NOTES: Names of correspondents are shown in CAPITALS; page numbers of letters to correspondents in Bold
Works by Dickens (CD) appear directly under title; works by others under author’s name
À Beckett, Gilbert 42n, 150, 248
Abbotsford (Scott’s house) 233
Adelaide, Queen of William IV: funeral 246
Administrative Reform Association 295n
afterlife: CD’s views on 51
Agricultural Hall Company 413
Ainsworth, William Harrison 191n, 214
Albert, Prince Consort: Memorial 367
All the Year Round (magazine)
succeeds HW 200n
George Eliot declines to contribute to 349n
publishes Collins’s Woman in White 352n
loses money 356
Christmas numbers 360, 369, 379, 412n
CD checks proofs 365n
Somebody’s Luggage 369
Allison, Mrs George 413
Alphington, Devon 52–4, 77
American Notes (CD) 103n, 112n, 114
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN 191, 322
behaviour in England 319
A Christmas Greeting to my English Friends 191n
‘The Tin Soldier’ 191n
To Be, or Not To Be 323
Anderson, J.H. 303n
Anne (Catherine Dickens’s maid) see Cornelius, Anne
Ashley, Lord see Shaftesbury, 7th Earl of
Atkins, Susan 147
Atlantic Monthly 410n
Austin, Alfred 396n
AUSTIN, HENRY 6, 15, 214, 236, 238
marriage 6n
supervises renovation of Tavistock House 237n, 238
surveys Gad’s Hill Place 302
as secretary on Royal Commission on the Sanitation of London 405n
Austin, Letitia (née Dickens; CD’s sister) 6n
Australia
Urania Cottage inmates sent to 21, 202, 211n
CD proposes reading in 371
Plorn emigrates to 423–4, 435
Ally Dickens in 435
Bagot, Sir Charles 104
Baldwin, Miss (Edward’s daughter) 217
Ballard, James 200–1
balloons 43n
Bancroft, Maria (née Wilton; later Lady) 437
Baring, Alexander 16
Barnaby Rudge (CD)
writing 51, 58
illustrations 62n, 89n
Grip the raven in 76
Gordon Riots portrayed in 83n, 89, 91–2
blindness in 86
Characters
Miss Miggs 310
Stagg 87n
Simon Tappertit 88
John Willet 88
Barnes, David 217
BARROW, THOMAS CULLIFORD 27
Bartley, George 151
BASS, MICHAEL 384
Bateman, Jane (née Carr): ‘Eric Walderthorn’ 308n
Bath 23n
Battle of Life, The (CD; Christmas book) 135n, 169, 173–4
BAYLIS, THOMAS 367; 361
Bazalgette, Sir Joseph
BEADNELL, GEORGE 37; 2
Beadnell, John 2n
Beadnell, Maria see Winter, Maria
Bear, John Pinney 435
BEARD, FRANK 347, 390; 370, 380, 399–400, 433
BEARD, THOMAS 3, 16, 17, 33, 65, 113, 371
in balloon association 43
attends ‘Dombey dinner’ 191n
as Charley’s godfather 233
CD invites as companion to Australia 371–2
appointed Court Newsman 380
Beaucourt-Mutuel, Ferdinand Henri Joseph Alexandre 257–8, 300, 308
Beaufort, Captain Francis 225
Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher: The Maid’s Tragedy 189n
‘Begging-Letter Writer, The’ (CD) 243n
Belgium: CD travels in 35
Bell, Robert 214n, 355
Benjamin, Park 129
Bennet, James Gordon 129
BENNET, JOHN 378
BENTLEY, RICHARD 31, 37
CD’s relations with 31n
and CD’s giving up editing Miscellany 38
cedes copyrights of OT to CD 66
Bentley’s Miscellany
CD edits 31, 34
CD resigns from 38
Lewes offers to write for 43n
serializes Barnaby Rudge 51n
Jerrold contributes to 118n
Berger, Francesco 309
Berry, Francis 363
Bible: allusions to 182n, 279n, 430n, 438n
Bicknell, Christine (née Roberts) 218
Bicknell, Henry Sanford 218
‘Bill of Fare, The’ (CD; poem) 2n
Birmingham
CD reads in 272, 298, 365
depression 365
Birmingham and Midland Institute 430n
Bishop, Henry R. 6n
Black, John 21–2
BLACKBURN, JOHN 82
Blackmore (entertainer) 55
Blackwood, John 348
Blackwood, William 366
Blackwood’s Magazine 315n
Bleak House (CD)
Rockingham Castle portrayed in (as Chesney Wold) 173n
writing 227n, 248, 259
sales 241n
CD recommends to Mary Boyle 250
spontaneous combustion episode 253, 256
Characters
Boythorne: modelled on Landor 177n
Inspector Bucket 260n
Mademoiselle Hortense: inspired by Maria Manning 206n
Mrs Jellyby 211n
Skimpole: modelled on Leigh Hunt 43n, 241, 242n, 261, 280
Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of 136–7, 139
blindness: CD’s view of 86–7
‘Bloomsbury Christening, The’ (CD; story) 14n
Booth, John Wilkes 419n
‘Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn, The’ (CD) 342, 418, 433n
Boston, Mass. 94–6, 128
Boucicault, Dion
The Coleen Bawn 362n
Janet Pride 294
Used Up (with Charles Mathews) 227n, 250n
Boughton House, near Kettering 26n
Boulogne 257–60, 278–9, 300, 308–9
Bowes Academy, Yorkshire 50n
Bowlby, Thomas 358
Boycett (of CD’s reading staff) 362, 367
Boyle, Cavendish Spencer 427n
Boyle, Eleanor 250n
BOYLE, MARY 227, 250, 350, 427; 208, 329, 357n, 376
‘Boz’: origins of name 22n
BRACKENBURY, REVD JOHN MATTHEW 394
BRADBURY & EVANS (printers) 161
CD visits 150
publish Daily News 161–2
decline to print CD’s personal statement on marriage breakdown 340n
BRADBURY, WILLIAM 51, 211
death of daughter 75
prints Household Words 211
Bradley, Rachel 203
Braham, John 27, 152
Braintree, Essex 16
Bristol 23n
Broadstairs 58, 65, 171, 200–1, 217–19, 236
Brontë, Charlotte 296
Brontë, Patrick 296n
BROOKES & SONS, MESSRS 231
BROOKFIELD, JANE 400
Only George 401n
Brooks, (Charles William) Shirley 380
Brown, Anne see Cornelius, Anne
Brown, Hannah (earlier Meredith)
as companion to Miss Coutts 91
CD’s arguments with 112
as supposed model for Miss Dartle in DC 112n
and Sarah Gamp in MC 121
marriage 203n
state of health 248
and CD’s purchase of Gad’s Hill Place 302
and CD’s separation from Catherine 336
BROWN, WILLIAM 202, 204; 302n
BROWNE, HABLOT KNIGHT (‘Phiz’) 33, 56,120, 135, 179, 180, 309, 311, 314
illustrates PP 33
travels abroad with CD 37n
visits William Shaw 50n
illustrates BR 76, 89n
portrait sketch of Mary Hogarth 119n
illustrates MC 120–1, 135
illustrates D&S 169, 171, 179–80
attends ‘Dombey dinner’ 191n
illustrates LD 309, 311, 314
BROWNING, ROBERT 401
friendship with Forster 35n, 401–2
A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon 402n
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 111n, 346n
Brydone, William 96
Buckstone, John 14
The Green Bushes 319n
Uncle John 320
Bulwer Lytton, Edward see Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer-, Baron
‘Bundle of Emigrants’ Letters, A’ (CD; article) 211n
Bunn, Alfred 129, 142
Burdett-Coutts, Angela, Baroness see Coutts, Angela Burdett
burial: legislation on 215n
BURNETT, FRANCES (née Dickens; CD’s sister; Fanny) 192
and CD’s relations with Maria Beadnell 7
consumption and death 192–4
Burnett, Henry
attends ‘Dombey dinner’ 191n
and Fanny’s death 194
Burnett, Henry (son) 193
as model for Paul Dombey 194n
Buss, Robert 33n
Calais: CD visits 36
Campbell, John, 1st Baron 398
Canada
CD visits on 1867–8 reading tour 414
see also Montreal
Canning, Charles John, 1st Earl 328
