Gettysburg College extended travel grants for archival research, while several colleagues at Gettysburg College have lent moral support, sometimes without knowing it, especially Bill Bowman, Len Goldberg, Beth Lambert, Lani Lindeman, James Myers, Magdalena Sánchez, Suzanne Tartamella, and the late Ted Baskerville.
Pegasus Books and its impresario publisher and editor-in-chief Claiborne Hancock recall the happier days of independent publishing houses. I’m grateful to him, and also to Pegasus senior editor Jessica Case, copyeditor Phil Gaskill, designer Maria Fernandez, and proofreader Anna Van Lenten.
When the tally of Dickens’s children reached a half dozen or so, and continued to mount, he began to think that he had, perhaps, a few too many. Though less prolific, I’m profoundly grateful both for and to my own children. And I am very grateful, too, to my wife Joanne for long tolerating my Dickensian preoccupations.
INDEX
A
Ackroyd, Peter, 27
Adams, Henry, 92, 127
Addison, Joseph, 57
Adrian, Arthur, 234
Age of Innocence, The, 138
All the Year Round, 4, 17, 190, 200–204, 210–14, 226, 256, 259, 263, 275, 280, 293, 296, 317, 341–43, 367, 381
America, visits to, 1–5, 81, 235, 257, 302, 306–13, 320–25, 330–34, 344–45, 357, 363
American Notes, 2, 309
Arnold, Matthew, 92
As You Like It, 21
Atlantic Monthly, 336
Aunt Margaret’s Trouble, 280
Austen, Jane, 91
Aylmer, Felix, 289, 297, 301
B
Barnaby Rudge, 125
Beadnell, Anne, 31–32, 34, 38, 45, 52, 65. See also Kolle, Anne
Beadnell, Maria, 25–61, 64–69, 80, 92, 94–104, 106–7, 114–16, 125–27, 136–37, 140, 147–50, 157, 166, 171, 179, 183, 189, 219, 240, 375, 390. See also Winter, Mrs. Henry
Beard, Ellen, 62
Beard, Frank, 199–200, 388
Beard, Thomas, 62, 385
Beggar’s Opera, The, 5, 62
Bentley’s Miscellany, 86
Berger, Francesco, 211
Betjeman, John, 286
“Bill of Fare, The,” 32–34, 36, 39–40
“Birthday Celebrations,” 42, 53
Blagden, Isa, 280
Bleak House, 15, 43, 64, 75, 79, 136–44, 146, 258, 282
Bradbury, Henry, 16
Bradbury, William, 14–16
Bradbury and Evans publishers, 14, 190, 203
“Bride’s Chamber, The,” 181
Brontë, Anne, 95
Brontë, Emily, 19, 95, 376
Brooks, Shirley, 383–84
Browne, Hablot, 111
Browning, Robert, 280
Buckstone, James Baldwin, 187
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 17, 130, 212, 216, 222
Burke, Edmund, 56
Burnett, Henry, 220
Burton, Sir Richard, 306
C
“Calais Night Mail, The,” 226
Carrow, Goldsmith Day, 257–58
Cather, Willa, 329
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 5
Christmas Carol, A, 18, 20, 64, 129, 141, 160, 167, 194, 331
Clari; or the Maid of Milan, 30, 45–48
Collins, Charles, 209, 218–19, 342, 374, 381, 386–88
Collins, Katie, 218–19, 342, 374, 386–87. See also Dickens, Katie
Collins, Wilkie, 149, 151, 160–61, 163, 166, 169, 172–77, 186, 198, 201–2, 209, 213, 216, 229–30, 232–33, 239, 242, 274, 276, 293, 311, 341–42, 385–86, 388
Confessions, 110–11
Coutts, Angela Burdett, 131–34, 161, 170–73, 190, 206, 270
“Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop,” 141
Crime and Punishment, 181
D
Dante, 97
Darwin, Charles, 224
Darwin, Emma, 224
David Copperfield, 11, 47, 55–57, 60, 64, 94–115, 127, 136, 141, 173, 214–16, 253, 282, 351, 371, 376
de la Rue, Augusta, 120–22
“December Vision,” 128
“Devil’s Walk, The,” 31–32
