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Vindication

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by Lyndall Gordon

Hallet, Étienne Sulpice

  Hamburg : Barlow-Imlay enterprise; Barlows in; MW’s account of; MW’s mission; weather conditions

  Hamilton, Emma, Lady

  Hamlet as model for MW

  Handel, George Frederick; Messiah

  Hannah (ship)

  Hardwicke Act (1753)

  Hardy, Thomas

  Hardyment, Christina

  Harmon, Claire

  Hartford Wits

  Hassan Bashaw, Dey of Algiers Haydn

  Haydon, Benjamin Robert

  Haygarth, Dr

  Hays, Mary: description of MW; friendship with MW; on gossip about MW; love for Frend; Mary Shelley’s letter to; obituary of MW; relationship with Godwin; tea-party; writings

  Hazlitt, William

  Henry VIII, King

  Hess, Martha

  Hewlett, Elizabeth (Hobson)

  Hewlett, Revd Mr John: career; friendship with Mrs Burgh; friendship with MW; marriage; MW’s funeral; sermons

  Hichborn, Benjamin

  Hinxman, Mr (musician)

  Hite, Isaac

  Holcroft, Thomas: adaptation of Figaro; friendship with Godwin; on Godwin’s marriage; gossip about; meeting with MK; tea with Barlow; treason trial

  Holland, Henry Richard Fox, third Baron

  Holman Hunt, William

  Holmes, Richard Holstein. See Schleswig-Holstein

  Home, Robert

  Home, Susanna (Delane)

  Homosexuality

  Hooke, Robert

  Hoxton; Academy

  Hull

  Hume, David

  Humphreys, Colonel David

  Hunter, Anne

  Imlay, Fanny (Françoise, daughter of MW): appearance; as a baby; birth; character; childhood; conversation with Owen; death; depression; encounter with father; father’s promise of maintenance; health; illegitimacy; Johnson’s care for; ‘Lessons’ for; letters; meetings with MK; MW’s death; MW’s fears for; MW’s plans for; relationship with aunts; relationship with Godwin; relationship with mother; relationship with Shelley; relationship with stepmother; smallpox; travels with MW; in Wales; works: biographies , and see Memoirs below

  Imlay, Gilbert: account of executions; activities in Paris; asks MW to return to London; birth of daughter Fanny; business associate of Barlow; death; duality; family background; finances; French exports; friendship with Barlow; like Gatsby; Godwin’s account of; house for MW in London; land speculation; letters to MW; life with MW in Le Havre; in London; Louisiana scheme; love affair with MW; love affairs; Margrethe venture; ‘marriage’ to MW; military career; money for MW; MW’s letters to; MW’s pregnancy; MW’s Scandinavian mission; MW’s suicide attempts; mystery of silver ship mission; promise of maintenance for Fanny; promise to meet MW in Hamburg; protection of MW; Rambler venture; relationship with Bess; relationship with daughter Fanny; relationship with MW; relationship with Wilkinson; shipping schemes; silver treasure ship; spy possibilities; status in Paris during the Terror; visits MW from Paris; works: The Emigrants; A Topographical Description of the Western Territory

  Imlay, John

  Imlay, Peter

  Imlay, Robert

  Imlay family

  Inchbald, Elizabeth (‘Mrs Perfection’): appearance; career; gossip about; MW’s opinion of; relationship with Godwin; response to Godwin’s marriage; snub to MW; social life

  Ireland; Ascendancy and experience of MW; Irishness; of MM. See Blood family, Neptune Blood, Curran, Kings, Mitchelstown Castle MM, George Ogle, Archibald Rowan, George Tighe

  Irish Rising (1798)

  Isnard, Henri-Maximin

  Jackson, Andrew

  Jacobins

  James, Henry James II, King

  Janeway, James (first children’s author)

  Jarvis, Benjamin

  Jay, John

  Jefferson, Thomas: attitude to slavery; correspondence with Price; Genêt affair; law of religious toleration; Louisiana Purchase; Priestley’s influence; racial views; relationship with Barlow; on trade; view of Wilkinson

  Jena

  Jews (synagogue) (reading Torah). See Joel Barlow in internet docs

  Jex-Blake, Sophia

  Johnson, I.B.

