by A. N. Wilson
Petworth, West Sussex, 156
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 227
Pharmacy Act (1868), 246
Philadelphia Public Ledger, The, 243
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 214, 222, 224, 243
‘Phiz’, see Browne, Hablot Knight
Picasso, Pablo, 31
Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens), 7, 23, 27, 35, 77, 112, 117–18, 199, 239, 283, 303
class in, 69
illustrations, 45, 117–18
Doctors’ Commons in, 112, 119
marriages in, 137
politicians in, 164
prison in, 84, 85
Rochester Bridge in, 56, 57
sales, 120
‘Stroller’s Tale, The’ 117, 137
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 266
place, sense of, 272–5
Plato, 71–2
Police Act (1839), 153–4
Pollard, Rhena, 156–7
Poor Laws, 68, 185, 187
Pope, Norris, 168
population growth, 203
Portland, Maine, 225
Portsmouth, Hampshire, 63
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 304
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, The see Pickwick Papers, The
Pound, Ezra, 208
Powys, John Cowper, 239
Pre-Raphaelites, 101
Preston, Lancashire, 179
Price, Charles, 182
Priestley, Joseph, 261
Priestley, William Overend, 234
Prisons Act (1898), 179
prisons, 84–7, 175, 178–82
prostitution, 150
Proust, Marcel, 73, 271
psychology; psychoanalysis, 6, 74, 95
public readings, 9, 33, 34, 84, 132, 133, 134, 156, 173, 174, 193–239
Punch, 8, 37, 133
Pusey, Edward Bouverie, 164
Pushkin, Alexander, 40
Queen’s College, Harley Street, 313
de Quincey, Thomas, 247
Radicals, 82, 214
railways, 216–17
Ratcliffe Highway, London, 243, 244, 247, 285
‘Red Tape’ (Dickens), 170
Regent’s Park, London, 25, 103, 125, 153
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (Percy), 53, 58
Resurrection narratives, 230
Reynolds, Russell, 286–7
Rhode Island, United States, 225
Richardson, Ruth, 39, 64
Richmond, Duke of, see Gordon-Lennox, Charles
Robb, Graham, 87
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, 300
Robinson, Ellen ‘Nelly’ (born Ternan), 5, 8–25, 33, 41, 102, 106, 126, 146, 207, 216–20, 229, 314–19
age, concealment of, 314, 317
Ampthill Square house, 12, 21, 317
children, illegitimate, 17, 217
death of Charles (1870), 15, 20, 49, 255, 256, 259, 297
France trip (1865), 16–17
George, marriage to, 21–2, 314–19
Georgina, relationship with, 21–2, 134, 315
Great Expectations and, 248
Kate Dickens and, 100, 124, 130, 131, 132
Little Dorrit and, 30, 32, 33, 140
parents, relationship with, 23–4, 25
and public reading tours, 207, 213, 215, 220, 221, 229
Staplehurst railway crash (1865), 18–19, 212, 285–6
Will of Charles Dickens and, 297
Windsor Lodge, life at, 13–14, 21, 219, 229, 255, 256, 259, 296
youthfulness, 8, 140, 254–5, 260, 270–71, 275
Robinson, Geoffrey, 21, 22, 314, 316–17
Robinson, George Wharton, 21, 22, 314, 317
Robinson, Gladys, 21, 314, 317
Rochester, Kent, 4, 5, 7, 23, 55–7, 120, 141, 273–5, 284–5, 293–6
Rochester, Massachusetts, 225
Rochester, New York, 222
Roe, Fred, 230
Rogers, Samuel, 147
Romanticism, 247
Rome, Italy, 268, 269–70
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 231, 314
Rookwood (Ainsworth), 113
Rose and the Ring, The (Thackeray), 118
Rossetti family, 155
Round the Horne, 304
Royal Academy of Music, 78, 93
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (1850), 159
Royal Academy, 291, 292
Royal Command Performance, 125
Royal Navy, 61, 63, 64, 92
‘Ruffian, The’ (Dickens), 154, 177–8, 180