diary entries, 283–92, 296–300, 304, 314–17, 320–21, 323
Dickens, Alfred, 265
Dickens, Bessie, 387
Dickens, Catherine, 58–59, 69–73, 77, 114, 121–22, 127, 132, 134–36, 152–53, 163, 174, 188, 190–94, 218, 220, 336, 385
Dickens, Charles
children of, 70, 133–35, 174, 230–33
crisis and, 223–54
death of, 5–6, 23–24, 380–85
diary of, 283–92, 296–300, 304, 314–17, 320–21, 323
early years of, 6–7, 16–20, 25–60
final years of, 380–90
funeral of, 384–89
grave of, 5–6, 24, 384–89
illnesses of, 199–201, 272–73, 323, 350–54, 380–85
later years of, 306–90
loves of, 25–60, 62–92, 94–114, 116–22, 173–88, 191–222
marriage of, 69–72
pseudonym of, 261, 286–87, 301–2
religion and, 83, 91
restlessness in, 345–47
scandal and, 185, 189, 197–99, 205, 211, 216, 223–56, 261, 273, 281, 285, 300, 309, 313
separation from wife, 188–90, 194, 197, 199, 205, 209, 215, 220, 223–54, 280
train crash and, 266–73, 285
visits to America, 1–5, 81, 235, 257, 302, 306–13, 320–25, 330–34, 344–45, 357, 363
visits to France, 225–43, 256, 261–66, 285, 307
Dickens, Charley, 133–34, 189–90, 342, 381, 385, 387
Dickens, Edmund, 388
Dickens, Edward (Plorn), 135, 317, 342, 366–67
Dickens, Fanny, 28, 46, 73, 95, 220–21
Dickens, Fred, 366–67
Dickens, Henry, 13, 240, 387
Dickens, Katie, 8, 24, 152, 182, 189, 191, 206, 212, 218–19, 240, 260, 342, 356, 367, 374, 379–80, 382, 386–87. See also Collins, Katie
Dickens, Letitia, 226, 229, 231, 235, 239, 387
Dickens, Mary, 7, 152, 170, 174, 201, 206, 218, 227–28, 259, 294, 307, 338–39, 342, 346, 356, 367, 380, 382, 387
Dickens, Walter, 133–34, 185
Dickinson, Frances, 273–78, 280–81, 283, 309, 311, 358–59
Divine Comedy, The, 112
Dolby, George, 277, 305, 308–10, 312–15, 319, 324, 343–45 347, 349, 351–53, 366–68, 381
Dombey and Son, 19, 95, 116, 122–24, 127, 289
Donne, John, 23, 253
Dryden, John, 5
Duke of Devonshire, 161
Duke of Wellington, 6, 25, 247
Dumas, Alexander, 136
E
“Ecstasy, The,” 253
Egg, Augustus, 242
Eliot, George, 213
Eliot, T. S., 80
Elliot, Gilbert, 273, 276
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 319, 333, 347–48
Ethan Frome, 166
Evans, Frederick, 190
Evans, Marian, 213
Everyman, 109
F
“Fable, A,” 63, 69
Faerie Queene, 112
Farewell Readings, 345–48, 350–55. See also reading tours
Farewell to Arms, A, 254
Faust, 236–37, 244
Fechter, Charles, 254, 259, 292, 365–66
Fields, Annie, 209–10, 313, 319–20, 328–41, 345, 348, 352, 355–65, 384
Fields, James T., 18, 209, 308, 310, 312–15, 319–20, 327–28, 334–39, 348, 352, 355–56, 359–65, 384
Fildes, Luke, 374, 376
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 25, 59–60
Forster, John, 2–4, 76, 81, 83–84, 95, 114–15, 149, 152–53, 191, 205–6, 209, 222, 230, 235–36, 243, 296, 308–10, 318, 320, 342, 350, 352, 367, 384–88
France, trips to, 225–43, 256, 261–66, 285, 307
Franklin, Sir John, 160–61
Frozen Deep, The, 160–61, 164–65, 172, 185, 188, 190, 192, 203, 211, 242,
274, 305
G
Gad’s Hill, Kent, 13–14, 23–24, 185, 194–95, 200, 205–6, 210–11, 218–19, 259–60, 264, 269, 272, 283, 287, 294, 342, 356–58, 367, 384, 390
Gay, John, 5
Geils, Mrs., 273–74
George IV, King, 25
“George Silverman’s Explanation,” 293, 300
Gilbert, W. S., 227
Goldring, Maria, 300–301
Goldsmith, Oliver, 56, 57
Gounod, Charles, 236
Graves, Caroline, 216
Great Exhibition, 129–30
Great Expectations, 54, 61, 64, 101, 141, 200–201, 212, 216–22, 270, 299, 326
