Abernethy, John, 131
Ackroyd, Peter, 397
Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 116
Advice to Opium Eaters (anonymous), 211
Aeschylus, 54
Aesop, 24
Afonwen, 70
Agra, 388
Albion Clothing Company, 300
Album, 210
Alexis, Willibald (pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring), 240
Walladmor, 240–2
Alison, Alexander, 349
Allan Bank, 134, 144, 145, 146, 147
TDQ stays with the Wordsworths at, 135–9, 150
Allston, Washington, 170
Almainé, George D’: portrait of James Fields, 373
Altamont, Lord (later Marquess of Sligo), 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 53
Altamont, Lord (formerly Lord Westport) see Westport, Lord
Altrincham, 66
Ambleside, 124, 127, 179, 197, 220, 282
Anglo-Afghan War, first, 309
Ann of Oxford Street (prostitute), 76–8, 78–9, 81–2, 86, 113, 139, 159, 182, 193, 205, 207, 296, 385
Apel, Johann August
‘The Black Chamber’ (probably translated by TDQ), 228
‘The Fatal Marksman’ (translated by TDQ), 227, 228
Arabian Nights, The, 13
Archer, James: portrait of TDQ with his daughters and granddaughter, 382, 382
Ariosto; Orlando Furioso, 32
Arndt, Ernst Moritz, 321
Arnold, Matthew, 343
Arthur’s Chair, 135
Ashby-de-la-Zouche, 7
Ashley, 170
Augustine, St, 208
Austen, Jane: Northanger Abbey, 27
Aytori, Fanny, 256
Bailey, Samuel, 233
Baldwin (printer), 138, 142, 143, 144
Ballinamuck, 42
Ballinrobe, 43
Balzac, Honoré de
‘L’opium’, 319
‘Les litanies romantiques’, 319
‘Massimilla Doni’, 319
Bannerman, Anne: Tales of Superstition and Chivalry, 85
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia: Hymns in Prose for Children, 13
Barcroft, Mrs, 83
Barley Wood, 114
Barmouth, 69
Barrell, John, xv
Barruel, Augustin de: Memoirs, Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, 31
Bath, 27–33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 45, 57, 159, 345
Bath Grammar School (later King Edward’s School), 28–9, 30, 31, 33, 46
Baudelaire, Charles, xiv, 108, 395, 398
Les Paradis artificiels, 395
Beattie, James, 89
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 233
Begbie, Dr Warburton, 392, 393, 394
Belgrave, Lord, 57
Bell, Dr George, 199
Belvoir Castle, 47
Bengal, 8
Benson, Mrs, 247
Benson, Thomas, 270, 281, 290–1
Bentley, Richard, 267
Berkeley, George, 254
Berlioz, Hector: Symphonie Fantastique, 319
Bertram, James Glass, 284, 295, 299, 303, 366–7
Best, Mrs, 53, 61, 83, 109, 134
Betty (Wilson’s cook), 251–2
Bewick, Thomas: General History of Quadrupeds, 13
Bible, 13, 84 see also New Testament
Birmingham, 40, 44, 45, 150, 159
Black, Adam, 298, 299, 301, 302, 312
Black Bull Inn, Coniston, 115
Blackwood, Alexander, 266, 274–5, 276, 322, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 333, 339, 342
Blackwood, John, 326, 327, 333, 342, 360, 363
Blackwood, Robert, 274–5, 276, 299, 300, 307, 308, 312, 314, 315, 321, 322, 324, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 333, 337, 339, 341, 342
Blackwood, William
establishes Blackwood’s, 183
wants contributions from TDQ, 198
difficulties in relationship with TDQ, 199, 200–1, 248
and John Scott’s death, 202
prepared to accept articles from TDQ, 250
TDQ makes proposals to, 265
commissions specific political articles from TDQ, 267
conduct of business with TDQ, 268
generous response to TDQ’s crisis, 268–9
and Klosterheim, 273
deterioration in relationship with TDQ, 274
death, 274
comment on founding of Tait’s, 284
and TDQ’s contributions to Tait’s, 285
brief references, 216, 222, 231, 244, 259, 270, 271, 272, 294
Blackwood’s
creation of, 183
style and success of, 183–4
possibility of TDQ writing for, 184
praised by TDQ, 190
TDQ fails to produce articles for, 198
difficulties in relationship between William Blackwood and TDQ, 199, 200–1
TDQ contributes first article for, 199–200
London Magazine founded as challenge to, 201
conflict with London Magazine, 201–2
TDQ wants nothing more to do with, 202
and Wilson’s visit to London, 216
TDQ fears attack in pages of, 216, 218, 236
Noctes Ambrosianae, 222–3, 230, 236, 237, 253–4, 264, 266
TDQ appears in fictionalized form in, 223, 230, 264, 266
Wilson seeks to bring TDQ back to, 230
compared with London Magazine, 231
TDQ considers possibility of returning to work for, 243–4, 248
TDQ resumes writing for, 250
TDQ’s contributions to, 199–200, 250–1, 253–4, 259, 260, 261, 266–8, 270, 274, 294–5, 297–8, 307–10, 321, 323–4, 325–6, 332–3, 338, 339–42, 361–3
passes into hands of Alexander and Robert Blackwood, 274–5
