by Fred Kaplan
women, 218
HEALTH: 25, 42, 245, 247–48, 288, 424–25, 433, 471, 508, 512–13, 520–22, 526–30, 532–34, 538–41, 543, 547–48, 551, 552–54
PORTRAITS:
photographs, 534–35
by Scheffer, 338–39
self-portraiture, 537–38
by Thackeray, 86
WORKS:
American Notes, 124, 143, 151–53, 156, 481; response to, 152
Barnaby Rudge, 100, 198–99; as Gabriel Vardon, 97
Battle of Life, The, 180, 205, 207–10, 212–13, 220
“Bill of Fare, The” (parody of Goldsmith), 52
Bleak House, 95, 97–98, 101–3, 115, 117, 121, 271, 285–88, 300, 301, 303–4, 307, 315, 316, 481; characters: Boythorn, 287; Inspector Bucket, 301; Lady Dedlock, 301; John Jarndyce, 287, 302; Mrs. Jellyby, 287; Jo, 303; Harold Skimpole, 287, 315–16; Esther Summerson, 95, 287, 301–3
Book of Memoranda, 302, 310, 334, 376, 414, 545
capital punishment, letters on, 145, 198–200
Case of the Reformers, The, 333
Child’s History of England, A, 267
Chimes, The, 172, 174, 176–77, 179–80, 191, 193
Christmas Carol, A, 157, 165, 169, 175–77, 180, 190, 193–94, 298, 304, 319, 321, 336, 381, 444, 517, 529, 548–49; characters: Tiny Tim, 321; readings: 444, 517, 529, 548
Christmas stories, 438–39, 531; “The Barbox Brothers,” 506, readings: 506; “The Boy at Mugby,” 505, readings: 506; “Doctor Marigold,” 444, readings: 444; “Going into Society,” 444, readings: 444; The Haunted House, 413; “The Holly Tree,” 339; “A Message From the Sea,” 432, 438; “Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy,” 438–40, 470–71, characters: Joshua Lirriper, 439, Mrs. Lirriper, 439; “Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings,” 438, 440, 468, characters: Miss Wozenham, 439; No Thoroughfare, 488, 495; “The Perils of Certain English Prisoners,” 379, 380, 414, characters: Lady Maryon, 379; “Somebody’s Luggage,” 438, 463; “Tom Tiddler’s Ground,” 438
collieries bill, letters on, 144, 151, 395
Cricket on the Hearth, The, 180, 193, 195, 304, 385, 444
David Copperfield, 19, 45, 95, 216, 221, 223, 241–45, 247, 248–49, 250–51, 253–55, 257, 260, 264–65, 278, 286, 323–24, 381, 402, 432–34, 439, 444–45, 543, 546, 549, 550; characters: David Copperfield, 95, 241, 244–45, 250–55, 323, 416, 432, 434; Mrs. Copperfield, 251–52; Mr. Creakle, 36; Rosa Dartle, 261; Mr. Dick, 243; Little Em’ly, 260, 321, 538; Martha Endell, 260; Mr. Mell, 45; Mr. Micawber, 243, 251–52, 257, 343; Miss Mowcher, 261–62; Murdstone, 243–44, 251–52; Peggotty, 253; Dora Spenlow, 254–56, 323; Dr. Strong, 45; Betsey Trotwood, 253, 439; Agnes Wickfield, 254–55; readings: 444–45, 447–48
Dombey and Son, 95, 196, 204, 206–9, 212–16, 218–21, 223, 225–26, 228–29, 231, 234, 237, 239, 244, 444; characters: James Carker, 234; Dombey, 251; Edith Dombey, 234; Florence Dombey, 95, 217–18; Paul Dombey, 216–18, 239, 242; Miss Larkins, 254; Mrs. Pipchin, 216
earliest sketches, 36
education, letter on, 148
fictional autobiography, 216–17, 221, 240–41, 243–45, 247, 249, 250–55, 301–2, 309–10, 324, 327, 338, 342–43, 414–17, 429, 432–39, 440, 443, 451, 475–76, 501, 508, 537–38, 546
“George Silverman’s Explanation,” 501, 537–38
