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Abu Bakr Ibn Al-Tufail: The Improvement of Reason, exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdan

Acca Larentia

Aesop’s Fables

Aitchison, Jean: The Articulate Mammal

Akela (character)

Alba Longa

Aleas

Alhambra Municipal Court

All-Story

Almendros, Nestor

Altrocchi, Professor

Amala

America

Amphion

Amulius

Anne, Queen

Ansbach, Bavaria

The Anthropological Review

The Apple (film)

Apted, Michael

Arbuthnot, Dr John

intermediary between Caroline and Swift

Peter the Wild Boy in his charge

severe illness

names his charge

personality

relationship with Swift

Peter’s education

Ariel (BBC on-line magazine)

Arnold, Matthew: ‘Lines Written in Kensington Gardens’

Artin, Von (a writer)

Atalantes

Augustine, St: The City of God

Auster, Paul: New York Trilogy

Aveyron

Babylon

Bacon, Francis

Baden

Baden, House of

Baden Thesis

Baden-Powell, Robert, 1st Baron

Bage, Robert: Hermsprong

Baker, Henry

Baker, Mary (‘Caraboo’)

Balestier, Wolcott

Ball, Valentin: Jungle Life in India

Battell, Andrew

Bavaria

King of

Bazin, André

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

BBC Forum

bear-boy (aged 12–13 in 1661)

Beauharnais, Stéphanie de

Beaupré, M de

Beck, Jacob

Begg, Captain

Benone Strand

Bermondsey, London

Bettelheim, Bruno

The Empty Fortress

Bicêtre asylum

Bieberbach, Frau

Bieberbach, Herr

Big Foot

Binder, Herr, Burgomaster of Nuremberg

Birch, Edward A.: The Management and Medical Treatment of Children in India

Bishop, Elizabeth: ‘Crusoe in England’

Bismarck, Prince Otto von

Blake, William

‘Infant Sorrow’ (Songs of Experience)

Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich

Boleyn, Anne

Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount

Bonaterre, Professor

Booker Prize

Bordoni, Faustina

Boswell, James: A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Bougainville, Louis de

Bougeur, Pierre

Brattleboro

Brill, Farmer

British Empire

Broadway Farm, near Berkhamstead

Brooke, Rupert

Bruno S

Büchner, Georg

Buffon, Georges-Louis, Comte de

and orang-outang

Histoire Naturelle

Burke, Edmund

Burnett, Arthur

Burnett, Eliza

Burnett, Elizabeth (née Farquharson; Lady Monboddo)

Burnett, James, Lord Monboddo

visits Peter the Wild Boy

meets Memmie

captivated with Memmie

appearance

personality

background

education

legal career

marries Elizabeth

the Douglas Cause

told of Memmie’s homeland

decides that Memmie is a Huron

fascination with the orang-outang

theory of evolutionary continuity

as a precursor to Darwin

Memmie’s significance

fascinated by imitation

death

Antient Metaphysics

Of the Origin and Progress of Language

Burnett, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden

Burnett, James, Sr

Burns, Robert

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Tarzan of the Apes

Butler, Jean

Byron, John

Calcutta

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro: La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream)

Caliban (character)

Caraboo (Mary Baker)

Cargol, Jean-Pierre

Caroline, Queen of Bavaria

Caroline of Anspach, Queen (as Princess of Wales)

Chalons, Champagne

Convent des régentes

first bishop of

hospital of St Maur

parish church of St Sulpice

Champagne

Champigny (Minister of the Interior)

Chatterton, Thomas

Chatwin, Bruce

Cheppe

Cheselden, William

Chesterfield, Lord

Chesterton, G. K.

