by Fred Kaplan
Fort House (Broadstairs), 270
Fort Pitt (Rochester), 24
Fortunio and His Seven Gifted Servants (Planché), 319–20
France, 168, 178, 223, 227, 238, 247, 286, 310–13, 319, 365, 416, 448, 458, 468, 470–71, 479, 493; Dickens’ first visit to, 170–71; first residence in, 214; attitude toward, 218–19; second residence in, 340–41; visits with Ellen in, 462–63, 465–66
Franklin, Sir John, 352–55
Fraserians, 86
Fraser’s Magazine, 72, 86
Freemason’s Hall, 503
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, 366–67
French Revolution, 21, 118, 414–15
Frith, William, 451
Frozen Deep, The, 350, 352, 354–55, 357–59, 361, 363, 456, 549; responses to, 358
Furnival’s Inn: no. 13, 60, 69, 77–78; no. 15, 71, 78–80, 92, 106, 446
Gad’s Hill Gazette, 496, 500
Gad’s Hill Place, 17, 26, 32, 48, 62, 364–65, 367, 381–82, 406, 422, 433, 445, 448, 451, 460–61, 465, 466–68, 470–71, 478, 484, 400–91, 500–501, 509, 512–14, 530 532, 535–36, 541, 546, 547, 549; Dickens first sees, 23; is for sale, 322–23; negotiation for, 336, 347–49; Dickens purchases, 349–50; tries to rent out, 360–61; occupies for the first time, 362; walks to from London, 377–78; Katie married from, 418–20; as family home, 425; Ellen visits, 428; description of, 493–96; improvements at, 543–44; Dickens dies at, 552–55
Gallery of Illustration, 365, 369
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 480
Garrick Club, 111, 224–25, 403–5, 451–52, 489, 492
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 308; as contributor to Household Words, 265–68, 304, 335, 430–31; Dickens visits, 281–82; opinion of Dickens, 407; works: “The Heart of John Middleton,” 268; Lizzie Leigb, 265
Gautier, Theophile, 219
Gay, John, 75
Geneva, 205, 209, 248, 293, 451
Genoa, 171, 173, 176–78, 180–82, 184, 189, 190, 204, 294–95, 298, 311, 374, 450, 464
George IV, 19, 252
George Washington (ship), 123
Germany, 298, 335, 491
Gibson, Milner, 351, 547
Giles, Samuel, 25
Giles, William, 25, 31, 33, 243
Gladstone, William, 551
Glasgow, 115–16, 145, 234–37, 406, 447
Glasgow Athenaeum, 234
Glencoe pass (Scotland), 115
Gloucester Place, no. 57, Hyde Park Gardens, 469
Goldsmith, Oliver, 26, 28, 33, 49, 52, 63, 241, 316; works: She Stoops to Conquer, 316; Vicar of Wakefield, 63
“Gondoliers, The” (comic opera), 75
Good Night’s Rest, A (farce), 235
Gordon, George, 118
Gore House, 204, 220, 273–74, 313
Gounod, Charles, 416, 462
Graves, Caroline, 487–88
Graves, Harriet, 487–88
Gravesend, 307, 322, 361, 530
Gravesend Road, 494–95, 554
Gray, Thomas, 278
Great Eastern (ship), 362
Great Exhibition of 1851 194, 270
Great International Walking Match, 524
Great Western (railroad), 194, 227
Great Yarmouth, 241
Greeley, Horace, 528
Greenwich, 112, 154, 170, 276, 362
Grey, Earl, 61
Grimaldi, Joseph, 27, 54, 126, 191
Guild of Literature and Art, 257, 279, 281–82, 285–87
Gurney (shorthand system), 50, 58
Guy Fawkes (Albert Smith), 319
Haldimand, William, 210–11, 214, 293
Hall, Samuel Carter, 355
Hall, William, 77–78, 113, 157, 168–69, 222
Hallam, Henry, 211–12
Hall of Commerce (London), 277
Hampstead, 317, 422
Hanover Square Rooms, 170, 467
Hardelot, 465
Harley, John, 75–76
Harrison, William Henry, 135
Hartford, 126–27
Hastings, 447
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 517
Haymarket Theatre, 235–36, 267, 269, 379, 408–9
Headland, Thomas, 446–47
Helps, Arthur, 549
Higham, 420
Higham Cricket Club, 495
Highgate, 258, 270, 483, 491
Highgate cemetery, 455
Hindle, Reverend Joseph, 348
Hogarth, George (father-in-law), 221, 223, 265, 346, 349, 356, 378, 390, 397, 428, 548; as reporter for Morning Chronicle, 63; invites Dickens home, 66–67; reviews Sketches, 74–76; works for Daily News, 197; denies incest charge, 392