Great Expectations, 24, 45, 95, 215, 324, 344, 409, 429, 431–34, 435, 436–38, 440, 442, 443, 467; characters: Biddy, 436; Estella, 324, 372, 435–38; Miss Havisham, 434–37; Mr. Jaggers, 434–35; Joe, 434–35; Mrs. Joe, 434, 436; Magwitch, 434–36; Orlick, 436; Pip, 24, 29, 45, 95, 215, 324, 429, 434–38
Hard Times, 45, 91, 305–10; dedication to Thomas Carlyle, 91; characters: Bitzer, 308; Stephen Blackpool, 310; Bounderby, 308–9; Gradgrind, 308–9; Gradgrind junior, 309; Sissy Jupe, 308, 309; Louisa, 309; M’Choakumchild, 45, 308; Rachael, 309–10; Mrs. Sparsit, 309
Haunted Man, The, 180, 227, 239, 240, 243
Household Words articles: “The Amusements of the People,” 265; “Appeal to Fallen Women,” 229; “A Child’s Dream of a Star,” 267; “Fraud on the Fairies,” 275, 305; “Home for Homeless Women,” 267; “The Lost Arctic Voyagers,” 353; “One of These Days,” 380; “A Preliminary Word,” 265; “The Ruffian,” 479; “Valentine’s Day at the Post-Office,” 265
Is She His Wife?, 92
“Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, The” (with Collins), 371, 373–74; characters: Francis Goodchild, 373
Little Dorrit, 95, 292, 307, 326, 330, 334–37, 339–40, 341–44, 349, 351, 355, 357, 360–61, 372, 413, 468–69, 476–77; reaction to, 340; characters: Arthur Clennam, 343–44, 355; Mrs. Clennam, 343–44; Amy Dorrit, 95, 343; William Dorrit, 342–43; Daniel Doyce, 343; Flora Finching, 327, 344
Martin Cbuzzlewit, 151, 153, 155–57, 160, 165, 168, 170, 232, 355; American reaction to, 157; characters: Martin Chuzzlewit, 156; Mrs. Gamp, 232, 439; Pecksniff, 156, 355; Ruth Pinch, 159–60; Tom Pinch, 156, 160
Memoirs of Grimaldi, Tbe (editor), 102
miscellaneous: parody of Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,” 278; “Oh My Lemon,” 242; O’Tello (parody of Othello), 57; “The Spirit of Chivalry in Westminster Hall,” 191
Misnar, the Sultan of India, 28
Mr. Nightingale’s Diary (with Lemon), 280
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The, 507, 545–46, 548, 550, 553, 557; characters: Rosa Bud, 545; Edwin Drood, 545–46; John Jasper, 545
Nicholas Nickleby, 91, 95, 99, 101, 112–13, 117, 119, 123, 146, 169, 207, 222, 230, 278, 444; dedication to Macready, 91; characters: Madeline Bray, 120; Crummies, 322; Mr. Mantalini, 230; Kate Nickleby, 120; Mrs. Nickleby, 119, 222, 424, 476; Nicholas Nickleby, 95, 119–20, 123, 434; Ralph Nickleby, 119, 108; Squeers, 45; readings: 444
Old Curiosity Shop, The, 117–18, 120–21, 123–24, 206, 212; dedication to Samuel Rogers, 91; characters: Little Nell, 95, 114, 120–21, 123–24, 206, 212, 538; Quilp, 120; Grandfather Trent, 120–21
Oliver Twist, 19, 45, 64–65, 89, 93, 95, 101–3, 108, 112, 117, 143, 145–46, 149, 198, 207, 228, 307, 468; characters: Mr. Brownlow, 96; Fagin, 96, 146, 472; Mr. Fang, 145; Rose Maylie, 96; Monks, 96; Nancy, 149, 228, 444, 532; Oliver Twist, 143; Oliver’s mother, 95–96; Bill Sikes, 143, 198, 228, 444, 532, 538; readings: 444, 532–33, 538, 547
Our Mutual Friend, 45, 86, 148, 355, 397, 460, 467–76, 507, 509; characters: Mrs. Boffin, 476; Noddy Boffin, 474, 476; John Harmon, 474, 475; Bradley Headstone, 45, 148, 474–75; Charlie Hexam, 148; Lizzie Hexam, 473–75; Podsnap, 86, 355, 397; Riah, 472; Rogue Riderhood, 474, 475; Mr. Veneering, 474; Silas Wegg, 474; Bella Wilfer, 473–76; Mr. Wilfer, 476; Mrs. Wilfer, 476; Eugene Wrayburn, 475
