Collins, William (James’s son), 9
Collins, William (WC’s father): birth, 8; painting career, 10–11, 14–16, 22–4, 52, 56; courtship and marriage, 13, 17–18; WC writes biography, 13, 70–1; character, 22; religious beliefs and observance, 22, 26–7, 29–31, 34–5, 42, 59, 63, 71, 128; political conservatism, 26; depression, 31; Italian grand tour with family, 32–8; illness in Italy, 37–8; returns to England, 39; and WC’s education, 41, 43; health concerns and eye trouble, 46–7, 52, 65, 110; in Germany for spa cure, 47; as part-time librarian at Royal Academy, 47, 52; relations with WC, 48, 51–2, 111, 128–30; and WC’s career, 49–50, 57, 65; holiday in Seaford with Antrobus, 52; illustrates Scott’s The Pirate, 53–4; visits Scotland, 53–4; depicted in Joseph Bullar’s Evening Thoughts, 57; will and estate, 57, 65; in Paris with Charles Ward, 59–61; visits Oxford, 59; payments to WC, 61; death and funeral, 65; depicted in Hide and Seek, 128–30; marriage secret, 130–1; WC and Charley share paintings, 272; Disposal of a Favourite Lamb (painting), 11; The Mussel-Gatherer (painting), 24
Collins, William (WC’s grandfather), 8–10, 13; Memoirs of a Picture, 9, 137; ‘The Slave Trade’ (poem), 9; The New Vocal Miscellany, 8
Combe family, 244
Combe, Thomas, 90
Combe, Mrs Thomas, 92, 99
Commission of Lunacy, 196, 210
Compton, John (Caroline Graves’s father), 156
Compton, Martha (Caroline Graves’s sister), 157
Compton (or Pully), Sarah (Caroline Graves’s mother), 156–8
Compton, William (Caroline Graves’s brother), 157
Conolly, Dr John, 194, 196, 198
‘Considerations on the Copyright Question’ (WC; pamphlet), 382
Cooke, Jay (Philadelphia banking house), 338
Cooper, James Fenimore, 130, 335, 386
copyright, 269, 299, 325–6, 382, 399
Coquette (schooner), 161, 167
Corbyn and Company (pharmacists), 390
Cornhill (magazine), 225–6, 243, 250, 286, 354
Cornwall, 78–81
Cornwall, Barry see Procter, Bryan Waller
Court Duel, A (translated French play), 76
Cousins, Thomas, 157
Coutts bank, 132
Crabbe, George, 367
Cresswell, Miss (schoolteacher), 250
Cridland, Joseph, 92
Crimean War (1854–6), 126, 135, 137, 143
Critchett, George, 312, 360
Critchett, Richard (‘Claude Carton’), 360
Croker, J. Wilson, 70
‘Cruise of the Tomtit, The’ (WC; travelogue), 145
Custody of Infants Act (1839), 49
Dadd, Richard, 69
Daily Graphic (New York newspaper), 340
Daily News, 254, 264, 268–9, 298
Daily Telegraph, 181, 315, 400, 410
Dallas, E.S., 220
Daly, Augustin, 308, 340, 364
Dana, Richard Jr, 71–3, 344; Two Years Before the Mast, 71
Daniel, Book of, 273
Darwin, Charles: On the Origin of Species, 193
Davis, John Hall, 310
Davis, Mary (Easton), 288–9
Dawson, Charles (WC-Martha’s son), 416
Dawson, Harriet (WC-Martha’s daughter), 313, 380, 395, 413, 416
Dawson, Marian (WC-Martha Rudd’s daughter): birth and background, 293, 300, 313; breaks leg, 326; named as Marian Collins, 380; schooling, 395; takes over secretarial duties for WC, 407; inheritance from WC, 413; later life, 416
Dawson, William Charles Collins (WC-Martha’s son), 352, 380, 413
Dead Alive, The (WC), 339
Dead Secret, The (WC): writing, 149; plot and themes, 171–3; serialisation, 172, 173
deafness and dumbness: in Hide and Seek, 130
de la Rue family, 121
de la Rue, Augusta, 121–2
de la Rue, Emile, 122, 146
detective stories, 162–4, 273–5, 391; The Woman in White as, 201
Devonport Street, London, 56
Devonshire House, Piccadilly, 82, 87
Devonshire, William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of, 76, 82, 87
diamonds, 280
‘Diary of Anne Rodway, The’ (WC; story), 162–4, 182, 195
Dickens family: WC holidays with, 144