Rugby School, Warwickshire, 237, 299
Ruskin, John, 155, 292
Russell, William Howard, 209
Russia, 226
Russian Empire, 223
Salvation Army, 157
Santayana, George, 303–4
science, 261
Scott, Henry, 213, 229
Scott, Walter, 6, 65, 113, 114
Second World War (1939–45), 304
Self-Help (Smiles), 24, 87, 172
Self, Will, 244
Seven Dials, London, 177, 230–31
Seward, William, 222–3
sex, 43–4, 60, 145, 149–50, 256–60, 267
Seymour, Jane, 136
Seymour, Robert, 116–17, 118, 120
Shaftesbury, Lord see Cooper, Anthony
Shakespeare, William, 36, 237
Hamlet, 23, 36, 237
Macbeth, 237, 281
Merry Wives of Windsor, The, 37, 293
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A, 9, 45
Othello, 23, 237
King Lear, 29, 218, 237
Romeo and Juliet, 231, 314
Winter’s Tale, The, 9, 24
Shaw, George Bernard, 86, 87, 162
Shaw, Lemuel, 252
Sheerness, Kent, 64, 69
Sheffield, Yorkshire, 205
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 138
Sherlock Holmes series (Doyle), 272
Shorne, Kent, 292
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 210
silver nitrate, 145, 150
Simpson, John Palgrave, 207
Sketches by Boz (Dickens), 78, 99, 110–11, 115, 116, 254, 297
‘Christmas Dinner, A’, 157–8
‘Great Winglebury Duel, The’, 36
‘London Recreations’, 167
‘Private Theatres’, 50
Slate, Edwin, 223
slavery, 165
Slough, Berkshire, 12, 13, 17, 216–17, 219, 316
Smiles, Samuel, 24, 87, 172
Smith-Stanley, Edward, 14th Earl of Derby, 106–7, 188, 295
Smith, Arthur, 133, 210, 211–12
socialism, 162, 190, 191, 311
Soho Theatre, London, 88
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 80, 88
Somerset House, London, 62, 63, 74–6, 84
Songs of Innocence and Experience (Blake), 118
Sorrows of Rosalie, The (Norton), 138
Soviet Union, 80, 88
Sowray, Woodford, 273
Spencer, Herbert, 183
St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 20
St James’s Hall, London, 233
St James’s Hotel, London, 243
St James’s Theatre, London, 36
St Luke’s, Chelsea, 119
St Martin’s Hall, Camden Town, 207, 209
St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, 21
St Mary-le-Strand, London, 63, 69
St Pancras, London, 228
St Paul’s, Covent Garden, 68
St Stephen’s, Rochester Row, 148
Stalin, Joseph, 88
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 294, 295, 297–9
Stanley, Augusta, 295
Staplehurst railway crash (1865), 18–19, 212, 285–6
Stevens, Wallace, 308
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 209
Stone, Lawrence, 136
Storey, Gladys, 17, 102, 105, 292
Strange Gentleman, The (Dickens), 36
Stratton Street, Mayfair, 147
stroke (1869), 238, 243
Stroller’s Tale, The (Dickens), 117
Sullivan, Arthur, 312
Sunday, 166–70
Sutherland, John, 103
Sweeney Agonistes (Eliot), 232
Sweet, Henry, 20
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 195, 259, 297, 313
Swinburne, Jane Henrietta, 297
Swiss chalet, Gad’s Hill, 102, 256, 276, 282
Switzerland, 149
Syracuse, New York, 222
Taine, Hippolyte, 81
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens), 21, 84, 127, 141, 145, 207, 283, 286, 312, 313
Tavistock House, Camden, 109, 130, 132, 134
taxation, 226, 292
Taylor, Samuel, 209
Temple, Henry John, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, 214
Tennyson, Alfred, 37, 155, 183
Ternan, Ellen ‘Nelly’, see Robinson, Ellen
Ternan, Frances ‘Fanny’, see Trollope, Frances
Ternan, Maria, 8, 24
Ternan, Thomas, 23–4
Terry, Ellen, 9