capital punishment 346n
see also executions (public)
CARDALE, J.B. 253
Carlin, Thomas 435
Carlisle 325
CARLISLE, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK HOWARD, 7th EARL OF (earlier Viscount Morpeth) 167, 195
likened to Liston 143n
Carlyle, Jane Welsh: death 403
CARLYLE, THOMAS 278, 350, 376, 403
letter on US copyright violation 102
reads CD’s TTC 350
invited to Gad’s Hill 376
defends Governor Eyre 399n
wife’s death 403
CATTERMOLE, GEORGE 61, 73, 76, 88
illustrates CD’s works 61, 73, 76, 88
Cattermole, Revd Richard 308n
cattle plague 399n
Cavour, Camillo Benso, Count 380
CAY, REVD CHRISTOPHER 386
Celeste, Madame (Celeste Elliott) 293
Cerjat, Maria de (née Holmes) 172, 208–9
CERJAT, WILLIAM WOODLEY FREDERICK DE 208, 397; 172
Chadwick, Edwin 405
Chambers, Robert 433
Chamonix 262–4
Chang Woo Gow (or Tu Sing) 402
Channing, William 94
CHAPMAN & HALL (publishers) 29
publish PP 29
CD breaks with 30n, 52n
publish MHC 61
Lever deals with 371
publish Charles Dickens Edition 409n
CHAPMAN, EDWARD 33, 88
CD’s regard for 30
marriage 89n
CHAPMAN, JONATHAN 95, 110
Chapman, Thomas 134n
CHARING CROSS STATIONMASTER 391
Charles Dickens Edition (of CD’s works) 408
Charlton, Elizabeth Culliford (CD’s great-aunt) 28
Chartism 107, 192
Chelmsford 16
Cheltenham 366
Chester 406
Chesterton, George Laval 165, 185–6, 202
children
work in mines 107
in Ragged Schools 121–3
Children’s Employment Commission 109n
‘Child’s Dream of a Star, A’ (CD) 211n
Child’s History of England, A (CD) 118, 259, 261
Chimes, The (CD)
bells in 145n
CD reads from 150, 191n, 341–3
illustrations 150
written in Italy 171
CHIMNEY-SWEEP, A 384
Chitty, Joseph 424
Christmas Books (CD) 150, 364
Christmas Carol, A (CD)
CD sends to Macready in USA 129
published 130n
illustrations 150
CD reads from 252, 343, 416
CHRISTOPHERSON, REVD H. 243
Chung Mow 402
Clarke, Mary Cowden (née Novello) 412
Clarke, Mr: and authorship of PP 37
Clay, Henry 98
coal mines see Mines and Collieries Bill
Cobham Park, Kent 302
Cochrane, James 21
Colchester 16
Colden, David 99n, 129
COLE, HENRY 276
Collin, Miss (Broadstairs bathing-machine woman) 217
Collins, Charles Allston (Charley)
marriage to Katie Dickens 355, 358
ill health 406, 426
death 426n
A Cruise upon Wheels 359n
Collins, Harriet (née Geddes; Wilkie’s mother) 358
COLLINS, WILKIE 249, 291, 305, 307, 321, 333,340, 349, 351, 360, 368, 370, 378, 412
in Switzerland and Italy with CD 263–4, 268, 270
acting 296
and CD’s writing LD 298n
seizure 305
CD suggests collaborative writing with 321–2
travels in north with CD 325n
and publication of CD’s ‘Violated Letter’ 338n
article on novel readers 340
on CD’s TTC 349
moves to Harley Street 358
and CD’s GE 360
gout 370
‘At the Bar’ 400
Basil 249
The Frozen Deep (with CD) 310n, 313n, 318n, 320, 322n, 324, 330
‘The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices’ (with CD) 325n
The Lighthouse 296
‘My London Lodgings’ 308n
No Name 368–9, 270n
‘No Thoroughfare’ (with CD) 412n, 422
The Woman in White 351, 355, 368
Commissioners on Criminal Law 67n
Cooper, Louisa 311
copyright
CD protests at US violations 96, 102, 105
Carlyle attacks US piracy 103n
and repeal of Imperial Act 434n
CORNELIUS, ANNE (née Brown; Catherine’s maid) 326; 199, 218, 336, 415
Cornwall 114–15
Cornwall, Barry (i.e. Bryan Waller Procter) 36
COUTTS, ANGELA BURDETT (later Baroness Burdett-Coutts) 90, 111, 121, 163, 185,189, 195, 210, 246, 247, 251, 271, 280, 301, 310, 324, 335, 341, 352, 381
MC dedicated to 68n
social life 68
offers help for Ragged School children 124
supports Urania Cottage (for fallen women) 163, 185, 202, 247, 271–2
questions marriage for fallen women 188n
sends Christmas turkey to CD 189
takes schoolchildren to Great Exhibition 234
housing improvement schemes 246, 252n
pays Charley’s Eton fees 252
CD recounts story of Caroline Thompson to 280–2
pays for drying closet for Scutari hospital 290n
employs Wills as part-time secretary 302n, 310
proposes drab cloth for inmates 310
supports CD’s reading tours for profit 334
CD tells of marriage breakdown 335, 341, 353
offers to help reconcile CD and Catherine 352
campaign to extend national education to villages 383n
Summary Account of Prizes for Common Things 325n
Coutts Bank 68n, 418
Crea, Mr (turnkey at Tothill Fields) 120
Cricket, The ( journal) 157
Crimean War (1854–6) 282n, 290n, 295n, 299–300
Crowe, Catherine 274–5
The Night Side of Nature 275n
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE 47
illustrates Sketches by Boz 21, 26
illustrates Oliver Twist 22n, 47
illustrates Jack Sheppard 58n
Cunningham, Alan: ‘A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea’ 370n
‘Curious Misprint in the Edinburgh Review’ (CD) 321n
Daily News (newspaper) 161
DALLAS, ENEAS SWEETLAND 387
Darnley, John Stuart Bligh, 6th Earl of 302
Darwin, Charles 399n
David Copperfield (CD)
autobiographical early chapters 178n, 197
punch recipe 179n
prostitute and marriage in 188n
title 196
pathos in 197
writing 206, 215, 219
popularity 208
CD presents copy to Brookes of Sheffield 231
in CD’s public reading 282n, 365–6, 402, 416
Dora sent abroad 285n
Maria Winter alluded to in 286, 290
CD re-reads 357
Characters
Miss Dartle 112n
David Copperfield 18n, 207n, 231n, 282–3, 286, 357
Dora 214, 217, 285
Little Em’ly 188n, 208
Martha Endell 188n
Micawber 151n, 179n
Julia Mills 289n
Miss Mowcher 207n
Steerforth 207n, 209n
Tommy Traddles 44n
DAVIES, REVD ROBERT HENRY 313
DAVIS, ELIZA 377
CD’s views on 51–2, 75
see also afterlife
‘December Vision, A’ (CD) 212n
De La Rue, Augusta 153n, 154–6, 270n, 432
DE LA RUE, EMILE 152, 153, 327; 269, 380
Denison, James Hutchison 17
Derby, Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of 13n
‘Detective Police Party, A’ (CD; article) 233n
Dickens, Alfred (CD’s brother)
fecklessness 125
death 354
widow and children 356n
DICKENS, ALFRED D’ORSAY TENNYSON (CD’s son; ‘Ally’) 435
in Broadstairs 218
CD wishes to send abroad 374
in Australia 435
Dickens, Augustus (CD’s brother; ‘Shrimp’) 22n, 55n, 77, 134, 158
Dickens, Bessie (née Evans; Charley’s wife) 359
DICKENS, CATHERINE (née Hogarth; CD’s wife) 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 40, 145,150, 216, 217, 218, 229, 230, 262, 269,309, 339, 391
early relations with CD 19–20, 22, 24–6
marriage 28
and death of sister Mary 34
travels abroad with CD 37n, 155, 172, 176
pregnancies and children 39
in balloon association 43
in Scotland with CD 85
with CD in USA and Canada 94, 99–100, 102, 104
accident-proneness 100
performs in amateur thatricals 103n, 104
in Italy with CD 138, 147, 269–70
in mesmerized state 155
