by A. N. Wilson
Dombey and Son (Dickens), 45, 100, 146, 200–201
Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich, 6, 84, 281
Doughty Street, Holborn, 36, 45, 120, 210, 296
de Douhault, Mme, 137
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 272
Drummond Street, 206
Drury Lane Theatre, Covent Garden, 37, 237
Dublin, Ireland, 23, 310
Dunsterforce (1917–18), 22, 316
Edinburgh, Scotland, 111, 114
Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom, 207
Egg, Augustus, 37
Elgin, Lord, see Bruce, Thomas
Eliot, George, 6, 16, 43, 140, 155, 204, 208, 232, 239, 277, 307, 308
Elliot, Frances, 217–18
Elliotson, John, 261, 263–7
Emerson, James, 250
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 220
Enlightenment, 261
epilepsy, 263
Eton College, Berkshire, 148, 296
Euston Station, London, 227–8, 229
Eva Trout (Bowen), 46–7, 303
evangelicalism, 164–5, 166, 167, 168
Evans, Frederick, 129
Evening Chronicle, 114, 167
‘Evening with Charles Dickens, An’, 317
Every Man in His Humour (Jonson), 37, 206
Eyre, Edward John, 182, 312
Fabian Society, 162
Facts of Mesmerism, The (Townshend), 265
False Self, 95–6, 100
Falstaff Inn, Gad’s Hill, 11, 12
Farewell Tour, 232
Fielding, Henry, 231
Fields, Anne, 229, 243
Fields, James Thomas, 220, 223–4, 229, 243
Firbank, Ronald, 308
First World War (1914–18), 162, 238, 316
Fitzclarences, 139
Fitzherbert, Maria, 139
Flaubert, Gustave, 202
Florence, Italy, 219
Fontane, Theodor, 202
Forster, John, 35, 79
and Autobiographical Fragment (1849), 155–6
death of Charles (1870), 295, 296, 298
and Elizabeth Dickens, 89
and Kate Dickens, 104, 123, 130
Every Man in His Humour performance (1845), 37
Life of Charles Dickens, The, 20, 74, 121, 234
Mystery of Edwin Drood and, 275, 276, 277
and public readings, 201, 207, 209
on Seven Dials, 231
and Warren’s Blacking, 74–5, 78, 79, 82
Will of Charles Dickens, publication of, 20
Fort House, Broadstairs, 46, 125
Fountain Hotel, Canterbury, 247
France, 16–17, 18, 76, 106, 108
Revolution (1789–99), 261, 262, 313
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), 48
Franklin, John, 7
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 7, 8, 32, 38
Freud, Sigmund, 32
Froude, James Anthony, 121
Frozen Deep, The (Collins), 7, 9, 10, 32, 38, 39, 201, 206, 207, 248, 297, 316
Fry, Elizabeth, 179
Frye, Northrop, 163–4
Furnival’s Inn, London, 111, 120
Gad’s Hill, Kent, 5, 11, 12, 40, 41, 58, 60, 99, 129–30, 132, 195
Christmas games at, 53–4, 60, 73, 74, 99
death of Dickens (1870), 7, 11–16, 40, 48, 49, 73, 101–3, 255, 276, 286
Dickens’s Dream depiction (1875), 45–6
Georgina’s, household management, 11, 105, 125, 134
library, 160–61
Nancy murder enactments, 150, 195, 198, 207, 232–3
Swiss chalet, 102, 256, 276, 282
Garrick Club, London, 132, 237
Garrick, David, 268
Gaslight, 131
General Gordon’s Last Stand (Joy), 300
General Theatrical Fund, 25
Genoa, Italy, 268, 269, 293
George IV, King of the United Kingdom, 78, 80, 139
‘George Silverman’s Explanation’ (Dickens), 94
Gerrard Street, London, 74, 75
Gilbert, William Schwenck, 312
Gladstone, William Ewart, 188, 205, 247
Gloucester Crescent, Camden Town, 100, 102–6
Glums, The, 304
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 121
gonorrhoea, 145–6, 150, 286
Gordon Riots (1780), 313
Gordon-Lennox, Charles, 5th Duke of Richmond, 156
Grant, Ulysses, 223
Gray’s Inn, London, 36
‘Great Baby, The’ (Dickens), 166, 167–70
Great Exhibition (1851), 38, 161, 165
Great Expectations (Dickens), 41, 56–7, 141, 191, 195, 248–9, 283
as autobiographical, 195, 248–9, 277
Elizabeth Dickens and, 90–91
Great Expectations (cont.)