Dickens, Alfred (Charles’s brother): death, 214
Dickens, Alfred (Charles’s son), 178
Dickens, Augustus (Charles’s brother), 188
Dickens, Catherine (Charles’s wife): depression, 85–6; and Charles’s relations with Augusta de la Rue, 121–2; Charles writes to from Italy, 122–4; Charles’s deteriorating relations with, 137, 146, 150; forty-second birthday at Gad’s Hill, 173; marriage collapses, 176, 178–80; absent from daughter Katey’s wedding, 206; entertains WC, 283
Dickens, Charles: friendship with WC, 2, 20, 85, 102, 111, 133–4, 138, 150, 164, 178–9, 253–4, 281, 417; commitment to London, 8; frequents St Marylebone church, 22; irritated by Harriet Collins’s garrulity, 23; WC confesses Rome love affair to, 36–7; writes on Caroline Norton case, 49; works at Warren’s blacking factory, 51; and Maclise, 60; Henry Russell imitates, 67; edits Bentley’s Magazine, 75; and Home for Fallen Women (Urania Cottage), 76; offers parts in plays to WC, 82, 85–6, 99, 137; passion for theatre, 82, 150; deaths of father and infant daughter, 86–7; interest in detectives, 86, 221–2; amateur acting, 87–8, 99, 165, 165–6, 172, 174–5; mocks Pre-Raphaelites, 89; and WC’s contributions to Household Words, 97–8; friendship with Collins family, 99; praises WC’s acting, 102; spends time in Boulogne, 116, 134–5, 164; on WC’s illness, 116; travels to Italy with WC and Egg, 118–19, 122–3; and Augusta de la Rue, 121–2; as WC’s father figure, 130; Hide and Seek dedicated to, 131; praises Hide and Seek, 131; proposes WC for Garrick Club, 132; Ned Ward portrait of, 134; burns letters, 135, 214; in Paris with WC, 137, 146–7, 150–1; restlessness and boredom with marriage, 137, 146, 150; stages WC’s The Lighthouse, 140; makes peace with Millais and Pre-Raphaelites, 142; buys and occupies Gad’s Hill Place, 146, 164–5, 172; helps WC with The Dead Secret, 149–50; praises WC’s A Rogue’s Life, 149; depressions, 150; disapproves of Caroline Graves, 161, 203, 223–4; on Edward Pigott, 161; cries over WC’s ‘Diary of Anne Rodway’, 164; falls for Ellen Ternan, 175–6; attends professional performance of The Lighthouse, 176; ends marriage to Catherine, 176, 178–9; WC accompanies to Doncaster, 176; and WC’s accident on trip to Cumberland, 177; feuds following rumours of affair, 179–80; reading tour, 179, 183; and ‘violated letter’ (personal statement on marriage breakdown), 179–80, 183, 188; deed of separation from Catherine, 180; novel-writing, 184; Frith portrait of, 188; pays for Ternans’ expenses, 188; publishes All the Year Round (journal), 188–9; contracts gonorrhoea, 189, 230; encourages WC over The Woman in White, 192; and Ruck-Stilwell case, 194; praises The Woman in White, 200, 207; visits WC in Broadstairs, 202, 229; and daughter Katey’s marriage, 206; tour of Devon and Cornwall with WC, 221; coolness over Charles-Katey Collins marriage, 223; and unauthorised dramatisation of ‘A Message from the Sea’, 223; WC accompanies to music hall, 223; offers to finish No Name, 230; and Frances Dickinson’s marriage to Elliot, 237; approves of Armadale, 251, 265; resigns from Garrick, 253; in Staplehurst rail accident, 253–4; supports Charley Collins, 272, 306; North American tour, 282; attacks WC’s lack of sympathy for brother Charley, 289–90, 305; criticises The Moonstone, 289; on Caroline’s breach with WC, 291; and Caroline’s marriage to Clow, 293; praises Black and White, 298; death, 305; correspondence published, 372–3; Bleak House, 102, 117; The Frozen Deep (play, with WC), 165–7; Great Expectations, 201, 214, 221; Hard Times, 128; ‘The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices’