Keats, Tom (John’s brother), 232, 234, 238–9
Kemble, Fanny, 272
Kingsborough family, 179, 184
Kipling, Rudyard: Something of Myself, 89; ‘Wireless’ (story), 225
‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’ (RH; lecture), 103
Korsakoff’s syndrome, 91
Kuhn, Thomas, 208
Lamb, Charles, 231, 310
Lamb, Mary, 192, 338
Lambton, Charles William, 264, 277
Lamorisse, Albert, 98
Lancaster, Joseph, 285, 300–1
Landor, Walter Savage, 240
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de, 22, 28, 42–3; Méchanique Céleste (trans. by Mary Somerville as The Mechanism of the Heavens), 205; Exposition du Système du Monde, 42
Lardner, Dionysus, 208
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 22
Lawrence, Sir Thomas: exhibition (National Gallery 2010), 263; reputation, 263–5, 277–8; background and career, 265–7; style, 267–70, 275; modest lifestyle and character, 270–1; romantic attachments, 272–3; finances and generosity, 273; as official court painter, 274–5; elected President of Royal Academy, 275; knighted, 275; official portraits of record, 276–8; exhibits in Paris, 277; portraits of children, 277; death, 278; Charles William Lambton (The Red Boy; painting), 264, 277–8; Laura Anne and Emily Calmady (painting), 277; ‘On Being Left Alone after Dinner’ (poem), 271; Satan as a Fallen Angel (drawing), 272; Satan Summoning his Legions (abandoned painting), 271
Lawrence, William, 23
Leavis, F.R., 278
Lee, Hermione: Body Parts, 245; Virginia Woolf, 65–6
Leigh, Mike, 216
Lenclos, Ninon de (Anne de Lenclos), 138, 149
Leonardo da Vinci: Codex Atlanticus, 92
Lewes, G.H.: Goethe, 315
Lexell, Anders Johan, 40
Liberal, The (journal), 254–5
Linnell, John, 317, 327–8, 331, 335
Lovelace, Augusta Ada, Countess (née Byron), 116, 208–9; Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq, 209
Lucas, Charles, 117
Lunar Society, 42
Lyell, Sir Charles, 23, 31, 115
McEwan, Ian: Enduring Love, 225–6
Macmillan (publishers): and Gilchrist’s life of Blake, 318–21, 324, 327, 334, 336
Malkin, Benjamin Heath, 331
Malta, 10, 293
Mariano, Nicky, 145–6
Martin, Jonathan, 312
Martineau, Harriet, 116; Autobiography, 186
Marx, Groucho, 91
Maskelyne, Nevil, 113
Masters, Alexander, 47; Stuart: A Life Backwards, 65
Maugham, William Somerset, 47
Maurois, André: Ariel, 151; Mape: The World of Illusion, 272
Mayhew, Henry: The Wonders of Science, 33
Meade, Lady Selina, 276
Méchain, Pierre, 113
Mechanics’ Magazine, 202
memory: goddess of (Mnemosyne), 73; RH’s, 73, 75; academic enquiry into, 77; Hartley on association and, 79–82; Coleridge on, 81–2; and Associationism, 83–4; and human brain, 90–1; long-term, 92
memory boxes, 77–8, 82
Meredith, George, 325
Merivel, Sir Robert, 126, 343
Mersenne, Martin, 120
Messier, Charles, 40
Metternich, Prince Clemens Lothar Wenzel, 275
Mill, John Stuart: opposes vivisection, 210; and Shelley, 256; The Subjection of Women, 192
Millais, John Everett: The Eve of St Agnes (painting), 24–5
Miller, Lucasta: The Brontë Myth, 59
Milton, John: Paradise Lost, 40, 53, 272, 302
Mitchell, Joni, 167
Mitchell, Maria, 210–13
Mitford, Nancy, 57
Monarchon, Henriette, 149
Monthly Magazine, 181, 311
Monthly Mirror (magazine), 172
Moore, Thomas, 57
Morgan, Charles and Mary, 102
Mortimer, Raymond, 151
Motion, Andrew: poetry, 227; in Rome, 237; The Invention of Dr Cake, 225, 227, 233–4, 236; Wainewright the Poisoner, 60
Mountstuart, Lord, 270
Mr Turner (Mike Leigh; film), 216
Murdoch, Iris, 191
Murray, John (publisher), 164, 199–200, 205, 208, 213
Nadar, Félix, 99
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French, 57, 155, 157, 164
nature: in German thought, 287, 294
Necker, Jacques, 159
Nelson, Admiral Horatio, Viscount, 53
Nelson, Willie, 167
New York Sun (newspaper), 99–100
Newcastle, Margaret, Duchess of see Cavendish, Margaret
Newcastle, William Cavendish, 1st Duke (earlier Marquis) of, 117–20, 131
Newton, Sir Isaac, 21–2, 24–7, 58, 104, 114, 224, 309
