Dickens

by Fred Kaplan

Moscheles, Ignaz, 36

  Moxon, Edward, 212

  Mulgrave, Lord (George Constantine Phipps), 130, 139, 169, 214

  Napier, Macvey, 144, 200

  Naples, 172, 186–87, 247, 291, 295–97

  Napoleon, Louis, 312–13, 463, 479

  Naylor Vickers (industrial firm), 491

  New Burlington Street, no. 8, 98

  Newcastle Mercury (newspaper), 88

  Newcastle upon Tyne, 87, 281, 447

  Newgate prison, 65, 142, 199

  New Monthly Magazine, 88

  Newnham, Richard, 46

  Newnham, Mrs. Richard, 25, 31

  New Spirit of the Age, A (Horne), 268

  Newsvendors’ Benevolent Institution, 551

  New York, 152, 164, 191, 247, 413, 455, 511; Dickens’ first visit to, 129–30, 132–34, 136, 141–42; second visit to, 518–21, 523, 527–28; Dickens sees great improvements in, 519–20

  New York Evening Tatler (newspaper), 151

  New York Herald, The (newspaper), 519

  New York Times, The (newspaper) 519

  New York Tribune, The (newspaper) 406

  Niagara Falls, 139–40, 152, 184, 255, 525

  Nineveh, 296, 330

  Normanby, Lord, see Mulgrave, Lord (George Constantine Phipps)

  Norton, Caroline, 132

  Norton, Charles Eliot, 517, 526

  Norton-Melbourne trial, 89, 314

  Norwich, 241, 243, 246–47

  Nova Scotia Gardens, 263

  O’Connell, Daniel, 61

  Olliffe, Joseph, 350

  Olympic Theatre, 367–68

  Ordnance Terrace (Chatham), 25–26, 31

  Osgood, James, 523–24

  Ouvry, Frederic, 514; draws up Gad’s Hill sale contract, 348; acts as Dickens’ lawyer in separation, 392, 394, 396; is against American tour, 413; helps with Dickens’ will, 542; attends funeral, 556

  Overs, John, 141

  Palace Gate (Hyde Park), 485

  Palais-Royal, 218

  Palazzo Brignole Rosso, 182, 184

  Palazzo Peschiere, 173, 181, 184, 294

  Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 331, 446

  Paris, 172, 178, 187, 190, 204–5, 223, 228, 231, 248, 273, 298, 307, 311, 321, 325, 337, 346, 349–50, 394, 402, 416, 427, 441, 455, 507, 519; Dickens’ first visit to, 171; first residence in, 213–16, 218–19; visits morgue, 215, 276; visits with Maclise, 276–77; second residence in, 328, 339–42, 346; visits with Collins, 334–35; vacationing in, 449–50; third residence in, 462; sees as wicked as ever, 463; gives readings in, 464–65, 468; sees Fechter act in, 492

  Park Cottage, Northampton Park, Canonbury, 408

  Parker House Hotel (Boston), 516

  Parthenon Club, 111

  Past Two o’Clock in the Morning (farce), 192

  Paxton, Joseph, 194–95, 200

  Peel, Robert, 201

  Pentonville, 70

  Perkins Institution (Boston), 143

  Philadelphia, 134, 152, 521

  Picken, Eleanor, 163–64

  Pigott, Edward, 284, 350, 356

  Planché, James Robinson, 319

  Plymouth, 236, 448

  Plymouth Church (Brooklyn), 521

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 153; meets Dickens, 135; reacts to Martin Chuzzlewit, 153; works: Tales of the Grotesque, 135

  Poole, John, 139, 231; works: Comfortable Lodgings, 231; Deaf as a Post, 139; Sketches and Recollections, 231; Turning the Tables, 231