takes ‘cold water cure’ at Malvern 229n, 231n
writes to CD in Italy 266
over-eats in Paris 305
separation from CD 310n, 323, 327, 335–9
CD accuses of not caring for children 336, 342
CD’s ‘Violated Letter’ on 337–8
remains friendly with Miss Coutts after separation 352n
Dickens, Catherine Macready (later Collins; then Perugini; CD’s daughter; ‘Katie’)
Macready stands godfather to 69n
relations with mother 336
marriage to Charles Collins 355, 358
Dickens, Charles
romantic attachment to Maria Beadnell (Winter) 2n, 285–9, 304n
celebrates birthdays 3
misunderstanding with Maria Beadnell 4–5, 7–9
applies to Earle for employment 13
marriage 28
ill health 32
leaves Morning Chronicle 32
travels in Europe 35, 136–49, 151–4
first autobiographical account to Kuenzel 45
literary earnings 50, 91
advises aspiring authors 59–60, 70–2, 213, 221, 316, 367, 400, 405
walking 64, 70, 121, 218, 229, 265, 331
temperament 69n
philanthropy 82–3, 242
and creative process 90
operation for fistula 90, 408
acting 102, 104–5, 151, 158, 183, 208, 222, 227n, 271n, 317, 320, 330
conjuring 115
intensity of working 126–7, 293, 326
plans to live abroad 126–7
swimming 142
rheumatism 144, 354
applies to Morpeth for appointment as magistrate 167–8
smoking 176
letter to fallen women 187–8
attends public execution 205
knowledge of French language 214
leases Tavistock House 237n
declines to stand for Parliament 243
rents house in Boulogne 257–8
grows moustache 264, 267
public readings 272–3, 297–8, 320, 331, 358, 433n
Maria Winter (Beadnell) resumes contact with 283–8
purchases Gad’s Hill Place 302
Scheffer portrait of 303n
works translated into French 305
gives autobiographical account for Forgues 307
separation from Catherine 310n, 323, 327, 335–9
estrangement from Thackeray 319n
proposes reading for personal gain 325, 333–4
travels in north with Collins 325n
beset by charitable importuning 334–5
emotionally affected by Doncaster performance of The Frozen Deep 334
‘Violated Letter’ on Catherine 337–8
reading tours 340–2, 362–3, 365–7, 406, 407, 426
earnings from readings 342, 418
fails to attend son Charley’s wedding 359n
depression in later years 368
advice on speaking in public 386–7
overwork and near-breakdown 390
in Staplehurst railway accident 390–3, 427
heart trouble 399, 428
turns down George Russell’s poor kitchen scheme 404–5
financial security 409
sends memorandum to Wills in preparation for trip to USA 412–13
American reading tour (1867–8) 414–20
parodied in Trollope’s The Warden 428n
neuralgia in foot 436–7
death 438n
Dickens, Charles Culliford Boz (CD’s son; Charley) 414
infancy 41
nicknames 43n
birthday celebrations 115
scarlet fever 179
attends Eton 209, 235
in Broadstairs 218
accompanies CD on river 233, 235
Miss Coutts pays Eton fees 252
studies in Germany 262, 270
sails for overseas 318
lives with mother after separation from CD 338
marriage 359
returns from China 359
meets brother Walter in India 381
Dickens, Charles Walter (Charley’s son) 415n
Dickens, Dora Annie (CD’s daughter)
birth 216
illness and death 230–1
grave 241
Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton (CD’s youngest son; ‘the Comic Countryman’; ‘Plorn’) 423
in Boulogne as child 258
nicknames 258, 264
CD proposes for public competition 298
schooling 377
farming training 413
emigrates to Australia 424n, 435
Dickens, Elizabeth (née Barrow; CD’s mother)
birthday 15
visits CD in Devon 54
and CD’s proposal to send father abroad 77
visits CD in old age 284
decline in old age 355
Dickens, Ethel Kate (Charley’s daughter) 415n
Dickens, Frances (CD’s sister; Fanny) see Burnett, Frances
Dickens, Francis Jeffrey (CD’s son; Frank) 216, 342, 374, 378, 382
DICKENS, FREDERICK WILLIAM (CD’s brother) 159, 312
meets Catherine 22, 24, 26
in Broadstairs 58
reports Hill’s illness 70
and CD’s debt to Mrs Smithson 93
in amateur theatricals 158
CD advises on marriage plans 159–60
CD refuses to settle debts 312
DICKENS, (SIR) HENRY FIELDING (CD’s son; ‘Harry’) 424, 434
education and career 394–5
CD’s allowance to at Cambridge University 424–5
furnishes rooms at Gad’s Hill 431
speaks at Camridge Union 434
Dickens, John (CD’s father)
arrested for debt 14
excluded from Barrow’s house 28
CD wishes to move from London 55n
CD disavows debts 77n
CD proposes sending abroad 77
repeated debts 125–6
speech used as model for Micawber 151n
final illness and death 229–30
DICKENS, MARY (CD’s daughter; Mamie) 182,197, 362, 420
nickname 43n
birthday 197
acting 296
relations with mother 336
and sister Katie’s wedding 355
in Paris with CD 371
and brother Walter’s troubles in India 382
and CD’s return from American tour 421
Dickens, Mary Angela (Charley’s daughter; ‘Mekitty’) 415
Dickens, Sydney Margaret (later Whinney; Charley’s daughter) 415n
Dickens, Sydney Smith Haldimand (CD’s son; ‘the Admiral’)
on sister Dora 216
in Broadstairs 218
CD escorts to Portsmouth 357
Leech’s fondness for 388
decline and death 436
Dickens, Walter Landor (CD’s son)
birth 76n
sails for India 318–19
army service in India 330
death 381
debts 381–2
Dickinson, Frances see Elliot, Frances
‘Dinner at Poplar Walk, A’ (CD; article) 13, 181n
D’Israeli, Isaac 146
DIXON, THOMAS 256
Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions (CD) 401
Doctors’ Commons 151
dog: drinks beer 407–8
Dolby, George 402, 409, 414–16, 418, 421
Dombey and Son (CD)
dedicated to Normanby 67n
CD discusses characters and plot with Forster 169–71, 189
illustrations 169, 171, 179–80, 189
writing 169n, 171, 173
celebratory dinner on completion 191
CD reads from 342, 407
Characters
Captain Cuttle 171, 430n
Paul Dombey: modelled on young Henry Burnett 94n
Mrs Pipchin 177
Susan Nipper 169–70
Doncaster 327, 334
Dor, Jules 263
D’ORSAY, ALFRED, COUNT 136, 162
designs costumes 161n
CD sends wine to 162
attends ‘Dombey dinner’ 191n
death 246n
Doyle, Richard 150
dreams: CD’s 41, 119, 144, 224–6, 376
drinking
and abstinence 181–2
see also eating and drinking
Dublin 341–2
Ducrow, Andrew 25
Dyer, William George Thistleton 311
EARLE, RICHARD 12
EASTHOPE, SIR JOHN 31
eating and drinking 25, 263, 305
Edinburgh
dinner in CD’s honour (1841) 88
CD describes 342
CD reads in 363, 402
Edinburgh Pickwick Club 39
Edinburgh Review 46, 320
education see Ragged Schools
Edwin Drood (CD) see Mystery of Edwin Drood, The
Egan, Pierce: Life in London 48n
Egg, Augustus
friendship with CD 194
portrays CD in Used Up 227n
introduces Collins to CD 249n
in Switzerland and Italy with CD 263–5, 268, 270
acting 296
Election (Parliamentary, 1835) 16–18, 24–5
ELIOT, GEORGE (Marian Evans) 331, 348
as George Lewes’s partner 45n, 332n
Adam Bede 348