and TDQ’s views as expressed in Tait’s, 285–6
TDQ’s difficult working relationship with Robert Blackwood, 306–7
brief references, xiv, xv, 192, 204, 217, 255, 258, 264, 284, 285, 336, 343, 344, 356, 374, 375
‘The Letter of Mathetes’ (in collaboration with Wilson and TDQ), 150
Blair, William: Opium-Eater in America, 320
Blake, Margaret, 43
Blake, William, 286
Blakeney, Robert, 197, 220, 223, 234
Bohte, Johann Heinrich, 204, 218, 223, 227, 240
Bootle, 85
Borges, Jorge Luis, 398
Boston, Lincolnshire, 7, 18, 381
Boston, Massachusetts, 363
Boulogne, 242
Bourbons, 266
Bowes (TDQ’s schoolfriend), 33
Bowness, 137
Brainbridge, Mrs, 131
Brasenose College, Oxford, 48
Bree, Mr, 83
Bridgwater, Patrick, xv
Bright, Henry Arthur, 375
Bright, John, 284
Bristol, 114, 121, 122, 123, 159, 170
British Institution, 209
British Library, xv
Brontë, Branwell, 320
‘Sir Henry Tunstall’, 320
Brontë, Anne: Agnes Grey, 352
Jane Eyre, 352
Brontë, Emily, 351
Wuthering Heights, 352
Brontës, the, xv, xvii, 351–2, 386–7
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 351
see also names of individuals
Brothers’ Water, 127
Brougham, Henry, 185, 186, 189, 237, 256, 379
Brown, Colin Rae, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353–4
Brown, Peggy, 300
Brown, Samuel, 356
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, xv, xvii, 340, 386
De Monade Numero et Figura, 376
Bulwer, Edward, 227, A True Story of Light and Darkness, 377
Burke, Edmund, 28, 31, 209, 256, 267, 304, 379, 395
Reflections on the Revolution in France, 28
Burke, William, 310
‘Ode to Despondency’, 85
Burrard, Sir Harry, 135
Burton, John Hill, 266, 276, 311, 367–8, 379, 392
Butler, Eleanor, 68
Buttermere, 151
Byron, Lord, 37, 170, 274, 286
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 141
Caernarfon, 69
Calcutta, 383
Caledonian Insurance Company, 293, 301
Calgarth Park, 172
Cambridge (ship), 115
Canning, George, 256
Canongate Tolbooth, Edinburgh, 272
Carbery, Lady (formerly Miss Watson), 18, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 55–7, 62, 74, 106, 166
Carbery, George Evans, Lord, 45, 46, 47, 48
Carlisle, 257
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 257, 258–9, 260, 391
Carlyle, Thomas
response to TDQ’s Confessions, 211
response to TDQ’s essay on Richter, 217
on the article on TDQ in John Bull Magazine, 237
on TDQ’s family, 245
friendship with TDQ begins, 257–8
on TDQ, 258, 259, 279, 280, 287
invites TDQ to visit, 260
brief references, xv, xvii, 203, 232, 331, 339, 353, 357–379, 391
Writing: translation of Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Goethe, 239–40, 257–8, 302
Carne, John, 229
Caroline Cottage, 280, 282, 283
Carruthers, Robert, 311
Cartmel Peninsula, 180
Castle-Cuffe, John Orway Cuffe, Viscount, 80
Castlereagh, Lord, 42
Catalini, Angelica, 123
Catholic emancipation, 189, 256, 259, 261, 333
Catholic Emancipation Act, 261
Cave, Edward, 183
Cawnpore, 388
Cecil, Henry, first Marquess of Exeter, 47
‘Chaldee Manuscript’, 184
Chambers, Anne, 379
Chambers, Robert, 311, 314, 379
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, 311
Chardin, Sir John: Travels in Persia, 109
Charleville, 43
Chatterton, Thomas, 53, 73, 88, 89
Cheapside, 7
Cherubini, 19
the Priory, 58, 61, 63, 67, 68, 81, 82, 83, 91, 92, 102
Chesterfield, 19
Chesrerton, G. K., 397
Chich Choo, 326
China, 106, 324, 326, 327, 387–8
Christ Church, Oxford, 93–4, 133
Christian Socialists, 368–9
Christie, Jonathan, 202
Christ’s Hospital, 34
Chubb, John, 120
Church of England, 12, 213, 332–3, 353
Cicero, 34
Cimarosa, Domenico, 19
Cinrra, 11 see also Convention of Cintra
‘Clapham saints, the’, 58
Clare, John, xv, 201, 203, 239
Clarke, William, 53–4
Clarkson, Catherine, 138
Clarkson, Thomas, 186
Cleaver, Dr William, Bishop of Bangor, 69
Clifton, 114, 116, 118, 119, 121, 159
Cobbett, William, 141
Cobden, Richard, 284
Coleridge, Derwent, 121, 124, 227, 356
Coleridge, Hartley, 121–2, 124, 125, 172, 287, 305, 320, 396
Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 287
‘Scibile’, 227
Dorothy Wordsworth’s comment on, xvi
TDQ becomes acquainted with poetry of, 35, 36
and Roscoe and Currie, 54–5
TDQ’s preoccupation with, 83, 101, 112
TDQ models himself on, 83, 209
discussed by TDQ and Charles Lamb, 113
TDQ seeks meeting with, 119–20
TDQ’s first meeting with, 120–1
and opium, 121, 122, 131, 133, 337–8, 376, 385
TDQ becomes acquainted with family of, 121–2
increasing friendship with TDQ, 122, 131–2
TDQ loans money to, 122–3
