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Mr Lear

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by Jenny Uglow

poems for Drewitt family, 1;

  sister Ann’s birthday poem, 1;

  verse diary, 1;

  verse letters, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  work titles and first lines: Eclogue, 1;

  ‘Farewell Mother! Tears are streaming’, 1;

  ‘How pleasant to know Mr Lear!’, 1, 2, 3;

  ‘I slept – and back to my early days’, 1;

  ‘Nluv, fluv bluv, ffluv biours’, 1;

  ‘O Brother Chicken! Sister Chick!’, 1, 2;

  O! Chichester, my Carlingford!, 1;

  O dear! How disgusting is life!, 1;

  O! Mimber for the County Louth, 1;

  ‘Peppering Roads’, 1;

  ‘Ribands and Pigs’, 1, 2;

  ‘The Sunny Side of Durham’, 1;

  ‘Tom-Moory Pathos; – all things bare’, 1;

  ‘Ye who have hearts – aloud rejoice’, 1

  TENNYSON ILLUSTRATIONS: project, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; titles: ‘Athos – all things fair’, 1, 2;

  ‘The crag that fronts the Even’, 1, 2, 3;

  Enoch Arden’s Island, 1, 2;

  ‘For all remembrance is an arch’, 1, 2;

  ‘Illyrian woodlands’, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  ‘A looming bastion fringed with fire’, 1, 2;

  ‘Moonlight on still waters’, 1, 2;

  ‘Morn broaden’d on the borders of the dark, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  ‘Palms and temples of the South’, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  ‘To watch the crisping ripples on the beach’, 1;

  ‘Tomohrit’, 1;

  ‘The vast Akrokeraunian walls’, 1, 2, 3

  TRAVELS: advice to travellers, 1; Albania, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Amsterdam, 1;

  Basilicata, 1;

  Brussels, 1;

  Calabria, 1;

  childhood reading, 1, 2;

  Constantinople, 1;

  Dublin, 1, 2;

  Egypt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  Florence, 1, 2, 3;

  Germany, 1;

  Greece, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  India, 1;

  Ireland, 1, 2;

  Italy, see Italy;

  Jerusalem, 1, 2, 3;

  Lake District, 1;

  Lebanon, 1;

  Luxembourg, 1;

  Malta, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  Naples, 1, 2, 3;

  Palestine, 1, 2;

  Paris, 1, 2;

  Petra, 1;

  railway travel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  ‘roaming with a hungry heart’, 1;

  Rome, see Rome;

  Salonica, 1, 2;

  Sicily, 1, 2, 3;

  Vienna, 1

  Lear, Eleanor (Ellen, EL’s sister), see Newsom

  Lear, Florence (EL’s sister), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lear, Frederick (Fred, EL’s brother), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lear, George (from Arundel), 1, 2

  Lear, Harriett (EL’s sister), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lear, Henry (EL’s brother), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lear, Jeremiah (EL’s father): absence, 1; career, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  collection of pictures and prints, 1;

  death, 1;

  EL’s memories of, 1;

  family background, 1;

  financial difficulties, 1, 2;

  health, 1;

  marriage, 1, 2;

  retirement to Gravesend, 1

  Lear, Jeremiah (of Batsworth Park), 1, 2, 3

  Lear, Kate (EL’s sister), 1, 2

  Lear, Mary (EL’s sister), see Boswell

  Lear, Sarah (EL’s sister), see Street

  Lebanon, 1, 2, 3

  Linnean Society, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Liverpool exhibitions, 1, 2, 3

  London: Buckingham Palace, 1; Crystal Palace, 1, 2;

  EL’s attitude to, 1, 2, 3;

  EL’s lodgings with sister Ann, 1;

  EL’s teenage life, 1;

  exhibitions, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  fashions, 1;

  Great Exhibition, 1, 2;

  Lear family background, 1;

  menageries and zoos, 1;

  political scene, 1;

  the poor, 1, 2;

  Royal Society, 1;

  Season, 1, 2;

  social connections, 1;

  social life, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  Zoo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Luard, Henry, 1