Scenes from Clerical Life 332n, 348
ELLIOT, FRANCES (née Dickinson) 354, 410
marriage to Gilbert Elliot 356n
marriage difficulties 410
Elliot, Gilbert, Dean of Bristol 356n, 410
ELLIOTSON, DR JOHN 253; 373n
ELLIS, JOSEPH 376
Elssler, Fanny 129
Elton, Edward 128, 359n
Eton College: Charley attends 209, 235
Evans, Bessie see Dickens, Bessie
EVANS, FREDERICK 198, 240, 332, 340
partnership with Bradbury 52n
attends ‘Dombey dinner’ 191n
and CD’s proposed readings for profit 333
CD breaks with 340n, 359n
Examiner, The (weekly journal) 43n, 118n
executions (public): CD attends and denounces 205–6, 208–9, 346n
Exeter 52–4
Eyre, Edward 399n
FALLEN WOMEN 187
FARADAY, MICHAEL 216
lends notes for HW articles 216n
Fechter, Charles 375, 422
Rouge et Noir 406
FELTON, CORNELIUS 102, 114
Fenianism 397
Fenning, Eliza 409
Field, Inspector Charles Frederick 232, 260
Fielding, Henry 314
FIELDS, ANNIE 421
Fields, James 422
FILLONNEAU, AMELIA (née Austin) 178
Fine Arts Commission 138
‘Fine Old English Gentleman, The’ (CD; satirical ballad) 118n
FITZGERALD, PERCY 395
‘The Bridge of Sighs’ 432n
Fladgate, Frank 334
Fletcher, Angus
in Glencoe with CD 85
bust of CD 86n
eating 93
in Italy 147, 154
FLETCHER, GEORGE 91
food see eating and drinking
Foote, Samuel: The Mayor of Garratt 105n
Forgues, Paul Émile Durand 307
Forrest, Edwin 99
FORSTER, JOHN 32, 34, 36, 40, 43, 44, 46, 50,52, 57, 60, 65, 69, 74, 75, 83, 84, 88, 89, 90, 94, 100, 104, 117, 121, 124, 126, 144, 145, 148, 150, 151, 157, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 177, 178, 189, 193,196, 197, 199, 206, 214, 219, 237, 241, 246, 257, 268, 273, 274, 279, 282, 290, 297, 298, 304, 308, 309, 313, 314, 315, 323, 325, 326, 332, 347, 356, 357, 360,362, 368, 376, 390, 394, 403, 407, 416,418, 425, 429, 435
friendship with CD 35n, 44
friendship with Browning 35n, 401–2
rudeness 35n, 69
on success of Acis and Galatea 99
accompanies CD to Cornwall 114–15
conjuring 115
claims to know Felton 116
as CD’s executor 119n
and CD’s The Battle of Life 135n, 169, 173–4
on Stanfield’s comparing Morpeth and Liston 142
reads TC to À Beckett 150
and CD’s application for appointment as magistrate 168n
CD sends D&S to 169–71, 173, 177
attends ‘Dombey dinner’ 191n
and autobiographical section of DC 197
dines with CD 214
in Broadstairs 218
plays in Not So Bad as We Seem 221–2
reads at Macready’s farewell dinner 228
and CD’s infatuation with Maria Beadnell (Winter) 290
and writing of LD 297, 298n, 304
CD visits at home 310
and plot of LD 313
and CD’s separation from Catherine 323
opposes CD’s reading for personal gain 325n, 334
and writing of TTC 332
marries rich widow 334n
and CD’s marriage breakdown 337
and title for successor journal to HW 347
and writing of GE 357, 360
and CD’s complaint of depression in later years 368
and CD’s proposed trip to Australia 372n
moves into new house 379
and CD’s proposed reading tour of America 409
has power of attorney from CD 413
difference with CD over ‘Sikes and Nancy’ reading 425–6
Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith 35n
Walter Savage Landor 429n
Fortescue, Julia (Lady Gardner) 313
Fox, William Johnson 214
Franconi family 306
Fraser, Thomas 22
Fraser’s Magazine 139, 401
French, Charles 361
‘From the Raven in the Happy Family’ (CD) 215n
Fun (weekly magazine) 406
Gabriel Vardon (CD) 22n
‘GAD’S HILL GAZETTE’ 385
Gad’s Hill Place, Kent
CD purchases 283, 302
H.C. Andersen visits 322
CD walks to from London 331
improvements 359
Galignani’s Messenger (newspaper) 142, 299
Gammon Aeronautical Balloon association 43
Gardner, Allan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron 313
Garofalo, Marchese 266
gas and gas-works 229–30
GASKELL, ELIZABETH 209, 211, 239, 240, 247,275, 276
contributes to Household Words magazine 209–10, 239–41, 247, 276–7
CD’s exasperation with 278n
Cranford 240n
‘Lizzie Leigh’ 212
‘A Love Affair at Cranford’ 241n
Mary Barton 210
‘Memory at Cranford’ 241n
North and South 276–8
‘The Old Nurse’s Story’ 247n
‘Our Society at Cranford’ 240n
Gaskell, William: Two Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect 278
Geneva: revolution (1846) 174–6
Genoa (Albaro) 136–8, 140n, 141–3, 145, 151–2, 171, 269–70
‘George Silverman’s Explanation’ (CD) 410n
ghost stories 195–6
Gibbs, Charles 328
Gibson, Susanna Arethusa (née Cullum; Mrs Thomas Milner-Gibson) 218, 355
Gill, Charles 217
Girardin, Émile de 305
GLADDING, JOHN 242
Glasgow 402
Glencoe 84, 101
Globe, The (newspaper) 315n
Glyn, Isabella (née Gearns) 291
God: Ragged School children’s notion of 122–3
GODFREY, MRS 56
Goldsmith, Martha 202
Goldsmith, Oliver: ‘Retaliation’ 2n
Gordan, John D. 413n
Gordon, Andrew 366
Gordon, Clara (née White) 365
Gordon, Lord George 83, 91
Gordon, Isabella 202–3, 205
Gordon, John Thomson 363
Gore, Caroline 176
Gould, Richard 66
Gounod, Charles François: Faust (opera) 375
Governesses Institution 184
Graham, Sir James 295
Graves, Caroline 356, 358
Graves, Elizabeth Harriet (‘the Butler’) 380
Great Eastern, SS 346n, 398
Great Exhibition (1851) 222, 234
writing 356–7
humour in 357
ending 360–1
Characters
Biddy 360
Estella 360n
Joe 360
Magwitch 357n, 360n
Pip 357n, 360n
Great Western (paddle steamer) 111
Greenhow (US translator) 99
Greening (foreman printer) 212
Grey, Sir George 205
Grimaldi, Joseph 103
Guild of Literature and Art 60n, 184, 224n
Gye, Frederick 303
Haight, Gordon: George Eliot: A Biography 349n
HAINES, THOMAS 35
Haldimand, William 172, 208–9, 233
HALL, ANNA MARIA 49
HALL, BASIL 82
Hall, Samuel Carter 50
Hall, William
CD’s regard for 30
funeral 181
Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton Douglas, 10th Duke of 108
Hamilton, James 152n
Hard Times (CD)
writing 274, 276
Cole protests over portrayal as ‘third gentleman’ 276n
dedicated to Carlyle 279
Hardwick, John Albany 292
Harness, William 190
Hatherton, 1st Baron see Littleton, Edward John
Haunted Man, The (CD) 196n, 223n
Haydon, Benjamin 280
HEAD, MR (theatrical costumier) 158
Headland, Thomas 363, 366–7
HELPS, ARTHUR 434
Henri (Townshend’s manservant) 306
Herbert, Sidney 295
Herring, William 78
Hewitt, John 222
Hextall (of CD’s reading staff) 366
Hicks, Charles 58
HILL, JANE SEYMOUR 207
HILL, THOMAS 70
Hodgkin, Thomas 16
Hogarth, Catherine see Dickens, Catherine
Hogarth, George (CD’s brother-in-law): death and funeral 89
Hogarth, George (CD’s father-in-law) 28, 45, 191n, 249n
HOGARTH, GEORGINA (CD’s sister-in-law) 264, 266, 321, 363, 365, 399, 402, 406
models for Maclise painting 114n
as CD’s executor 119n
lives with CD’s family 119n
resemblance to sister Mary 119
in Italy with CD 138
impatience with Macreadys 147
in Lausanne 172, 176
