imposed by friends, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
‘Justice’ justification, 1;
note to Jeanne, 1;
press reports on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
recollection of flight, 1
in England: British condemnation of, 1, 2; buys clothes, 1, 2, 3;
command of English, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
cycling, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
daily writing schedule, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
1893 trip to London, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
emotional effect of exile, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
on English food, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
finds and takes ‘Penn’, 1, 2;
health, 1, 2;
leaves Grosvenor Hotel, 1;
legal status, 1, 2, 3, 4;
on London’s buildings and views, 1, 2, 3;
on London’s suburbs, 1;
as M. Beauchamp, 1, 2, 3;
as M. J. Richard, 1;
as M. Pascal, 1, 2, 3;
personal appearance, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
receding return date to Paris, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
return to Paris, 1;
rooms at Queen’s Hotel, 1, 2;
spotted in England, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
at ‘Summerfield’, 1, 2;
waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s, 1, 2;
see also Queen’s Hotel
family: blind to fatherly role, 1; closeness to his children, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
fathers Denise and Jacques, 1;
as Roger family in England, 1;
sole occasion as Zola family, 1;
see also Émile-Zola, Denise; Émile-Zola, Jacques
life and death: ashes transferred to Panthéon, 1, 2; death, 1;
death of Pinpin, 1;
family background, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
financial difficulties, 1, 2;
funeral, 1;
Judet’s case against his father, 1;
stripped of Légion d’Honneur, 1;
‘suffocation’ theory, 1
photography: as aid against depression, 1; of Alexandrine, 1, 2;
Alexandrine brings to England, 1;
of ‘The Castle’, 1;
choice of subjects, 1, 2, 3, 4;
darkrooms, 1;
Desmoulin buys photographic plates, 1;
of Jeanne and his children, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
jumelle, 1, 2;
as obsession, 1;
of ‘Penn’, 1;
of Queen’s Hotel, 1;
of suburbs, 1, 2;
of Summerfield, 1
politics: Beer interview, 1; contradictory vision of ‘France’, 1;
glorification of work, 1, 2;
Jaurès meeting, 1, 2, 3;
as ‘rare’ political intellectual, 1;
science as basis of social morality and aesthetics, 1;
and socialism, 1, 2, 3, 4;
volte-face on anti-semitism, 1;
see also anti-semitism; Dreyfus Affair; socialism
relationships, see Émile-Zola, Alexandrine; Rozerot, Jeanne
trial: acceptance of verdict, 1; anti-semitism at, 1, 2;
British reaction to, 1, 2;
court language, 1;
and decision to flee, 1;
desire for second trial, 1;
Jaurès defends Zola, 1;
rationale for exposure to legal system, 1;
self-conscious libel, 1, 2;
sentence, 1, 2;
status of sentence in England, 1;
verdict served and trial postponed, 1;
Zola’s double, 1
as writer: coarseness in, as French, 1; and Hardy, 1, 2, 3;
Heinemann publishes, 1;
literary influence, 1;
Lutetian Society editions, 1;
‘nastiness’ in, 1;
omits Dreyfus Affair from novels, 1;
as Paris chronicler, 1, 2, 3;
in ‘photographic school’, 1;
predicts ‘social’ literature of 20th century, 1;
and Shaw, 1;
stage adaptations, 1, 2;
utopianism, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Vizetelly prosecution, 1, 2;
works banned in Britain, 1;
‘Zolaism’, 1;
see also Naturalism
writings and speeches: ‘Angeline ou la maison hantée’, 1, 2, 3; ‘Anonymity in the Press’, 1, 2;
L’Assommoir, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
L’Attaque du Moulin, 1, 2;
La Bête Humaine, 1;
La Curée, 1;
La Débâcle, 1, 2;
Doctor Pascal, 1, 2, 3;
La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret, 1;
‘The Fifth Act’, 1;
‘For the Jews’, 1, 2;
Germinal, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
Les Héritiers Rabourdin, 1;
‘Justice’, 1;
Justice, 1, 2, 3;
‘Letter to France’, 1, 2;
‘Letter to the Young People’, 1;
Nana, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Pot-Bouille, 1, 2;
Les Quatre Évangiles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Le Roman Experimental, 1;
Rougon-Macquart novels, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
‘The syndicate’, 1;
La Terre, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Thérèse Raquin, 1, 2, 3;
Three Gospels, 1, 2;
Travail, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Les Trois Villes, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Vérité, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
see also Fécondité; ‘J’Accuse’
Zola, François (father): accused of desertion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; as Aix water engineer, 1, 2, 3;
death, 1;
as Venetian, 1
‘Zola in Norwood’ (Williams/BBC), 1
‘J’accuse’: Zola’s open letter published on 13 January 1898, which led to him facing imprisonment for libel and ultimately to his flight to England later the same year.
Captain Alfred Dreyfus (left), before his arrest and imprisonment in 1895 for the alleged crime of treason. Major Ferdinand Esterhazy (right), the actual perpetrator, was acquitted.
Le Petit Journal, an anti-semitic newspaper, reports Zola’s departure from the trial at Versailles, 18 July 1898.
M. Labori, Zola’s lawyer who advised him to flee the country.
‘Le Roi des Porcs’: anti-semitic cartoon relating to the Dreyfus Affair which depicts Émile Zola painting ‘caca international’ (international excrement) on the map of France.
In the garden of Jeanne’s house at Verneuil: Zola with Jeanne Rozerot and their children, Denise and Jacques, in 1899.
Zola’s wife, Alexandrine, with Zola in the 1880s. Both Jeanne and Mme Zola would visit him during his exile in England.
The front of ‘Penn’ in Weybridge, Surrey, with Denise, Jacques and Violette Vizetelly, August 1898.
Zola writing Fécondité, at ‘Penn’, 1898 (photograph by V. R. Vizetelly).
Ernest Vizetelly, Zola’s translator and friend, who wrote an account of Zola’s exile in England which was published in 1899.
Jeanne with Denise and Jacques at ‘Summerfield’ in Addlestone, autumn 1898.
The Queen’s Hotel in Upper Norwood, where Zola moved on 15 October 1898.
Alexandrine in the window of the Queen’s Hotel.
Jasper Road off Westow Hill in Crystal Palace: one of many photographs Zola took of everyday life in south-east London.
Mme Zola near the bottom of Hermitage Road, Upper Norwood, November 1898.
Zola ‘in his English garden’: photographed by V. R. Vizetelly, September 1898; and with his children, Denise and Jacques, not long before his death.
About the Author
Michael Rosen MA, PhD, is a poet, broadcaster, former Children’s Laureate and a recipient of one of France’s top honours: Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt has sold over 8 million copies. He has presented Radio 4’s Word of Mouth since 1998 and his programme ‘Zola in Norwood’ was broadcast
on Radio 3 in 2015. He is Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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