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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, 204–5, 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
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, 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