accepts TDQ’s offer to escort his family to Lake District, 123
in London for lecture series, 131–2, 134
and The Friend, 135, 136, 139, 142, 150
and TDQ’s work on the production of Cintra pamphler, 138, 142, 145
feelings of antagonism towards TDQ, 138–9
borrows TDQ’s books, 150
quarrels with Wordsworth, 156–7
frequently in company of TDQ in London, 156, 157, 168
visited by TDQ in Wiltshire, 170
unable to repay TDQ’s loan, 205
response to TDQ’s Confessions, 211
Wilson’s character assassination of, 217
TDQwrites about, 224, 286–7, 303, 337–8, 360, 374- 385
impressed by Klosterheim, 274
and TDQ’s list of assets, 280
brief references, xiv, xv, xvii, 59, 89, 90, 91, 92, 100, 114, 117, 128, 146, 149, 159, 182, 203, 210, 218, 225, 237, 262, 266, 319, 331, 369, 370, 379, 395. 397
Writings:
Biographia Literaria, 184
Lyrical Ballads (with Wordsworth), 34–6, 54–5, 56–7, 81, 88, 89–90, 91, 92, 95, 98, 99, 114, 166
Notebooks, 122
‘The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere’, 35, 36, 55, 56–7, 113
Coleridge, Sara (wife of Samuel Taylor Coleridge), 119, 120, 121, 123–4, 125, 126, 127, 128, 135
Coleridge, Sara (daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge), 121, 124, 126, 287
Collins, Mr, 31
Colquhoun, J. C. : Animal Magnetism, 285
Colton, Reverend Walter: ‘Turkish Sketches’, 319–20
Comely Bank, 258
Confessions of J. Lackington, The, 208
Confessions of William Henry Ireland, The, 208
Coniston Lake, 114
Constable, Archibald, 183
Convention of Cintra, 135
Wordsworth’s essay about (The Convention of Cintra), 135, 136, 138, 139–46, 173
Conway, 69
Conyngham, Elizabeth, Marchioness, 40, 43, 166
Cook, John, 387
Cooper, Thomas, 367
Purgatory of Suicides, 367
Corelli, Arcangelo, 19
Corn League, 326
Corwen, 40
Cottle, Joseph, 114, 116, 119, 121, 122, 123, 149, 150, 205
Cotton, Richard Lynch, 97, 101, 133
Courier, The, 131, 132, 136, 138, 173
Crabbe, George, 216
Craig, Eva Margaret (TDQ’s granddaughter), 377, 380, 381–2, 382, 382, 393
Craig, John (Scottish Whig), 377
Craig, John (tailor), 300, 360
Craig, John Francis (TDQ’s grandson), 390
Craig, Margaret, 283, 298, 300, 379
Craig (nee De Quincey), Margaret Thomasiana
see De Quincey (later Craig), Margaret
Thomasiana
Craig, Robert (TDQ’s son-in-law), 377
Craigenputtock, 260
Criccieth, 70
Crichron, Reverend Andrew, 259
Croagh Patrick, 44
Crowley, Aleister, 398
Cruikshank, William Cumberland, 56
Cuffe, John Otway, Viscount Castle-Cuffe, 80
Cumberland, Duke of, 225–6
Cunningham, Allan, 213, 219, 227
Currie, James, 54, 55, 59, 294
Dacre, Charlotte: Confessions of the Nun of St Omer, 208
Daily News, 388
Dalkeith, 377
Dalrymple, Sir Hew, 135
Darling, Dr, 205
Dashwood, Francis, 18
Davy, Humphrey, 122
Dawson, Mary, 150, 153, 167–8, 169
Defoe, Daniel: Memoirs of a Cavalier, 92
Delhi, 388
Dell, Mr, 73, 78, 80, 101, 105, 116
De Quincey (née Penson), Elizabeth (TDQ’s mother) see Quincey (née Penson), Elizabeth
De Quincey, Emily Jane (TDQs daughter)
birth, 273
lack of education, 292
at Mavis Bush, 358–9, 365, 366, 380–1
and wedding of her sister Margaret, 377
visits Margaret in Ireland, 380, 390
visits her father in Edinburgh, 381
and her father’s illness, 392, 393
and her father’s death, 394
brief references, 298, 357, 376, 387, 388, 389
De Quincey (later Smith), Florence Elizabeth (TDQ’s daughter)
birth, 254
taken to Edinburgh as a baby, 259
on her father, 269, 277, 284, 298, 310, 377, 378, 381
acts as her father’s go-between, 299
at Mavis Bush, Lasswade, 314, 328, 358–9, 365, 366, 377–8, 380–1
on relationship between her father and Wilson, 330–1
fathers concerns about, 351
visits her sister Margaret in Ireland, 377, 380
visirs her father in Edinburgh, 381
engagement, 381
commissions family portrait, 382
married in Calcutta, 383
and Indian Mutiny, 388
gives birth to daughter, 388
returns to Britain too late to see her father again, 395
brief references, 355, 357, 367, 370, 376, 379, 393
De Quincey, Francis John (TDQs son), 228, 246, 259, 293, 314, 323, 327–8, 330, 345, 354–5, 357, 365
The Religious Objections to the Use of Chloroform in Obstetric Medicine (thesis), 354
De Quincey, Fred (Paul Frederick) (TDQ’s son), 242, 246, 259, 299, 300, 312, 328, 330, 345, 383, 388, 390
De Quincey, Henry (TDQ’s brother) see Quincey, Henry
De Quincey, Horace (Horatio) (TDQ’s son), 197, 246, 251, 259, 271, 314, 322, 324, 326–7, 329–30, 388, 393
De Quincey, Jane (TDQ’s sister) see Quincey, Jane (born 1790/91)
De Quincey, Julius (TDQ’s son), 264, 272–3, 296, 394
