Hastings, Warren, 130
hats: exhibited at Great Exhibition, 19n; straw, 49n
Haussman, Baron Georges Euge`ne, 109
hawkers and pedlars, 76-7
Hawkesworth, John, 198
Hawkins, John, 379
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 487
Haydn, Joseph, 349
Haydock Park racecourse, 435
Hayman, Francis, 277, 380, 383n
Haymarket Theatre, London, 293
Hayward, Ben: All Else of No Avail, 458
Hazlitt, William, 142, 398n
Heal, John Harris, 105n
Heal and Sons (London furniture shop): advertising, 97; furnishings, 115; opening date, 496
Herapath’s Railway and Commercial Journal, 33-4
Herne Bay, Kent, 247
Herschel, William, 233, 346
Heywood, Benjamin, 479
Highflyer (racehorse), 427
Highways Acts (1555, 1835), 70
Hildyard, John (York bookseller), 54
Hill, John, 133 & n
Hill, Rowland, 9, 134n, 152, 229; see also Post Office
Hingston, E.P.: Amy: or, Love and Madness, 175
hippodramas, 264, 315-22
Historical Record of all Horse matches Run, An, 151
‘History of the Gentle Craft’, 164
Hoe printing press, 150
Hoffmann, Professor: Tips for Tricyclists, 462
Hogarth, Mary and Ann, 85
Hogarth, William: Soane collects, 265; Tyers commissions paintings for Vauxhall, 277; Cibber dedicates The Harlot’s Progress to, 323; exhibits works at home, 379-80; gives portrait of Coram to support Foundling Hospital, 382; social background, 384; prints, 389; exhibition of works at British Institution, 393
Holiday Extension Act (1875), 470
holidays, 140, 208-10, 470, 498-500
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 262
Holley, Ernest Terah, 455
Hollingshead, John, 301
Holt, Mrs: Italian Warehouse (London grocer), 49
Home, Mrs (Warwick Castle housekeeper), 213n
Home Notes (magazine), 162, 163
Hook, James, 351
Hoppner, John, 390
Horne, Thomas and Susan, 51
horseracing: reported, 151; books on, 204; at Leamington, 236; as betting sport, 421, 432; development, 421-3, 425-6, 429-31, 433; regulated, 424-5, 428; and stud books, 426-7; and breeding, 427; classic races, 429; associated entertainments, 431; newspapers, 432; results telegraphed, 432-3; admission charges, 433; course enclosure and grandstands, 433-4, 436; financial successes, 435-6
Horsley, J.C., 485
hotels: railway, 227-8
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, 214
Houlding, John, 449-51
household possessions, 24, 26
Howe, Elias, Jr, 90
Howell, Charles Augustus, 414-15
Hudson, George (‘the Railway King’), 34
Hughes, Thomas: Tom Brown’s Schooldays, 459
Humble, John, 448
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk, 256, 355, 365
Humphry, Ozias, 214
Hunt, Leigh: A Book for a Corner, 194
Hunt, Richard, 21
Hunt, William Holman: Stephens writes on, 414; The Awakening Conscience (painting), 407; The Light of the World (painting), 413
Hunter, John, 135
hunts and hunting, 236
Hutton, William, 395
Ibbetson, Julius Caesar, 390
Ibsen, Henrik: The Pillars of the Community, 340n
Illustrated Exhibitor, The ( journal for Great Exhibition), 37
Illustrated London News: on Great Exhibition, 21; piano advertisement, 26; on working class at Great Exhibition, 29, 40; price, 37n; beginnings, 157; advertisements for holiday clothing, 244; advertises shows, 286; notice for W.H. Smith advertisements, 290; on Christmas trees, 471; illustrates Sir Christmas, 475; on Greenwich workhouse at Christmas, 477
Illustrated News of the World, 157
Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 457-8
incomes and earnings: eighteenthcentury, 54, 167; teachers’, 167; journeyman’s, 215; early nineteenthcentury, 398n
Incorporated Society of Artists see Society of Artists of Great Britain
Industrial Revolution: beginnings, xvxvi; and increase in retailing, 44
International Football Association Board, 443
Ionides, Constantine, 414
Ireland, Ann (of Leicester), 173
Irving, Sir Henry, 312
Irving, Washington, 241
Italian Opera, Haymarket, 303n