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 6, 16, 43, 113, 115, 118, 132, 204, 239
Thakewell Union, Petworth, 156
Thames river, 55, 200
Theatre Royal, Chatham, 35
Theatrical Fund, 36
Thomas, Dylan, 272
Three Detective Anecdotes (Dickens), 13
Three Voices of Poetry, The (Eliot), 208
Tide of Time, The (Bernard), 207
Tiger Bay, London, 243
Times, The, 105, 133, 159, 176–7, 209, 293
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 81
Tolstoy, Leo, 34, 81, 202, 307
Tom Brown’s Schooldays (Hughes), 299
Tomalin, Claire, 17, 18, 217, 297
Townshend, Chauncy Hare, 265
Tracy, Robert, 278
Trade Union Movement, 162
Trinity College, Cambridge, 54
Trollope, Anthony, 6, 9, 43, 155, 217, 239, 307, 308
Trollope, Frances ‘Fanny’, 9, 24, 217–19, 317
Trollope, Thomas, 217, 218
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 230
Uncommercial Traveller, The (Dickens), 212
Under Milk Wood (Thomas), 272
Unitarian Church, 265
United States, 4, 57, 140
evangelicalism in, 164–5
Parkman–Webster murder case (1849), 250–53, 279
prisons in, 179, 182
reading tours, 123, 173–4, 195, 198, 199, 203, 213–26, 250
Revolution (1765–83), 262
University College, London, 263–4
Urania Cottage, Shepherd’s Bush, 146, 148, 150–57, 182
Vanity Fair (Thackeray), 43
venereal disease, 145–6, 150, 286
Vicar of Wakefield, The (Goldsmith), 111
Victoria, Queen of the United
Kingdom, 25, 37–8, 40, 78, 137, 139, 148, 161, 167
Violated Letter (1858), 132–3
Violent Effigy, The (Carey), 299, 305
Wakley, Thomas, 263, 267
Walham Green, London, 297
Wallis, Henry, 140
Wapping, London, 244
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 34
Warren, Jonathan, 82
Warren’s Blacking Factory, Strand, 53–5, 59, 72–5, 78, 82–4, 90, 92, 99, 102, 105, 188, 228, 297
Christmas game and, 53–4, 60, 73, 74, 99, 206
Dilke and, 74–5
Elizabeth Dickens and, 104–5
Kate Dickens and, 72, 95, 121
Washington, DC, United States, 222
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 208
Watkins, Gwen, 299–300, 305
Watt, James, 64
Waugh, Evelyn, 34, 70
Webster, John, 250–53, 279
Wedgwood, Josiah, 64
welfare, 188
Weller, Anna, 112
Weller, Christiana, 113
Weller, Mary, 112, 126
Wellington House Academy, Camden Town, 155, 206, 228
Wellington Street, London, 215, 229, 296
Wesley, John, 4
Wesleyan Methodism, 157
Westminster Abbey, London, 196, 293–9, 309
Weymouth Sands (Powys), 239
Whitefriargate, Hull, 230
Wilde, Oscar, 3
Will of Charles Dickens, 20–21, 134, 297
William IV, King of the United Kingdom, 139
Wills, William Henry, 124, 129, 213–14, 217, 219, 220, 236, 278
Wilson-Patten Sunday Beer Act (1854), 168
Wilson, Edmund, 203
Window Tax, 170
Windsor Lodge, Peckham, 13–14, 21, 219, 229, 255, 256, 259, 296
Winnicott, Donald, 95–6, 100
Winter, Maria, 106–10, 114, 134
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare), 9, 24
With Kitchener in the Sudan (Henty), 302
Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville, 308
Woman in White, The (Collins), 137
Woolner, Thomas, 293
Wordsworth, William, 184–7, 188
workhouses, 49, 54, 64–8, 73, 75–6, 82, 171, 188–90
Chatham, Kent, 70
Cleveland Street, Marylebone, 39, 64, 66, 68, 188
Thakewell Union, Petworth, 156
World and the Stage, The (Simpson), 207
World Bank, 65
Yeats, William Butler, 206
Young, Edward, 230
Young, George Malcolm, 175
Zola, Emile, 6, 119
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.
