b
One of the states of Anglo-Saxon England.
c
In the Holy Roman Empire, the princes who had the right to elect German kings.
d
A firm that delivered parcels.
e
Enacted in 1907, legalized marriage between a man and his deceased wife’s sister.
f
In 1866 an accident involving three freight trains occurred here.
h
German courts where the arts and humane letters flourished.
j
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), twenty-sixth president of the United States, known
for his “rugged individualism” and no-nonsense masculinity.
k
Both operas—Toscd (1900), by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), and Faust (1859), by
the French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893)—would have been considered too melodramatic
for Margaret’s refined tastes.
l
Marie Corelli (1855-1924), author of best-selling sentimental, pietistic fiction despised
by Forster and his circle.
m
Spoons whose handles were decorated with figures of the twelve apostles.
n
Charles de Sousy Ricketts (1866-1931), English painter and illustrator, influenced
by the French artists Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) and Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863).
o
English Victorian painter of humorous sentimental pictures of families and children.
p
George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), English painter and sculptor in the classical style.
q
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Norwegian composer.
r
No lady (German); clearly a prejudiced misapprehension, a German misreading of the
true English aristocracy of spirit.
s
Reference to the musical farce Cox and Box (1866), scored by the English composer
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900).
t
Founded in 1886 as an alternative to the stuffy Royal Academy.
u
Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901), Swiss symbolist painter whose work stressed the symbolic
and mythological aspects of landscapes.
v
Benjamin William Leader (1831-1923), English landscape painter whose early works were
in the Pre-Raphaelite style but whose later, enormously successful paintings were
naturalistic.
w
Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908), American composer whose plain style would
have been in contrast to that of the French composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) or
the German Richard Wagner (1813-1883).
y
Literally, fried or baked fish (German); derogatory slang for a young woman.
z
In Greek mythology and Euripides’ play of that name (438 B.C.), Alcestis, a daughter
of Pelias and the wife of Admetus, king of Thessaly, willingly chose to die in her
husband’s place. Ophelia was the suicidal lover of the title character in Shakespeare’s
play Hamlet.
ac
Greek pastoral god of fertility.
ad
Group of allied insurance companies.
ae
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1859-1941).
af
Eustace Miles (1868-1948) was a health-food faddist and London restauranteur.
ag
He loved, he was afraid to love (Latin).
ah
Policy that attempted to protect British interests by opposing the liberal idea of
free trade with a tariff on all goods imported from outside the British Empire.
ai
An examination that must be passed by Oxford undergraduates pursuing a degree in classical
languages.
aj
“If you need a monument, look around you” (Latin); epitaph of Sir Christopher Wren,
architect of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
ak
An Anglicized Italian.