conversation with Ballard 201
resists marriage 209n
in Broadstairs 216–18
status in CD’s family 327, 337
and Catherine’s relations with children 336
and CD’s separation from Catherine 337
accompanies CD to theatre 369
in Paris with CD 371
HOGARTH, MRS GEORGINA (née Thomson; CD’s mother-in-law) 38, 119
and death of daughter Mary 34
and CD’s dreams of Mary 119, 144
publicizes CD’s association with Nelly
Ternan 338n, 339n
Hogarth, Helen Isabella (CD’s sister-in-law) 338n, 339n
Hogarth, Mary (CD’s sister-in-law)
death 33–4, 38, 51, 74, 119, 336
CD dreams of 41, 119, 144
grave 89
portrait 119
Hoghton Towers, Lancashire 410
Holcroft, Thomas 177
HOLE, SAMUEL, Dean of Rochester 388
Home for Homeless Women see Urania Cottage
hop-picking 325
Hopkins, Revd Frank Lawrence 424
HORRELL, ROBERT 70
horses 3, 16–17, 25, 84
Household Narrative of Current Events 248
Household Words (magazine)
Charles Knight contributes to 79n
planned 199
Mrs Gaskell contributes to 209–12, 239–41, 247, 276–7
CD’s contributions 211n, 212n, 215n, 233n, 242n, 306, 321
publication 211
campaigns for sanitary reform 215
CD’s editing and attention to detail in 259, 273, 308
Christmas Numbers 299, 309, 313
accounts 310
CD’s personal statement on marriage breakdown 339
CD closes down 347n
HOUSEHOLD WORDS PROSPECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS 299
Howe, Julia (née Ward) 116n
HOWISON, WILLIAM 39
HUGHES, WILLIAM 48
Hugo, Victor 371
Hullah, John Pyke 366
Humphrey (of CD’s reading staff) 366
Hunt, John 43n
HUNT, LEIGH 63, 280
friendship with Forster 35n
and George Lewes’s meeting with CD 42
as model for Skimpole in Bleak House 43n, 241, 242n, 261, 280
‘The Mayor of Garratt’ 259
Hunt, Thornton Leigh 64
Hunter, John 291n
HURNALL, MARY 86
Huxley, Thomas Henry 399n
hypnotism see mesmerism
Illingworth, Revd Edward Arthur 202
Illuminated (magazine) 117
Imperial Copyright Act 434n
‘In Memoriam’ (CD; obituary for Thackeray) 379
Indian Mutiny (1857–8) 328–30, 398
Ireland, Thomas 271
IRVING, WASHINGTON 80
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. 81n
italics: CD’s view of 42
Italy
CD visits and travels in 136–49, 151–2, 154, 171, 264–70
political situation 380
Jackes, William 239n
Jackson, Sir Richard 104
Jamaica: unrest (1865) 397–8
Jeakes, William 290
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord 129
JERDAN, WILLIAM 319
attends ‘Dombey dinner’ 191n
asks after Andersen 322
JERROLD, DOUGLAS 117
CD writes to on Venice 149n
plays in Not So Bad as We Seem 221–2
visits Broadstairs 236
death and memorial 319, 322
CD describes to son Blanchard 344–6
Black-Eyed Susan 140
JERROLD, WILLIAM BLANCHARD 344
Jews: CD’s attitude to 377
Johnson, Andrew, President of USA 418
Joinville, François Ferdinand d’Orléans, Prince de 263
JOLLY, EMILY 316
‘An Experience’ 317n, 430n
Jones, C. (Macready’s treasurer) 127
Jones, John Paul 114
Jonson, Ben: Every Man In His Humour 159n
Joseph, Samuel 82n
Kaub, Edward 263, 266
Kean, Charles 54–5
Keeley, Mary Ann 47, 426
Keeley, Robert 48n, 152
Kelly, Sir Fitzroy 304n
Kelly, Frances Maria 174
Kelly, Mary 413
Kemble, Charles 151
Kettering 24
Knebworth, Hertfordshire 224n, 361
KNIGHT, CHARLES 235
threatens CD’s raven 78
walks with CD in Broadstairs 218
plays in Not So Bad as We Seem 236n
‘The Shadow of Margery Paston’ 235–6
Knowles, James Sheridan 54, 59, 128
Kolle, Anne (née Beadnell) 4n, 6n, 13
death 284
KOLLE, HENRY 3, 5, 13
and CD’s relations with Maria Beadnell 9, 11
KUENZEL, JOHANN 45
Laing, Allan 35
LAING, REVD DAVID 184
Lair, Pierre Aime 255
Lamb, Charles 35n
Landor, Walter Savage
in Italy 177
Forster’s biography of 429n
on Little Nell 429
Landseer, Sir Edwin 79n, 92n
LANDSEER, JOHN 91
Lardner, Dionysius 128
Latimer, Thomas 77n
Lausanne 167–75, 208
LAWRENCE, HERBERT 368
LAYARD, (SIR) AUSTEN HENRY 294
‘Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, The’ (CD, with Collins) 325n
Leader (journal) 64n
Leech, Ann (née Eaton) 198
LEECH, JOHN 194, 200
illustrates CD’s Christmas books 150
in amateur theatricals 158
injured on Isle of Wight 198
CD proposes for part in Not So Bad as We Seem 221
dines with CD 369
death 387
Hole plans biography 388–9
LE FANU, SHERIDAN 431, 436
‘Green Tea’ 431
The Rose and the Key 431, 437n
Legouvé, Ernest 374
LEHMANN, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK 374, 396
Lehmann, Jane (née Chambers; ‘Nina’) 374n
LEIGH, MARY ANNE (MARIANNE) 2, 9; 7–9, 11, 284
LEMON, MARK 197, 271, 274, 292, 299, 427
dramatizes TC with À Beckett 150n
attends ‘Dombey dinner’ 191n
plays in Not So Bad as We Seem 221–2
nickname (‘Uncle Porpoise’) 251
acts in amateur theatricals 271n, 296, 324
rheumatism in jaw 309
and CD ‘s marriage breakdown 337, 338n
breach with CD 338n
lectures on London 366
in railway accident 427
Jack and the Beanstalk (pantomime) 299
Leslie, C.R. 159n
LESTER, CHARLES EDWARDS 68
LEVER, CHARLES 371
A Day’s Ride 357n
LEWES, GEORGE HENRY 42, 254
and Thornton Leigh Hunt 64n
criticism of spontaneous combustion in
Bleak House 254n
lives with George Eliot 332n
Liebig, Justus von, Baron 254
Life of Our Lord, The (CD) 168, 169n, 424n
Lighthouse (Indian magazine) 83n
Lillie, Benjamin 326
Lincoln, Abraham 364n, 418–19
Lister, Thomas 46n
Liston, John 142
Little Dorrit (CD)
dedicated to Stanfield 116n
writing 291n, 300, 306
title 297
Circumlocution Office in 298, 304
plot 304, 313
illustrated 309, 311, 314
criticised 315, 321n
Characters
Amy (Little Dorrit) 298
Cavaletto 311
Arthur Clennam 309, 314n
Mrs Clennam 309
Lord Decimus 311
Mr F’s aunt 303
Mrs Plornish 311
Miss Wade 314–15
Littleton, Edward John, 1st Baron Hatherton 108
Livingstone, David 398
Lloyd, David 284
Lloyd, Margaret (née Beadnell) 285n
Locke, John 389
Lockhart, John Gibson: Memoirs of the Life of Sir
Walter Scott 145n, 233
LOMAX, FANNY M. 221
London
Buildings, Streets &c
Argyll Rooms 306, 389
Buckingham Street, Adelphi 18n
Cecil Street, Strand 4n, 31
Devonshire House 232
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly 362
Field-lane 14
Gallery of Illustration 20, 330, 345
St James’s Hall 358, 426
St Mark’s District 251
Tavistock House 237n, 271n, 297n, 310n, 326
Churches
St Martin’s-in-the-Fields (burial ground) 420n
St Stephen, Westminster 166n, 235n
Clubs
Athenaeum 61, 261, 290, 380, 381n, 428
Garrick 321, 380, 388
Hospitals
Charterhouse Square Infirmary 118n
Foundling 422
Royal Hospital for Incurables 308n
Prisons
Coldbath Fields 165
Marshalsea 298
Middlesex House of Correction 165
Newgate 21
Westminster House of Correction 82n
Schools
Field Lane Ragged School, Saffron Hill 121, 124
Wellington House Academy, Mornington Crescent 1n
Taverns, Restaurants &c