  Lushington, Cecilia (née Tennyson), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lushington, Cissy, 1

  Lushington, Eddy, 1, 2, 3

  Lushington, Edmund, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lushington, Ellen, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lushington, Emily, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lushington, Franklin (Frank): Albania travels, 1, 2; appearance, 1, 2, 3;

  brother Henry’s death, 1, 2, 3;

  career, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  champagne for EL, 1;

  character, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  children, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  Cornwall with EL, 1;

  education, 1;

  EL’s grave, 1;

  EL’s home plans, 1;

  EL’s love for, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  EL’s visits, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  EL’s wills, 1, 2, 3;

  family background, 1;

  Journal dedication, 1;

  journey to Corfu with EL, 1;

  letters to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  Malta visits, 1;

  marriage, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  memories of EL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  poems, 1, 2;

  relationship with EL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12;

  relationship with Henry Hallam, 1, 2;

  review of In Memoriam, 1;

  sister Louisa’s death, 1;

  Temple chambers, 1, 2;

  Tennyson visits, 1, 2, 3;

  travelling with EL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  view of EL’s work, 1;

  visiting EL, 1, 2, 3;

  warlike enthusiasm, 1;

  yacht, 1, 2, 3

  Lushington, Gertrude, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Lushington, Henry (Harry), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lushington, Kate (née Morgan): children, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Frank’s death, 1;

  marriage, 1, 2

  Lushington, Louisa, 1, 2, 3

  Lushington, Maria, 1, 2

  Lushington, Stephen, 1, 2, 3

  Lushington, Tom, 1, 2

  Lushington family, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lyell, Charles, Principles of Geology, 1

  Lyttleton, Lady, 1

  Macdonald, George, 1

  Malta: EL’s visits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Lushington family in, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  scenery, 1

  Manchester exhibitions, 1, 2, 3

  Marseilles, 1

  Marshall, John, 1

  Marstrand, Wilhelm (‘Willi’), 1, 2, 3

  Martineau, Robert Braithwaite, 1, 2, 3

  McLean, Thomas; gallery, 1; picture dealer, 1, 2, 3;

  publication of A Book of Nonsense, 1, 2;

  publication of Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 1, 2;

  publication of Views in Rome, 1, 2;

  publishing, 1, 2

  Mérimée, Prosper, 1

  Mill, John Stuart, 1, 2

  Millais, John Everett: friendship with EL, 1, 2; lordly character, 1;

  marriage, 1, 2;

  monogram, 1;

  opinion of EL’s singing, 1;

  PRB, 1, 2;

  RA Schools, 1;

  Sass’s school, 1;

  Apple Blossoms, 1;

  Christ in the House of His Parents, 1;

  Isabella, 1

  Monte Generoso, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Montgomery, Hugh, 1

  Moore, Thomas, 1, 2, 3; ballad of St Kevin, 1, 2;

  ‘The Beach’, 1;

  ‘The Boat’, 1;

  ‘The Fudge Family in Paris’, 1;

  Irish Melodies, 1;

  ‘The Lake of the Dismal Swamp’, 1;

  ‘Oft in the Stilly Night’, 1

  More Nonsense, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Mount Athos: EL’s journal, 1; EL’s pictures, 1
, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

  EL’s planned visits, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  EL’s visit, 1, 2

  Mount Tomohrit, 1, 2

  Moxon, Edward, 1, 2, 3

  Murchison, Sir Roderick, 1

  Naples: EL’s dislike of, 1; EL’s journal, 1;

  EL’s visits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  English in, 1, 2, 3;

  Kingdom of, 1, 2

  Nash, Paul, 1

  Nevill, Allan, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Nevill, Ralph, 1, 2

  Nevill, William (Bill), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Nevill family, 1, 2, 3, 4

  New Zealand, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Newsom, Eleanor (Ellen, EL’s sister): brother Henry’s death, 1; childhood, 1, 2;

  death, 1;

  education, 1;

  home, 1, 2;

  husband’s death, 1;

  marriage, 1;

  nephew’s death, 1;