Chevening Manor, Kent

Chile

Chomsky, Noam

Christ

Christianity

Clark (Genie’s father)

Cleveland, Duchess of: The True Story of Kaspar Hauser

Cleverskerk, J. P. Van den Brande de

Cockburn, Mrs

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

colonialism

Condillac, Etienne Bonnot De

Connecticut

Connor, Bernard

meets John of Liège

and the Lithuanian bear-boy

Cleverskerk writes of a bear-child

on Joseph the bear-boy

The History of Poland

Medicina Mystica

convent of the Nouvelles Catholiques, rue St Anne, Paris

convent of the Visitation, Chaillot

Cook, Captain James

Crichton, Sir Alexander

Curtiss, Susan

Genie: A Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day ‘Wild Child’

Cuzzoni, Francesca

Cyrus

Dampier, William

Darwin, Charles

Burnett as a precursor to

The Descent of Man

Datta, Babu Pran Krishna

Daumer, Professor Georg Friedrich

Davis, Professor Kingsley

Dawkins, Richard

Dawley, near Uxbridge

De Staël, Madame

Dean, James

Defoe, Daniel

drive for money in his novels

isolation as his great subject

and Baker’s teaching of deaf and dumb children

and thinking without words

story of the hearing girl in a deaf and dumb family

The Journal of the Plague Year

Mere Nature Delineated

Moll Flanders

Robinson Crusoe

Roxana, or the Fortunate Mistress

The Shortest Way With Dissenters

Defoe, Sophia

Derrida, Jacques

‘The Devil To Pay At St James’s’

Diana, Princess of Wales

Digby, Sir Kenelm

account of John of Liège

and Venetia’s death

Digby, Venetia

Disney

Dodge, Mary Mapes

Donne, John: ‘The Calme’

Douglas, Lord Archibald

Douglas, Norman: South Wind

Douglas Cause

Dublin

Duplessis, Madame

The Elephant Man (film)

Ellenberger, Henri: The Discovery of the Unconscious

Elliotson, Dr

L’Enfant Sauvage (film)

Enlightenment

Ennius

Epinoy, Viscountess d’ (née Lannoy)

Epinoy, Viscounts d’

Erlangen

Eskimos

Europe, pre-political

Eustace, Clotilda

Evans, Elizabeth

Faustulus

Fenn, James

Fenn, Mrs

Fenn family

Feuerbach, Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von

‘Mémoire’

Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials (Merkwürdige Criminal-Rechtsfälle)

Foix, Gaston de

Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India

Foster, Jodie

Freedman, Professor David A.

French Revolution

Freud, Sigmund

Fuhrmann, Pastor

Galton, Francis

Garmon, Linda

Garrard, Ian

Gates, Professor Ruggles

Gay, John

Genie (Susan)

appearance

abuse

her parents

death of older siblings

taken into care

given a new name in hospital

her condition

her behaviour

her silence

and Lennenberg’s theories

and Chomsky’s theories

‘fodder for experimentation’

response to her silent needs

stays with Jean Butler, then David Rigler

begins to talk

learns to express her emotions

and love

lives with her mother briefly

further abuse at foster homes

George I, King

George II, King (as Prince of Wales)

George III, King

George of the Jungle (film)

German states

Gesell, Arnold

Godin, Louis

Gory (Burnett’s black servant)

Graves, Robert

Greenwich

Greenwood, James: ‘King Lion’ (attrib.)

Gregory, Dr

Guérin, Madame

Gunn, Thom: ‘The Allegory of the Wolf Boy’ (in The Sense of Movement)

Haggard, H. Rider: Nada the Lily

Hale, Edward Everett

Handel, George Friederic

Hanover

Hansen, Dr Howard

Hauffer, Friederike (‘Seeress of Prevorst’)

Hauser, Kaspar

appearance

letters for the army captain

interrogation at Nuremberg police station

first hours of his imprisonment in Vestner Tower

and horses

stays with the Hiltels

locked away for thirteen years

education

moves in with Daumer

Feuerbach’s involvement

a source of fascination across the Western world

personality

overwhelmed by new things

automatism

and ‘animal magnetism’

sensitivities

taken to see a somnambulist

acuteness

keeps a journal

murder attempt

and deceit

abandons feeling

as the archetypal adolescent orphan

Stanhope visits

relationship with Stanhope

moved to Bieberbach’s house

moved to Tucher’s house

bound to Stanhope’s care

isolated from his first friends

emerging sexuality

his innocence

views on women

distrust of his guardians

works as a copying clerk

change in behaviour

fatally stabbed

death and funeral

royal blood scenario

and Caraboo

and Herzog

post-mortem

DNA tests

lack of self

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Haxter’s End Farm, Broadway, near Berkhamstead

