Palmer, Samuel, 34
Palmer, William, 20, 162–4
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 255
Paris: Collins family visit, 33; WC visits with Charles Ward Jr, 59–61; WC revisits, 63, 119, 252, 256, 333, 357, 361; revolution (1848), 69; WC visits with Dickens, 137, 146–8, 150–1; Haussmann’s improvements, 147; WC visits with Caroline, 218–19; in Franco-Prussian War, 308
Parkinson, J.C., 304
Parthia, SS, 345
Pater, Walter, 297
Payn, James, 365
Peel, Sir Robert, 33, 52, 70
Penny Illustrated Paper, 410
Pentecostalism, 28
People’s Palace, Mile End Road, 411
Perceval, John, 195
‘Percy and the Prophet’ (WC; story), 362
Perfectionists (US sect), 345
‘Perils of Certain English Prisoners’ (WC with Dickens), 178
Peters, Catherine, 419
‘Petition to the Novel-Writer, A’ (WC; article), 168
Phillips, Sir George, 30
philosophy: and cognition, 274–5
Phyllis (steam yacht), 388
Pigott family, 93, 144
Pigott, Blanche (née Arundell), 161
Pigott, Edward Smyth: friendship with WC, 92–4, 398; as law student, 92–3; and family affairs, 93, 128, 144, 146; and future of Leader, 96; and WC’s completion of Basil, 102; and WC’s travels abroad, 122; supports WC’s membership of Garrick Club, 132; and Lewes-George Eliot liaison, 133; and WC’s play writing, 136; financial difficulties, 139; visits Dickens in Folkestone, 143; voyage to Scilly Isles with WC, 144–5; WC stays with, 148; sailing, 161–2, 216, 254, 272, 314; friendship with Dickens, 164; acts in The Frozen Deep, 172; WC dedicates The Dead Secret to, 173; musical evenings, 203; as Examiner of Plays, 217, 269, 351, 384; visits WC in Broadstairs, 229; WC entertains, 231; accompanies WC to Norfolk, 248; secrecy over WC’s ill-health, 251; as political correspondent on Daily News, 254, 264; accompanies WC to Rome, 267; lends books to WC, 287; attends WC’s funeral, 409; and proposed memorial to WC, 410
Pigott, Henry Smyth (Edward’s brother), 128, 144
Pigott, Jim (J.W.; Henry’s son), 388
Pigott, John (Edward’s brother), 144, 146, 161
Pigott, John (Henry’s son), 198
Pitt, Thomas (‘Diamond’), 281
Pius IX, Pope, 75
‘Plea for Sunday Reform, A’ (WC), 92
Poe, Edgar Allan: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, 273; ‘The Purloined Letter’, 164, 298
‘Poisoned Meal, The’ (WC; story), 182, 198
Poles, Stefan, 330
police: criticised in ‘My Lady’s Money’, 362
polygamy, 342, 345, 359
Pond Street, Hampstead, 24
Poor Miss Finch (WC): sight and blindness in, 114, 311–12; printed by Belinfante Brothers, 308; synopsis, 311–132; writing, 311, 316; serialised, 314; publication and reception, 317–18, 322
Porchester Terrace, London, 25
Portman, Edward Berkeley, 1st Viscount, 403
Pott, Arhur, 245
Pott, Frances (née Brandling), 244
Powell, Revd Henry, 366, 414
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB): formed, 72; Charley Collins’s association with, 78, 80, 89–91, 94; reactions to, 88–91; and sexuality, 105; attitude to sex and women, 112, 115, 323–4; principles, 114; dissolved, 126; in The New Magdalen, 323; criticised, 419
Price, Lizzie, 337
Prince of Wales Theatre, 328, 332–3, 347
Procter, Adelaide Anne, 183, 189, 197
Procter, Anne, 189, 197, 205
Procter, Bryan Waller (‘Barry Cornwall’), 183, 189, 195–7, 210