  New Zealand, 1, 2;

  old age, 1, 2, 3;

  religion, 1, 2, 3;

  will, 1

  Newsom, William (EL’s brother-in-law), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Nice, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  North, Catherine, see Symonds

  North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1

  North, Frederick (Hastings MP), 1, 2

  North, Marianne, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Northbrook, Thomas Baring, first Earl of: appearance, 1; character, 1, 2;

  commissions, 1, 2, 3;

  daughter Emma, 1, 2;

  ‘Eastern Question’, 1;

  EL’s bequests, 1, 2;

  EL’s gift of drawings and watercolour sketches, 1;

  EL’s Indian travels, 1, 2;

  EL’s last words, 1;

  EL’s visits, 1;

  first meeting with EL in Rome, 1;

  generosity, 1;

  letters to, 1;

  library, 1;

  loan to EL, 1, 2, 3;

  photograph, 1;

  Viceroy of India, 1, 2;

  visiting EL, 1, 2, 3

  Northumberland, Duke of, 1, 2

  Odysseus, 1, 2

  Orsini, Giuseppe, 1, 2

  Palmer, Anny, 1, 2, 3

  Palmer, Samuel, 1, 2, 3

  Palmerston, Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Parker, Adamson, 1, 2

  Parkyns, Emma (née Bethell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Parkyns, Mansfield, 1, 2

  Parrots, see Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae

  Peel, John, 1

  Penrhyn, Edward Leycester, 1

  Peppering House, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Percy, Lady Susannah (‘Susan’), 1, 2

  Petra, 1, 2

  Philae: EL at, 1, 2; limerick, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  paintings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Pius IX, Pope, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Poplawska, Miss (governess), 1, 2

  Poussin, Gaspard Dughet (‘Gaspar’), 1, 2

  Poussin, Nicolas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Poynter, Miss, 1

  Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB): aims, 1; attacks on, 1, 2, 3;

  influence on EL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  monogram, 1;

  Tennyson illustrations, 1

  Prescott family, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Prinsep, Henry Thoby, 1, 2, 3

  Prinsep, Sara (née Pattle), 1, 2, 3

  Proby, John, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Prout, Samuel, 1, 2

  Reid, Sir James, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Reid, Lady 1, 2, 3, 4

  Rimbault, Edward Francis, 1

  Roberts, David, 1, 2, 3

  Rogers, Samuel, Italy, 1, 2, 3

  Rome: Academy, 1; Campagna, 1, 2, 3;

  EL’s apartment on Via Condotti, 1;

  EL’s departures, 1, 2;

  EL’s life in, 1, 2;

  EL’s move to, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  EL’s return to, 1;

  EL’s visits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  English community, 1, 2, 3;

  political scene, 1, 2;

  Temple of Venus and Rome, 1;

  visit by Prince of Wales, 1

  Rosa, Salvator, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Girlhood of the Virgin Mary, 1;

  Helen of Troy, 1

  Rossetti, William, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Royal Academy: exhibitions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Schools, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Rusconi, Luigi, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Ruskin, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Modern Painters, 1, 2

  Russell, Lord John, 1, 2

  Russell, Odo, 1

  San Remo: cemetery, 1, 2; EL’s house plans, 1, 2, 3;

  EL’s life in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  EL’s rented rooms, 1;

  English residents, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  English visitors, 1;

  flowers and trees, 1;

  hotel spoiling EL’s view, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  landscape, 1;

  Villa Emily, see Villa Emily;

  Villa Tennyson, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Sandbach, Sam, 1

  Sappho, 1, 2, 3

  Sass’s School of Art, 1, 2, 3

  Satow, Ernest, 1, 2

  Schreiber, Charlotte, 1

  Seddon, Thomas, 1, 2, 3

  Selby, Prideaux John, 1, 2, 3, 4; British Ornithology, 1;

  Illustrations of Ornithology, 1

  Selwyn, Revd E. Carus, 1

  Senefelder, Alois, 1; A Complete Course of Lithography, 1

  Senior, Bernard, see Husey Hunt

  Senior, Lizzie, 1

  Seymour, Alfred, 1

  Shakespear family, 1, 2

  Sharpe, Richard Scrafton, Anecdotes and Adventures of Fifteen Gentlemen, 1, 2, 3

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Shelley, Percy (son of poet), 1, 2