Nicolson, Harold: on Scott’s life of Zélide, 151; The Development of English Biography, 54; Some People, 151
Nicolson, Nigel: Portrait of a Marriage, 191
nitrous oxide (‘laughing gas’), 15, 29, 288
Norman, Sylva: The Flight of the Skylark, 59
North, Roger, 50
North, Thomas, 50
O’Donohue, Abigail (Charles Brown’s wife), 140
Oken, Lorenz, 287
Opie, Amelia (née Alderson), 149, 185; Adeline Mowbray, 185
Opie, John, 175, 185
Origo, Iris: Images and Shadows, 146
Osborne, Dorothy, 126
Ottery St Mary, Devon, 11–12
Owen, Robert, 192
Paine, Thomas, 63–4, 188
Palmer, Samuel, 316–17, 331, 335–6
Paolozzi, Eduardo: statue of Blake’s Newton, 22, 309
Papendieck, Charlotte, 268, 272
Paris: siege (1870–71), 98–9; Thomas Lawrence exhibits in, 277
Park, Mungo, 23, 30, 43; Travels in the Interior of Africa, 30
Parkinson’s disease, 91
Pascal, Blaise, 79
Pasquier, Suzette du, 150
Paul, Kegan, 179
Peacock, Thomas Love, 59
Peel, Sir Robert, 276
Penfield, Wilder, 90
Pepys, Samuel, 114, 125, 127, 129
Peyrat, Napoléon: Pasteurs du Désert, 76
Phillips, Thomas, 265
Piano, The (Jane Campion; film), 226
Pius VII, Pope, 275
Plath, Sylvia, 17
Playfair, William, 204
Plumly, Stanley: Posthumous Keats, 228
Plutarch, 61; Life of Alexander, 49–50
Pneumatic Institute, Clifton, 288
Poe, Edgar Allan: on Coleridge’s balloon flight, 99–100, 102–7; Eureka, 105; Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, 101, 106
Pointon, Marcia, 265
Polwhele, Richard: ‘The Unsexed Females’ (poem), 182–3
Poole, Tom, 283
Priestley, Joseph, 23, 80–1, 288; History of Electricity, 288
Proust, Marcel: À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, 88–9, 93
‘Public Characters’ (publisher’s series), 194
Quarterly Review, 202
Red Balloon, The (Albert Lamorisse; film), 98
Reid, Thomas, 81
Revue Britannique, La, 311
Reynolds, John, 231
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 263–4, 266
Richmond, George, 317, 335
Ritter, Johann Wilhelm, 287
Roberts, Captain, 251–2
Robinson, Henry Crabb, 284, 301, 318, 331; Reminiscences, 335; ‘William Blake: Artist, Poet and Religious Dreamer’, 318
Robinson, Mary (‘Perdita’), 183; Letter to the Women of England, 193–4
Roe, Nicholas: John Keats: A New Life, 230–1, 233–4, 236–7
Rogers, Samuel, 265
Roget, Peter, 288
Rolland, M. (farmer), 75
Romanticism: and science, 21–2, 24, 27, 36, 39; and biographical writings, 52–3
Rome: Keats’s death in, 221–2, 237
Roscoe, William, 180
Rossetti, Christina, 325, 331
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel: buys Blake manuscripts, 312, 322; Gilchrist meets, 318; and Gilchrist’s life of Blake, 325; wife’s death, 325
Rossetti, William Michael, 312, 319, 325, 327–8, 335
Roszak, Theodore: The Making of a Counter Culture, 308
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 164, 277; Confessions, 322
Royal Academy, London: Lawrence exhibits at, 268
Royal Astronomical Society, London, 115
Royal Institution, London: lectures, 281–5, 290–5, 300–4
Royal Society of London: RH presents The Age of Wonder to, 35–6; celebrates 350th anniversary (2010), 113–14; and role of women in science, 114, 116; Margaret Cavendish attends meetings, 125–7; Margaret Cavendish satirises, 127–8, 131; Mary Somerville disbarred from Fellowship, 207; Davy lectures at, 293–4; Philosophical Transactions, 42, 114
Rubens, Peter-Paul, 298
Sackville-West, Vita, 59, 146–7, 151, 191
Sadler, James, 103–5, 107
Sage, Laetitia, 23
St Clair, William, 62
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 142–3, 160
Salomon, Johann Peter, 40
Sandoz-Rollin, Caroline de, 150
Savage, William, 282
Schelling, Friedrich: Naturphilosophie, 9, 287
Schiff, Stacy, 57
Schuchard, Marsha: Why Mrs Blake Cried, 310
science: and literature, 16–17, 21–2; women in, 16, 23, 38, 114–16; Coleridge and, 21–2, 105; and technological development, 27–8; discoveries, 28–9; biographies, 32–3, 43–4; writings, 199; divisions and specialisms, 201–2