  Johnson, Joseph: Analytical Review; appearance; career; character; death; family background; French Revolution commissions for MW; health; housing for MW; imprisonment; letters to MW; on MW; MW’s death; MW’s debts to; MW’s letters to; on MW’s sisters; on MW’s support of her family; MW’s translations; Paris visit plan; payments to MW; political views; print shop in St Paul’s Churchyard; publication of MW’s work; publications; relationship with Barlow; relationship with Fuseli; relationship with Fanny; relationship with George Blood; relationship with Godwin; relationship with MW; social circle; support for MW’s family; translations for

  Johnson, Dr Samuel: death; dislike of Price; Lives of the Poets; meeting with MW; MW reviews Sermon; political views; quoted; reputation; Shakespeare edition

  Jordan, Dora

  Josephine, wife of Napoleon

  Juvenile Library

  Kames, Henry Home, Lord

  Kauffmann, Angelica

  Keats, John

  Kegan Paul, Charles

  Kemble, John

  Kemble, Roger

  King, Caroline

  King, Catharine (Fenton)

  King, Diana

  King, Edward

  King, Edward, friend of Milton King, George (‘Big George’, later 3rd Earl of Kingston): atrocities during Irish Rising; birth; marriage; mistress; MW awaits arrival of; rebuke of sister Margaret

  King, Henry

  King, James

  King, Sir John

  King, John, grandson of above

  King, John Harcourt, son of second Earl of Kingston

  King, Margaret (Lady Mount Cashell, ‘Mrs Mason’): appearance; birth; character; childrearing theory; children; correspondence with MW; death; disguised as a man; father’s arrest and trial; finances; first meeting with MW; health; in Italy; in Jena; letters; love affair with Tighe; marriage to Mount Cashell; marriage to Tighe; medical studies and practice; meeting with Shelleys in Pisa; meetings with Godwin; MW’s influence on; MW’s love for; name; in Paris; politics; and publisher; pupil of MW; reading; relationship with Claire; relationship with Mary Shelley; relationship with mother; relationship with Shelley; separation from first husband; society in Pisa; tombstone; wills; works

  King, Mary: appearance; baby; death; marriage; pupil of MW; relationship with mother; scandal

  King, Robert

  King family

  Kingsborough, Caroline (FitzGerald), Lady: appearance; birth of children; daughters’ education; death; dismissal of MW; marriage; MW’s opinion of; pets; reception of MW; relationship with George Ogle; relationship with MK; relationship with MW; separation from husband; social life in Dublin; travel plans

  Kingsborough, Robert King, Viscount (later 2nd Earl of Kingston): building and planting works; character; daughters; education; marriage; military activities; murder of Fitzgerald; relationship with earlier governess; relationship with MW; separation from wife; trial for murder

  Kingston, Jane, Lady

  Kingston, Edward King 1st Earl of

  Kingston College

  Knowles, John

  Lady’s Magazine

  Lafayette, marquis de Lafayette, Mme de

  Lamb, Charles and Mary

  Lamballe, Princesse de

  Laugharne, Pembrokeshire

  Lavater, Johan-Kaspar

  Lawes Resolutions, The (1632)

  Laws affecting women; Hardwicke Act (1753); Laws Respecting Women; marriage laws. See MW, The Wrongs of Woman.

  Le Brun, Minister of Foreign Affairs

  Le Havre (Havre-Marat): Barlow in; harbour frozen; Imlay in; MW in; shipping traffic; treasure ship

  Leavenworth, Mark

  Lee, Henry (‘Light Foot Harry’)

  Leigh-Perrot, Mrs

  Léon, Pauline

  Leopardi, Giacomo

  Lib
erté (ship)

  Lind, Lars

  Lisbon

  Liverpool

  Livingston, Robert

  Livorno

  Locke, John

  London Corresponding Society London Friends of the People

  Louis King: Barlow’s work; Burke on; execution; flight to Varennes; imprisonment; move to Paris; Roederer’s warning; trial

  Louisiana: Barlow-Imlay scheme; British interest; ceded to Spain; French interest; purchase; size of territory; Spanish governor; Wilkinson’s policy

  Macaulay, Catharine

  Makin, Basua

  Malthus, Thomas

  Mansfield, William Murray, first Earl of

  Marat, Jean Paul

  Margrethe (ship)

  Marie Antoinette, Queen: Burke on; execution; flight to Varennes; imprisonment; move to Paris; MW’s opinion of; son’s accusations; unpopularity

  Marshall, James

  Martineau, Harriet

  Mason, Miss (teaching assistant)

  Mason, Mrs, see King, Margaret

  Mathias, Thomas J.