Hogarth, Georgina (sister-in-law), 104, 201, 209, 232, 240, 250, 269, 276, 281, 294, 309, 312, 314, 323, 346, 349–51, 425–27, 436, 455, 457, 471, 514, 530 538, 543, 550, 553; childhood and family of, 66; joins Dickens’ household, 159; in Italy, 177, 186; as Dickens’ companion in Paris, 218; visits Scotland, 237; teases Leech, 246; as Agnes Wickfield, 255–56; acts in amateur theatricals, 278–79; declines marriage proposal, 283, 291; as Esther Summerson, 287, 301–2; relationship with Lemon, 319; as Amy Dorrit, 343–44; acts in Frozen Deep, 356, 369; Andersen’s opinion of, 364; is praised by Dickens, 375, 449; role in separation, 378, 388; is accused of incest, 389–90, 391–93, 395, 402, 410; at Katie’s wedding, 419; as Dickens’ woman, 428; ill health of, 449–50, 462, 467–68; relationship with Ellen, 500–501, 536; legacy to, 542; at Dickens’ deathbed, 554–55
Hogarth, Georgina Thomson (Mrs. George Hogarth) (mother-in-law), 121, 159, 300; as a mother, 66, 223; has scarlet fever, 69; response to Mary’s death, 93; lives at Tavistock House, 346, 349; role in separation, 378, 386–87, 389–92, 395, 397–98; is proscribed by Dickens, 426, 428; death of, 439
Hogarth, Helen, 356, 387, 389, 391–92, 395, 398, 426
Hogarth, John, 75
Hogarth, Mary, 215, 250, 309, 343–44, 372, 379, 476, 538; childhood and family of, 66; as Catherine’s companion, 68; joins Dickens’ household, 71; death of, 91–93; as Rose Maylie, 95–96; as Little Nell, 106–7, 206; Dickens’ obsession with, 120–21, 139–140, 254–55, 439, 525; Dickens dreams about, 174; Dickens’ idealization of, 261
Hogarth family, 66–67, 70–71
Holbein, Hans, 35, 49
Holcroft, Thomas, 216
Holland, Lady, 193
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 516–17
Hood, Thomas, 153, 501
Honre, Catherine, 282
Horne, Richard Henry, 197, 260, 268–69, 282, 467; works: Orion, 268
Horsemonger Lane Gaol, 201
Hospital for Sick Children (Great Ormond Street), 381
Hotel Gibbon (Lausanne), 205
Hotel Meurice (Paris), 334
Houghton Place, no. 2, Ampthill Square, 409, 412, 425, 465, 500, 542
Household Words, 257–58, 263–66, 268, 270, 274–75, 278, 286, 291, 297–98, 301, 304–6, 310, 314, 316–17, 330, 335, 340–41, 349, 352, 366, 371–73, 380, 382, 395, 400, 402, 414–15, 467
Howe, Julia Ward, 143
Howe, Samuel, 143–44
Howitt, Mary, 266
Howitt, William, 266
Hudson, George, 194
Hudson Bay Company, 352
Huffam, Christopher, 34–37
Hugo, Victor, 219, 463
Hullah, John, 75
Hunchback, The (Knowles), 227, 233
Hunt, Leigh, 17, 88, 244; meets Dickens, 72; pension efforts for, 230–31; is satirized as Skimpole, 287, 315–16
Hunt, Thornton, 284
Hunt, William Holman, 420, 456
Huskisson, William, 40
Hyde Park Gate, no. 16, 467
Hyde Park Place, no. 5, 547, 552
India, 497
Insolvency Act, 30–40, 45, 53
Inveraray, 115
Ireland, 31, 74, 170, 227, 235, 246, 384, 422, 507, 533, 551
Irène ou Le Magnetisme (Scribe), 219
Irving, Washington, 136; corresponds with Dickens, 125; meets Dickens, 132–34; distanc
es self, 153; works: A History of New York, 133; The Legends of the Albambra, 133; The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., 133; Tales of a Traveller, 133
Isle of Wight, 245–48, 264, 314
Italy, 202–3, 205, 147, 279, 283, 304, 306, 408, 450, 461, 464, 479–80, 544; Dickens’ first visit to, 160, 167–09, 171–73, 176, 178, 182, 186–90; second visit to, 289, 290–92, 294–97, 300
Jamaica insurrection, 481
Jarman, Fanny, see Ternan, Frances
Jeffrey, Francis, 114–15, 145, 158, 234
Jerdan, William, 72, 86, 113
Jerrold, Douglas, 201, 212–13, 226, 244, 351; meets Dickens, 86; attends reading of Chimes, 179; meets Dickens in Brussels, 190–92; is employed by Daily News, 197; acts in amateur theatricals, 231, 279, 281, 284; death of, 362–63; benefits for, 363, 365, 381