Jackson’s Habit-Warehouse, 49
James II, King, 231
James, Dr Robert, 135
Jenkins, William and Son (piano manufacturers), 21
Jenner, Edward, 135
Jerrold, Douglas: The Rent Day, 324, 330
Jews: tailoring in Leeds, 89n
Jockey Club: formed (1752), 425; facilities, 428; and social exclusivity, 430-1
John Bull (newspaper), 141-2
Johnson, Samuel, xv, 42, 216, 223, 379, 384, 390
Johnstone’s London Commercial Guide, 105
Jolly, James, 232
Jolly’s (Bath store), 111, 496
Jones’s Druggist and Tea Dealer, Birmingham, 58
Journal of Design, 10
Jullien, Louis, 367-8
Juvenile Forget Me Not, The (annual), 489
Katterfelto, Dr Gustavus, 269
Kauffmann, Angelica, 380, 383n, 390
Kean, Charles, 303, 305, 310, 325-6, 333, 335
Kean, Edmund, 255
Keepsake (annual), 489
Kemble, Charles, 310
Kemble, John Philip, 315-16
Kempton Park racecourse, 433
Kendal, Thomas and James Milne, 108, 110, 114, 496
Kilvert, Revd Francis, 229
King, William, 80
King’s Theatre, Haymarket, 295; opera, 347-8
Kingsley, Charles: on workers’ relief from industrialization, 400; on good health, 453; The Water Babies, 306n; Yeast, 140
Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, 72
Kirwan, Daniel, 87
Kitchiner, Dr William: The Traveller’s Oracle, 223-4
Klenze, Baron von, 402
Knight, Richard Payne, 381
Knight’s Excursion Companion, 203
Koenig and Bauer printing press, 150
Lackington Allen & Co. (booksellers), 51
Lackington, James, 53, 164, 169, 185
Lady (magazine), 161, 339, 482, 487
Lady’s Magazine, 159
Lady’s Monthly Museum (magazine), 159
Lake District: guidebooks to, 203; discovered by visitors, 215, 217-18; books and views of, 220-1
Lamb, Charles, 273
Landon, Letitia E., 398n
Landor, Walter Savage, 172 landscape, 216; see also Gilpin, William; picturesque
Landseer, Sir Edwin, 414
Landseer, John, 399
Lane, William, 174
Lang, Andrew: fairy books, 306n
la Roche, Sophie von, 101, 130
Larpent, Anna, 55
Lawrence, Thomas, 393
Layard, Sir Austen Henry, 29, 325; Nineveh and its Remains, 198, 325
Leamington, 235-6
lectures: popular, 269-70
Leeds: as centre of men’s clothing industry, 89, 91; shops, 106; theatre, 305; concert-going, 372; art exhibitions, 406
Leeds Mercury, 48, 59, 134
Legros, Alphonse, 414
Leicester, Sir John, 406
Leighton, Sir Frederic, 386n
leisure: popular development, xvi-xvii, 206; see also recreation
Lever, Charles, 181, 193, 229
Lewes, George Henry, 184, 326, 334
Lewis, David, 112-13
Leybourne, George (‘Champagne Charlie’), 377
Liberty, Arthur, 115, 117, 210
Liberty’s (store): franchise in Beale’s of Bournemouth, 111; style an
d stock, 115-17; opening hours, 210; opening date, 497
libraries: club and proprietory, 169-71; subscription and circulating, 171-4, 184-5; in schools, 183-4; see also individual cities and towns
Licensing Acts (1662), 123, 165; (1695), 292; (1737), 292-3, 424
lifts and escalators: in department stores, 111
Lillywhite, Frederick: Guide to Cricketers, 204, 442
Lillywhite, James, and store, 204n
Lillywhite, John: and rules of football, 442; Cricketer’s Companion, 204
limelight, 310-12
Lincoln: shops, 97
Lindsay, Sir Coutts, 414
Lingfield Park racecourse, 433
Linley, Elizabeth (later Mrs Sheridan), 233
Linley, Thomas, 233
Linotype machine, 149
Lipton, Sir Thomas: multiple store, 83-4
literacy: increase in, 137-9
Literary Souvenir (annual), 489 lithography, 357
Liverpool: public transport, 99; shops, 105, 112-13; prosperity, 112; theatres, 296; Philharmonic Hall, 368; concerts, 372; Philharmonic Society, 372; art exhibitions, 405n
Liverpool Chronicle, 67
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 144-5, 194, 225, 430
Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of, 400
Lloyd, Edward, 174-5
Lloyd, Sampson, 74-5
Lloyd Webber, Andrew, Baron, 377n
Lloyd’s Coffee House, 5n
Lloyd’s Penny Sunday Times and People’s Police Gazette, 142
Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 140-2, 155, 162, 174