Pickwick Papers, 77–86, 93, 95, 97–101, 104, 106, 112–14, 116, 123, 135, 154, 207, 314, 342, 401, 444, 471, 476; dedication to Talfourd, 91; characters: Mrs. Bardell, 83; Dodson and Fogg, 83; Jingle, 83; Perker, 83; Pickwick, 78, 83–84, 89, 119, 123, 503; Dr. Slammer, 83; Snodgrass, 89; Mr. Justice Stareleigh, 492; Job Trotter, 83; Tupman, 89; Sam Weller, 81, 89; Winkle, 89; stories from: “A Madman’s Manuscript,” 135; “Stroller’s Tale,” 79; readings: 444, 484, 492, 517, 529, 548
Pictures from Italy, 190, 193, 195, 198
Sketches by Boz: 25, 42, 62–66, 72–77, 80–81, 88, 95, 97–98, 100, 106, 125, 130, 231; sketches: “Astley’s,” 65; “The Black Veil,” 66; “The Bloomsbury Christening,” 62; “The Boarding-House–No. I,” 62; “The Boarding-House–No. II,” 63; “The Broker’s Man,” 65; “A Christmas Dinner,” 64; “A Dinner at Poplar Walk,”62; “Early Coaches,” 65; “The First of May,” 64–65; “Gin-Shops,” 64; “The Great Winglebury Duel,” 76; “Horatio Sparkins,” 62; “The Hospital Patient,” 65; “Love and Oysters,” 130; “The Misplaced Attachment of Mr. John Dounce,” 64, 130; “Mrs. Joseph Porter,” 62, 65; “Original Papers,” 62; “Our Next-Door Neighbour,” 65; “Our School,” 45; “A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle,” 64, 65; “The Pawnbroker’s Shop,” 64, 65; “Sentiment,” 64; “Seven Dials,” 65; “The Steam Excursion,” 65; “Street Sketches,” 63; “The Streets–Night,”
64; “The Tuggses at Ramsgate,” 77; “A Visit to Newgate,” 65
Sketches of Young Couples, 117
Sketches of Young Gentlemen, 117
Strange Gentleman, The, 76, 92
Tale of Two Cities, A, 143, 219, 369, 414–15, 417 424, 429, 440–41, 443, 507; characters: Sydney Carton, 416–17, 429; Charles Darnay, 416–17, 507; Madame Defarge, 416; Jarvis Lorry, 416; Dr. Manette, 143, 416–17; Lucie Manette, 416–17; Miss Pross, 416
“Uncommercial Traveller,” 438
Village Coquettes, The, 75–76, 88–89
Dickens, Charles Culliford Boz, Jr. (son), 272, 346, 349, 410, 423, 453, 457, 500, 542, 548, 555–56; birth of, 92, 94–95, 106–7; has nervous convulsions, 150; birthday celebrations of, 155, 242, 319; contracts scarlet fever, 220–21; school bills paid by Miss Coutts, 220, 262; recovers from illness, 223; attends Eton, 276; studies business in Germany, 298, 335; acts in Frozen Deep, 356; role of in separation, 385–87; marries Bessie Evans, 398–99, 497; in Orient on business, 420; joins All the Year Round staff, 531
Dickens, Dora Annie (daughter), 270; named after Dora Spenlow, 256; sudden death of, 258–60
Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton (Plorn) (son), 17, 271–72; birth of, 269; as his father’s delight, 346; goes to Australia, 423, 497, 531
Dickens, Elizabeth Ball (Mrs. William Dickens) (grandmother), 21, 31, 42; storytelling powers of, 20; bequest of, 39–40