prostitutes: in The New Magdalen, 322–3; in The Fallen Leaves, 370–2
Public Libraries Act (1850), 185
Pugin, Edward Welby, 310
Punch (magazine), 126
Pusey, Edward, 59, 72
Pym, Horace, 398
Quarterly Review, 234
Queen of Hearts, The (WC; story collection), 182, 190, 203
Quilter, Harry, 400, 410–11; Is Marriage a Failure?, 400
race: in A Rogue’s Life, 212; in Black and White, 298
Radcliffe, Dr Charles, 251
Radlett murder (1823), 19–20
Radnor, Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 1st Earl of, 11–13
railways: development, 79; WC dislikes, 240; WC travels by, 248
Ralston, William, 381
Ramble Beyond Railways (WC), 81, 226
Ramsgate, 25, 310, 327, 333, 368, 373, 380, 388, 396–7, 407
Rank and Riches (WC; play), 387–8
Reade, Charles, 214, 224, 259, 309, 314, 356, 367–8, 371; death, 398; Griffith Gaunt: or Jealousy, 259; Hard Cash, 224; Masks and Faces, 383–4; A Terrible Temptation, 318
Red Vial, The (WC; play), 204, 270; reworked as novel (Jezebel’s Daughter), 181, 378
Redford, George, 203, 217, 407
Redford, George (son), 217
Redpath, James, 341
Reeve, Wybert, 315, 321, 334, 336, 340, 387
Reform Act, First (1832), 25–6, 29
Reform Act, Second (1867), 264
Regent’s Park, 7
Regnier, François, 137, 266, 268, 270, 308–9, 348
Reid, Whitelaw, 336
‘Reminiscences of a Story-teller’ (WC), 400
Reni, Guido, 9
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 72, 74
Reynolds’s Newspaper, 187
Reynolds’s Miscellany (journal), 185
Richmond, George, 38
Ripley, Frederick, 196
Roberts, David, 86
Roberts, Henry, 157
Robertson, Thomas William, 384
Robin Goodfellow (magazine), 236
Robins, Elizabeth, 399
Robinson, Henry Crabb, 71
Robson, Frederick, 175, 181
Rogue’s Life, A (WC): writing, 10, 137–8, 148; plot and themes, 148–9; racial references, 212; WC considers extending, 269; publication rights, 351
Roman Catholic Church: and Oxford Movement, 26–7, 59; conversions to, 71; WC’s antipathy to, 378, 380
Rome, 33–6, 38, 120, 242, 245, 267
Rossetti, Christina, 58, 89, 126; ‘The Convent Threshold’ (poem), 90
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 89, 115, 126, 306
Rossetti, Gabriele, 89
Rossetti, Maria, 89–90
Rossetti, William Michael, 88–9, 125, 131
Routledge, George: Railway Library, 185
Royal Academy: Schools, 10; Haydon criticises, 23; moves to National Gallery premises, 33, 38; William Collins works as part-time librarian, 52; William Collins’s devotion to, 52–3; William Collins severs connections with, 65; WC exhibits at, 71–2; Summer Exhibitions (1850), 88–9; (1851), 90; (1854), 127; (1855), 139, 142; attitude to Pre-Raphaelites, 112; Millais elected Associate, 126; WC criticises, 150
Royal Alfred (theatre; formerly Marylebone), 296
Royal Gallery of Illustrations, Regent Street, 174–5
Royal Literary Fund, 87
Ruck, Lawrence, 194, 197–8
Rudd, Alice, 263, 310, 357–8, 380
Rudd, James and Mary (Martha’s parents), 261, 358
Rudd, Martha (‘Mrs Dawson’): as WC’s mistress, 2, 267, 272, 290, 325, 349; background, 260–1; WC meets, 260–2; life in London, 262–3; social exclusion, 279, 323, 392; WC gives locket to, 287; children with WC, 293, 300, 310, 313, 352; WC supports financially, 296, 300, 330, 333; given name Dawson, 300; sex appeal, 304; and Caroline’s return to WC, 310; absent from Ramsgate, 327; moves to Marylebone Road, 333; in WC’s will, 333; and proposed purchase of lease of Marylebone Road house, 344, 346; moves to Taunton Place, 346, 380; settled domestic life with WC, 353, 380, 396; in Ramsgate with WC, 380; status in Ramsgate, 396–7; and WC’s funeral, 410; inheritance from WC, 413; later life and death, 416