  Poor Law Commission, 262

  Porter, Jane, 35; works: Scottish Chiefs, 35

  Portsmouth, 18, 21, 116

  Preston, 306, 308, 530–40

  Preston strike, 306

  Prima Donna (play), 553

  Princess’s Theatre, 371

  Procter, Bryan (Barry Cornwall), 72, 314, 484; meets Forster, 90; meets Dickens, 91; complains to Forster, 450; disparages Americans, 481; on farewell banquet, 504; on Dickens’ American tour, 511, 526

  prostitution, 149–50, 228, 260–61, 341, 427, 538

  Providence Chapel school, Chatham, 25

  Provident Union of Literature, Science, & Art, 233

  Putnam, George Washington, description of Dickens by, 133; description of Catherine by, 133

  Rae, John, 352–53

  ragged schools, 149

  Ragged School Union, 148

  Reade, Charles, 431, 512

  readings: private, to friends, 177, 179, 212–13, 240; as a fund-raiser, 213; of Carol and Cricket for charity in Birmingham, 304; of Carol in Birmingham, Peterborough, and Sheffield, 319–21; in Manchester, Sheffield, and Peterborough, 336–37; of Carol for Jerrold fund in London, 366; considered for personal profit, 372–73; of Carol for charity in Rochester, 381–382; begun on a professional basis, 384–85; tour, 407–8; 1858 provincial tour, 411–13; 1859, 1861 in London, 443–44; 1861 in England and Scotland, 444–50; 1863 in Paris, 464; 1862 in London, 467–69; 1867 provincial tour, 483–84; Dickens as Justice Stareleigh in, 492; profits from, 1866 506–7; Dickens decides to tour America with, 507–13; American tour, 515–29; profits from, 527; farewell tour, 532–33, 538–41, 546–50

  Reform Bill (1832), 50, 82, 87, 211, 296, 476–77

  Reynold’s Weekly Newspaper, 396

  Richardson, Samuel, 26; works: Clarissa, 94

  Richmond (Virginia), 112, 276

  Ridley, James, 28; works: Tales of the Genii, 28

  Robespierre, 464

  Roche, Louis, 170, 178, 186, 220

  Rochester, 83, 214, 252, 364, 500, 555; Dickens’ first impressions of, 22–24; returns to in middle age, 28–29; exile from, 32–33; honeymoons in, 71; visits, 153, 191, 201, 239, 250, 307; memories of childhood in, 347, 432–34; reads in, 381, 445; at home near, 495, 500