Scott, Geoffrey: biography of Isabelle de Tuyll (The Portrait of Zélide), 142–51
Scott, Sir Walter: unaware of Blake, 311
Sedgwick, Adam, 207
Severn, Joseph, 221, 224, 231, 240
Shakespeare, William: Hamlet, 11; Romeo and Juliet, 163; Venus and Adonis, 299
Shelley, Mary (née Godwin): and science, 16, 23, 38–9; biographies of, 59; birth, 63; Mme de Staël’s influence on, 167; infancy, 175; elopes with Shelley, 195; on mother (Mary Wollstonecraft), 195–6; posthumous fame, 222; and Shelley’s death, 247–8; on Shelley’s passion for boating, 250; and Shelley’s final sailing trip, 251–2; writing for Leigh Hunt, 254; counterfactual biographies, 256–7; life after Shelley’s death, 256–8; ‘The Bride of Modern Italy’, 254; Falkner, 257; The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, 257; Frankenstein, 43, 53, 195, 256; The Last Man, 195, 256; Lodore, 257; ‘Note to the Poems of 1822’, 248
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: biography by RH, 5; and science, 23; boating on Lake Geneva with Byron, 166; death by drowning, 245–50, 252–3; tomb and monuments, 248; sailing experience, 250–1; radicalism and beliefs, 253–6; translating, 253–4; unfulfilled prospects, 255–7; on human time, 258; Leavis criticises, 278; Naturism, 333; ‘Adonais’, 222, 229; ‘Alastor’, 249; Hellas, 195; The Indian Enchantress, 253; ‘Odes to Liberty’, 254; ‘A Philosophical View of Reform’, 254; Queen Mab, 38, 258; The Revolt of Islam, 195; The Triumph of Life, 249, 253; ‘A Vision of the Sea’, 249
Shelley, Percy Florence, 255
Shelley, Sir Timothy, 255
Sheppard, Jack, 52
Shortland, Michael and Richard Yeo (eds): Telling Lives in Science, 33
Siddal, Elizabeth (D.G. Rossetti’s wife), 325
Siddons, Sarah, 266, 272
Sidetracks (RH), 5
Sismondi, Jean Charles Léonard de, 161
Skeys, Hugh, 176–7
smell: and association, 88–9
Smiles, Samuel: Self-Help, 315
Smith, Charlotte, 183
Snow, C.P.: ‘The Two Cultures’, 21, 43
Somerville, Martha (Mary’s daughter), 205–6, 209, 213, 215–16
Somerville, Mary: and science, 16, 23; background, 203–4; in France, 205; translates Laplace, 205; Chantrey bust, 207–8, 216; fame and recognition, 207, 216; invited to Cambridge, 207; and Ada Byron (Lovelace), 208; character and manner, 208; moves to Italy, 209–10, 213; unsettled private life, 209; Maria Mitchell meets and admires, 211–13; beliefs, 214–15; in old age, 215–16; death and burial, 216; Oxford college named for, 216; on evolution and teleology, 303; Molecular and Microscopic Science, 213–14; On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, 29, 199–202, 205–6; later editions, 208, 210; Personal Recollections, 215; Physical Geography, 210, 212, 215
Somerville, Mary, Jr (Mary’s daughter), 205–6, 213
Somerville, William, 204–6, 209, 211; death, 213–14
Southey, Robert: life of Nelson, 53; letter from Coleridge on association, 92; on Godwin’s Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft, 180; on Coleridge’s Royal Institution lectures, 300–1; on Blake, 310
Spenser, Edmund, 223
Spurling, Hilary, 47, 57
Staël, Albertine de, 155, 157
Staël, Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, Baronne de (née Necker): and Benjamin Constant, 141, 156, 161–2, 167; and Zélide, 144, 147–8, 151; background, 155–6; illegitimate child, 155, 157; lifestyle, 157; friendships and network, 158; biographies of, 159–60; fondness for father, 159–60; turban, 159–60; effect on Byron, 165–6; reputation and influence, 166–8; Corinne, 141, 155, 159, 162–3, 167; Correspondence Générale 1788–1809, 158; Delphine, 158, 161; On the Character of Monsieur Necker and his Private Life, 160; On Germany, 155, 163–5, 167; Reflections on Suicide, 158
Stanley, Virginia, 68
Steffens, Henrik, 287
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 277
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 6–8; Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 10, 76
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 162