Rugeley poisoner, 20, 162–3, 193
Ruskin, John, 91, 112, 12
7, 142
Russell, Charles, 38, 281, 287
Russell, Lady Constance (née Lennox), 271; Swallowfield and its Owners, 181
Russell, Sir George, 253, 271, 281, 285, 287
Russell, Sir Henry, 38, 281
Russell, Henry, 38
Russell, Henry (singer), 67
Russell, Lord John, 125, 264
St George’s Chapel, Albemarle Street, 409
St James’s Gazette, 412
St Marylebone church, 21–2
Salomons, Sir David, 212, 269
Sardou, Victorien: A Scrap of Paper, 206
Sarony, Napoleon, 341
Saturday Review, 215, 274, 307, 361, 373
Savoy Theatre, London, 383
Sayers, Dorothy L., 419
Scarborough, 177
Scheffer, Ary, 150
Scheurer, ‘Baron’ von, 398
Schlesinger, Adolf Martin, 211, 395
Schlesinger, Berthe, 405
Schlesinger, Elizabeth (née Lehmann), 211, 344
Schlesinger, Sebastian Benzon, 340, 343–4, 397, 405, 409, 413
Scilly Isles, 144–5
Scotland, 53–4
Scott, Sir Walter, 16, 20, 31, 60, 275, 367, 386, 402; ‘Essay on Romance’, 62; The Pirate, 53
Seaford, Sussex, 52
Sedgwick, Adam, 42
Seebohm, E.V., 400
sensation novels: as genre, 2–3, 21, 37, 232–5; WC’s, 107, 193, 232, 271, 321, 324, 348, 418; women heroines, 237–9; and Belgravia magazine, 362
‘Sermon for Sepoys, A’ (WC; article), 179
‘Seven Poor Travellers, The’ (stories), 135, 165
Severn, Joseph, 34
sex: in WC’s fiction, 104–5, 114; Pre-Raphaelite view of, 115–16
Seymour, Laura, 259, 309, 356
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of, 196
Shaw, George Bernard, 384
Sheffield and Rotherham Independent (newspaper), 367
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein, 55
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The Rivals, 227; The School for Scandal, 347
‘Shocking Story, A’ (WC), 369
Shrive, Catherine, 327
Siddal, Elizabeth, 112, 115
‘silver-fork’ school of fiction, 37, 48
Sister Rose (WC), 139
Sisterhood of the Holy Cross (‘Puseyite Nunnery’), Park Village West, Regent’s Park, 90
Sleigh, John, 117
Slough, Buckinghamshire, 110
Smith, Alexander, 238
Smith, Arthur, 179
Smith, Augustus, 145
Smith, Elder (publishing company), 143, 148, 225, 244, 263, 265, 269, 350
Smith, George Murray: WC meets, 143; loses publication of The Woman in White, 204; offers payment for Armadale, 225, 241; publishes Cornhill, 225, 243; and printing of Armadale, 250; discontinues WC’s contract, 269; and WC’s view of changing publishing practices, 354; owns Pall Mall Gazette, 401
Smith, Madeleine, 183, 349
Smith, W.H.: bookstalls, 185, 354
Smuggler’s Retreat, The (WC; painting), 71, 326
Smyth Pigott family see Pigott family
Social Purity Alliance, 318
Society of Authors, 399
Society for the Promotion of Employment for Women, 189
Sorrento, 37
Southey, Edmund, 43, 196
Southey, Dr Henry Herbert, 43, 196
Southey, Robert, 15; Essays, 32
Southsea, 51, 55, 99
Spectator (magazine), 78, 131, 216, 232, 286
Spencer, Herbert, 162
Spirit of the Times (New York journal), 369
spiritualism, 114, 359, 378