  Rochester Cathedral, 22, 24, 32, 322, 347, 555

  Rockingham castle (Northamptonshire), 211, 234, 278–79, 282–83, 287

  Rogers, Samuel, 91, 153, 244

  Roland for an Oliver, A (farce), 139

  Rome, 172, 184–85, 187–89, 290, 297

  Rome Street school, 25

  Rookwood (Ainsworth), 73

  Rosemont, 205, 210

  Ross-on-Wye, 513

  Royal Academy of Art, 314, 402, 552

  Royal Academy of Music, 36, 40–41, 43, 47, 55

  Royal General Theatrical Fund, 234–35, 258–59, 402, 552

  Royal Literary Fund, 265, 332–34

  Roylance, Elizabeth, 41–42

  Rudd, Martha, 488

  Ruskin, John, 61, 481

  Russell, Lord John, 331, 543

  Russell, John Scott, 197

  Russell, Lord William, 199

  Russell, William Howard, 362, 404, 451

  Russia, 291, 329

  Ryland, Arthur, 381, 544

  St. Bernard Convent, 208–9, 211, 215

  St. George’s Church (London), 20

  St. George’s Hall (Liverpool), 533

  St. James’s Hall, 444, 448, 532, 547, 552

  St. James’s Theatre, 75–76, 92, 213

  St. Louis (Missouri), 137–38

  St. Luke’s Church (Chelsea), 71

  St. Martin’s Hall, 366, 383–84

  St. Mary’s, Higham, 418, 530

  St. Mary’s, Portsmouth, 19

  St. Paul’s, 35, 85, 121, 269, 326, 349

  St. Peter’s, 187, 297

  Sala, Henry Augustus, 490

  Sand, George, 341, 354

  Satis House (DC), 434, 437

  Scenes and Recollections of Fly-fishing, 77

  Scheffer, Ary, 339–40

  Scott, Sir Walter, 66, 86, 115, 118

  Scribe, Eugène, 219, 463

  Sebastopol, 313, 331

  Selwood Place (Chelsea), 68, 92

  Seymour, Robert, 77–80, 154

  Shaftesbury (Lord Ashley), 145, 446; description of Dickens by, 144

  Shakespeare, William, 56, 276, 351, 368, 400; Dickens’ early attitude toward, 23–24, 322, 347; sees first performance of, 28, 54; recites from, 48; reads, 49, 123, 178; Macready’s revivals of
, 90, 111–12; Stratford restorations, 111–12, 233; Dickens company performs, 233, 235–36; Fechter performs, 493; works: Hamlet, 493; Henry IV, 23; King Lear, 112; Macbeth, 28, 276; Merry Wives of Windsor, 233, 235; Othello, 493; Richard II, 112; Richard III, 28; Romeo and Juliet, 178; characters: Master Ford, 236; Pistol, 236; Justice Shallow, 236; Master Slender, 236

  Shakespeare Club, 111–12, 227

  Shakespeare House Committee, 233

  Shakespeare House Museum, 233, 235–36, 278

  Shallow, Justice (Shakespeare), 236

  Shepherd’s Bush, 228

  Sherborne, 276, 278, 317, 321

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 278; works: School for Scandal, 278

  silent system, 143, 178

  Sir Joseph Williamson’s Free School (Rochester), 495

  Slough, 276, 501, 508

  Smith, Albert, 319, 366, 367, 426, 456

  Smith, Arthur, 367, 391–92, 395, 406–8, 443–47, 456

  Smith, Henry Porter, 206

  Smith, Southwood, 148, 262–63

  Smith and Elder, 443

  Smithson, Charles, 163

  Smithson, Mrs. Charles (Elizabeth Dorothy Thompson), 163

  Smollett, Tobias, 26

  solitary system, 143, 478

  Somers Place, no. 16, Hyde Park West, 471, 478

  Southey, Robert, 88

  Squib Annual, The (Seymour), 77

  Stanfield, Clarkson, 146, 173, 177, 240, 279, 317, 345, 349–50, 357–58; as set designer, 90; on Cornwall excursion, 153–55, 551; as Dickens’ theatre companion, 162, 317; brings Turner to banquet, 170; at Chimes reading, 170–80; designs sets for theatricals, 191–92, 279, 317, 349–50, 357–58; converts to Catholicism, 227; illness of, 464; death of, 483

  Stanhope, Lord, 550

  Stanley, Arthur, dean of Westminster, 547, 555–56

  Stanley, Lord, 74

  Stanton, Edwin, 522

  Staplehurst railway accident, 458–62, 466, 471, 500, 520, 534

  Steinway Hall, New York, 518–19

  Stephen, Leslie, 499

  Stone, Arthur, 455

  Stone, Frank, 345, 349, 469; acts in theatricals, 192, 231, 235, 367, 456; meets Dickens, 227; goes on walking tours, 239, 276; has lease of Tavistock House, 270; visits Boulogne, 288, 314; death of, 454–55

  Stone, Marcus, 450–51; Dickens is fond of, 314; impressions at Boulogne, 317–18; describes Dickens, 338; Dickens helps, 455; illustrates Our Mutual Friend, 469–71

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 288

  Stratford, 112, 233, 235, 281

  Stroughill, George, 25

  Stroughill, Lucy, 25, 254

  Stroughill family, 25

  Sue, Eugène, 219

  Sumner, Charles, 130–32, 522

  Sun (newspaper), 489

  Swinburne, Algernon, 246

  Swinburne, Lady Jane, 245

  Swiss chalet, Gad’s Hill Place, 493–94, 496, 530, 553–54

  Switzerland, 282; Dickens travels through, 190; lives in, 203, 205–13; begins autobiography in, 216; thinks of returning to, 279, 287, 310, 370; revisits, 292–93

  Sykes, Henrietta, 109

  Tagart, Edward, 173, 175, 396

  Talfourd, Frank, 368

  Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 109, 230, 231, 321, 368; legal career of, 89–91; Pickwick is dedicated to, 91; supports and defends Macready, 111–13; represents Reading, 145; wife of, 154; visits Switzerland, 212; visits Isle of Wight, 246; death of, 314–15

