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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Plate section
Prologue
One: 1858 in history
Moments of consequence
The rise of Disraeli
Medicine and marriage
Literature and art
Two: May 1858
Dickens in distress
Derby Day
Marriage mischief
Three: June 1858, part I
Darwin and the pursuit of science
Dickens dissolves his marriage
Midsummer madness
Meltdown in Clubland
Four: June 1858, part II
The silver Thames
Queen Victoria, Cruiser, and the Great Eastern
Crinolineomania
More marriage troubles
Darwin’s dilemma
Five: July 1858
Darwin in distress
‘Mad’ wives and vengeful husbands
Disraeli tames the Thames
Rothschild enters the Commons at last
Six: July–August 1858
Hot heads at the Garrick Club
Dickens on tour
The exploits of Dickens’s Mr Stryver
Disraeli’s whitebait dinner
Seven: The aftermath of the hot summer
The fallout from the Garrick Club affair
Success and embarrassment for Dickens
The end of the Robinson case
Darwin triumphant
Epilogue
The year in pantomime
One hot summer’s consequences
Endnotes
Select bibliography
Index
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