  May, John

  Meares, George Galbraith

  Men and Women’s Club

  Méricourt, Anne-Joseph (‘Théroigne’)

  Mill, Harriet Taylor

  Mill, John Stuart

  Milton, John: bust of; edition of works illustrated by Fuseli; influence on Fuseli; Lycidas; MW on; Paradise Lost; style

  Mirabeau, comte de

  Miranda, Francisco di

  Miró, Esteban

  Mitchelstown Castle, County Cork: building work; estate; Mary King scandal; MW at; MW’s arrival; site

  Mitchelstown Light Dragoons

  Moira, Elizabeth, Lady

  Molden, Gunnar

  Monroe, James

  Montagu, Basil

  Montagu, Elizabeth

  Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

  Moore, Edward

  Moore, Elizabeth

  Moore, Helena (married George King)

  Moore, Helena (daughter of MK), see Robinson

  Moore, Jane

  Moore, Miss (sister-in-law of George Ogle)

  Moore, Richard Moore, Robert

  Moore, Stephen, Lord Kilworth

  Moore, Thomas

  Moore Park

  Mordini, Antonio

  More, Hannah

  More, Sir Thomas

  Morning Chronicle

  Morris, Gouverneur

  Mott, Lucretia

  Mount Cashell, Margaret, Lady, see King, Margaret

  Mount Cashell, Stephen Moore, second Earl of: appearance; character; death; interests; marriage; possession of children; separation from wife; travels

  Mount Cashell family, see under Moore

  Murray, John

  Napoleon Bonaparte: campaigns; defeat; Louisiana Purchase; regime; Tuileries banquet

  Natchez (Spanish border with US)

  National Convention

  Necker, Jacques

  Nelson, Horatio

  Neuilly-sur-Seine

  Newington Green: community; George Blood’s reputation; MW’s return; Price’s congregation; school

  Newton (tutor)

  Nightingale, Florence

  Noble, Brabazon

  North, Frederick, eighth Lord

  Norton, Caroline

  Norway. See Arendal, Risør, Tønsberg, Wulfsberg

  Nyström, Per

  O’Brien (sea captain)

  O’Connor, Arthur

  Ogle, Elizabeth (Moore): in Dublin; marriage; relationship with MW

  Ogle, George: appearance; in Dublin; family background; marriage; MW’s opinion of; political career; political views; relationship with Lady Kingsborough; relationship with MW; songs

  Ogle, Dame Isabell

  Ogle, Samuel

  Opie, Amelia (Alderson): anti-slavery movement; marriage; in Paris; relationship with Godwin; relationship with MW; writings

  Opie, John: marriage; MW’s funeral; in Paris; portrait of Fuseli; portrait of MW; relationship with MW

  Orléans, Philippe (‘Égalité’), duc de

  Otto, Louis

  Owen, Robert; Owenite feminism

  Oxford, Jane (‘Aspasia’), Lady

  Paine, Thomas: appeal for Louis XVI’s life; arrest and imprisonment in Paris; arrest for debt; career; effigy burnt; meeting with MM in Paris; meetings with MW in Paris; opinion of Barlow; political views; refugee in Paris; relationship with Godwin; relationship with Johnson; release from prison in Paris; response to Burke; trial for high treason; view of Terror; works: Common Sense; An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex; Rights of Man

  Paley, William

  Palli, Angelica

  Pamela. See Clarissa

  Paris, architecture and barriers; Chinese Baths; guillotine; Law of Suspects; Luxembourg prison; Maison de Bretagne; post-Terror; wartime shortages; in 1802.

  Parker, Daniel

  Parkman, George: work and murder

  Parr, Dr

  Parr, Katherine

  Parrot (sea captain)

  Peace of Amiens

  Peacock, Thomas Love

  Pearson, Karl

  Pembroke, Mary Sidney, Countess of

  Percy, Bishop Thomas

  Peterloo Massacre

  Pétion, Jérôme

  Pickering, Timothy

  Pinckney, Charles

  Pinel, Philippe

  Pinkerton, Miss

  Pisa: Claire in; MM settles in; MM’s medical practice; medical school; Shelleys in

  Pitt, William: appearance; Combination Acts; Godwin’s biography of; informers; Irish policies; political views; propaganda; Regency issues; replacement by Fox; response to French Revolution; supporters; Treason Trials