De Quincey (née Simpson), Margaret (TDQ’s wife)
family background, 166–7
TDQ falls in love with, 166–7
(possibly) chosen as TDQ’s housekeeper, 169
late-night trysts, 173
at Dove Cottage with TDQ, 175, 176, 177
becomes pregnant, 177
gossip about, 180
at Quarrelflat, 180
birth of first child, 180
marries TDQ, 181
happy marital relationship, 181
early married life, 182, 198, 199
marriage supported by her mother-in-law, 192
missed by TDQ during his absences, 204, 234, 236
Maginn’s comments on, 237
gives birth to fifth child, 242
under strain, 242
moves into parental home, 245
TDQ asks Dorothy Wordsworth to visit, 245
TDQ delays returning to, 246
Dorothy Wordsworth visits, 251
gives birth to sixth child, 254
move to Edinburgh considered, 257
temporary residence in Edinburgh, 259, 260, 261
departure from Edinburgh and birth of Julius, 264
leaves The Nab and moves into lodgings, 268
suicidal, 268
moves to join TDQ in Edinburgh, 269
TDQs criticism of, 269–70
family life, 269
concerned about losing The Nab, 270
and death of her son Julius, 272
put to the horn, 280
and illness and death of her son William, 288–9
signs deeds, 293
death, 295
TDQ’s writings reflect grief over death of, 295–8
TDQ buried beside, 394
brief references, 178, 179, 219, 220, 228, 281, 306
De Quincey (later Craig), Margaret Thomasiania (TDQ’s daughter)
birth, 187
assumes responsibility after death of her mother, 298
illness, 322–3
and death of her brother Horace, 327, 329–30
and financial affairs, 328, 345
at Mavis Bush, 322–3, 328, 345, 358–9, 365, 366
writes to Wordsworth about the future of her brothers, 330
marriage, 377
moves to Ireland, 377
her sisters visit, 380
birth of daughter, 377
visits Lasswade, 381
her father visits, 390–1
and her father’s illness, 393
writes to Lushington, 395
brief references, 351, 357, 367, 370, 376
De Quincey, Mary (TDQ’s sister) see Quincey, Mary
De Quincey, Paul Frederick see De Quincey, Fred
De Quincey, Richard (Pink) (TDQ’s brother) see Quincey, Richard (Pink)
De Quincey, Thomas
family background, 7–9
birth, 9
childhood up to age of eleven, 9–26
death of his grandmother, 14
death of his sister Jane, 14
death of his sister Elizabeth, 14–17
death of his father, 17–18
as Hall’s pupil, 23–4
family moves to Bath, 27–8
as pupil at Bath Grammar School, 28–9
death of his brother William, 29, 31
and social life of Bath, 29–31
reading interests as adolescent and young man, 31, 32, 34–6, 41, 84–5, 95, 102
at home following a head injury, 31–3
does not return to Bath Grammar School, 33
as pupil at school in Winkfield, 33–4
wins third prize for translation of Horace, 34
Lyrical Ballads has great effect on, 34–6
early literary projects, 36
and use of surname De Quincey, 36–7
holiday with Lord Westport, 37–45
visit to home of Lady Carbery, 45–9
future schooling discussed, 45–6
feelings about school, 46
Manchester Grammar School chosen as next school for, 48–9
as pupil at Manchester Grammar School, 50–3, 55, 57, 61
friendship with Reverend John Clowes, 52
spends school holiday in Everton, 53–5
meets Roscoe and Currie, 54–5
spends time with Lady Carbery in Manchester, 55–7
desire to leave Manchester, and dispute with his mother, 58–61
first sexual encounters with prostitutes, 60
plans to run away from school, 62–4
receives strange letter, 63–4
departure from Manchester, 64–6
gets rid of letter, 66–7
at family home, 67–8
in Wales, 68–72
reads German authors, 69, 101, 111–12, 156
decides to go to London, 71–3
in penury in London, 73–9, 80, 81–2
relationship with Ann of Oxford Street, 76–8, 78–9, 81–2
visits Eton, 79–80
reconciled with his guardians, 80–1
returns to the Priory, 81
lives at Everton, 83–91
admires Coleridge, 83
deepening interest in politics, 85–6
sex life, 86
committed to becoming a writer, 86–7
writes a letter to Wordsworth, 88–91
receives reply from Wordsworth, 91
further correspondence with Wordsworth, 91–2, 98–100, 114–15
stays at the Priory, 92–3
goes to Oxford, 93
discussion with Dean of Christ Church, 93–4
as student at Oxford, 94–7, 100–2, 110, 111–12, 114, 116, 130, 132–4
and disappearance of his brother Pink, 95–6, 117
spends vacation at Littlemore, 97–8
financial difficulties as a student, 101–2
and opium, 105–11, 122, 132, 133, 155, 160–1, 162–5, 174, 175, 177, 182, 197–8, 199, 205, 207–9, 221–2, 235, 246–7, 247–8, 249–50, 252, 260, 262, 277, 278, 324–5, 336–40, 344, 350, 352, 360, 366, 368, 369, 376, 380, 385–6, 391, 398