London Tavern 308
Rainbow, Fleet Street 213
Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich 214
Theatres
Adelphi 42, 47, 362n, 369
Astley’s Amphitheatre (circus) 142
Britannia Saloon 194, 390
Covent Garden: burnt 303
Olympic 281
St James’s 27, 159n, 174
Standard 291
Vaudeville 422
London Library 350n
London (weekly journal) 79n
Londonderry, Charles William Stewart, 3rd Marquess of 106–9
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
visits CD in England 111, 114
meets CD in Boston 420
LONGMAN, THOMAS 105; 433
Lords, House of
debates Mines and Collieries Bill 106–9
frescoes 140n
love: CD’s views on 44
Lover, Samuel: ‘The Four Leaved Shamrock’ 72
Lowther, William 266
Lynn, Eliza (Eliza Lynn Linton) 283
Lyons (France) 139
Lyons (reporter) 17
Lyttelton, Spencer 331
LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE BULWER-, BARON 221, 232, 353, 361,396, 433
friendship with Forster 35n
and Overs’ play 59
parodied by Thackeray in Punch 190n
estranged from wife 232n
and spitirualism 275
CD complains of Jerrold to 346n
on ending of GE 360–1
as vice president of National Shakespeare Committee 381n
praises CD’s OMF 396
Money 161, 221
Not So Bad as We Seem (‘the Comedy’) 221–3, 236n
LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT BULWER (later 1st Earl of Lytton; ‘Owen Meredith’) 407; 365
Lytton, Rosina, Lady 232n
Macartney, Mrs (of Urania Cottage) 202–3, 311
McCulloch, John 259
MACKENZIE, L. 315
MACLISE, DANIEL 55, 62, 70, 78, 111, 212, 214, 317
walks with CD 64
on CD’s raven 93
accompanies CD to Cornwall 114–15
paintings 116
CD wishes presence in Italy 138
submits sketches for House of Lords frescoes 140n
illustrations for CD 150
sketches CD reading TC 150n
death 435
‘The Gallery of Illustrious Characters’ (caricatures) 140n
Waterfall at St Nighton’s Kieve, near Tintagel (painting) 113–14
MacNish, Robert 225
Maconochie, Alexander 163
MACRAE, REVD DAVID 364
Macready, Catherine Frances Birch (William’s daughter; ‘Katie’) 366, 374
death 428
Macready, Catherine Frances (née Atkins; William’s first wife) 128, 147
death 246n
Macready, Cecile Louise Frederica (William’s
second wife) 428
Macready, Christina Letitia (Nina; William’s daughter) 128
Macready, Henry (William’s son) 130n
Macready, Jonathan (William’s son) 366
MACREADY, WILLIAM 68, 96, 112, 127, 161, 228, 302, 312, 320, 374, 426
friendship with Forster 44, 75
NN dedicated to 58
CD’s friendship with 69, 310
stands godfather to Katie Dickens 69n
CD sends OCS parts to 75
admires USA 96–7
cares for CD’s children during absence in USA 99, 147
Marston’s Patrician’s Daughter dedicated to 113n
tours America 127–30
affected by CD’s reading of TC 150
and CD’s acting 152
CD borrows waistcoat from 161
attends ‘Dombey dinner’ 191n
produces Lytton’s Not So Bad as We Seem 222
farewell appearance and dinner 228
CD invites to Paris 302–3
retires to Sherborne 304
good relations with Catherine Dickens 336
praises CD’s reading 366
daughter’s death 428
Macready, William Charles Jr (‘Willie’) 313n
MACRONE, JOHN 20, 26 and CD’s SB 23
magistracy: CD applies for appointment to 167–8
magnetism see mesmerism
MAKEHAM, JOHN 437
Malvern, Worcestershire 229n, 231n
Manchester
Athenaeum 123
CD reads in 320
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857) 320
Manning, Frederick and Maria: publicly hanged 206, 208
Marie-Amélie, Queen of Louis-Philippe of France 263
MARJORIBANKS, EDWARD 67
Married Women’s Property Bill (1868) 422–3
Marston, John Westland: The Patrician’s Daughter: DC writes Prologue 112
Martigny, Switzerland 262–4
Martin Chuzzlewit (CD)
dedicated to Angela Burdett Coutts 68n
writing 114
illustrations 120–1, 135
CD esteems 126
sales 127n
suet added to pudding 130–1
stage adaptation 152
Characters
Colonel Diver: modelled on Webb 130n
Sarah Gamp 124n
Pecksniff 50n, 135–6
Charity Pecksniff 136
John Westlock 135
Martin, Sir Theodore 380
Martineau, Harriet
attacked in USA 97
contributes to HW 212
Marylebone Workhouse 215n
MASON, REGINALD H. 213
Master Humphrey’s Clock (CD)
publishes Barnaby Rudge 51n
planning and publication 60–1, 70
title 60
illustrations 76
Mathew, Fr Theobald 181
Mathews, Charles
‘At Homes’ 151
dreams 225
A Good Night’s Rest 102
Two o’clock in the Morning 183
Maynard, Frederick 282n
Mercier, Louis Sebastian: Tableau de Paris 354
Meredith, Hannah see Brown, Hannah
mesmerism (magnetism)
CD practises on Augusta de la Rue 152–3, 155–6, 328n, 432
Leech favours 198
Elliotson practises 254n
METROPOLITAN DRAPERS’ ASSOCIATION 133
Metropolitan Interments Bill (1850) 215n
‘Metropolitan Protectives, The’ (CD; earlier ‘A
Night in a Station House’) 229
Metropolitan Sanitary Association 214–15
Meyerbeer, Giacomo: Le Prophete 269
Mill, John Stuart 399n
Milner-Gibson see Gibson
Mines and Collieries Bill (1842) 106–9
missions: CD’s views on 243–4
MITTON, THOMAS 14, 77, 125, 183, 392
MONTHLY MAGAZINE 14; 13, 181n, 307
Montreal 102, 104, 151–2
MORGAN, ELISHA 292
Morning Advertiser (newspaper), reviews PP 30n
MORNING CHRONICLE 106; 3n, 18n, 22n, 32, 308
Morpeth, Viscount see Carlisle, 7th Earl of
Morrison, James 142
MORSON, GEORGIANA 242
as matron of Urania Cottage 202–5, 247–8, 271
Morton, Thomas: A Roland for an Oliver 103n
‘Mr Bob Sawyer’s Party’ (CD; reading from PP) 416n
‘Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgings’ (CD; story) 381n
Mulgrave, George Constantine Phipps (later 2nd Marquess of Normanby) 67n, 94
Murray, Sir James 151n
Murray, John (publisher) 433
music: CD’s appreciation of 147
music halls 389–90
‘My Mahogany Friend’ (CD) 227
Myers, Hannah 202, 205
Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (CD)
writing 429
Character: Crisparkle 438n
Napier, Sir William 210
Naples 204, 266
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French 261, 399n
NASH, ESTHER (née Elton) 358
Nash, James 359n
National Shakespeare Committee 380
Neilson, John Finlay 17
Nesbit, Ada: Dickens and Ellen Ternan 413n, 414n
New York 95–6, 415–17
New Zealand: Maori Wars 397
Newcastle-on-Tyne 362
Niagara Falls 101
Nicholas Nickleby (CD)
dramatization 47
sales 47
CD’s comments on 48–9
illustrations 56
writing 57
dedicated to Macready 58
CD acts in scenes from 208
Eau d’Or mentioned in 301
in CD’s readings 365, 406
Characters
Arthur Gride 301n
Morleena Kenwigs 56
Mr Lillyvick 56
Nicholas 48
Ralph Nickleby 58
Newman Noggs 56, 301n
Smike 58n
Squeers 48
Fanny Squeers 48
NICHOLS, REBECCA 100
Nightingale, Florence 290n
‘No Thoroughfare’ (CD and Collins) 412n, 422
NORMANBY, CONSTANTINE HENRY PHIPPS, 1ST MARQUESS OF 66
Northampton 24, 26
O’Connor, Feargus 192n
Old Curiosity Shop, The (CD)
illustrations 62n, 73–4