Spooner, Anne (Alice Rudd’s daughter), 357–8
Spooner, James, 358
sport see athleticism
Stanfield, Clarkson, 86, 140
Stanton, Edwin M., 336
Staplehurst, Kent: rail accident, 254
Stark, James, 14
Stead, W.T., 401
Stebbing, William, 206
Stephen, James Fitzjames, 274
Stephenson, George, 79
Sterne, Laurence: A Sentimental Journey, 37
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 354
Stilwell, Dr James, 194, 198
Stoker, Bram, 379
Stone, Frank: attacks Pre-Raphaelites, 88–9; in France, 117; The Merchant of Venice (painting), 88
Storey, Gladys, 294
Story, A.T., 29
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 298
Strahan, Alexander, 241
Stringfield, Joseph, 94–5, 145, 148, 185–6, 287–8, 366
Stringfield, Mary Anne (Teresa) (formerly Garment), 186, 288
Sunday Times, 331, 373
Surrey Theatre, London, 215
Swallowfield Park, Berkshire, 281
Swan, Joseph, 383
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 359, 378
Swell’s Night Guide, 76
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 387
Switzerland, 361
Tales for an Idler (collection), 48
Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard, Baron, 373
Taunton Place, London, 346, 353, 380
Tavistock House, London: theatricals at, 137, 140, 165, 172
Taylor, Jeremy, 122
Taylor, Tom, 384; Garibaldi, 208; The Ticket-of-Leave Man, 273; The Whiteboy, 266
Temple Bar (magazine), 225, 286, 322, 328, 357, 360, 369
Tenniel, Sir John, 102
Tennyson, Alfred (later 1st Baron), 79, 113
Ternan family: CD helps support financially, 188
Ternan, Ellen (Nelly): Dickens’s infatuation with, 175–6; CD visits in Doncaster, 176–7; in Staplehurst rail accident with Dickens, 254; supposed child by Dickens, 254; and Dickens’s funeral, 306
Ternan, Fanny (Ellen’s sister) see Trollope, Fanny
Ternan, Frances (Ellen’s mother), 175, 177
Ternan, Maria (Ellen’s sister), 176–7
‘Terribly Strange Bed, A’ (WC; story), 143, 332
Thackeray, William Makepeace: WC meets, 143; attends professional performance of The Lighthouse, 176; feud with Dickens, 180; novel-writing, 184; edits Cornhill, 225; resigns from Cornhill, 243; Thackerayana, 354
theatres: air pollution in, 382–3
Thompson, Amelia, 47
Thompson, George Agar, 99; suicide in Australia, 220–1
Thompson, Dr James, 27–9, 40, 42, 57, 77
Thompson, Miss (Irving’s sister), 33
Thrale, Hester (Mrs Piozzi), 157
Thurso, Scotland, 54
Thurtell, John, 19–20
Tillotson, William, 366, 379, 382, 391, 394
Times, The: attacks Pre-Raphaelites, 91; reviews The Woman in White, 220; reviews The Moonstone, 286; reports Dickens’s funeral, 306; on Frederick Lehmann’s political position, 355; criticises Rank and Riches, 388
Tindell, William: as WC’s legal adviser, 289, 299–300, 314, 317, 330, 333, 344; and WC’s attending Dickens’s funeral, 306; WC invites to Ramsgate, 327; attends WC’s reading, 328; and WC’s US tour, 331; gives WC information on Madeleine Smith case, 349; replaced by Bartley as WC’s solicitor, 366
Tinsley Brothers (publishers), 286–7, 295
Tinsley, Samuel, 316–17
Tinsley, William, 286
Tinsley’s Magazine, 286
‘To Think, or Be Thought For’ (WC; article), 167
Toddington, Gloucestershire, 156–7
Tomalin, Claire, 254
Tomtit (boat), 145
Topham, Francis William, 102
Town Talk (magazine), 180
Townshend, Revd Chauncey, 119
