General Index

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NOTE: References to works are by author only, unless the authors name is not given in the text. Italic figures refer to illustrations.

Abora, Mount 53

Addison, Joseph 213, 266

Agriculture 116

Alfoxden (Som.) 13, 20, 28, 139, 174; House 140

Anti-Jacobin Magazine 138

‘Asra’: see Hutchinson, Sara

Austin, Jane 79, 248–9

Ball, Sir Alexander 148, 186

Barbault, Anna Letitia 177

Bartholomew Fair 76–8

Bartram, William 242

Bassenthwaite (Cumb.) 70

Bate, Walter Jackson 235

Bateson, F. W. 20

Beau Monde 206

Beaumont, Lady 34, 128, 208, 266

Beaumont, Sir George 43, 44, 45, 242, 249, 254, 256, 257, 264, 265, 269

Beddoes, Thomas 90, 92

Bell, Andrew 186, 188–91

Bentham, Jeremy 131, 133

Bewick, Thomas 242, 268

Birkbeck, George 193

Blackwoods Magazine 203, 209–10

Blake, William 130, 131, 224

Blois 14

Blumenbach, Professor 121

Bonaparte, Napoleon 143–4, 149, 150

Bowles, William Lisle 220

Bozer, Rev. James 168–70, 218

Brighton (Sx.) Pavilion 68

Bristol 13, 27, 95, 135, 149; Library Society 94

Brixton (Sy.) 197

Brougham, Henry 150, 159–60, 193, 203

Brown, John 90

Browning, Robert 130

Bruce, James 242

Brummel, Beau 101

Burdett, Sir Francis 118, 120, 129

Burke, Edmund 115, 142–3, 159, 161, 242–3, 259

Burrard, Sir Harry 151

Buxted (Sx.) 72

Byron, Lord George Gordon 28, 131, 203, 204–5, 206, 237–9

Calvert, Raisley 13

Cambridge, Jesus College 24; St. John’s College 16

Campbell, Thomas 203, 204–5

Canning, George 108, 153

Capital crimes 104

Caracciolo, Francesco 149

Caravan 190

Cartwright, Major 160

Cash nexus 125

Castlereagh, Viscount 108

Cato Street Conspiracy 103, 159

Charterhouse 188

Christ’s Hospital 22, 23, 165–70, 178

Chatterton, Thomas 219

Clairmont, Mrs. 227

Clare, John 206, 242, 268

Clarkson, Catherine 118, 207, 224

Clarkson, Thomas 118, 120, 121, 206–7

Clevedon (Som.) 140

Clive, Robert 90

Claude Lorraine, (Claude Gellée) 249–50, 251, 257

Cobbett, William 104, 118, 213, 242

Coke, Thomas, Earl of Leicester 116

Coleridge, Berkely 89

Coleridge, Derwent 178, 180–3

Coleridge, Rev. George 166

Coleridge, Hartley 27, 178, 179, 180–3, 227

Coleridge, Henry Nelson 41, 183

Coleridge, Herbert 183–4

Coleridge, Sara 183–4, 185

Coleridge, Sarah 27, 30, 36, 66, 88–9, 178, 183, 259

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 14, 37, 52, 136, 204–5; dress 68–9; meets Wordsworth 13; early life 21–3; emotional insecurity 24–6; health 32, 39; marriage 27; takes opium 28, 33, 36, 38, 48, 90; Unitarian lay preacher 28, 71; comparison with Wordsworth 28–9; intellectual curiosity 34–43, 90–4; quarrels with Wordsworth 47–50; lectures 95–6