visits to London during student years, 102, 105, 108–9, 112–13, 114, 116, 117, 130–2
dreams and nightmares, 110–11, 119, 182–3, 186–7, 193, 198, 207–8, 296, 361–2, 388–9
becomes interested in Kant’s ideas, 111–12
meets Charles Lamb, 112–13
visits his mother in Clifton, 114
meets Joseph Cottle, 114
lacks courage to meet Wordsworth, 114, 115, 117
writes list of ‘Constituents of Happiness’, 115–16
and his inheritance, 116
enjoyment of mail-coach journeys, 118–19
acquaintance with Fanny of the Bath Road, 118–19
meets Coleridge, 119–21
visits Coleridge family in Bristol, 121–2
loans money to Coleridge, 122–3
escorts Coleridge family to Lake District, 123–5
meets the Wordsworths at Dove Cottage, 125–6
as guest of the Wordsworths at Dove Cottage, 126–9
meets Southey, 128
visits Charles Lloyd, 128–9
heads south, 129–30
spends time with Coleridge, 131–2
leaves Oxford and goes to London, 134
as guest of the Wordsworths at Allan Bank, 135–9
friendship with John Wilson begins, 137
agrees to supervise Cintra pamphlet through the press, 138
Coleridge is sceptical about, 138–9, 142
takes lease on Dove Cottage, 139
supervises printing of Cintra pamphlet in London, 139–46
and Johnny Wordsworth, 146, 167
close to Catharine Wordsworth, 146–7, 152–3
and preparations at Dove Cottage, 147
relationship with Dorothy Wordsworth, 147
spends time with family at Westhay, 148–50
takes up residence at Dove Cottage, 150–1
bases himself in the Lake District, 150–6, 166–9, 172–3, 175–94, 197–9, 201, 203, 220–3, 229–36, 246–8, 254–5, 261–5
tensions in friendship with the Wordsworths, 154–5, 157, 160, 167–8, 179, 180
periods in London, 152, 156–9, 168, 169–70, 173, 203–19, 223–9, 234, 236–46
and death of Catharine Wordsworth, 157–61
and alcohol, 164–5, 174, 283–4, 290, 322, 391
relationship with Margaret Simpson, 166–7, 173, 175, 176–7
mail-coach accident, 170–2
visits Edinburgh, 174–5
cuts himself off from Wordsworth, 175–6
and Margaret’s pregnancy, 177
and birth of first child, 180–1
marries Margaret, 181
does not produce reviews requested by Wilson for Blackwood’s, 184–5
interest in Westmorland politics, 185–6
and Westmorland Gazette, 186, 187–92, 193–4
and birth of daughter Margaret, 187
financial assistance from his family, 182, 187, 192, 221, 235, 243, 245–6, 247, 249, 270–1, 281, 289, 314
financial situation, 192, 197, 205, 220–1, 223, 228–9, 234, 235, 242, 243, 244, 247, 249–50, 265, 269–70, 270–2, 279–83, 289, 290, 291, 293, 295, 298, 300, 301–2, 310, 312–13, 321–2, 323, 325, 328, 345
birth of Horace, 197
fails to produce articles for Blackwood’s, 198
difficulties in relationship with William
publishes first article in Blackwood’s, 199–200
tensions in friendship with Wilson, 202–3
becomes involved with London Magazine, 203–4
contributions to London Magazine, 206–12, 216–17, 217–18, 224–5, 231–3, 2, 37–8, 239–40, 242–3
social life in London, 212–16, 225–7
attack on Wilson, 216–17
becomes acquainted with William Hazlitt, 225–6
meets Edward Irving, 226–7
contributes to Knight’s Quarterly Magazine, 227–8, 238
birth of Francis, 228
appears in fictionalized form in Blackwood’s, 223, 230, 264, 266
complains about London Magazine, 230–1
worsening relationship with editors of London Magazine, 235
attacked by Maginn, 236–7
friendship with Marthew Davenport Hill, 237–8
meets John Clare, 239
birth of Fred (Paul Frederick), 242
stops contributing to London Magazine, 243
seeks opportunity to write for Blackwood’s again, 248
resumes writing for Blackwood’s, 250
based in Edinburgh, 250–4, 255–61, 265–315, 341, 344–5, 358, 359–65, 378–94
contributions to Blackwood’s, 199–200, 250–1, 253–4, 259, 260, 261, 266–8, 270, 274, 294–5, 297–8, 307–10, 321, 323–4, 325–6, 332–3, 338, 339–42, 361–3
birth of Florence, 254
writes for Edinburgh Saturday Post / Edinburgh Evening Post and Scottish Literary Gazette, 255–7, 259, 261
friendship with William Hamilton, 257
begins friendship with the Carlyles, 257–9
joined by family members in Edinburgh, 257, 259, 260–1
final period of residence in Lake District, 261–5
birth of Julius, 264
concerns about his wife, 268
moves his family to Edinburgh, 269
‘put to the horn’ for debt, 271–2, 280, 282, 283, 300
imprisoned, 272
death of his son Julius, 273–4
birth of Emily, 273
as victim, 276–8
pursued by legal officers and creditors, 278–80, 281, 298, 300, 301
files for Cessio Bonorum, 280–1
moves family to Caroline Cottage, 280
takes refuge in debtors’ sanctuary of Holyrood, 282–3
begins to write for Tait’s, 285