Greene, Graham, 79, 106, 217
H
Hard Times, 143–46
“Haunted House, The,” 179, 218
Haunted Man, The, 113
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 328
Headland, Thomas, 231
Hogarth, Catherine, 58, 69, 201. See also Dickens, Catherine
Hogarth, George, 69, 75, 234
Hogarth, Georgina, 73, 121, 124, 127, 163, 174–77, 188–89, 191, 210–11, 214–15, 218, 225, 227–28, 233–36, 259, 264, 275, 283, 294–95, 298, 304, 307, 320, 339–43, 346, 348, 350, 352–54, 356–61, 365, 367, 370, 380, 387
Hogarth, Mary, 2–4, 8, 21–23, 62–92, 94–97, 104–10, 112–21, 125–47, 150–58, 234, 249, 252–53, 256, 284, 363, 390
“Holiday Romance, A,” 293
“Holly-Tree, The,” 157
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 319, 327
homeless shelter, 131–34, 190
Household Words, 17, 95, 127–29, 133, 144, 160–61, 167, 174–78, 190–92, 195, 198, 201–5
“Hunted Down,” 204, 207
J
James, Henry, 329
Jane Eyre, 109, 278
Jerrold, Douglas, 159, 161, 163
Jerrold Fund, 159, 167, 171, 194, 274
Johnson, Andrew, 323
Johnson, Samuel, 5, 143
Jonson, Ben, 5
K
Kolle, Anne, 65–67. See also Beadnell,
Anne Kolle, Henry, 27, 29, 31, 37–38, 40, 42, 45, 49–53, 64–67, 101
L
Leigh, Mary Anne, 48–51
Lemon, Mark, 164, 190
Life of Charles Dickens, 236, 300
Little Dorrit, 26, 149–59, 162, 165, 171, 187, 242
Livingstone, David, 306
London Gazette, The, 39
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 319, 327, 335, 345
loves of Dickens, 25–60, 62–92, 94–114, 116–22, 173–88, 191–222. See also Beadnell, Maria; Hogarth, Mary; Ternan, Ellen; Weller, Christiana
Lowell, James Russell, 327, 356
Lowell, Mabel, 356–65
M
Mabel’s Progress, 280, 296
Macaulay, Tom, 184
Macbeth, 373
Mackie, M. R., 300–301
Macready, William, 207–8, 214, 237
Martin Chuzzlewit, 307
Marvell, Andrew, 76
Melbourne, Lord, 184
metaphors, use of, 154, 243, 246, 250, 271, 289
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 158
Millais, John Everett, 374
Milton, John, 32, 82
Monthly Magazine, The, 64–66
Moore, Marianne, 139
Morning Chronicle, The, 68
Morning Post, The, 241
“Mrs. Joseph Porter ‘Over the Way’,” 47
“Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy,” 263
“Mugby Junction,” 262
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The, 365, 367–68, 371–80
N
New York Herald, 318
Nicholas Nickleby, 165, 287, 389
Niebuhr, H. Richard, 80
“No Thoroughfare,” 293, 341
O
O’Connor, Flannery, 79, 106
Old Curiosity Shop, The, 1, 14–15, 20, 124
Oliver Twist, 1, 19–20, 64, 70, 86–92, 141, 249, 337, 347–50, 378
Olliffe, Sir Joseph, 229
Orwell, George, 18, 21, 23, 106
O’thello, 30
Our Mutual Friend, 47, 223, 243–44, 249–50, 253, 255, 265, 326, 365–66, 376
Ouvry, Frederic, 208, 385, 388
P
Paradise Lost, 32
Parker, David, 58–59
Patten, Robert L., 17
Paxton, Sir Joseph, 183–84
“Perils of Certain English Prisoners, The,” 186–87
Pickwick Papers, The, 1, 16, 19–20, 59, 64, 70, 86
Pictorial Illustrated, The, 267
Pilgrim’s Progress, 109
Pius IX, Pope, 83
“Please to Leave Your Umbrella,” 193–94
Poets’ Corner, 5–6, 24, 384–86, 389
Pope, Alexander, 35
Power, Marguerite, 214–16
pregnancy scandal, 223–56, 261, 281, 285
“Preludes,” 80
Prima Donna, The, 382–83
Punch, 159, 164, 383
R
Race Week, 173, 175–78, 181–82
reading tours
in America, 3, 235, 257, 313, 320–25, 330–34, 363