Dickens, Elizabeth Barrow (Mrs. John Dickens) (mother), 27, 35, 53, 57–58, 71, 92–95, 159, 181, 239, 243, 250, 257, 324, 376, 418, 483, 538; family background of, 18–22; gives birth to Dickens, 18; attempts to help family finances, 37–38; moves into Marshalsea, 41; tries to keep Dickens in blacking factory, 43–44; arranges for Dickens’ employment as law clerk, 47; relationship with Dickens, 103–5; description of, 104; as Mrs. Nickleby, 119, 222; Dickens’ hostility to, 252, 254; as Mrs. Sparsit, 309; as Mrs. Clennam, 343–45; illness and senility of, 423–24; as Miss Havisham, 436; death of, 439; as the unloving destroyer, 475–76
Dickens, Fanny (Mrs. Henry Burnett) (sister), 25, 34, 47, 123, 170, 223, 241, 247, 250, 255, 267, 421, 475, 483, 538; as Dickens’ first playmate, 19; shows musical talent, 27; attends Royal Academy of Music, 36–37; lives in Marshalsea, 40–41; wins prize, 43; performs in amateur theatrical, 54–58; introduces Dickens to Hullah, 75; marries Henry Burnett, 105; moves to Manchester, 159; becomes severely ill, 204, 215; as Florence Dombey, 217; death of, 238–39
Dickens, Francis Jeffrey (Frank) (son), 272; stammers, 288; at school in Boulogne, 346; handles money badly, 423; goes to India, 457; fails at war office, 497
Dickens, Frederick (brother), 38, 56–58, 69, 71, 106, 179, 223, 235, 237, 439; birth of, 25; lives in Marshalsea, 41; lives with Dickens, 60; works for Macrone, 97; works for treasury department, 105; is subsidized by Dickens, 158; competes with Dickens, 164; marries Anna Weller, 167, 240; visits Italy, 173; performs in amateur theatricals, 192, 231; borrows money, 360; collapse of marriage of, 422; death of, 483–84
Dickens, Harriet (sister), 25
Dickens, Harriet Lovell, see Lovell, Harriet (Mrs. Augustus Dickens)
Dickens, Helen (Mrs. Alfred Dickens), 421–22
Dickens, Henry Fielding (son), 17, 272, 423, 513, 542, 544, 547; birth of, 237; naming of, 241; acts in Tom Thumb, 319; edits Gad’s Hill Gazette, 496; wins scholarship, 498, 544, 547; claims Dickens and Ellen had a child, 500; at father’s deathbed, 555–56
Dickens, John (father), 62, 65, 69, 71, 113, 119, 231, 239–40, 270, 302, 309, 320, 322, 332, 342, 360, 362, 377, 442, 414, 422–23, 425, 433–34, 439, 452, 476, 484; family background of, 19–21; early employment of, 21–22; provides models for Dickens, 26, 27; impecuniousness, bankruptcy, and imprisonment of, 31–44; has further debts, 46–47; becomes a journalist, 49; becomes insolvent debtor again, 52–53, 57–58; has lack of faith in Dickens, 59; tries to borrow on Dickens’ name, 83–84; is exiled to Alphington, 105; sends begging letters, 158; Dickens’ resentment of, 181; is employed by Daily News, 197–98; as Dombey, 217–18; pesters Dickens for loans, 223; illness of, 243; as Murdstone and Micawber, 250–51; death of, 257–58
Dickens, Kate Macready (Mrs. Charles Collins) (daughter), 239–40, 272, 309, 346, 399, 441, 451, 476, 487, 491, 495, 514, 530 538; birth of, 106, 250; is ill in Italy, 173; teaches Dickens the polka, 242; warm relationship with Dickens, 302; performs in Frozen Deep, 350–51, 356; friendship with Thackeray’s daughters, 402; reaction to parents’ separation, 410; marries Charles Collins, 418–21; unhappiness after separation, 427–28; affection for Thackeray, 453–54; marital problems, 498–501; dislike of Ellen, 543; visits mother, 548; last moments with Dickens, 553–56