expresses different views in Tait’s and Blackwood’s, 285–6
contributions to Tait’s, 286–8, 292–3, 294, 303–6, 342–4, 344–5, 346–7, 352–3, 365
death of son William, 288–9
end of his tenancy of Dove Cottage, 290–1
death of his wife, 295
expresses his grief through writing, 296–8
family life after death of Margaret, 298–9, 314
difficulties in relationship with Robert
Blackwood, 306–7
lives with the McIndoes, 311
social life in Edinburgh, 311–12
family moves to Mavis Bush, 314
breakdown in relations with the McIndoes, 314–15
growing influence of, 319–20
based in Glasgow, 320–8, 344, 349–54
health problems, 321, 322, 324–5, 327, 328–9, 345–6, 352, 359–60, 383–4
under arrest, 321
creditors continue to pursue, 321, 323, 325, 329, 341, 360, 379–80
and his family, 322–3, 326–7, 327–8, 329–30, 345. 351, 354–5. 358–9. 365–6, 377–8, 380–3, 388, 390–1, 392, 393
and death of his son Horace, 326–7, 329–30
lives with his children in Lasswade, 1, 328–41, 354–9, 365–78, 383–4
portrait commissioned by the Blackwoods, 333–4, 335
David Masson’s impressions of, 336
breakdown in relationship with Blackwood, 341–2
attends production of Antigone, 344–5
and death of his mother, 345
responds to changes in reading audience, 348–9
and new owner and editor of Tait’s, 349
social life in Glasgow, 350, 351
opinion of work by the Brontës, 351–2
problems in relationship with Tait’s, 353–4
opinion of Dickens, 355
meetings with Emerson, 355–6
contributes to MacPhail’s Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal, 356–7
contributes to Album of Glasgow Athenaeum, 357
contributes to North British Review, 357–8
and Mousabines, 359
imprisoned, 360
bailed out by John Blackwood, 360
article for Blackwood’s rejected, 360
end of relationship with Blackwood’s, 363
American edition of his works published, 363–4
contribures to Hogg’s Instructor, 364–5
departure from Tait’s, 365
recollections of encounters with, 366–71, 376–7, 379
last years, 372–94
works on a selection of his writings, 372–6, 384–6, 389, 390, 391–2
and matriage of his daughter Margaret, and birth of his first grandchild, 377
and marriage of his daughter Florence, 381, 383
portrait commissioned by Florence, 382, 382
interests in his later years, 386–8
visits his daughter in Ireland, 390–1
final weeks, 392–3
death, 393–4
burial, 394
obituaries, 394–5
estate, 395
sale of library, 395
paradoxes in life of, 396–7
impact of writings, 397–8
Writings:
reviews, 224–5, 237–8, 239–40, 251, 267–8, 274, 343, 346–7, 352, 357–8
‘Afghanistan’, 332
‘The Age of the Earth’ (translation of Kant’s essay), 286
‘Anti-Corn Law Deputation to Sir Robert Peel’, 326
Autobiographic Sketches, 374–5
‘The Avenger’, 307–8
Biographical Essays, 364
‘The Black Chamber’ (translation of rale by Apel), 228
A Brief Appraisal of the Greek Lirerature’, 303
‘The Caesars’, 274
‘California’, 364
‘Canton Expedition and Convention’, 324
‘Ceylon’, 332
China, 388
Close Comments Upon a Straggling Speech, 186
‘Coleridge and Opium-Eating’, 338
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, xiv–xv
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, xiv, xvi, xvii, 2, 206–12, 217, 218, 221, 222, 226, 229, 233, 236, 239, 319, 320, 331, 342, 363, 364, 374, 384–6
‘Conversation’, 364
‘Conversation and S. T. Coleridge’, 360
‘The Danish Origins of the Lake Country Dialect’, 194
‘Dialogues of the Three Templars on Political Economy, Chiefly in Relation to the Principles of Mr Ricardo’, 233
‘The Dice’ (translation of tale by Schulze), 225
‘Dream Upon the Universe’ (translation of work by Richter), 233
‘The Duke of Wellington and Mr Peel’, 263
Encyclopaedia Britannica articles, 298, 302, 308
‘The English Mail-Coach’, xvii, 361–3
‘The Fatal Marksman’ (translation of tale by Apel), 227, 228
‘Foreign Politics’, 309
‘French and English Manners’, 364
‘Gallery of the German Prose Classics’, 250–1
‘Hints for the Hustings’, 309
‘Homer and the Homeriade’, 324
‘The Household Wreck’, 297–8
‘Immanuel Kant & Dr Herschel’, 194
‘Immanuel Kant, and John Gottfried Herder’, 194
‘The Incognito’, 238
‘Joan of Arc’, 352–3
‘Judas Iscarior’, 364
‘Kant in his Miscellaneous Essays’, 266
Klosterheim: or the Masque, 273–4, 320
‘Lake Reminiscences’ see ‘Samuel Taylor
Coleridge’; ‘William Wordsworth’
‘The Last Days of Immanuel Kant’ (translation of work by E. A. C. Wasianski), 250–1
‘The Last Session of Parliament’, 333
‘Letter of Mathetes’ (in collaboration with Blair and Wilson), 150
‘Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected’, 224