  Ploug, Søren

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  Poignand, Dr Louis

  Polwhele, Richard

  Polygon, Somers Town

  Pompadour, Mme de

  Ponsonby, John

  Pope, Alexander

  Portarlington, Lord

  Price, Rice

  Price, Dr Richard: American admirers of; appearance; Barlow’s approach; career; congregation at Gravel Pit Meeting House; congregation at Newington Green; educational theories; illness; influence on MW; on Ireland; political views; popularity; relationship with Godwin; relationship with Johnson; relationship with MW; response to A Vindication of the Rights of Men; sermons; Unitarianism; views on slavery; works: Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution; Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty; On the Love of Our Country; Thoughts on Education

  Price, Samuel

  Priestley, Joseph

  Primrose Street, Spitalfields

  Prior, Revd John

  Prior, Mrs

  Raleigh, Sir Walter

  Rambler (ship)

  Rawlins, Sophia, see Fuseli

  Regis, Balthazar

  Reveley, Henry

  Reveley, Maria. See Gisborne

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua

  Richardson, Samuel, See Clarissa and Pamela

  Risør

  Risorgimento

  Robards, Rachel

  Robespierre, Maximilien: execution of Brissot; fall and execution; Grande Terreur; influence; Louisiana scheme; MW’s criticisms of; policy towards Americans; policy towards women; sales of royal possessions

  Robinson, Helena (Moore, daughter of MM)

  Robinson, Mary (‘Perdita’)

  Robinson, Richard

  Roebuck & Henckell

  Roederer, Pierre Louis, comte de

  Rogers, Samuel

  Rogers, Thomas

  Roland de la Platière, Jean Marie

  Roland de la Platière, Jeanne Manon Philipon

  Romney, George

  Roper, Margaret

  Roscoe, William: appearance; consulted by MW; Fuseli exhibition; letter from MW; opinion of Godwin; portrait of MW; projects; support for MW

  Rosini, Giovanni

  Rossetti, Gabriele

  Rothwell, Richard

 
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques : Imlay as natural man; influence on French Revolution; influence on Fuseli; influence on MW; MW’s disagreements with; MW’s reading of; on Nature; view of women; works: Émile; Julie; Solitary Walker

  Rowan, Archibald Hamilton: background; edition of Travels; friendship with MW; imprisonment in Dublin; letters from MW; in Paris; on spies; trial

  Rowan, Mrs

  Rowe, Nicholas

  Ruskin, John

  Rutland, Charles Manners, fourth Duke of

  Ryberg, Niels

  St Clair, William

  St George’s Chapel, Windsor

  Saint-Just, Louis Antoine de

  Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf

  Sargent, John Singer

  Sargent, Major Winthrop

  The Scarlet Pimpernel

  Schlabrendorf, Gustav von

  Schleswig-Holstein

  Schreiner, Olive

  Schweizer, Magdalena (‘Madeleine’)

  Scioto Land Company: Barlow’s role; failure; organisation

  Scolfield, William (pseudonym of Godwin)

  Scott, Walter

  Scully, Denys

  Seelye, John

  Semelweiss, Ignaz

  Seward, Anna

  Sex education

  Sexual abuse in school

  Shakespeare, William. See Hamlet

  Sharp, Jane

  Shelburne, William Petty, Lord (later Marquess of Lansdowne)

  Shelley, Clara

  Shelley, Elena

  Shelley, Harriet (Westbrook)

  Shelley, Mary (Godwin): appearance; birth; character; childhood; children; death; education; elopement with Shelley; father’s death; finances; grave; letters; marriage; meeting with MK; in Pisa; pregnancy; relationship with Claire; relationship with Fanny; relationship with father; relationship with MK; relationship with mother’s memory; relationship with Shelley; relationship with stepmother; travels; works. See Frankenstein

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe: appearance; character; death; family background; Florence; health; marriages; meeting with MK; in Pisa; relationship with Claire; relationship with Fanny; relationship with Godwin; relationship with Mary; travels; works.

  Shelley, Percy Florence

  Shelley, William (‘Will-Mouse’)

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

  Siddons, Sarah

  Silsbee, Edward Augustus

  Skeys, Fanny, see Blood

  Skeys, Hugh: birth of son; death of son; death of wife; Fanny Blood’s love for; Godwin’s letter to; letters; marriage to Fanny Blood; news of; promise of gown to MW; second marriage

  Skeys, John

  Skeys, William

  Skinner Street, London

 

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