Tractarians (Oxford Movement), 26–7, 42, 59, 71, 89, 184
Train (journal), 174
Trollope, Anthony, 243, 351, 367, 385
Trollope, Fanny (née Ternan; Ellen’s sister), 188, 267
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 267
Troy Daily Press, 338
Tun
bridge Wells, 244–5, 253, 262, 272, 284
Turgenev, Ivan, 381
Turner, J.M.W., 15
Tussaud’s, Madame (wax museum), 20
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 344
‘Twin Sisters, The’ (WC; story), 81, 102
Two Destinies, The (WC): writing, 30; plot, 358–9; publication and reception, 360–1; serialised in Temple Bar, 360
United States of America: WC published in, 173, 181–2, 336; sensation novels in, 232; copyright violations, 299, 382, 399; WC invited to visit, 318; CD tours and reads in, 331, 334, 335–8, 340–6; financial crisis, 338
Universal Review, 400
‘Unknown Public, The’ (WC; articles), 185, 188
Upper Norwood, Surrey, 314
Urania Cottage, 76
utopian communities, 243, 345, 359
Uwins, Thomas, 34
V, Mademoiselle, 95–6
Vanity Fair, 321
Venice, 121, 123, 363, 365, 367
Verdi, Giuseppe: Il Trovatore, 120
Vernet, Horace: The Capture of Abd-el-Kader’s Camp at Taguim (painting), 63
Victoria, Queen: coronation, 39; sees WC act, 85, 87; inaugurates Great Exhibition, 88; reviews troops in Folkestone, 143; sees The Frozen Deep, 174–5; receives Koh-i-Noor diamond, 280; Golden Jubilee (1887), 393
Victoria Street Society, 385
Vining, George, 315, 330
vivisection, 384–6
‘Volpurno’ (WC (story), 57
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet: Zadig, 273
Walford, Lucy Bethia, 346
Walker, Frederick, 315–16, 329
Walker, Joseph, 403
Wallingford, Connecticut, 345–6, 359, 371
Walter, John, 215
Ward, Alice, 208
Ward, Charles, Jr: career, 35; holidays abroad with WC, 59, 61, 65, 70, 72; courtship and marriage to Jane, 60, 63; and reviews of Antonina, 77; WC describes Cornwall to, 79–80; and translation of Balzac story, 98; WC dedicates Basil to, 103, 106; and WC’s views on Crimean War, 126; and WC’s hopes to dramatise stories, 136; attends Millais-Effie wedding, 142; invites WC for Christmas, 186; meets Caroline Graves, 188; helps WC financially, 204, 245; provides wine for WC, 210; and reception of The Woman in White, 215; and Thompson’s journey to Australia, 221; visits WC in Broadstairs, 229; and Harriet Collins’s illness, 237; and WC’s trip to Italy, 242; friendship with Caroline Graves, 245–6, 255; accompanies WC to Norfolk, 248; looks after WC’s business interests during absence abroad, 266; sailing with WC and Pigott, 272; copies instalments of The Moonstone for WC, 283; death, 397
Ward, Charles, Sr, 51, 57
Ward, Edward (Ned): engagement and marriage, 35, 66–8, 70, 116, 314; in Italy, 35–6; paintings, 60, 69, 134, 256; amateur dramatics, 73; in Clique, 73; attends dress rehearsal of Not So Bad As We Seem, 87; exhibits at Royal Academy, 88; moves to Slough, 110; as WC’s father figure, 130; portrait of Dickens, 134; and WC’s ill-health, 138; takes lease on Hanover Terrace, 148; WC entertains, 210; friendship wiith Egg, 239; attends staging of Man and Wife, 328; cuts throat, 372; General Hearsay in the Dress of the Irregular Native Cavalry E.I.C.S. (painting), 139
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