Life and Manners, 364
Literary Reminiscences, 364
‘Logic’, 364
The Logic of Political Economy (based on articles on ‘Ricardo Made Easy’), 327–8, 331–2
‘Lord Carlisle on Pope’, 365
‘Milton, 309
‘Mr Schnackenberger; or, Two Masters for One Dog’ (translation of tale by Schulze), 225
‘Modern Superstitions’, 308
‘The Nautico-Military Nun of Spain’, 352, 353
‘Notes from the Pocket-Book of a late Opium-Eater’, 232–3, 241
‘On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement’, 343
‘On Hume’s Argument Against Miracles’, 308, 309
‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’, xiv, xvii, 253–4, 259, 310, 375–6, 397
‘On National Character, in Relation to the Sense of the Sublime and Beautiful’ (translation of essay by Kant), 232
‘On the Approaching Revolution in Great Britain’, 270
‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’, 231–2, 253
‘On the Supposed Scriptural Expression for Eternity’, 364
‘On the Temperance Movement of Modern Times’, 344
‘On Wordsworth’s Poetry’, 342
‘The Opium and the China Question’, 309
‘Philadelphus, on Mr Clarkson’s Letter’, 186
‘The Planet Mars’, 194 ‘Plato’s Republic’, 324
Prolegomena to all Future Systems of Political Economy, 185, 331
‘Prospects of Britain, 274
‘Protestantism’, 353
‘The Raven, a Greek Tale’, 228
‘Revolt of the Tartars’, 294–5
‘Rhetoric’, 260
‘Ricardo Made Easy’, 326, 327–8
‘The Riots’, 326
‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge’, 286–8
‘Secession from the Church of Scotland’, 332
Selections Grave and Gay, 372–6, 378, 379, 383, 384–6, 389, 390, 391, 392, 395
‘Sir Robert Peel’s Policy’, 325–6
‘Sir Robert Peel’s Position on Next Resuming Power’, 323–4
‘A Sketch from Childhood’, xvii ‘Sketch of Professor Wilson’, 261
‘Sketches of Life and Manners; from the Autobiography of an English Opium-Earer’, 286, 293, 294, 303, 306
‘The Somnambulist’, 238
‘Sortilege’, 357
‘The Sport of Fortune’ (translation of tale by Schiller), 200
‘Style’, 309
Suspiria de Profundis, xvii, 339–42, 360, 364, 374, 380, 393–4
De Quincey,Thomas—contd
‘System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosse’s Telescopes’, 346, 375
‘Theory of Greek Tragedy’, 309
‘Toilette of the Hebrew Lady’ (translation of work by Hartmann), 259
A Tory’s Account of Toryism, Whiggism, and Radicalism’, 292–3
Walladmor (translation and reworking of novel by Alexis), 240–2, 243
‘War’, 356–7
‘William Wordsworth’, 303–6, 308
The Works of Thomas De Quincey, xv
De Quincey, William (TDQ’s brother) see Quincey, William
De Quincey, William Penson (TDQ’s son)
birth, 180–1
childhood, 197, 229, 246, 251, 257, 259, 261
financial arrangement made for, 263
witnesses Cessio Bonorum document, 281
illness and death, 288–9
TDQ focuses on writing after death of, 290
brief references, 182, 296, 346, 394
Descartes, René, 254
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall: Literary Companion, 242–3
Dickens, Charles, xvii, 355, 395, 397
Bleak House, 369
Disraeli, Benjamin, 364
Dolgellau, 69
Donne, John, 190
Douglas, George, sixteenth Earl of Morton, 39
Douglas of Caver, James, 274
Dove Cottage, Town End
TDQ lacks courage to visit Wordsworth at, 115
picture of, 124
TDQ arrives at, 124–6
TDQ stays with the Wordsworths at, 126–9
the Wordsworths move from, 134
TDQ decides to lease, 139
preparations for TDQ’s tenancy of, 147
TDQ lives at, 150–6, 167–9, 172–3, 175–80, 181–94
TDQ makes changes to garden of, 154
tensions between TDQ and the Wordsworths over, 154, 157
TDQ moves from, 197
TDQ continues to rent to house his library and papers, 197
TDQ renews lease on, 247
TDQ moves his family back to, 247
Dorothy Wordsworth visits TDQ’s family at, 251
shut up on instructions of TDQ, 259
TDQ plans to move family back to, 264
TDQ owes payments on, 270, 281
value of TDQ’s books and manuscripts at, 280
TDQ forced out of, 290–1
in TDQ’s dreams, 306
brief references, 160, 205, 235, 296
Drury Lane theatre, 139
Duck, Robett, 11
Duddingston, 280
Duguid, Henry Gibson, 282
Duguid, William, 281
Duncan, Marion, 366
Dunleary (now Dún Laoghaire), 41
Dunmail Raise, 136
Eamont Bridge, 127
Easedale, 153
East India Company, 8, 106, 148
Easton, Dr, 324
Edinburgh
Wilson relocates to, 174
TDQ visits, 174–5
TDQ takes lodgings in, 199
Wilson wants TDQ to live in, 248
TDQ based in, 250–4, 255–61, 265–315, 341, 344–5, 358, 359–65. 378–94
Dorothy Wordsworth suggests removal of TDQ’s family to, 251
some of TDQ’s family join him in, 259, 260–1
TDQ moves his entire family to, 269