Locke, James, 221
Locke, William, 380
Locomotive Highways Act (1896), 457
Loftie, Revd William: A Plea for Art in the House, 26
London: entertainments, 38-9; public transport, 98-100; size and population, 98; shopping districts, 104-5; daily newspapers, 140; tourist attractions, 219, 258-60; spas, 280-1; theatre expansion in, 300-1; musical life, 348-9; saloon theatres, 374; public parks, 437
London and Blackwall Railway, 191
London Conductor (guide), 242
London Courier, 126
London Library Society, 172
London Magazine, 217
London Museum, Piccadilly, 219, 264
Longman and Broderip (music publishers), 355, 357, 359
Longman’s (publishers), 191
Longton Hall pottery, 62
Lord Chamberlain: and licensing of plays and theatres, 292, 296
Lord of Misrule, 469, 481
Louis Philippe, King of the French, 257n
Loutherbourg, Philippe de: Eidophusikon, 253-6; stage spectacles, 310, 322
Lovell, Robert, 172
Lowe, Thomas, 353
Luddenden Library, Yorkshire, 170
Lunar Society, 74n
luxuries: and necessities, 55-6; taxation on, 56
Lyceum theatre, London, 298
Lytton, Edward Bulwer-, Baron: sells copyrights to Routledge, 192; Pelham, 189
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron: History of England, 185n, 193
MacGregor, William, 448
Macintosh, Charles & Co., 91
Macklin, Charles, 293-4
Macklin, Thomas, 391
McLean, Charles, 15
Macpherson, James (Ossian), 218-19
Macready, William Charles, 310, 312, 316
Madam de la Nash’s Breakfasting Room (puppet show), 293
Maelzel, Johann, 265
Magazine of Art, 416
magazines and periodicals: proliferation, 155; illustrated, 156-7; family, 157, 159; self-improvement, 157; women’s, 159-63; advertisements, 162; see also individual titles
magic lanterns: in theatres, 310-12
Magnet (theatrical journal), 376
mail-order: eighteenth-century, 48
Male, George, 314n
Man, Isle of: music in, 250
Manby Smith, Charles, 101-2, 472, 480, 488
Manchester: shops, 42-3, 76, 105, 110; size, 98; omnibuses in, 99; concertgoing, 368-9, 372; Free Trade Hall, 368; Art Treasures Exhibition (1857), 369, 408-9; cultural and artistic life, 406-7; horseracing, 424
Manchester Athenaeum, 32
Manchester Coffee and Newsroom, 127
Manchester Guardian newspaper, 146; sports reporting, 154
Manchester Mechanics’ Institute, 32; Christmas celebrations, 478-9
Manchester Post Office Directory, 92
Manchester United football club, 448, 451-2
Manns, August, 368
Maple’s (London furniture shop), 105n, 121, 496
Mapleson, J.H., 367
Margate, Kent, 242, 245, 247
markets, 75-6
Marshall Field (Chicago store), 117-19
Marshall and Snelgrove (London store), 114; branches, 232; opening date, 496
Marshall, William, 191
Marten, Maria, 181n, 285
Martin, Henri: Hyder Ali, 317, 324
Martin, John, 325
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels: The German Ideology, 55n
Mary of Modena, Queen of James II, 231
Marylebone Gardens, London, 280, 350-3
Masonic lodges, 5-6
mass market: development, 36, 53-4
Massey stores, 84n
Mathews, Charles, 261
Maybrick, Michael: ‘Holy City’ (song), 365; ‘Nancy Lee’ (song), 365
Mayhew, Henry: on crinoline, 19; on fear of mob, 28; on street sellers, 77; and shows of murders, 285; 1851: or, The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboy and Family, 22-3, 36
Mechanics’ Institutes, 30-3, 139, 184
Mechanic’s Magazine, 156
medicines: advertised, 134-6; see also patent medicines
melodrama, 315n, 316, 330-4
menagerie: in Exeter Change (London), 108; see also Royal Zoological Society
Mendelssohn, Felix, 242, 473
Menken, Adah Isaacs, 321-2
Merchant Shipping Act (1876), 244n
Mercurius Politicus ( journal), 56
Methodism: rise of, 6; and education, 139; and football playing, 439; see also Dissenters
Metropolitan Railway (London), 100
Mexborough, John Savile, 1st Earl of, 293
Michelin, Edouard, 455