Strachey, Lytton, 69, 150; Eminent Victorians, 47, 143; Queen Victoria, 151
Stukeley, William, 24–5, 224
Sunstein, Emily, 62
Swift, Jonathan, 128
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 309, 319, 325; William Blake: A Critical Essay, 335–7
Tatham, Frederick, 317, 328, 335
Taylor, Harriet, 192
Taylor, John, 229, 234–5
Ternan, Ellen, 58
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair, 278
Thirty-Nine Steps, The (Alfred Hitchcock; film), 90
Thomas, Edward: ‘Old Man’ (poem), 87–8
Thompson, E.P., 310
Thurman, Judith, 57
Ticknor, George, 164
Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America, 164
Todd, Janet, 62
Tomalin, Claire, 47, 57, 58, 62; The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, 190
Trelawny, Edward John: and Charles Brown, 240; and Shelley’s cremation, 245, 247–8; funerary inscription for Shelley, 247; on Shelley’s sailing experience, 250; and Shelley’s drowning, 252; Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author, 247
Turner, J.M.W., 210
Tuyll, Ditie de, 136
Tuyll, Isabelle de (‘Belle de Zuylen’; ‘Zélide’): appearance and character, 135–6; correspondence with Hermenches, 135–9, 143; marriage to Charrière, 135, 140–1, 144; life’s aims, 136–8; writings, 137, 142, 149; correspondence with Boswell, 140, 144, 148; relations with Benjamin Constant, 141, 143–4, 146, 148, 161; Geoffrey Scott writes biography, 142–52; clandestine affair, 149; women friends, 149–50; Caliste, 139, 142, 149; Letters from Mistress Henley published by her Friend, 141; Letters written from Neufchâtel, 141; Three Women, 139, 149
Upton, Hon. Mrs, 272
Uranus, 32, 35, 39–40
Vaughan, William, 278
Verne, Jules: Cinq Semaines en Ballon, 98
Victoria, Queen, 114
Vivian, Charles, 252
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet: Zélide reads, 136–7; and Hermenches, 139; Contes Philosophiques, 151; Letters on the English Nation, 25
Wallace, Alfred Russel, 31, 214, 303
Wallace, William, 204
Walpole, Horace, 182
Walpurgisnacht, 9
Walter Scott Publishing Company (London and Boston), 192
Ward, Aileen, 227
Waterhouse, John William: La Belle Dame Sans Merci (painting), 225
Waterton, Charles, 30
Watt, James, 28
Wedgwood family, 183
Weekes, Horatio, 248
Weingarten, Renée, 161, 167
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 276
Wernicke’s aphasia, 91
West, Shearer: Portraiture, 264
Westall, Richard, 269
Westfall, Richard: Never at Rest (The Life of Isaac Newton), 58
Westminster Review, 256
Wharton, Edith, 145, 147, 150–1
Whewell, William, 199, 201–2, 207, 211–12, 214
White, Newman Ivey: life of Shelley, 59
Whitman, Walt, 336–7
Wilberforce, William, 276
Williams, Edward, 250–3
Williams, Helen Maria, 183
Williams, Jane: and Shelley’s death, 247, 252; Shelley addresses verses to, 253
Wilson, Frances, 47
Wilson, Mona, 309
Wolff, Herman St John, 273
Wolff, Isabella, 272–3, 275
Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth (Mary’s sister), 177
Wollstonecraft, Everina (Mary’s sister), 173, 177
Wollstonecraft, Mary (later Godwin): Godwin’s life of, 52, 55, 62–4, 171, 175–82, 186–91; biographies of, 57; and Scott’s biography of Zélide, 149; suicide attempts, 158, 176, 189; shocks by asking ‘men’s questions’, 159; reputation and influence, 171–2, 182–5, 190, 192, 195; death in childbirth, 172–3, 190; illegitimate child by Imlay, 175–6, 188; religious beliefs, 187; inspires romantic novels and writings, 192–4; Mary Shelley on, 195–6; Elements of Morality for the Use of Children (trans. from German), 172; Historical and Moral View, 172; Letters to Imlay (unpublished), 178–9, 181; Letters Written from Scandinavia, 164, 172; Maria, or The Wrongs of Women (unfinished), 174–5; Posthumous Works (ed. Godwin), 175, 178, 195; The Rights of Man, 172; Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, 172; Vindication of the Rights of Women, 172, 174, 186, 188, 190, 193
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