Jesus, 175, 181, 415, 435, 480
Johnson, President Andrew, 522, 524
Jones, William, 44–45
Jonson, Ben, 192, 229, 231, 235, 279
Kay-Shuttleworth, James Phillips, 148, 305
Kean, Charles, 54, 235, 368, 371
Kean, Edmund, 28, 90
Keats, John, 236
Kelly, Fanny, 192–93, 213, 229, 231, 235
Kenilworth, 281
Kensal Green cemetery, 439, 451
Kensal Lodge, 73
Kent, Charles: meets Dickens, 489–90; organizes farewell banquet, 504; sees Dickens off, 512–14
King’s College School, 220
Kingston, 138 Kitely (Jonson), 192
Knebworth, 235, 279
Knight, Charles, 111
Knowles, James Sheridan, 227, 233, 235, 368; writes Virginius, 90; becomes Shakespeare House Museum curator, 233, 235; works: Virginius, 90, 233, 368
Kolle, Henry: introduces Dickens to Maria Beadnell, 51–52; acts in amateur theatricals, 56–57
Lake Champlain, 141
Lake Como, 190
Lake Geneva, 204
Lake Maggiore, 178, 294
“La Maison Dickens” (Condette), 466
Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de, 219
Lamb, Charles, 72, 88
Lamert, George, 38
Lamert, James: organizes amateur theatricals, 28; lives with Dickens family, 31; makes toy theatre, 34; employs Charles at Warren’s Blacking, 38; quarrels with John Dickens, 43
Lamert, Matthew: acts in amateur theatricals, 28; marries Mary Allen, 31; as Dr. Slammer, 83
Landon, Letitia, 86, 109, 113
Landor, Walter Savage, 88, 107, 153, 224, 266, 287
Landseer, Edwin, 451
Lant Street, 41
La Scala (Milan), 178
Lausanne, 202, 216, 240, 282; Dickens resides in, 204–5, 210–13; Dickens revisits, 293
Layard, Austen Henry: ascends Vesuvius with Dickens, 296; forms Administrative Reform Society, 330–31
Leamington, 448
Leech, Annie (Mrs. John Leech), 232, 242–43, 246, 288, 450–52
Leech, John, 241–43, 276, 362, 398; attempts to become Pickwick illustrator, 80; becomes Dickens’ friend, 154–55; illustrates Chimes, 179, 220; as member of walking club, 227; acts in amateur theatricals, 231, 235–36; holidays on Isle of Wight, 245–47; is mesmerized by Dickens, 246–47; visits Dickens in Boulogne, 288, 318–19; death of, 450–53, 471
Leeds, 533–34, 538
Leeds Mechanics’ Institute, 233
Lehmann, Frederick, 491
Lehmann, Nina (Mrs. Frederick Lehmann), 491
Lehmann, Rudolph, 491
Leigh, Mary Anne, 52–53, 254
Lemon, Helen (Mrs. Mark Lemon), 232 Lemon, Mark, 220, 241, 259, 266, 276, 288, 314, 322, 451; meets Dickens, 155; as editor of Punch, 155; Forster reads Chimes to, 179; acts in amateur theatricals, 192, 231, 236–37, 279–80; on Daily News staff, 197; joins walking club, 227, 276; Dickens writes poem to, 242; helps with Hard Times, 307; as friend of Dickens family, 318–20; visits Paris, 341–42; acts in Frozen Deep, 350, 356; acts for Catherine in separation, 387, 391; is rejected by Dickens, 398–99; is reconciled with Dickens, 454; gives readings, 534; death of, 552
Lever, Charles, 431–32, 442
Lewes, George Henry, 228, 232, 236, 413, 429–30, 491
Library of Fiction, 77, 80
Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life (Porter), 49
Lincoln, Abraham, 550; Dickens’ opinion of, 482; death-day dream of, 522–23
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 141, 154, 179, 187, 274
Linton, Lynn, 348
Little College Street (Camden Town), 41
Little Portland Street Unitarian Church, 173, 175
Liverpool, 61, 123, 150, 154, 159, 165–66, 230–31, 235–37, 281–82, 447–48, 508, 512, 514, 530, 532–33
Lloyd’s (insurance), 50
Loch Katrine, 115
Loch Lomond, 237
Logan Rock, 155
London Library, 414
London Shakespeare Committee, 233
London Tavern, 258, 277
London University, 87, 182