Maria Beadnell and, 107
Nelly Ternan and, 248
prison in, 84–5, 174–5, 180–81
sex in, 257
Shorne in, 292
siblings and, 79
Swinburne on, 195
three-gabled house in, 273
Grimaldi, Joseph, 29, 35, 239, 319
Hager, Kelly, 137
Hall, William, 116, 120
Hall’s bookshop, Strand, 116
Hamblin, 221
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 23, 36, 237
Hanley, Staffordshire, 209
Hard Times (Dickens), 39, 146, 162, 171–2, 173, 175, 200, 201, 312
Hardwick, Philip, 227
Hardy, Thomas, 137, 307
Harley Street, London, 313
Harness, William, 234
Harrow School, Middlesex, 234, 303
Harte, Bret, 220
Hartley, Jenny, 150–51, 155, 156–7
Haunted House, The (Dickens), 81
Hawksley, Lucinda, 159
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 124
Hayter, Alethea, 244
Headland, Thomas, 212
Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland, 136
Henty, George Alfred, 302
Hereford Times, 159
Heroin, 246
Hesse, Hermann, 308
Higham, Kent, 13
Hitchcock, Alfred, 233
Hitler, Adolf, 238
Hobbes, Thomas, 49
Hogarth, Catherine, see Dickens, Catherine
Hogarth, George, 114, 205
Hogarth, Georgina, 105, 114, 122, 125, 133–4, 310
Birmingham Christmas reading (1853), 205
death of Charles (1870), 11, 13–14, 15, 73, 99, 255, 296–7
household management, 11, 105, 125, 134
Naples trip (1845), 128
Nelly, relationship with, 21–2, 134, 315
public reading tours and, 213, 215
Violated Letter (1858), 132, 133–4
Will of Charles Dickens (1870), 134
Hogarth, Helen, 132, 133
Hogarth, Mary, 114, 121, 122
Hogarth, Robert, 114
Holly Lodge, Highgate, 147
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 220
Homer, 72
homosexuality, 265
Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Southwark, 176
Hotel Meloni, Rome, 269–70
Houghton Place, Ampthill Square, 12, 21
House, Humphry, 67, 146, 171
House, Madeline, 17
Household Words, 9, 25, 40, 105, 115, 124, 129, 146
Charley’s editing, 296
‘Curious Dance Round a Curious
Tree, A’ (1852), 28
‘Great Baby, The’ (1855), 166, 167–70
‘Lying Awake’ (1852), 176
Millais, criticism of (1850), 159
‘Nightly Scene in London, A’ (1856), 189–90
‘Pet Prisoners’ (1850), 179
‘Red Tape’ (1851), 170
Urania Cottage article (1853), 147
‘Violated Letter’ (1858), 133
Wellington Street offices, 215, 229, 296
Wills’ editing, 124, 1
29, 214
Huffam, Christopher, 177
Hughes, Thomas, 299
Hull, Yorkshire, 230
Human Physiology (Elliotson), 261
Hundred Days (1815), 61
Independent Labour Party, 188
Industrial Revolution, 64–5
Inns of Court, London, 23, 111, 113, 248, 273
Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers (Abercrombie), 260–61
International Monetary Fund, 65
Invisible Woman, The (Tomalin), 297
Ireland, 23, 210, 310
Isle of Wight, 297
Italy, 21, 40, 128, 217, 219, 268–9, 293
ITMA (It’s That Man Again), 304
Jamaica, 182–3, 312
James, Henry, 47, 48
Jarman, Frances ‘Fanny’, 23
Jerrold, Douglas, 125, 176
Jobber Skald (Powys), 239
Johann Peter Eckermann, 121
Johns, William Earl, 302
Johnson, Andrew, 222–4
Johnson, Edgar, 133
Johnson, Samuel, 93, 121
Jonson, Ben, 37, 199
Joy, George William, 300
Kafka, Franz, 312
Kant, Immanuel, 22
Kapital, Das (Marx), 86, 87, 162, 163
Kaplan, Fred, 260
Katherine of Aragon, 136
Kean, Edmund, 9, 23, 35
Keats, John, 74, 267
Kelly, Frances, 37
Kemble, Charles, 23, 101
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 300
Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, 25, 40
King Lear (Shakespeare), 29, 218, 237
King’s Cross, London, 228, 229
Kingdom of Naples (1282–1816), 128
Kingsley Amis, 308
Kingsmill, Hugh, 94
