, 102, 144

  Sala, George Augustus: Twice Round the Clock; or the Hours of the Day and Night in London 70

  Sanger, George 21, 239

  Sargent, John Singer 180–1

  ‘Sawdust and Sin’ 121, 166

  Scotland see individual area or place name

  Scots Observer 103, 111, 118

  Scott, Walter 12, 21, 242

  Scribner’s Magazine 126

  ‘Secret Drawer, The’ 86

  Shakespeare, William 38, 223, 241

  Sharp, Evelyn 108, 124, 125–6, 138, 144

  Shaw, George Bernard 95

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe 235, 241; The Cenci 95–6, 123, 135

  Shelley Society 95

  Shepard, E. H. 241

  Simpson, Dr James 9–10

  Sitwell, Osbert 237–8

  Smedley, Constance 189–92, 193, 210, 213, 214

  Smith, Elder & Co 82

  Smith, Gregory 134

  ‘Snowbound’ 115

  Soho, London 60, 65, 83, 96

  Solferino’s, Chiswick 104–5

  Spain 173

  ‘Spell of Oxford, The’ 40

  St Edward’s School Chronicle 48–9, 64, 75, 228

  St Edward’s School, Oxford 37, 39–50, 53, 63, 64, 73, 74, 75, 77, 96, 108, 137, 228

  St Giles’ Fair 45

  St James’s Gazette 88, 100–1, 102

  Stevenson, Robert Louis 4, 84, 102, 103–4, 105, 115

  ‘An Apology for Idlers’ 30, 103

  ‘Pan’s Pipes’ 103

  Treasure Island 93, 102, 167

  Virginibus Puerisque 103–4, 105, 116

  ‘Stevensonettes’ 104, 116, 120, 121, 124, 126, 151, 224

  Stott, Naomi 189, 207

  Streatley, Berkshire 80, 112, 114

  Swinburne, Algernon 126, 223

  Switzerland 195–6, 207

  Symonds, A. J. A. 233

  Symons, Arthur: ‘Stella Maris’ 122

  Syrett, Netta 124

  Teignmouth, Devon 155

  Tenniel, John 141–2, 213, 237

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 38, 100, 141, 213, 220, 223, 240; Morte d’Arthur 64–5

  Thames, river 22, 23, 27, 30, 46, 60, 80, 85, 178, 184

  Thomson, Courtauld (brother-in-law) 157, 161, 182–3

  Times Literary Supplement 195

  ‘To Rollo, Untimely Taken’ 135

  Torquay, Devon 153

  Toynbee Hall, Stepney 76, 82, 104, 111, 132, 137

  Venice, Italy 71, 97–8

  Victoria, Queen 13

  Villino Landau, Italy 96

  Waller, A. R. 221–2, 223

  Ward, Sidney 104, 111–13, 181

  Wells, H. G. 104

  Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 76–7, 104

  ‘Whitewashed Uncle, A’ 115

  Whitman, Walt 100

  Wilde, Oscar 95, 134–5, 196

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser 126

  Wind in the Willows, The 8, 13, 14–15, 27, 49, 57, 64, 77–8, 79, 80, 87, 92, 93, 107, 112–13, 114, 119, 133, 158–9, 160, 177, 184, 190, 192, 200, 207, 211–12, 214, 225, 227–8, 237, 238, 241

  birth of 177–9

  changes life of author 178–9

  illustrations 194, 241

  message of 225

  The Odyssey (Homer) and 8, 199–200

  principal characters in 200–1

  publication 193–4, 222

  reviews 194–5, 222–3

  style and subject of 196–201

  writing of 189, 190, 191–3

  Woodside, South Ascot 182

  Wordsworth, William 107, 108, 224

  Yeats, W. B. 104, 194

  Yellow Book, The 120–3, 124, 125, 126, 134–5, 137, 138, 214

  ‘Young Adam Cupid’ 115

  Young Visiters, The 58

  About Matthew Dennison

  MATTHEW DENNISON is the author of five critically acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West and Over the Hills and Far Away; The Life of Beatrix Potter.

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