by Jenny Uglow
W was a Whale, 1
APPEARANCE: adolescence, 1, 2; as Archbishop, 1;
beard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
childhood, 1, 2;
clothes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
clumsiness, 1;
domed head, 1;
gangly, 1;
hair thinnng, 1, 2;
hat, 1;
in a tree, 1;
legs, 1, 2, 3, 4;
moustaches, 1, 2, 3, 4;
nose, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
photographs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
portraits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
shambling, 1;
spectacles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
tall and ungainly, 1;
weight, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
worry about appearance, 1, 2, 3
BOOKS: Gleanings from the Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall, 1, 2; Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Corsica, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Journal of a Landscape Painter in Greece & Albania, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria and the Kingdom of Naples, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Views in Rome and its Environs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Views in the Seven Ionian Islands, 1, 2, 3, 4;
see also NONSENSE
BOTANICAL INTERESTS: ‘Armchairia Comfortabilis’, 1, 2; collecting plants, 1;
early life, 1;
flowers and trees, 1;
gardening, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
Manypeeplia Upsidownia, 1, 2, 3;
nonsense botany, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
seeds from India, 1;
seeds from New Zealand, 1
HEALTH: asthma, 1, 2, 3, 4; box of medicines, 1;
bronchitis, 1, 2, 3;
centipede bite, 1;
collapse, 1, 2;
cough, 1;
depression, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
drinking, 1, 2, 3,
epilepsy (the demon), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;
eye injured in fall, 1, 2;
eyesight, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
falls, 1, 2, 3;
fever, 1, 2;
giddiness, 1;
heart, 1, 2;
lungs and throat, 1;
palpitations, 1, 2;
pleurisy, 1;
possible childhood abuse, 1, 2;
quinine pills, 1;
rheumatism, 1, 2;
rumours of illness in Amalfi, 1;
‘severe cold’, 1;
shingles, 1;
shoulder injury, 1;
skin irritation, 1;
sore back, 1;
sunstroke, 1;
swollen face, 1;
syphilitic diseases, 1;
toothache, 1
HOUSES: building house at San Remo (Villa Emily), 1; building house at San Remo (Villa Tennyson), 1;
buying land at San Remo, 1;
moving in to Villa Emily, 1, 2, 3;
moving in to Villa Tennyson, 1;
plans to build a house, 1;
plans to move from Villa Emily, 1, 2;
sale of Villa Emily, 1, 2, 3;
setting up home in San Remo, 1
INTERESTS: cats, 1, see also Foss;
chess, 1;
food, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
gardening, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
godchildren, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
languages, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
letters, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
politics, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
reading, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26;
religious views, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
shooting, 1;
social life, 1, 2
LIMERICKS: birds in limericks, 1; characters of nonsense people, 1, 2, 3;
defying social rules, 1;
origins, 1;
There lived a small puppy at Nārkunda, 1;
There was an Old Derry down Derry, 1;
There was an Old Lady of Prague, 1;
There was an Old Lady whose folly, 1;
There was an Old Man at a casement, 1;
There was an Old Man in a boat, 1;
There was an Old Man in a Marsh, 1;
There was an Old Man in a tree, 1;
There was an Old Man of th’ Abruzzi, 1;
There was an Old Man of Apulia, 1;
There was an Old Man of Bohemia, 1;
There was an Old Man of Boulak, 1;
There was an Old Man of the Cape, 1;
There was an Old Man of Dee-side, 1;
There was an Old Man of Dunblane, 1;
There was an Old Man of Hong Kong, 1;
There was an Old Man of the Isles, 1, 2;
There was an Old Man of Lodore, 1;
There was an Old Man of Marseilles, 1;
There was an Old Man of Melrose, 1, 2;
There was an Old Man of Nepaul, 1, 2;
There was an Old Man of New York, 1, 2;
There was an Old Man of the North, 1;
There was an Old Man of Peru, 1;
There was an Old Man of Spithead, 1;
There was an Old Man of Tobago, 1, 2;
There was an Old Man of Vesuvius, 1;
There was an Old Man of the West, 1;
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven, 1, 2, 3;
There was an Old Man on a Hill, 1;
There was an Old Man on some rocks, 1;
There was an Old Man who said ‘How, –, 1, 2;
There was an old man whose Giardino, 1;
There was an Old Man with a beard, 1;
There was an Old Man with a Book, 1, 2;
There was an Old Man with a nose, 1;
There was an Old Man with an owl, 1;
There was an Old Person in black, 1;
There was an Old Person of Bray, 1;
There was an Old Person of Bree, 1;
There was an Old Person of Cromer, 1, 2;
There was an Old Person of Deal, 1;
There was an Old Person of Ems, 1;
There was an Old Person of Ewell, 1, 2;
There was an Old Person of Gretna, 1;