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 262
Lamb, William, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, 137–8
Lamert, George, 82
Lamert, James, 70, 82–3
Lamert, Matthew, 70
Lamplighter, The (Dickens), 36
Lancet, The, 263
Larkin, Philip, 306–10
Latter-Day Pamphlet (Carlyle), 178–9
laudanum, 4, 244, 247
Lavoisier, Antoine, 261
Lawrence, David Herbert, 43, 307
Leavis, Queenie Dorothy, 118, 162–3, 168
Lee, Robert Edward, 223
Leeds City Art Gallery, 300
Lemon, Mark, 8, 37, 133
Leno, Dan, 29
de Leon, Thomas Cooper, 173–4
Letters of Charles Dickens, The, 145
Lewes, George, 16, 37, 140
Liberal Party, 82, 187, 214, 246
Library Edition, 215
Library of Fiction, The, 116
Life of Charles Dickens, The (Forster), 20, 74, 121, 234
Life of Mr Richard Savage (Johnson), 93
Life of Our Lord (Dickens), 55, 160
Lillie, Benjamin, 131
Limehouse, London, 148, 244
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, 234
Literary and Mechanics’ Institutes, Birmingham, 209
Little Dorrit (Dickens), 8, 9, 39–41, 54–5, 146, 286
Civil Service in, 164, 171
Elizabeth Dickens and, 30–33, 54–5, 90
John Dickens and, 40, 54–5, 75–6, 89–90
Kate Dickens and, 140
lesbianism in, 44
Maria Beadnell and, 106, 109–10
Nelly Ternan and, 30, 32, 33, 140
prison in, 85–7
sex in, 258
Shaw on, 86, 162
Sunday in, 167
Tattycoram, 157
voice in, 200
Liverpool, Merseyside, 113, 216, 220, 226–7
Lloyd George, David, 187, 190
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 294
London Recreations’ (Dickens), 167
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 220
Lord’s Day Observance Society, 170
Lord’s Day, 166–70
Lowell, James Russell, 220
Lucas, John, 22
Luddites, 262
‘Lying Awake’ (Dickens), 176
Lytton, Lord, see Bulwer-Lytton, Robert
Lytton, Robert, 209
‘Mabel’ (Locker-Lampson), 294
Mabel’s Progress (Trollope), 219
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 237, 281
Macready, William, 36, 37, 237–8, 266, 267
Malthus, Thomas, 187
Malvern, Worcestershire, 25, 125, 302
Manchester, England, 7, 8, 32, 38
Manners, John, 136
Manning, Frederick and Maria, 176–7, 178
Mansfield Park (Austen), 272
Margate, Kent, 21, 314–16, 318–19
Marriage Act (1753), 137
Marshalsea, Southwark, 30, 40, 76, 86, 87, 109, 115, 214, 271, 297
Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens), 34, 198–200, 206, 211, 214, 311
Martineau, Harriet, 130
Marx, Karl, 32, 65, 81, 86, 87, 162, 163
Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, 148
Mary of Teck, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, 148
Mary, Queen of Scots, 319
Marylebone, London, 62, 64
Massachusetts, United States
justice system, 182
Mesmerism in, 266
Parkman–Webster murder case (1849), 250–53, 279
public reading tours, 123, 220–21, 224–6, 229, 250
Mathews, Charles, 35, 101
Matrimonial Causes Act (1857), 136, 138
Maurice, Frederick Denison, 314
Mayor of Casterbridge, The (Hardy), 137
‘Maze, The’ (Auden), 249
Medusa, 31
Medway river, 27, 55–8, 284
Méjan, Maurice, 137
Melancholy Man, The (Lucas), 22
Melbourne, Lord, see Lamb, William
Meredith, George, 140
Meredith, Hannah, 147
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare), 37, 206, 293
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 255, 260, 261, 262
mesmerism, 4, 100, 105, 141, 195, 238–9, 255, 260–70
Metropolitan Sanitary Association, 165
Middlemarch (Eliot), 43
Middlesex Hospital, London, 68
Middlesex House of Correction, 151
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 9, 45
Mill, John Stuart, 81, 155, 162, 172, 179, 183