Dickens, Letitia Mary (Mrs. Henry Austin) (sister), 22, 27, 38, 41, 56–58, 105, 323, 344, 421, 423, 446, 484, 508
Dickens, Mary (Mamie) (daughter), 17, 239, 242, 256, 272, 302, 309, 351, 402, 410, 462–63, 514, 530 553, 554, 556; as Mary Hogarth’s namesake, 94; birth of, 106–7; domestic education of, 346; acts in Frozen Deep, 350, 356; friendship with Bessie Evans, 399; cries at Kate’s wedding, 420–21; matrimonial prospects, 427–28; Chorley in love with, 490–91, emotional problems of, 498–99; knowledge of relationship between Dickens and Ellen, 500–501; bequest from Dickens, 542–43; in London society, 547, 550; visits mother, 548
Dickens, Sydney Smith Haldimand (son), 346; birth of, 222; becomes a midshipman, 423; special relationship with Leech, 452; death of, 497; constant debts of, 531
Dickens, Walter Savage Landor (son), 272, 469, 497–98; at school in Boulogne, 346; difficulties with money, 423; death of, 457
Dickens, William (grandfather), 20, 40
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, 43, 332–33
Disraeli, Benjamin, 109, 550; description of Dickens by, 551
Doctors’ Commons, 54, 253
dogs: Linda, 495; Sultan, 495, 502; Turk, 495
Dolby, George, 518, 520, 550, 553; becomes Dickens’ business manager, 506, 507; as advance man for American tour, 509, 512–13; greets Dickens in Boston, 515–16; in walking match, 522–25; American tour earnings of, 527–29; is worried about Dickens’ health, 533
Dolby, Madame Santon, 509
Doncaster, 371, 374, 408
D’Orsay, Alfred, Count, 219, 223–24, 273–74; Dickens names child after, 203; relationship with Lady Blessington, 204; bankruptcy and flight of, 273–74
Dotheboys Hall (NN), 146
Doughty Street, no. 48, 92, 106
Dover, 24, 285, 287, 433, 447, 449, 458, 471
Doyle, Richard, 179
Drury Lane Theatre, 55, 109, 112, 153, 331
Dulwich, 84, 501
Dumas, Alexandre, 219
“Dust; or Ugliness Redeemed” (Home), 269, 467
Eastern Penitentiary (Philadelphia), 143
Eatanswill, 83
Edinburgh, 66, 265, 381, 383–84, 406, 447; Dickens’ first visit to, 61, 113–15; banquet in honor of Dickens in, 234–37;
Edinburgh Review, 114, 144, 200
Educational Temperance Institute, Bradford, 321
Egg, Augustus, 276, 283, 289, 356; meets Dickens, 227; in amateur theatricals, 232; proposes to Georgina, 283, 291, 390; travels in Italy, 290–93, 295–98; death of, 455–56
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (Gray), 278
Eliot, George, 413, 429–31, 491; works: Adam Bede, 430; Scenes of Clerical Life, 430
Elizabeth Cottage (Slough), 500–501
Elliot, Frances Dickinson, 544
Elliotson, John, 116, 220–21, 247, 446; as family physician, 150; introduces Dickens to mesmerism, 182; mesmeric demonstration by, 211; diagnoses Letitia, 215; visits Boulogne, 317; becomes senile, 463–64
Ellis and Blackmore, 47–48, 58
Elstree, 90, 276
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 152, 309, 320, 516–17; response to American Notes, 152; description of Dickens by, 517
Eton, 246, 262, 272, 276, 500–501
Evans, Bessie (Mrs. Charles Dickens, Jr.) (daughter-in-law), 399, 497, 555
Evans, F
rederick, 288, 356, 383, 451; as admirer of Dickens, 169; angers Dickens, 398–99
Evans, Thomas C., 413
Evening Chronicle (newspaper), 63