There was an Old Person of Harrow, 1;
There was an Old Person of Hove, 1;
There was an Old Person of Hyde, 1;
There was an Old Person of Nice, 1;
There was an old person of Páxo, 1;
There was an Old Person of Philae, 1, 2;
There was an Old Person of Rhodes, 1;
There was an Old Person of Sheen, 1;
There was an old Person of Skye, 1;
There was an Old Person of Stroud, 1;
There was an Old Person of Tartary, 1;
There was an Old Person of Tring, 1;
There was an old person so silly, 1;
There was an old person whose tears, 1;
There was an Old Woman of Norwich, 1;
There was a Young Girl of Majorca, 1;
There was a young lady in white, 1, 2;
There was a Young Lady of Corsica, 1;
There was a young Lady of Lucca, 1;
There was a Young Lady of Norway, 1;
There was a Young Lady of Wales, 1;
There was a Young Lady whose bonnet, 1, 2;
There was a Young Person of Smyrna, 1;
There was a Young Person whose history, 1, 2
MONEY: bequest from Mrs Courtney Warner, 1; bequest from sister Ellen, 1, 2;
borrowing from friends, 1, 2;
building house at San Remo, 1;
buying land at San Remo, 1;
commissions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17;
cost of woodcuts, 1, 2;
debts, 1, 2;
Derby patronage, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
earnings from teaching, 1;
efforts to s
ell work, 1;
first sales of drawings, 1;
gifts from friends, 1, 2;
government bonds, 1;
hire of stone blocks for lithographs, 1, 2;
Knowsley group’s Rome commission, 1;
living abroad, 1;
loan from Husey Hunt, 1;
loan from Northbrook, 1, 2, 3;
marriage question, 1;
open Wednesdays in San Remo, 1;
owed money, 1;
patrons, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
paying Arab assailants in Petra, 1;
payments for paintings, 1;
plan to sell four hundred sketches, 1;
plan to show pictures at Norfolk Square, 1;
prices, 1;
refuses loans, 1;
rent, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
reproduction costs, 1;
Rome studio, 1;
sale of Villa Emily, 1;
sales in Nice, 1;
sales of books, 1, 2, 3;
sales of Corfu views, 1;
sales of drawings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
sales of Nonsense books, 1, 2, 3, 4;
sales of paintings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
sales of rights, 1, 2, 3;
sales of ‘Tyrants’, 1, 2;
sales slow, 1;
sending money for the London poor, 1;
sending money to mother, 1;
sending money to sister Mary, 1;
sending money to sisters for Christmas, 1;
sent money by friends for travelling, 1;
sketches in India, 1;
storage of paintings, 1;
subscribers and subscriptions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
tax forms, 1;
teenage poverty, 1, 2;
travel costs, 1, 2;
travelling expenses paid, 1;
wages, 1;
worries, 1, 2, 3
MUSICAL INTERESTS: accordion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Appendix of music to Excursions, 1;
compositions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
flute, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
guitar, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
piano, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;
reputation on Corfu, 1;
singing, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;
singing criticized, 1
NATURAL HISTORY ARTIST: bird paintings, 1, 2, 3, 4; early works, 1, 2;
feather and business card, 1;
Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
Knowsley collection, 1, 2, 3, 4;
reptiles and animals, 1;
works for Gould, 1
NONSENSE WRITER AND POET: cartoon misadventures, 1, 2; comic Roman histories, 1;
first nonsense rhymes, 1, 2;
influence of nonsense writing, 1;
nonsense botany, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
nonsense cookery, 1, 2, 3, 4;
publishers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
words and letters, 1, 2;
written fast, 1;
‘The Adventures of Mr Lear & the Polly & the Puseybite’, 1, 2, 3;
‘The Akond of Swat’, 1, 2, 3;
Book of Nonsense, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
‘The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs’, 1, 2;
‘Calico Pie’, 1, 2, 3, 4;
‘Cold are the crabs’, 1;
‘The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
‘The Cummerbund’, 1, 2;
‘The Dong with a Luminous Nose’, 1, 2, 3;
‘The Duck and the Kangaroo’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
The Four Little Children Who Went Round the World, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
‘Gozo my child is the isle of Calypso’, 1;
The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple, 1 2, 3;
‘The Jumblies’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Laughable Lyrics, 1;
More Nonsense, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
‘Mr and Mrs Discobbolos’, 1, 2, 3, 4;
‘Mr and Mrs Discobbolos’ second part, 1, 2;
‘Mr and Mrs Spikky Sparrow’, 1, 2, 3;
‘Mr Daddy Long-legs and Mr Floppy Fly’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
‘Mr Lear recovers his hat’, 1, 2;
‘The New Vestments’, 1, 2;
Nonsense Gazette, 1;
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
‘The Nutcracker and the Sugartongs’, 1;