writing 65–6, 74–5
Forster reads proofs 69, 75
dedicated to Samuel Rogers 105n
Character: Nell 73–5, 81n, 100, 429
Oliver Twist (CD)
Cruikshank illustrates 22n, 47
serialization 34n, 35
Forster admires 35
magistrate depicted in 35
and state between sleeping and waking 43n
sales 50
CD acquires unsold stock 66
manuscript 68
Edwin Landseer reads to RA pupils 92n
Fagin’s den 124n
Jacob’s Island scene in 252
reading from 426n, 427n, 433n
Characters
Fagin 377
Sikes 47
Olliffe, Laura, Lady (née Cubitt) 288
‘On Duty with Inspector Field’ (CD; article) 233n
Opie, Amelia 315
Orsay, Count d’ see D’Orsay, Alfred, Count
OSBORNE, RALPH BERNAL 389
Our Mutual Friend (CD)
dedicated to James Emerson Tennent 133n
serialization 381n
Marcus Stone illustrates 383n, 385–6, 394
CD gives MS to Dallas 388n
Lytton praises 396–7
Characters
Mr Boffin 383, 394
Mrs Boffin 385
Fascination Fledgeby 386n
Mrs Alfred Lammle 385n
Venus 386n
Ouvry, Frederic 338n
OVERS, JOHN 59
Owen, Richard 254
PALFREY, SARAH 419
Palmer, Joseph 95n
Pannell, Mrs (Alphington landlady) 52–4
Paris
CD visits and praises 136–7
incompetence of workpeople 178
CD stays in 285–6, 302–3, 305, 371–3, 375
Maria Beadnell sent to 285
Ambigu theatre 299
and Crimean War 299–300
conditions 301
Théâtre Français 305
CD reads in 369, 374
PARKIN, MR 130
PARKINSON, JOSEPH 422
Paxton, (Sir) Joseph 161, 257
Payne, J.H.: Clari; or, The Maid of Milan (opera) 6n, 9n
Peel, Sir Robert 118n, 209
Pellew, Harriet, Lady (née Webster) 177n
penal system see punishment
Penco, Rosina (‘La Penco’) 267
‘Perils of Certain English Prisoners, The’ (CD) 331n
Peterborough 297–8
Philadelphia 417–18
‘Phiz’ see Browne, Hablot Knight
Pickwick Papers, The (CD)
writing 27, 30, 37
illustrations 29, 33
publication 29–30
reception 35
plot 42
dramatization 47n
Mrs Gaskell cites 240n
Character: Weller Senior 42
Plorn (CD’s son) see Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton
Plymouth, Devon: CD reads at 366
PLYMOUTH, MASS.: UNKNOWN LADIES OF 95
Pollard, Rhena 271–2
Poole, John
CD recommends to Lord John Russell for pension 219–20
CD sends money to 412
Deaf as a Post 102
Powell, John Hill 18n
POWELL, THOMAS 133
CD recommends as sub-editor of Daily News 162
Power, Marguerite 139
Procter, Bryan Waller see Cornwall, Barry
Provident Union of Literature, Science and Art 184n
PULVERMACHER & CO., MESSRS 437
punch (drink): recipe 179
Punch (magazine) 52n, 190
Punch (Pulcinella; puppet figure) 204, 268
punishment (criminal) 66
see also executions (public)
Putnam, George (‘Mr Q’) 100, 415
Q, Mr see Putnam, George
Ragged Schools 121–5, 168
railway
CD travels on 115, 269
CD papers lost on 183
Staplehurst accident 390–3, 427
ravens
CD keeps as pets 62, 90, 93, 322
in Barnaby Rudge 76
death of pet 78
Reade, Charles 379–80
Redgrave, Richard 276
Regnier, François Joseph Philoclès 374
religion
CD’s views on 364, 424–5, 437
in CD’s dream 144
Rintoul, Stephen 259
Ristori, Adelaide 374
Roche, Louis (‘the brave C’) 145–8, 154
Rockingham, Northamptonshire 173n, 227n, 235n
Roehampton 90
Rogers, Samuel
OCS dedicated to 105
caricatured by Maclise 138
Rome 266–7, 273, 380
Roney, James Edward 17
Roper, William 183
Rosemont (villa) see Lausanne
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 354
Royal Academy 435
Royal Commission on cattle plague (1865) 397
Royal Commission on the Sanitation of London (1847) 405n
Roylance, Elizabeth: as model for Mrs Pipchin 178n
Rudkin, Henry 326
Ruskin, John 399n
RUSSELL, GEORGE 404; 380
RUSSELL, LORD JOHN 219; 18n
Russell, (Sir) William Howard 345–6
RYLAND, ARTHUR 430
St Bernard (monastery) 172–3, 279n
Sala, George Augustus, ‘Dumbledowndreary’ 244n
Sand, George 270n
Sandford, John, Archdeacon of Coventry 252
Scheffer, Ary 303
Scotland
CD visits 40, 83–6
see also Edinburgh; Glasgow; Glencoe
Scotsman, The (newspaper) 363, 402
Scott, Mrs Henry 413
Scott, Henry 416
SCOTT, JOHN 79
Scott, Sir Walter 28, 45, 127, 145, 233, 309
Scribe, Augustin Eugène 303, 371
Scutari 290
Serle, Thomas James 127
Sesina see Sisini, Anna Maria
SEYMOUR, ROBERT 29
illustrates PP 29, 33n
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of (earlier Lord Ashley) 109n, 398
Shakespeare, William
Tercentenary celebrations (1864) 381n
Antony and Cleopatra 291
As You Like It (Comme il vous plaira) 73n, 305
Hamlet 197n
Henry V 69n
Henry VI Pt.3 347n
Julius Caesar 99n
King Lear 110n
Macbeth 335n, 399n
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4n
Much Ado about Nothing 156n
Richard III 62n, 386n
Romeo and Juliet 276n
Shaw, William 49
Sheffield 298
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Adonais 246n
Sherborne, Dorset 304
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The Rivals 130n
Short, Augustus, Bishop of Adelaide 202
Shuttleworth, Sir James Kay 324
Sidney, Samuel 413
‘Sikes and Nancy’ (CD; reading from OT) 426n, 427n, 433n
Simpson, John Palgrave 380
Sisini, Anna Maria (Sesina) 202, 204–5
Sketches by Boz (CD)
publication 21
title 22n
success 27
Sketches of Young Couples (CD) 63n
Sketches of Young Gentlemen (CD) 63n
Slater, Michael
Dickens and Women 285n
Douglas Jerrold 346n
slavery
in Virginia 98
Harriet Beecher Stowe on 244
SMEDLEY, FRANK 295
Smith, Albert 327, 358, 362
The Story of Mont Blanc 263
Smith, Arthur
manages CD’s reading tours 333, 340–2, 358
CD gives ‘Violated Letter’ to 338n
illness 354
funeral 362n
Smith, George (publisher) 379
Smith, Henry Porter 127
Smith, Richard John (‘O Smith’) 47
SMITHSON, CHARLES 93; 132
Smollett, Tobias 314
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 106, 142
soup kitchens 248
Speeches of Charles Dickens, The; ed. K.J. Fielding 83n
Spiers, Felix 372n
spiritualism 275, 355
spontaneous combustion 253–5
Stafford, Augustus Stafford O’Brien 331
Stallard, Dr Joshua 405
STANFIELD, CLARKSON 130, 140, 251, 296, 372
accompanies CD to Cornwall 114–15
LD dedicated to 116n
visits Ragged School with CD 123
CD invites family to dine 130
paintings of Venice 149
illustrations for CD 150
and CD’s advising Thomas Thompson 160n
set designs for The Lighthouse 296–7
set designs for The Frozen Deep 312
CD invites to reading 367n
ill health 372–3, 375
Avignon on the Rhone (painting) 143n
The Bridge at Avignon (painting) 143n
Stanton, Edwin 418–19
Staplehurst, Kent: railway accident 390–3, 427
STAREY, SAMUEL 124
Steele, Sir Richard 200n
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames: attacks LD 321n
Stephens, James 399n
Stephenson, Robert 6n
Sterne, Laurence: Tristram Shandy 169
Stoltz, Rosine 269
STONE, BERTHA 411
‘Guess’ 411
Stone, Frank 191n, 221–2, 237n
STONE, MARCUS 383, 385, 386, 394