Evening Post (newspaper), 519
Every Man in His Humour (Jonson), 192, 229, 231, 235, 279
Examiner, The (newspaper), 76, 88, 90, 179, 224
Exeter, 61, 63
Extra Boz Herald, The (newspaper), 126
Eyre, Edward, 481
Fagin, Bob, 38
Falstaff, 23, 78, 236, 549
Falstaff Inn, 322
Family Colonization Loan Society, 287
farewell banquet (1867), 503–6, 513, 551
Faust (Gounod), 416, 462
Fechter, Charles: begins friendship with Dickens, 492–94; Dickens writes article about, 544
Felton, Cornelius C., 130, 153, 288, 388, 455, 517
Field, Charles F., 262, 301
Fielding, Henry, 26, 241, 319; works: Tom Jones, 241; Tom Thumb, 319
Field Lane Ragged School, 146, 148
Fields, Annie (Mrs. James T.), 509, 517, 520, 524, 526, 536, 543, 548
Fields, James T., 513–14, 520, 526, 529; meets Dickens, 126; urges American visit, 413; becomes Dickens’ Boston publisher, 500–10; as Dickens’ host, 516–17, 523–24; visits Gad’s Hill, 543–46
Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, Tbe (William Holman Hunt), 420
Fitzgerald, Percy, 502; guides Dickens in Ireland, 490; gives Dickens the dog Sultan, 495; as suitor of Mamie, 498
Fletcher, Angus: guides Dickens in Highlands, 115; in Italy, 171, 173, 189; death of, 455
Florence, 178, 189, 297, 408, 514
Folkestone, 288, 336, 458
Fonblanque, Albany, 88, 170, 179, 197, 224
Foreign Quarterly, 153
Forrest, Edwin, 277–78
Forster, John, 17, 72, 116, 123, 150–51, 155, 157, 162, 173, 176, 180, 192–93, 195–97, 206, 208, 213, 239–44, 277–78, 288, 308, 348, 397, 432, 448, 465–66, 488, 504, 506, 536, 541–42, 551–52, 554; reviews Village Coquettes, 76; meets Dickens, 86–87; background and education of, 87–88; fascination with theatre, 87; friendships of, 88–91; becomes Dickens’ adviser, 100, 102–3; is in love with Letitia Landon, 108–10; has tense relationship with Dickens, 111; advises on Little Nell’s fate, 121; is missed by Dickens, 129–31, 141–42; writes on American poetry, 135; friendship with Landor, 153; intimacy with Dickens, 154; dances with Jane Carlyle, 156; arranges Greenwich farewell, 169–70; hosts Chimes reading, 178–79; friendship with Ainsworth, 191; edits Daily News, 201–2; Dickens talks to about autobiography, 216; visits Dickens in Paris, 219–21; rivalry with Maclise, 223–24; has conflict with Thackeray, 225–27; campaigns for Hunt, 230–31; performs in amateur theatricals, 234–36, 279, 281, 358; tells Dickens of Dora’s death, 258–59; negotiates with publishers, 266; poor health and overwork of, 274–75, 316; interferes with Wills, 297; at Hunt’s funeral, 315; is engaged to be married, 316–17, 345; opposes paid readings, 320, 346, 382–84; tries to calm Dickens, 329; offers manuscripts to Literary Fund, 333–34; Dickens confides in, 371–73, 386; negotiates separation, 387; possible proposal to Mamie, 390; defends Dickens, 394–95; has Dickens’ power of attorney, 400–401; detested by Thackeray, 405; at Mamie’s wedding, 420; satirized by Thackeray, 443; life of John Eliot and, 486; opposes American readings, 511–14; arranges Dickens’ burial at Abbey, 555–56; works: Life of Goldsmith, 224; Life of John Eliot, 486; Rhyme and Reason, 88; “Vindication of the Stage,” 87