Millais, John Everett, 159, 291–2
Misnar, the Sultan of India (Dickens), 96
modernism, 6, 39, 81, 208, 278
Monthly Magazine, 111, 116
Moonrise Kingdom, 197
Moonstone, The (Collins), 253, 283–4
Moore, Thomas, 147
Morant Bay Rebellion (1865), 182, 312
More, Hannah, 319
Morning Chronicle, 107, 111, 114, 137
Mornington Crescent, Camden Town, 12
Morris, William, 292
Mortimer Street, London, 62
Mount Vesuvius, 128
Murray, Lindley, 319
Mussolini, Benito, 238
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (Dickens), 4, 6, 11, 44, 67, 141, 166, 229, 243–87, 292
animal magnetism and, 253, 255, 260–70
atmospherics, 282–4
as autobiographical, 248–9
Cloisterham, models for, 5, 273–5
graveyard humour, 292–5
modernism, 278
Nelly Ternan and, 254–6, 260, 270–71, 275, 277, 285
opium in, 4, 243–7, 253, 274, 276, 277, 278, 279, 281, 284
Parkman–Webster murder case and, 250–53, 279
Stony Durdles, 269, 281, 292–5
Nabokov, Vladimir, 196, 198, 200, 203, 278, 308
Naples, Kingdom of (1282–1816), 128
Napoleon I, emperor of the French, 61, 64
Napoleonic Wars (1803–15), 48, 61, 64, 186
National Sunday League
, 167
Navy Lark, The, 304
Navy Pay Office, 61, 63, 92
Nelson, Horatio, 61
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 225
New Bond Street, London, 212, 226
New Haven, Connecticut, 222
New Magdalen, The (Collins), 314
New York Herald, 174
New York, United States, 199, 216, 221–2
Newcastle upon Tyne, 24
Newman brothers, 155
Niagara, New York, 225
Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens), 8, 21, 23, 59–60, 89, 286, 301–2
‘Nightly Scene in London, A’ (Dickens), 189–90
nitrate of silver, 145, 150
Nonconformism, 163
Norfolk Street, London, 62
North-West Passage, 7
Norton, Caroline, 138–9
Norton, George, 137–8
Not So Bad As We Seem (Bulwer-Lytton), 25, 38, 125
‘Nurse’s Stories’ (Dickens), 126
O’Connor, Patrick, 176
O’key, Elizabeth and Jane, 263–4, 267
‘Old Cumberland Beggar, The’ (Wordsworth), 184–7
Old Curiosity Shop, The (Dickens), 3–4, 21, 23, 39, 90, 200, 265, 316–19
Quilp, 3, 128–9, 131, 178, 180, 195, 254, 257, 316
Oliver Twist (Dickens), 35, 44, 66–7, 120, 171, 188, 195, 283, 301–2
marriage in, 127
Nancy, 44, 150, 172, 195, 198, 207, 232–6, 238, 257, 258, 283
paedophilia in, 60
prison in, 84
‘On an Amateur Beat’ (Dickens), 154
‘On the Circuit’ (Auden), 225
Opium and the Romantic Imagination (Hayter), 244
opium, 4, 243–7, 253, 274, 276, 277, 278, 279, 281, 284
Orange Blossoms (Wooler), 315
Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The (Waugh), 34, 70
Othello (Shakespeare), 23, 237
Our Mutual Friend (Dickens), 15, 141, 185, 208, 212, 280, 283
Seven Dials and, 231
sex in, 44, 258
Staplehurst railway crash and, 19–20, 212
Swinburne on, 313
workhouses in, 67
voice in, 200
Ouvry, Frederic, 11, 297
Oxford, Oxfordshire, 20, 207–8
Oxford Movement, 160–61
Paget, Henry, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, 263
Painter, Michael, 271
Palmerston, Lord, see Temple, Henry John
pantomime, 5, 6, 7, 33, 39, 42, 44, 46–8, 72, 81, 162, 170, 312
clowns, 27–30, 35, 239
in David Copperfield, 46
in Great Expectations, 44
in Little Dorrit, 164
in Old Curiosity Shop, 254
in Oliver Twist, 46
in Pickwick Papers, 46, 164
Parkman, George, 250–53, 279
Patmore, Coventry, 136
Peckham, London, 12, 13–14, 21, 216, 219, 229, 255, 256, 259
Pendennis (Thackeray), 113, 115
Percy, Thomas, 53, 58
Persia, 22, 316
Personae (Pound), 208
Perugini, Catherine ‘Katey’, 17, 38, 42, 44, 99, 101–5, 122, 132, 296, 250, 286, 296
‘Pet Prisoners’ (Dickens), 179