  Tavistock House, 257, 282, 299, 302, 317, 326, 342, 346, 348–49, 352, 361, 365, 374, 378, 383, 387, 398, 403, 413, 485, 494; Dickens moves into, 269; renovates, 270–71; mock titles for library at, 286, 494; theatricals at, 321, 352, 356–57, 359; Dickens sells lease of, 425, 472

  Taylor, Tom, 225–26, 451

  Telbin, William, 357

  Tennent, James Emerson, 296, 533

  Tenniel, John, 240

  Tennyson, Alfred, 17, 166, 170, 192, 212, 278, 481

  Ternan, Ellen, 17, 382, 488, 518, 536, 538, 547, 555–56; meets Dickens, 367; as Hippomenes, 368; as Eliza Comfort, 369; family of, 368; career of, 368–69; in Frozen Deep, 369; Dickens falls in love with, 370–72; performs in Doncaster, 374; as Dickens’ princess, 376–77; career assisted by Dickens, 379–80; and Catherine, 386; rumors about, 389, 391–93, 402, 404, 407; is supported by Dickens, 409–10; relationship with Dickens, 410–12, 426, 428, 465; Dickens does not wish to leave, 413–14, 448–49, 510; as Lucie Manette, 415–16; reads proofs of Great Expectations, 437; in France, 448, 464–66, 468; in Staplehurst accident, 459–62; as Bella Wilfer, 476; residence in Slough and Peckham, 500–501; considers trip to America, 513–14, 516; Dickens’ legacy to, 542–44

  Ternan, Fanny, 368, 380, 397, 408–9, 411–12, 461–62, 514, 529

  Ternan, Frances (Fanny Jarman), 367–69, 374, 397, 408–9, 411–12, 459–60, 462, 466, 493, 501

  Ternan, Maria, 367, 368–69, 371, 374, 380, 408, 411–12, 461, 501

  Ternan, Thomas, 368

  Thackeray, Anne, 453, 499

  Thackeray, Harriet (Minny), 453, 499

  Thackeray, William Makepeace, 17, 457; meets Dickens, 72; desires to illustrate Pickwick, 80; draws Dickens, 86; does caricature of Dickens and friends, 155–56; in Ireland, 170; attends Courvoisier execution, 199; is in love with Jane Brookfield, 212; has argument with Forster, 225–26; describes Dickens and family, 244–45; reaction to Gore House auction, 274; describes Dickens, 277; speaks in Manchester, 282; visits Boulogne, 317; lectures, 320, 382; visits at Folkestone, 336; on separation, 390, 394; Yates-Garrick Club affair and, 401–6; edits Cornhill, 443; is concerned about Leech, 451; reconciliation with Dickens, 453; death and funeral of, 454–55; daughters of, 499; works: Punch’s Prize Novelists, 226; Vanity Fair, 225, 402; The Virginians, 404

  Thackeray–Yates–Garrick Club dispute, 402–3, 404–6, 453

  Theatre Royal, Doncaster, 371, 374

  Theatre Royal, Rochester, 24, 28

  Thompson, Caroline, 335–36

  Thompson, Henry, 512, 533

  Thompson, Thomas James, 165–67, 212, 294–95

  Thompson, Mrs. Thomas James, see Weller, Christiana

  Thomson, Georgina, see Hogarth, Georgina Thomson (Mrs. George Hogarth)

  Ticknor and Fields, 509, 515, 527

  Times (London), 37, 60, 148, 179, 196

  Tomkison, Thomas, 36

  Topographical Dictionary, 77

  Townshend, Reverend Chauncey Hare, 293, 350, 526

  Town Talk, 402

  Tracey, Augustus Frederick, 228

  Tremont Temple (Boston), 517

  Tribune, The (newspaper), 519

  Tringham, Charles (pseudonym for Dickens), 501

  Trio Club, 110

  Trollope, Anthony, 461, 500, 529

  Trollope, Frances (Mrs. Thomas Anthony Trollope), 124, 408, 461

  Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 408, 461, 501, 544

  True Sun (newspaper), 58, 88

  Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 170, 280 Twain, Mark, 137, 521; response to Dickens’ reading, 521

