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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