Combe, William 221

Comberbacke, Silas Tomkyn 23, 232

Commons, House of 146–7

Constable, Archibald, and Co. 200

Constable, John 242, 250, 254, 257, 269

Copyright Acts (1814 and 1842) 217–8

Corn Laws 103–4, 116, 118, 120

Corporal punishment 169

Cottle, Joseph 27, 64, 135, 199, 221

Cotton-Children Bill (1818) 123

Cowper, William 203, 220

Crabbe, George 102, 131

Critical Review 209

Cromford (Derbs.): Cotton mill 74

Crookham (Northumb.) 261

Dalrymple, Sir Huw 151

Darwin, Erasmus 92

Davy, Sir Humphrey 39, 51, 92, 93, 94, 180

De Loutherbourg, Philippe 258, 259

De Musset, Alfred 131

De Quincey, Thomas 28, 30, 34, 73, 80–1, 90, 152, 154, 186, 206, 235–7, 243

Derwentwater (Cumb.) 128

Dickens, Charles 102, 106, 195

Dumergue, Mr. 92

Dove Cottage (Grasmere) 64, 65

Dunald-Mill-Hole 248

Durham 95

Dyer, John 73–4

Eden, Sir Frederick Morton 102

Edgworth, Richard Lovell and Maria 178

Edinburgh Review 150, 203, 206, 209

Eliot, George 203, 216, 264

Enclosures 267–9

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana 202

Evans, Mary 26, 137

Examiner, The 206, 207, 209

Factory children 124

False teeth 92

Fisher, John 112

Fox, Charles James 129, 148

French Revolution 130–1, 139, 141, 173

Freud, Sigmund 133, 163

Fricker, Edith 25–6

Fricker, Sarah 25–7; see also Coleridge, Sarah

Gale and Curtis (later Rest Fenner) 96, 200–2

Gentleman’s Magazine 206

George III 107–8

George IV 101; as Prince Regent 108

Geraldine 181

Gilpin, Rev. William 245–7, 248–9, 255, 256, 259, 263, 276

Godwin, William 51, 105–6, 107, 112, 134–5, 191, 225, 227–8

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 42

Goody Two-Shoes 177

Goslar (Germany) 32

Göttingen University (Germany) 32

Grasmere (Westmorland) 32, 50, 184, 234, 262, 276; Island 70

Gray, Thomas 241, 257

Green, William 259

Greta Hall (Keswick) 32, 66, 183

Grove, Mrs. 72

Habeas Corpus Act 125, 139, 159

Haiti, Queen of 121

Hamlet 41

Hawksdale Bridge 73

Hawkshead Grammar School 13, 163, 165

Haydon, Benjamin 98, 122, 151, 238, 239–40

Hazlitt, William 79, 84, 114, 115, 133, 203, 206, 207, 209, 231, 233–5, 280

Higginbottom, Nehemiah 220

Holmes, James 216

Horner, Mr. 203

Hort, Rev. W. J. 218

Hugo, Victor 131

Hunt, Leigh 98, 206

Hurst, Robinson and Co. 200

Hussey, Christopher 256

Hutchinson, Henry 121

Hutchinson, Mary 31; see also Wordsworth, Mary

Hutchinson, Sara (‘Asra’) 32–3, 36, 41, 48, 49, 121, 181, 184–5, 213, 275

Industrial development 73–6

Industrial labour 122–5

Jane Eyre 102, 191

Jeffrey, Francis 203, 2045, 206, 207

Jewsbury, Maria James 216

Johnson, Joseph 203

Johnson, Mr. (“The Curate”) 186, 189

Johnson, Samuel 105

Keats, John 43, 98, 131, 206, 235, 239–40

Keepsake, The 216

Keswick (Cumb.) 17

Knight, William Payne 247, 279

Laissez-faire 105

Lamb, Lady Caroline 70

Lamb, Charles 34, 51, 63, 71, 78–80, 84, 89, 98, 138, 166–70, 177–8, 203, 206, 208–9, 220, 221, 227, 228–33, 239–40, 258

Lamb, Mary 89, 178, 230, 232

Lancaster, Joseph 188, 189–91, 197

Landor, Walter Savage 206

Lauderdale, Earl of 124

Le Nôtre 241

Lewis, Monk 220, 221, 222

Liberal, The 206

Liverpool, Lord 105, 134

Lloyd, Charles 89, 90

Locke, Mr. 263

London 49, 71, 78–80, 95–6; Regent Street 80; University 193

London, Magazine 206, 237

Longman & Co. 200, 202–3

Lonsdale, Lord; see Lowther, James

Lowther, James, Earl of Lonsdale 13, 97, 150, 169–60

‘Lucy’ 20

Lovell, Mary 25

Lovell, Robert 25, 135

Madras; Military Male Orphan Asylum 186, 188–90

Mail coaches 80–2, 81

Malta 33

Malthus, Robert 106, 268

Manuel, Don 66–7, 69, 82, 103, 268

Martin, John 243, 244, 258

Matthews, William 16–17

Maxwell, Sir William 112

Mechanics’ Institutes 193–4

Medical education 193–4

Medicine and disease 88–92

Merthyr Tydfil (Glam.) roiling mill 75

Mesmerism 91

Methodism 196

Milton, John 199, 254, 280–1

Minehead (Som.) 140

Minerva, The 149

Montague, Basil 49, 174–5

Monthly Magazine 250

Moore, Sir John 152

Moore, Thomas 202–3, 204–5, 209, 216, 221

Morgan family 95

Morning Chronicle 148, 203, 209

Morning Post 125, 143, 144, 145, 203

Murray, John 200, 201, 202–3

Nelson, Admiral Lord 109, 149, 150

Nelson, Lady 108

Nether Stowey (Som.) 13, 27, 54, 65, 139, 140, 174

New Harmony (U.S.A) 137

New Lanark 104, 115, 137

Newbery’s (London bookshop) 177

Newspapers 145, 203

Opium 90, 236–7. See also Coleridge, S. T.