  Sicily, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Simeon, Cornwall, 1

  Simeon, Sir John, 1

  Sinclair, Catherine, Holiday House, 1

  Smith, Elder & Co., 1, 2

  Smith Stanley, see Derby

  Somers, Lord, 1, 2, 3

  Somers, Virginia, Lady, 1, 2

  Speke, John Hanning, 1, 2, 3

  Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Stanley, Edward, Reverend, 1, 2, 3

  Stanley, Lord, see Derby

  Stanley of Alderley, Lord, 1

  Stebbins, Emma, 1

  Storks, Sir Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Story, William Wetmore, 1, 2

  Story family, 1, 2, 3

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1, 2

  Strachey, Constance (née Braham), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Strachey, Eddie, 1, 2

  Strachey, Sir Edward, 1

  Strachey, Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Strachey, Mary Isabella, Lady (née Symonds), 1

  Street, Charles (EL’s brother-in-law), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Street, Charles Henry (EL’s nephew). 1, 2

  Street, Emily (EL’s great-niece), 1, 2, 3

  Street, Fred (EL’s nephew), 1, 2

  Street, Sarah (EL’s sister): artist, 1, 2, 3, 4; botanist and gardener, 1, 2, 3;

  childhood, 1, 2;

  children, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  death, 1;

  education, 1;

  EL’s letters, 1;

  EL’s visits, 1, 2, 3;

  emigration to New Zealand, 1;

  grandchildren, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  Great Exhibition visit, 1;

  husband’s illness, 1, 2;

  marriage, 1;

  neighbours, 1;

  return from New Zealand, 1;

  sister Mary’s death, 1;

  son Fred’s death, 1;

  teaching EL to draw, 1, 2

  Sussex: Arundel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Batsworth Park, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  countryside, 1, 2, 3;

  Parham, 1, 2;

  Peppering House, 1, 2, 3;

  social connections for EL, 1

  Symonds, Catherine (née North): childhood, 1, 2; children, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5;

  friendship with EL, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  half-sister, 1;

  life in Cannes, 1;

  marriage, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  relationship with husband, 1, 2, 3;

  renting EL’s house, 1;

  sketching with EL, 1

  Symonds, John Addington: career, 1, 2; character, 1;

  childhood, 1;

  children, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  education, 1;

  friendship with EL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  health, 1, 2;

  life in Cannes, 1;

  marriage, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  relationship with wife, 1, 2, 3;

  renting EL’s house, 1;

  sexuality, 1, 2, 3;

  travels in Corsica with Prosper Mérimée, 1;

  Problem of Greek Ethics, 1;

  The Renaissance in Italy, 1

  Tait, Archibald Campbell, 1, 2

  Taylor, Tom, 1, 2

  Tennyson, Alfred: Aldworth, 1, 2; appearance, 1, 2, 3;

  brother Horatio, 1;

  character, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  childhood, 1;

  children, 1, 2;

  EL’s illustrations, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;

  EL’s parodies, 1;

  EL’s settings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  EL’s visits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  Farringford, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  finances, 1;

  friendship with Lushington family, 1;

  illustrators, 1, 2;

  Italian trip, 1;

  limericks, 1;

  love for Arthur Hallam, 1, 2, 3;

  marriage, 1;

  meetings with EL, 1, 2;

  monogram, 1;

  Moxon’s illustrated edition, 1, 2, 3;

  peerage, 1;

  Poet Laureate, 1, 2;

  portrait by Cameron, 1;

  relationship with EL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  responses to landscape, 1;

  revising work, 1;

  voice, 1;

  works: ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’, 1;

  ‘The Daisy’, 1, 2;

  ‘A Dream of Fair Women’, 1;

  ‘Eleanore’, 1;

  ‘Enoch Arden’, 1;

  ‘Guinevere’, 1, 2;

  Idylls of the King, 1, 2, 3;

  In Memoriam, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

 

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