Heaney, Seamus

‘Bye-Child’ (in Wintering Out)

‘Fosterling’

Hecquet, Madame (Marie Catherine Homassel)

meets Memmie

the problem of Memmie’s memory

Eskimo thesis

disappearance of

Histoire d’une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à l’âge de dix ans

hen-house boy

Hensler, Professor

Herrenhausen, Hanover

Herzog, Werner

Hewett, Sir John

Hickel, Frau

Hickel, Lieutenant

Hiltel, Julius

Hiltel (prison-keeper)

Hitler, Adolf

Hockley-in-the-Hole, London

Hoffmann, Ernst

hog-girl

‘Homo ferens’

Homo sapiens

Homo sylvestris

Hooke, Robert: Micrographia

Horn, Dr

Hospitalières, house of the, St Marceau

Hôtel de Tours, Paris

Hôtel d’Espaine, Paris

Howard, Henrietta

Howard, Henry

Human Heredity Bureau, Gower Street, London

Hume

Huron tribe

Indian independence movement

Institution Nationale des Sourds et Muets de Naissance (National Institution for Deaf-Mutes), Paris

Institut National des Sciences et Arts, Paris

Irene (Genie’s mother)

Ishi

‘It Cannot Rain But It Pours’

Itard, Dr Jean Marc Gaspard

L’Enfant Sauvage

meets Victor

reverence for Pinel

Victor’s education

and Condillac

view of Rousseau

his aim with Victor

takes Victor for walks

names Victor

European reputation

death

An Historical Account of the Discovery and Education of A Savage Man, or The First Developments of the Young Savage Caught In The Woods Near Aveyron, In The Year 1798

Jalpaigori hospital

Janoo

Jatakamala (stories)

Jehovah

John (Genie’s brother)

John II Casimir, King of Poland

John of Liège

Digby’s account of

Johnson, Esther

Johnson, Dr Samuel

Joseph the bear-boy

Josephine, Empress

Kafka, Franz

Kali (goddess)

Kamala

Kames, Lord

Kamuzinda Christian Orphanage

Karl, Duke of Baden

Karlsruhe

Kasparites

Kateeba, David

Kay, John

Keats, John

Kent, James

Kerner, Justinus

Kerr, Robert

Kierkegaard, Søren: ‘The Unhappiest One’

Kim (character)

Kipling, Carrie (née Balestier)

Kipling, John Lockwood

Beast and Man in India

Kipling, Rudyard

letter to Dodge

childhood

importance of duty

and responsibility

‘In the Rukh’

The Jungle Books

Something of Myself

Kithairon

Kleist, Heinrich von

Kluge

Koko (gorilla)

La Condamine, Charles Marie de

meets Memmie

scepticism

explorations in South America

introduces Burnett to Memmie

mysterious paralysis

death

La Hontan, Baron

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de: Man A Machine

La Rochefoucauld, François, 6th Duc de

Lacaune

Lachabeaussière, Citizen

Lane, Harlan: The Wild Boy of Aveyron

Lang, Andrew

Larrey, Jean, Baron

Lassalle, Ferdinand von

Le Blanc, Marie-Angélique Memmie

walks into Songi village

appearance

captured

tries to escape

domestication

learns French

ill health

death of her guardian

convent life

hunts with the Queen of Poland

patronised by the Duke of Orléans

meets her biographer

meets James Burnett

supports herself

her discovery of Europe

Eskimo thesis

describes her homeland

and the orang-outang

significance for Burnett

Leclerc, Georges-Louis see Buffon, Georges-Louis

Lee, William

Leibniz, Gottfried

Leicester House, London

Lemeri, Citizen

Lennenberg, Eric

Biological Foundations of Language

Lennox, Mary (character)

Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden

Linnæus, Charles

orang-outang

Systema Naturae

Lithuanian bear-boy

Living Proof (television series)

Locke, John

tabula rasa concept

London

homeless

John Ssabunnya in

Peter the Wild Boy’s arrival

Swift returns from Dublin

Swift encounters Peter the Wild Boy

described

exhibitions

bear-baiting

London, Jack

The London Dispatch

Los Angeles Children’s Hospital

Los Angeles Times

Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden

Lucknow

Lycaon: founder of Lykosoura

Lynch, David

Maclean, Charles

Makhmalbaf, Samirah

Malson, Lucien

‘The Manifesto of Lord Peter’

Maria, Queen of France

Mars (god)

Marta

Masson, Jeffrey

The Wild Child

Maxfield, Professor Francis N.

Mayer, Johannes

Merker, Johann Friedrich Karl

Metternich, Prince Clemens

Mew, Charlotte: ‘The Farmer’s Bride’

Meyer, Herr

Midnapore, India

Mishukov, Ivan

leader of a pack of dogs

rescued

fostered

and the press

Monboddo, Lord see Burnett, James

Monboddo castle

Monroe, Marilyn

Montmorence, vale of

Moscow

homeless

street kids

wild dogs

Moses

‘The Most Wonderful Wonder That Ever Appear’d To The Wonder of the British nation’

Motte, Benjamin

Mount Ida

Mowgli (character)

Müller, Max

The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (film)

Nabokov, Vladimir

Napoleon Bonaparte

National Institute of Mental Health

Nebuchadnezzar

Neleus

Nell (film)

Newton, Sir Isaac

Nicholetts, Captain

‘noble savage’

North, Thomas

North Indian Notes and Queries

Northchurch

Novak, Maximilian

Novikova, Tamara

Numitor, ex-King of Alba Longa

Nuremberg

Octavian (a romance)

Oedipus

Ohio State University

O’Key, Jane (‘Prophetess of St Pancras’)

Opalinski, Peter Adam

Orléans, Duke of

Ovid: Fasti

Pakenham-Walsh, Bishop H.

Paris

Memmie’s apartment

described

Burnett in Le Jardin Royal des Plantes

Itard meets Victor

French Revolution

Luxembourg Gardens

Parnell, Thomas

Patagonians

Peace of Amiens

Peacock, Thomas Love: Melincourt

Pearl of Africa Choir

Pearson, Karl

Pelias

Pennsylvania State College

Perdita (character)

Peter the Wild Boy

his silence

comes to London (1726)

Defoe writes on

Swift encounters

found in woods near Hameln, Hanover

Zell House of Correction

taken to Herrenhausen

royal rivalry over

appearance

education

pamphlets written on

on Linnæus’s list

offers a slantwise perspective on the known

the opposite of Robinson Crusoe

and thinking

and spoken language

lives with the Fenn family

Burnett visits

death

Pinel, Philippe

his verdict on Victor

introduces moral medicine into France

Pitt, William

Pliny

Plutarch

Gryllus

Life of Romulus (trans. North)

Poland

Poland, Queen of

Pope, Alexander

‘An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot’

Poucet, Jacques: Les Origines de Rome

Pulteney, William

Quakers

Les Quatres Cents Coups (film)

rabbit-woman (Mary Toft)

Radio Merseyside

Raleigh, Sir Walter: The History of the World

Reutov children’s shelter

Rhea Silvia

Rhodez

Rigler, David

Rigler, Marilyn

Robertson, William

Romanticism

Rome

Romulus and Remus

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Discourse on the Origins of Inequality

Rymer, Russ

Genie. A Scientific Tragedy

St Afrique

St James’s Palace, London

St James’s Park, London

St Menehold convent

St Nicholas Magazine

St Petersburg: street kids

St Sernin

Saint-Pierre, Bernardin: Paul et Virginie

Salmon, Mrs

Salzburg

San Francisco Film Festival

San Francisco Museum of Anthropology

Science

Scriblerus Club

Sekandra

Semiramis

Shakespeare, William

Pericles

The Rape of Lucrece

Richard II

The Tempest

The Winter’s Tale

Shamdev (wolf-child)

Shattuck, Roger: The Forbidden Experiment

Shengold, Leonard: Halo in the Sky

Shurley, Jay

Shwolishay regiment

Sicard, Abbé

Simla, Calcutta

Singh, Reverend J. A. L.

missionary

meets children in the jungle

takes the girls to Midnapore orphanage

and the attack on a baby

teaches Kamala

tries to shield the girls from publicity

his story scrutinized

his motives

Singh, Mrs

Sir Gowther (a romance)

Skeene, Dr Francis

Sleeman, W. H.