‘The Owl and the Pussy-cat’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
‘The Owl and the Pussy-cat’ sequels, 1;
‘The Pelican Chorus’, 1, 2, 3, 4;
‘The Pobble who has no Toes’, 1, 2, 3, 4;
‘Quacks vobiscum Uncle Arly’, 1;
‘Quangle Wangle’s Hat’, 1, 2, 3;
‘Ribands and pigs’, 1, 2;
‘The Scroobious Pip’, ix, 1, 2, 3, 4;
‘She sits upon her Bulbul’, 1;
‘Some Incidents in the Life of my Uncle Arly’, 1, 2;
‘The Table and the Chair’, 1;
The Tragical Life and Death of Caius Marius, 1, 2;
‘The Two Old Bachelors’, 1, 2, 3
PAINTER AND ARTIST: brushes and colours, 1, 2, 3; chalks, 1, 2, 3, 4;
commissions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17;
Corfu gallery, 1;
drawings of people, 1;
engravers, 1;
exhibitions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16;
first sales of drawings, 1;
frames, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
landscape painting, 1, 2, 3;
lithographs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
oils, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13;
‘Mr Lear the artist’, 1;
orders for lithographs and watercolours, 1;
pencil sketches, 1;
photography, 1, 2;
picture dealers, 1;
purchasers, 1, 2, 3;
reputation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
sales of paintings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
sales of drawings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
sepia ink, 1, 2;
sketches, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
use of colours, 1, 2;
watercolour sketches, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
watercolours, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14;
woodcuts, 1, 2;
working methods, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS: drawings for nursery rhymes, 1; illustrations of songs, 1, 2, 3, 4;
pictogram letters, 1;
self-portraits, 1, 2, 3;
Tennyson illustrations, see TENNYSON ILLUSTRATIONS;
travel sketches, 1, 2; ‘Tyrants’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
works: Abu Simbel, 1;
Ajaccio, 1;
Amalfi, 1;
The Approach to Philae, 1;
Athens, 1;
Avlona, 1;
Beachy Head, 1, 2;
Beirut, 1, 2, 3;
Benares, 1, 2;
Campagna of Rome from Villa Mattei, 1;
Cape Lefkada (Cape Ducato), 1, 2;
Cedars of Lebanon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
The City of Syracuse from the Ancient Quarries, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Civitella, 1, 2;
Claude Lorrain’s House on the Tiber, 1;
Coast of Travancore, India, 1;
Corfu from the Village of Ascension, Evening, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
The Forest of Bavella, 1;
Kasr es Saàd, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Khimara, 1;
Kinchenjunga, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
Knowsley Hall from the west, 1;
Lago di Fucino, 1;
Lucknow, 1;
Masada, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
Miss Maniac, 1;
The Monastery of St Dionysius, Mount
Athos, 1;
The Monastery of Zografu, Athos, 1;
Monastir, 1;
Monte Rosa from Monte Generoso, 1;
Mount Athos, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
Mount Ida from Phre, 1, 2;
Mount Parnassus, 1, 2;
The Mountains of Thermopylae, 1, 2;
Mr Lear stamps and dances for joy, 1;
Near Gau el Kebir, 1;
Near Wadi el-Sheikh, 1,
Nuneham, 1, 2;
Oneglia, Riviera di Ponente, 1;
Outside the Walls of Suez, 1;
Palaiokastritsa, Corfu, 1;
Palizzi, 1;
Petra, the theatre, 1;
Philae paintings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
Rome from Monte Pincio, 1;
San Vittorino, 1;
Scafell Pike, 1;
A shepherd at Kerkira, 1;
‘The Stripy Bird’, 1;
Suli, 1;
Syracuse quarries, 1, 2;
The Temple of Apollo at Bassae, 1, 2, 3;
Temple of Venus and Rome, 1;
Tollygunge, Calcutta, 1, 2;
Umbrellifera, 1;
Valdoniello, 1;
Venice, 1;
A walk on a windy day, 1;
Wastwater (watercolour), 1;
Wastwater & the Screes, from Wastdale (print), 1;
‘When I dreamed I was young and innocent’, 1
PERSONALITY: agreeable and genial, 1, 2; changes in mood, 1, 2, 3;
companionable, 1;
depression, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
diary, 1; 2;
feelings of panic, 1;
fitting into any group, 1, 2;
Hunt’s description, 1;
loneliness, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
love for Frank, 1;
love of England, 1;
making people laugh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
marriage question, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
memory, 1, 2;
monogram, 1, 2;
‘the morbids’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
nostalgia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
real feeling, 1;
relationship with children, 1, 2;
self-description, 1, 2, 3, 4;
self-portraits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
self-presentation, 1, 2;
sexuality, 1, 2, 3, 4;
stepping-stone people, 1;
“There is no such person as Edward Lear”, 1;
uses of humour, 1, 2, 3;
weeping, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
wills, 1, 2, 3, 4;
worrying, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
POEMS AND SONGS: album rhymes, 1; comic saga, 1;
parodies, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
picture-poems, 1;