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 130–31, 153, 159, 516–17; description of Dickens by, 132; visit to England by, 153; tours London slums, 153; response to American Notes, 153
Looking-Glass Prairie (Missouri), 138, 144 Louvre, 219
Love, Law, and Physic (farce), 235
Lovell, Harriet (Mrs. Augustus Dickens) (sister-in-law), 240, 422
Lowell, Mabel, 543
Lyceum Theatre, 408, 492–93
Lynn, Eliza, 224 Lytton, Lord Robert, 274
McClellan, George, 482
Maclise, Daniel, 88–89, 116, 162, 173, 227, 236, 345, 501; as a Fraserian, 72; meets Dickens, 85; personality and background of, 86; relationship with queen, 108–10; interest in women, 113, 164; draws Dickens’ children, 129–30; becomes increasingly moody, 153–56; attends Chimes reading, 179; at work on frescos, 188, 191; enjoys Dickens’ praise, 190–92; writes poem to Dickens and Forster, 219–20; rivalry with Forster, 223–24; friendship with Forster, 274–75; does costumes for amateur theatricals, 279; describes Forster and fiancée, 317; falls away from Dickens, 484; death of, 551–52; works: Sacrifice by Noah, 224
Macready, Katie, 533
Macready, Nina, 277
Macready, William Charles, 105, 115, 124, 139, 141, 150–54, 176–77, 192, 210, 220, 225–26, 234–35, 245, 274, 314, 345, 351, 376, 393, 395, 432, 546; Dickens first sees performance by, 55; background and career of, 88–90; meets Dickens, 91; collaborates with Forster and Bulwer, 108; attempts to revive theatre, 111–13; is critical of American Notes, 151; tours America, 170, 277–78; Dickens reads Chimes to, 179–80; is apprehensive about Daily News, 195, 201; influence on Dickens of, 236; retirement benefit for, 237, 276–78; retirement in Sherborne of, 317, 321; visits Paris, 341–42; sees Frozen Deep, 357–58; helps Ternan family, 368; is old and infirm, 448; deaths of children of, 484; is alienated from Forster, 485; response to Dickens’ reading, 533
Macready, Mrs. William Charles, see Atkins, Catherine
Macready, Mrs. William Charles (Cecile Louise Spencer), 484
Macrone, John, 72–74, 97–102
Maginn, John, 72, 86, 109
Mahony, Francis Sylvester, 86
Maid and the Magpie, The, 409
Malvern, 256–59, 270
Manchester, 72, 159, 230–31, 235–38, 266, 281, 306, 337, 366, 369, 408, 414, 421, 532
Manchester Athenaeum, 159
Manchester Guardian, 395
Mannings, hanging of, 201
Manson, Mrs., 35
Mariotti, Luigi, 168
Marjoribanks, Edward, 146
Marrayat, Frederick, 124
Married Bachelor, The (theatrical), 56
Marshalsea prison, 39, 41–42, 65, 83, 342–43, 361–62, 439
Marston, Westland, 383
Martineau, Harriet, 266
Master Humphrey’s Clock, 117–18, 193
Mathews, Charles, 28, 55, 279
Maynard, Frederick, 335–36
Mazzini, Giuseppe,
172, 480
Mechanics’ Institute, Liverpool, 165
Mechanics’ Institute, Rochester, 445
Melbourne, William Lamb, 282, 497
Mellon, Alfred, 243
Memoirs (Holcroft), 216
Meredith, Hannah (Mrs. William Brown), 147–48, 240, 261, 305, 337
Mesmer, Franz Anton, 182
mesmerism (animal magnetism), 176, 182–83, 210–11, 235–36, 246–47, 452, 487, 546
Milan, 178, 190, 294
Mile End Terrace, 19, 22
Mill, James, 305
Mill, John Stuart, 305
Millais, John Everett, 227, 329, 354, 451, 553, 555
Miller and His Men (amateur theatrical), 46, 496
Mirror of Parliament (newspaper), 49–50, 53, 58, 60
Mitton, Thomas, 69, 173, 196, 258, 425; meets Dickens, 48; friendship strengthens, 52; acts as Dickens’ attorney, 103; partnership with Smithson, 163; vies with Forster, 191; drifts into eccentricity, 275; is distant from Dickens, 317, 484
Molesworth, Lady, 499
Molloy, Charles, 48, 49
Monthly Magazine, 60, 62–63, 77
Montreal, 138–39, 141, 192, 366
Morley, Henry, 268, 335, 380, 439, 530–31
Morning Chronicle (newspaper), 60, 61, 63, 72, 74, 76, 89, 97, 100, 109, 144, 169, 196, 198–99, 305
Morning Herald (newspaper), 53