‘An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in their Dens’

Songi, Champagne

Sörgel, John George

South Seas

Spenser, Edmund: The Færie Queene

Ssabunnya, John

in London

in the Kamuzinda Christian Orphanage

flees into the bush after the murder of his mother

lives with a group of monkeys

captured by local villagers

and the media

Stanhope, Charles, Third Earl

Stanhope, Lady Hester

Stanhope, Louisa (née Grenville)

Stanhope, Philip Henry, Fourth Earl of

visits Hauser

background

education

travels in Germany

personality

appearance

relationship with Hauser

Cleveland defends

accuses Hauser

Masson accuses

removes Hauser from Daumer and Tucher’s care

charges against

attacks Feuerbach

Gebetbuch für Glaübige und Ungläubige, für Christen und Nichtchristen (Prayer Book for Believers and Unbelievers, for Christians and Non-Christians)

Statesman

Steiner, Rudolf

Sterndale, Robert

Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

Denizens of the Jungle

Student Christian Camp

Sultanpoor, India

‘swan-children’

Swift, Jonathan

meets Peter the Wild Boy

returns to London from Dublin

relationship with Arbuthnot

and the pamphlets on Peter

the two women in his life

Cadenus and Vanessa

Gulliver’s Travels

Tartars

Tarzan

Temple City, Los Angeles

Thames River

Thebes

Thugs

Tickell, Thomas

Titchbourn, Mrs

Todd, Tony

Toft, Mary

Toul, Lorraine

Tracy, Antoine Destutt de, Comte

Truffaut, François

Tucher, Mr Von

Tudu, Janu

Twelfth Night

Twickenham, Middlesex

Tylor, Edward Burnet: ‘Wild Men and Beast Children’

Tyro

Uncle Remus

University of Erlangen

Uz, Johann Peter

Val-de-Grâce military school, Paris

Valentine and Orson

Vanhomrigh, Esther

Verlaine, Paul: ‘Gaspard Hauser Chante’

Vermont

Vestner Tower, Nuremberg

Victor, the Wild Child of Aveyron

L’Enfant Sauvage

meets Itard

recaptured after escaping

examined by Bonaterre

appearance

dumbness

sent to Paris

Pinel’s verdict on

Virey on

education

his moods

Itard’s aim

tries to escape again

visits the Luxembourg Gardens

relationship with Madame Guérin

relationship with Itard

gesture language

first listens to the human voice

named

linguistic progress

and the proper order of words

emotional delicacy

stealing

sense of justice

moves in with Madame Guérin

death

Virgin Mary

Virey, Jean-Jacques

Voltaire

L’Ingénu

Walk Like A Man (film)

Walpole, Lady

Walpole, Robert

Walsh, Jill Paton: Knowledge of Angels

Warsaw

Wasswa, Molly: runs the Kamuzinda Christian Orphanage

Wasswa, Paul

runs the Kamuzinda Christian Orphanage

tells the story of John Ssabunnya

Weichmann, Herr

Weissmuller, Johnny

White (deaf and dumb boy)

White, Charles

Whitehall Palace, London

Widdis, Emma

Willis, Francis

Wilson, Walter: Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe

Windsor Park

wolf-boy of Sekandra

Wordsworth, William

‘Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey’

The Recluse

Wordworth, William and Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Lyrical Ballads

Wright, Thomas

Yahi

yeti

Zell House of Correction

Zethos

Zingg, Robert

The Zoologist

Zwanziger, Maria