in Britain/Ireland, 189, 199, 201–2, 206–7, 224–25, 272, 290–91, 299, 307, 337, 345–48, 350–55, 363, 366, 369
Farewell Readings, 345–48, 350–55 offers of, 208, 235, 242, 305, 308–10
Robinson, Ellen, 389
Robinson, George Wharton, 389
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 126–27
Ruskin, John, 13, 20
Ryland, Arthur, 368
S
St. Augustine, 110–11
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 92
Sayers, Dorothy, 79
Scarlet Letter, The, 328
Scenes of Clerical Life, 213
Scott, Henry, 314
Scott, Sir Walter, 17, 59, 81, 257
Sense and Sensibility, 91
Sepoy Mutiny, 185–87
Shakespeare, William, 4–5, 21, 57, 64, 112, 209, 371, 373–74, 390
“Slough,” 286
Smith, Arthur, 202
Spenser, Edmund, 112
Stanfield, Clarkson, 284
Stanley, Arthur, 385, 387, 389
Staplehurst crash, 266–73, 285
“Steam Excursion, The,” 31, 33
Stebbing, William, 385–86
Stone, Harry, 181
Storey, Gladys, 212, 219
Strange Story, A, 212
Sullivan, Arthur, 227
“Sunday Out of Town, A,” 65, 66
T
Tale of Two Cities, A, 11, 57, 179, 185, 200, 203–4, 211–12, 222
Taming of the Shrew, 112
“Taste,” 193
Tavistock House, 153, 161–63, 172, 185, 188, 197, 205, 210, 219, 259
Tempest, The, 371
Tennyson, Lord Alfred, 60, 288, 294, 344, 363, 389
Ternan, Ellen, 5, 22–24, 168, 171, 173–88, 191–222, 224–47, 251–315, 326–27, 335–41, 343–44 347–52, 355, 358–65, 367–70, 377–79, 382–83, 385, 388–90
Ternan, Fanny, 180, 196, 200, 205, 211, 225, 271–72, 278–81, 296, 325–26, 355, 389–90. See also Trollope, Fanny
Ternan, Maria, 169–70, 172–76, 178, 180, 191–92, 195–99, 201, 205, 211, 225, 240, 316, 322, 325, 389–90
Ternan, Mrs. Frances, 167–69, 176, 182, 191–92, 196–200, 204–5, 208–11, 263–68, 274, 278, 291–93, 296–398, 302, 305, 314–16, 322, 326, 352, 361
Ternan, Thomas, 302
Thackeray, Anne, 189
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 80, 160, 188–90
This Side of Paradise, 25
Thompson, John, 259, 270–71
Thompson, T. J., 118, 120
Ticknor and Fields, 327–28
Times, The, 161, 165, 267, 311, 384–89
“Tintern Abbey,” 115
“To Be Read at Dusk,” 122, 126
“Tower, The,” 22, 171
train crash, 266–73, 285
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p; Treasure Island, 186
Tringham, Charles, 261, 286–87, 301–2
Tringham, John, 286–87, 292–93
Tringham, Thomas, 302
Trollope, Anthony, 7, 278, 301
Trollope, Beatrice, 326, 389
Trollope, Fanny, 278–81, 296, 309, 314, 316, 322, 325–26, 355, 389–90. See also
Ternan, Fanny Trollope, Thomas, 278–80, 309, 322, 355
Trollope Society, 7
Tryon, Warren, 332
Turnham, Thomas, 302
Twelfth Night, 21, 109, 373
U
“Ulysses,” 344
Urania Cottage, 131–34, 190
V
Viardot, Madame, 227
Victoria, Queen, 5, 19, 25, 161, 286
Village Coquettes, The, 44
W
Weller, Christiana, 116–22
Welty, Eudora, 331
Wharton, Edith, 166
Wheeler, Jane, 292
Whiffen, Mrs., 188
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 328
William IV, King, 25
Wills, W. H., 167, 175–77, 195–98, 205–6, 239, 256, 261, 271, 296–97, 307–8, 313, 317–19, 321–25, 341–44, 350–51, 367–69
Winter, Mrs. Henry, 39, 147–49, 189, 240. See also Beadnell, Maria
Woman in White, The, 213
Wordsworth, William, 7, 115
“Wreck of the Golden Mary, The,” 155, 157
Wright, Thomas, 217, 300–303
Wuthering Heights, 19, 75, 376
Y
Yeats, William Butler, 22, 33, 94, 141, 171
Yesterdays with Authors, 334
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