illustrates OMF 383n, 385–6, 394
STONE, Dr THOMAS 224
and CD’s dream of Mary Hogarth 145n
‘Dreams’ 226n
Stow, David 124n
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER 244
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 244
Street Music (Metropolis) Bill (1864) 384
Sultan (dog) 395, 398
Sumner, Charles 418
Swift, Jonathan 200n
Switzerland 262–5
see also Geneva; Lausanne
Tale of Two Cities, A (CD)
titles 332n
serialized 347n
publication 350
CD discusses with Lytton 353–4
Characters
Sydney Carton 351, 354
Madame Defarge 354
Dr Manette 349
Miss Pross 354
Talfourd, Thomas 44, 176
Tasmania (earlier Van Diemen’s Land) 88
TAYLER, MARY 204
Taylor, Sir Charles 380
Taylor, Tom: The Ticket of Leave Man 380
Taylour, Lady Mary 209
Teignmouth, Devon 301
Telbin, William 312
temperance 181
Templeman, John 67n
Tennant, Revd William 202, 282n
Tennent, Sir James Emerson: OMF dedicated to 133n
TENNYSON, ALFRED, 1st BARON 117
as vice president of National Shakespeare
Committee 381n
defends Governor Eyre 399n
‘Farewell, Macready’ (sonnet) 228
Ternan, Ellen Lawless (‘Nelly’)
acts in The Frozen Deep 321n
spied on by policeman 343
in Staplehurst railway accident with CD 391n
CD sends provisions to 393
CD refers to as ‘the Patient’ 409, 433
in ‘magic circle’ 411n
in Italy 413
CD’s coded message for 414n
attends CD’s public reading 433
Ternan, Frances Eleanor (Ellen’s sister) see Trollope, Frances Eleanor
Ternan, Frances (née Jarman; Ellen’s mother)
plays in The Frozen Deep 321n
accompanies daughter Frances to Italy 343
and Maria’s applying to Webster for appointment 361
in Staplehurst railway accident with CD and Ellen 391n
Ternan, Maria
acts in The Frozen Deep 321n, 324–5, 330
spied on by policeman 343
CD recommends to Webster 361
Terry, Kate (later Lewis) 375
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE 189, 191
CD invites to ‘Dombey dinner’ 191
estrangement from CD 319n
death and funeral 379, 382
‘Punch’s Prize Novelists’ 190n
‘Travels in London. The Curate’s Walk’ 190n
Vanity Fair 190
Thames embankment 398
Theatres and Music Hall Bill (1865) 389
theatricals, amateur
Kolle designs scenery for 6n
Cattermole acts in 62n
CD acts in 102, 104–5, 151, 183, 208, 222, 227n, 271n, 317, 320, 330
CD and Catherine perform in Montreal 102, 104–5, 151
Jerrold acts in 118n
at Tavistock House 271n, 297n, 310n
THOMAS, OWEN 1
Thompson, Caroline 282n
THOMPSON, JAMES 131
THOMPSON, JOHN (CD’s servant) 393; 93, 158, 218, 259, 390, 402
Thompson, Thomas James 132n, 160, 161n, 328
Thomson, Mrs George 90n
Thornbury, Walter: ‘Old Stories Retold’ 410n
‘Three Detective Anecdotes’ (CD; article) 233n
Ticknor, Reed & Fields (US publishers) 422n
TIMES, THE (newspaper) 205, 260; 161
Tom (CD’s servant) 85–6
Tooke, Thomas 161
Tooke, William 162n
Topping, William 55, 93
Torquay 365–6
TOWNSHEND, REVD CHAUNCY HARE 87, 265, 305–6
TRACEY, LIEUT. AUGUSTUS 81, 120, 192, 290
on nature of inmates 165
and candidates for Urania Cottage 186
discharges Urania House inmate 248
‘Trading in Death’ (CD; article) 249n
transportation (penal) 66
Trent (ship) 364n
‘Trial, The’ (CD; reading from PP) 365, 376, 416
Trollope, Anthony 428
Trollope, Frances Eleanor (née Ternan; ‘Fanny’)
studies singing in Italy 343
marriage 404n
CD’s view of 410–11
TROLLOPE, THOMAS ADOLPHUS 403, 428; 411
Tucker, Thomas 222
Tucker, William & Sons (poulterers) 393
Turin 269
Tyrell, Sir John Tysson 16
Uncommercial Traveller, The (CD) 352n
United States of America
CD plans to visit 80n, 90
CD tours (1842) 94–6, 98–101, 408
CD’s criticisms of 97–8, 101, 110
Macready tours 127–30
war threats over Trent and Alabama incidents 364, 397
CD’s proposed reading tour 408, 410, 413
CD bans references to in AYR 412
CD tours (1867–8) 414–20
CD on social improvements in 416–17
CD’s earnings in 418
UNKNOWN CORRESPONDENT 405
Unwin (reporter) 17
Urania Cottage, Shepherd’s Bush (‘the Asylum’)
Tracey’s interest in 82n
Angela Burdett Coutts supports 163, 185,
202, 247, 271–2
founding and principles 163–7, 186
opening and first inmates 185–6
CD’s letter to potential inmates 187–8
management and behaviour of inmates 202–3, 247–8, 271–2
Vandenhoff, John 128
‘Vauxhall-Gardens by Day’ (CD; article) 55n
Venice 148–9
Verdi, Giuseppe: Il Trovatore 267
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth 104
Viardot, Pauline 269, 375
Victoria, Queen
CD pretends infatuation with 62
attends performance of The Frozen Deep 318
CD presents bound books to 434
Vining, Fanny Elizabeth (later Gill) 217
Wade, Robert 229
‘Walk in a Workhouse, A’ (CD) 215n
walking: CD’s 64, 70, 121, 145, 218, 229, 265, 331
Walpole, Harriet Bettina Frances, Lady (nee
Pellew) 177n
Ward, Charles 380
Warner, Mary Amelia 311n
Warren, Samuel: Ten Thousand a Year 114
WATSON, CHARLES 134
WATSON, LAVINIA JANE (née Quin) 233, 244, 261, 272, 297, 329; 172, 208, 351
Watson, Richard 172, 208, 222
death 245n, 246n
Webb, Colonel James Watson 130
WEBSTER, BENJAMIN 361; 299, 369
Webster, John White: murder case 412
Weller family 159–60
Weller, Anna 159–60
Weller, Christiana (later Thompson) 132n, 160n,161n
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of: funeral 246, 248
‘What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older’ (CD) 240n
White, Clara see Gordon, Clara
WHITE, REVD JAMES 274; 218
‘Club Law’ 274
Wigan, Alfred Sydney 281
Wight, Isle of 199n
Wilkes, John 91–2
Wilkie, David 83
Williams (stage director, Sadler’s Wells) 291
Willmott, John 99
WILLS, WILLIAM HENRY 212, 229, 242, 259, 283, 343, 365, 408, 409, 412, 414, 415, 432
attends players’ performance before Queen Victoria 232
and Elizabeth Gaskell’s contribution to HW 239
and production of HW 259
accompanies CD to purchase Gad’s Hill 283
with CD at Peterborough reading 298
as part-time secretary to Miss Coutts 301, 310
account of Lemon’s lectures on London 366
gives printing press to CD’s sons 386n
with CD in Scotland 402
Memorandum from CD 412–13
as intermediary for Ellen Ternan during CD’s absence in USA 415
Wilson, John (‘Christopher North’) 83
Wimbledon School 395n
Winter, Henry Louis 284
WINTER, MARIA (formerly Beadnell) 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 283, 285, 287, 293
CD’s romantic attachment to 2n, 285–9, 304n
CD’s misunderstanding with 4–5, 7–9
resumes contact with CD 283–9
women
work in mines 106–7
and property bill 422–3
Wood, Sir Charles (later 1st Viscount Halifax) 295
Wolverhampton 406
‘Wreck of the Golden Mary, The’ (CD) 312–13
Wyon, Leonard 275
Yardley, Charles 229, 343
Yarnold (actor) 142
YATES, EDMUND 318, 334, 339
dispute with Thackeray 319n
and dying mother 357
YATES, FREDERICK 41, 47
stages adaptation of NN 47