TDQ arrested in, 321
TDQ and Emerson in, 355–6
TDQ introduces himself to the Hoggs in, 1–2, 364
TDQ’s final illness and death in, 393–4
TDQ buried in, 394
brief references, 169, 206, 263, 322, 349, 366–7, 369
Edinburgh University, 198, 345, 365
Edinburgh Evening Post and Scottish Literary Gazette (formerly Edinburgh Saturday Post), 259, 261 see also Edinburgh Saturday Post
Edinburgh Literary Gazette, 261
Edinburgh Review, 100, 141, 149, 173, 183, 258
Edinburgh Saturday Post (later Edinburgh Evening Post and Scottish Literary Gazette), 255–7, 258, 259 see also Edinburgh Evening Post and Scottish Literary Gazette
Edmunds, Mrs, 85
Eliot, George, 374
Felix Holt, 363
Elleray, 137, 150, 152, 169, 174, 247
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, xv, xvii, 287, 319, 355–6, 369, 370, 395
‘Eloquence’ (lecture), 356
Essays: First Series, New Edition, 356
Encyclopedia Britannica, 298, 302, 308
Enlightenment, 31
Entwhistle, James, 18
Erauso, Catalina de, 353
Errol, Elizabeth Jemima Hay, Countess of, 43
Espinasse, Francis, 271
Esthwake Water, 128
Eton, 38, 39, 44, 45–6, 74, 78, 79–80
Eusemere, 127
Evangelicalism, 12, 35, 36, 45, 114, 149
Evans, George, Lord Carbery see Carbery, George
Evans, Lord
TDQ at, 53–5, 83–91, 109, 114, 115, 116, 121, 134
Examiner, 141
Exeter, Henry Cecil, first Marquess of, 47
Fairfield, 135
Family Oracle of Health, 211
Fanny of the Bath Road, 118–19, 361, 362
Faucit, Helen, 344–5
Ferozepore, 388
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 156
Fields, James, 363–4, 369–71, 372, 373, 395
Findlay, John Ritchie, 368, 379, 386, 390, 392, 394
FitzGerald, Edward, 305
Forster, John, 357
Foster, John, 343
Fouqué, Caroline de la Motte, 251
Fox, Charles James, 85
Fox Ghyll
TDQ’s family face problems at, 242
TDQ’s family leave, 245
brief references, 205, 218, 228, 394
France, 85, 135, 140 see also French Revolution; Napoleon
Fraser’s Magazine, 302
French Revolution, 28, 30, 286, 304, 332, 343–4 second, 266
French Revolutionary wars, 27, 30
Friend, The, 135–6, 139, 142, 150
Frogmore, 38
Game Laws, 189
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 320
Life of Charlotte Brontë, 386
Gautier, Théophile: ‘La Pipe d’Opium’, 319
Gee, ‘M’, 25
Gentleman’s Magazine, 183
George Inn, Lichfield, 236
Gilbert, Ashurst Turner, 51, 62–3
Gilfillan, George, 210, 311, 322, 335, 350, 379
Gallery of Literary Portraits, 343
Gillies, Robert Pearse, 174–5, 177
Confessions of Sir Henry Longueville, 208
German Stories, 251
Gladstone, William, 369
Glanllynnau, 70
Glasgow, TDQ in, 315, 320–8, 344, 349–54
Glasgow Argus, 350
Album, 357
Gloucester Coffee house, London, 78–9
Gobarrow Park, 153
Goderich, Lord, 256
Caleb Williams, 343
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 115, 343
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 302, 379
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, 239–40, 257–8, 302
Gogol, Nikolai: ‘The Nevsky Prospect’, 319
Golden Cross inn, Oxford, 93, 94
Goldsmith, Oliver, 357
History of England, 32
The Vicar of Wakefield, 167
Goodenough, Edmund, 133
Goodsir, John, 345
Gordon, John, 258
Gordon, Loudon and Lockhart, 97
Gordon, Thomas: History of the Greek Revolution, 274
Gore, Catherine, 284
Gough, Sir Hugh, 324
Grace, Reverend Thomas, 37, 38
Grant, Mr, 31–2
Grasmere, 54, 76, 91, 92, 114, 124, 135, 146, 159, 160, 166, 175, 181, 188, 193, 246, 254–5, 272, 291, 296 see also Allan Bank; Dove Cottage
Grassini, Josephina, 108
Green, Mrs, 129
Green, Sally, 150
Greenhay
purchase of, 10
description of, 10
TDQ’s childhood in, 10–11, 12–26
sale of, 27
Gresford, 68
Greta Hall, Keswick, 54, 123, 128, 137, 142, 151
Grey de Wilton, Lord, 57
Groombridge, Messrs., 389
Grotius, Hugo: De Veritate Religionis Christianae, 51
Groves, David, xv
Guildford Arms, Edinburgh, 301
Hall, Reverend Samuel, 9, 11, 18, 21, 23–4, 28, 48, 50, 59, 61, 62, 74–5, 97
Hamann, Johann Georg, 69
Hamilton, Lady, 168
Hamilton, William, 174, 257, 259, 261, 272
Hammerscar, 115
Hanna, William, 357
Hare, Julius, 287
Hare, William, 310
Haren, De, 69
Häring, Georg Wilhelm Heinrich see Alexis, Willibald
Harlech, 69
Hartley, David: De Ideis, 120
Hartmann, Anton Theodor: De Hebräierin am Putztische und als Braut, 259
Hawkins, Letitia Matilda; Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches, and Memoirs, 225
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, xvii, 369, 370, 375, 378, 391
Mosses from an Old Manse, 369
Hay, Elizabeth Jemima, Countess of Errol, 43