middle classes: earnings, 85 & n; patronize department stores, 110; sports, 452-3; and family gatherings, 474
Middlesbrough football club, 447
Middlesex Chronicle, 150
Midland Sporting News, 154
Millais, Sir John Everett: Bubbles (painting), 418
Milne, James, 108
Milner, Henry, 319; Lucius Catiline, 329
Minerva Press, 174
Mississippi River: panorama, 273-4 mistletoe, 473
Mitchell’s Library, 187
Molsom and Son’s Piano-Forte Saloon, Bath, 364
Moncrieff, William Thomas, 179, 268n, 330, 332
Mondays: as unofficial day off (‘St Monday’), 208, 210, 225
Monthly Magazine, 126, 171
Moore, Thomas, 199n
More, Hannah, 137-8
Morgan’s Coffee House, Bath, 127
Morley, Henry, 339; The Journal of a London Playgoer, 338
Morning Post, 132, 147
Morton, Charles, 375, 412
Moses, Eleazer (later Elias), 94
Moses, Isaac, 94
Moses and Son (Moses’s Wholesale Clothing Warehouse), 94-5
Moss, Edward, 377
Mother Goose (pantomime), 307
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 346
Mudie, Charles Edward, 184, 191
Mudie’s Circulating Library, 184-7
multiple stores: beginnings 83-4
Munday, Messrs, 11-12
Murray, John (publisher), 192, 199-200
Murray’s Family Library (publisher’s series), 188
museums: purpose, 399, 404; see also individual museums and galleries
music: at seaside resorts, 249-50; club
s, 344-5; festivals, 344, 347; sheet (printed), 344-5, 354, 356-9, 365; amateur performers, 346-7, 356, 358; professionalization, 346-7, 365, 372, 376; publication, 353; popular and working class, 372-4; see also concerts; music halls opera; pianos
Music Hall Provident Society, 376
music halls, 297, 372-8; see also individual cities
Musical Antiquity Society, 474
musical instruments, 354
Musical Society, 343
Musical Times (magazine), 365
Myra’s Journal, 163
Napier, Jo., milliner and tea dealer, Thirsk, 58
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: represented in shows and exhibitions, 263-6, 278, 319; and Auguste Vestris, 298n
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 415
National Cyclists Union, 456-7
National Gallery: opening hours, 211; founded, 400-1; management, 402-3; attendance, 403
National Gallery of Practical Science (Adelaide Gallery), 270-1
National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church of England, 139
nature: appreciation of, 216
navvies, 29 & n
Nelson, Admiral Horatio, Viscount, 136; burial in St Paul’s, 258
Nesbit, E.: Five Children and It, 458
Netherlands (Holland): coffee consumption, 56n
New Bath Guide, 133
New Brighton, Cheshire, 250
New Musical Magazine, 358
New Place, Stratford on Avon, 236
New Prose Bath Guide, 234
New Satirist (newspaper), 142
New Strand Subscription Theatre, London, 298
New York Tribune, 14
Newberry, John, 133, 135
Newbury racecourse, 434
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: shops, 105-6, 110
Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 154
Newcastle Journal, 106
Newmarket: horseracing, 421, 424, 430-1, 435
Newport, Shropshire: general store, 47
News of the World, 140, 142, 155
Newspaper Press Directory, 163
newspapers: readership, 85n, 126; beginnings, 123-5; prices, 125, 142-3; taxed, 125; distribution and delivery, 127-9, 144-6; advertisements, 130, 132-8, 150; contents, 130-2, 141, 150-1; parliamentary reporting in, 130; circulations, 137, 140, 147; popular, 140-2; fictional contributions, 143-4; tax abolished, 146, 150; and paper manufacture, 147-8; mechanized typecasting, 148-9; proliferation, 150; sports reporting, 151-5; see also individual titles
Nicholson, William, 418
Noble, Francis, 173
Nollekens, Joseph: The Conversation Piece (painting), 354
Norfolk, Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of, 437
Northampton: Masonic lodge, 6
Northampton Mercury, 124, 130
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 121
Norwich: clubs and societies, 5; theatre in, 294
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