  Twelfth Night parties, 155–56, 319, 380 Tyler, John, 135

  Unitarianism, 175

  Urania Cottage, 149–50, 228–29, 260–62, 335

  Venice, 178, 291, 298, 456

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 295, 352; works: Trovatore, 352

  Versailles, 219

  Vesuvius, Mount, 185–87, 296, 330, 553

  Victoria, Queen, 137, 246, 464, 503; Dickens watches coronation of, 108, 222; Dickens is in love with, no, 501; attends Macready benefit, 237; sees Dickens perform, 280, 365–66; death of husband of, 447; Dickens’ audience with, 549–50

  Villa Bagnerello, 171–72

  Villa des Moulineaux, 349–50

  Villa du Camp de Droite, 310, 311, 312

  violated letter, 406–7

  Virgil, 45

  “Walking Club,” 227

  Warren’s Blacking, 45, 52, 170, 217, 332, 435; Dickens employed at, 38, 42–43; is discharged from, 43–44; effects on Dickens of, 59, 141, 159, 200–201, 299
, 309, 372, 547

  Washington, D.C., 134–36, 247–48, 521–22

  Watson, Lavinia, 293; meets Dickens, 211; Dickens visits, 234, 240, 278; Dickens’ admiration for, 283, 361; is hostess at Rockingham, 337

  Watson, Richard, 240, 287, 293; meets Dickens in Switzerland, 211; friendship develops with Dickens, 213–14; Dickens visits, 234; death of, 282–83

  Watson, Sir Thomas, 540–41

  Webster, Benjamin, 350

  Webster, Daniel, 135

  Webster-Ashburton treaty, 125

  Weller, Anna (Mrs. Frederick Dickens) (sister-in-law), 167, 223, 240, 422

  Weller, Christiana (Mrs. Thomas James Thompson), 170; Dickens falls in love with, 165–68; marries Thompson, 167; becomes pregnant, 212; sees Dickens perform, 232; Dickens visits in Italy, 294–95

  Weller, Mary, 25, 29, 49

  Weller, Thomas, 165–67

  Wellington, Duke of, 145, 147, 261, 266, 280

  Wellington House Academy, 44–47, 370

  Westminster Abbey, 555–56

  Westminster Hotel (New York), 519

  Westminster Ragged School, 262

  White, James, 245–46, 341, 455

  Whitman, Walt, 151

  Wigan, Alfred, 367

  Wilkie, David, 115

  William IV, death of, 85, 91

  William Tell, 319

  Wills, William Henry, 274–76, 335, 360, 367, 374, 380, 396–97, 400–401, 408–9, 463, 486, 491–92, 501, 506, 511–12, 537; works for Daily News, 197; as assistant editor of Household Words, 265–68; complains about Forster, 297; visits at Boulogne, 318; helps with Gad’s Hill, 347–49; as go-between with Ellen, 488–89, 501, 513–14, 516, 518; gives printing press to Gad’s Hill Gazette, 496; riding accident of, 530, 547; retirement of, 531; as Dickens’ “Grand Vizier,” 537

  Wills, Mrs. William Henry, see Chambers, Janet

  Wilson, John, 114

  Windsor, no, 174, 276, 365, 550

  Windsor Lodge (Peckham), 501, 514

  Winter, Henry, 323

  Winterbourne Villa (Bonchurch), 245, 247

  Wit’s Miscellany, The, 99

  Wordsworth, William, 88

  Yarmouth, 241–43

  Yates, Edmund, 492; insults Thackeray, 402–3; as disciple of Dickens, 403; Garrick Club affair and, 403–6; Dickens’ fatherly interest in, 490; sees Dickens off to America, 514; sees Dickens as exhausted, 534; description of Dickens by, 536–37; on Dickens’ illness, 540

  Yates, Elizabeth, 322

  Yates, Frances, 403, 450

  York, 126, 526, 533

  York Place (Chelsea), 66, 70–71

  Yorkshire, 117, 384

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