Owen, Robert 104, 115, 131, 133, 137

Paley, William 102

Palmer, John 80

Pantheon 243

Pantisocracy 23, 25, 26, 29, 135, 160

Park, Mungo 242

Peacock, Thomas Love 265

Peel, Sir Robert 225

Penrith (Cumb.) 49

Perceval, Spencer 118

Percy, Bishop Thomas 220

Peterloo 103, 104, 159

Picnics 70

Pitt, William, the younger 129, 145, 146–7, 148–9, 153, 155, 163, 207, 280

Police 104

Pollard, Jane 17–18

Poole, Charlotte 23

Poole, Thomas 23, 27, 40, 48, 140

Porter, Anna Maria and Jane 224

Poussin, Nicolas and Gaspar 249–2, 254

Poverty, Poor Law 101–6, 109, 114, 115

Price, Sir Uvedale 245, 247, 254, 279

Pyne, W. H. 256

Quarterly, The 203, 208–9, 237

Quarterly Review 96, 102

Quilinan, Edward 197–8

Racedown (Dorset) 13, 17

Radcliffe, Mrs. 75

Radcliffe, Ann 220, 249

Reform Bill (1832) 156, 158

Regattas 70

Rembrandt 257, 279

Repton, Humphry 79, 265

Richardson, Samuel 224

Reynolds, Sir Joshua 44

Robinson, Mrs. 220–1

Robinson, Crabb 34, 45–6, 80, 87–8, 95, 101–2, 134–5, 157, 159, l93, 203, 233

Robinson Crusoe 172

Romantic Movement 68, 130–3, 280

Rosa, Salvator 241, 249, 250, 252-3, 254

Rose, Rev. H. J. 194

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 154, 170–4, 194, 196, 241, 280

Royal College of Surgeons 88

Rubens, Peter Paul 270

Rumford, Count von 68

Russell, Mr. 189

Rogers, Samuel 204–5

Rydal Mount 64, 67, 73, 157, 262; Mere 260

Scott, John 206, 210, 237

Scott, Sir Walter 131, 132, 133, 216, 223, 224, 238, 242, 280

Seymour, Mr. 279

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 131, 206, 211, 237

Skating 71

Slavery 121–2

Smith, Adam 116

Smith, Sydney 203, 204–5

Society for Bettering the Conditions of the Poor 102

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 193

Somerset 139

Southey, Edith May 185

Southey, Robert 23, 25–7, 66, 71, 88, 89, 90, 94, 103, 108, 118, 120, 121, 131, 132, 133, 137, 148, 183, 186, 189, 200, 203, 204–5, 209, 213, 216, 225–7, 234, 259

Spa Field Riots 158

Spectator, The 213

Speenhamland (Berks.) 102

Spinoza, Benedict 55

Springfield (Dumfries.) 112

Stamp Office 69

Stanhope, Lord 190

Steamboats 86—7

Stuart, Daniel 134, 144, 214

Susquehanna river 135

Sympson, Margaret 235

‘Syntax, Dr.’ 255

Talfourd, Thomas Noone 210, 217, 227–8

Temple, Sir William 264

Thames, river 246

Thelwall, John 122, 140, 174

Thompson, Sir Benjamin 68

Thomson, James 255, 280–1

Times, The 203

Tintern Abbey 246

Travel 80–5

Trilling, Lionel 163

Trimmer, Mrs. Sarah 177

True Simon Pure 55

Turner, William 250, 269, 279

Vaccination 88

Vallon, Annette 14, 21

Vimiero, Battle of 151

Walpole, Horace 241

Ward, George 214

Wastwater 71

Watts, Alaric 200

Wedgwood, Josiah 95, 178

Wedgwood, Thomas 36, 90, 94, 95, 191–2, 197

Wellesley, Sir Arthur. See Wellington, Duke of

Wellington, Duke of 150, 151, 154

West, Thomas 247, 254, 257, 261, 265

Westminster, City of 115; Bridge 276

Westminster Review 203

Whigs 156, 157

Wilberforce, William 90, 207, 242

Wilkinson, Rev. Joseph 259

Wilson, Angus 79

Wilson, John (‘Christopher North’) 70–1, 209–10

Wilson, Richard 250

Wollstonecraft, Mary 227

Wordsworth, Caroline 14, 150,

Wordsworth, Dorothy 13–21, 30–3, 49, 61, 70, 72–3, 83, 84–7, 89, 92, 107, 108, 109, 112, 113, 114, 116, 118, 121, 124, 126, 149, 150, 154, 174, 183, 184, 188, 224, 233, 248, 256, 261, 272, 276

Wordsworth, Rev. Christopher 89, 99

Wordsworth, Mrs. Christopher 99

Wordsworth, Dora 70, 187, 197, 216

Wordsworth, John 17, 58, 83, 184, 185

Wordsworth, Mary 18, 19, 85–6, 224, 239

Wordsworth, Richard 99

Wordsworth, William (i) 15, 19, 32, 33, 62, 117, 127, 204–5; early life 13–17, meets Coleridge 13; marriage 18; relations with Dorothy 17–18; compared with Coleridge 28–9; quarrels with Coleridge 47–50; dress 68–9; and Church 72–3; and travel 83–4, 87–8; misfortunes of his children 88; scientific interests 94; appointments 97–8, 225

Wordsworth, William (ii) 184, 189

Wright, Joseph 73

Yellow Dwarf 209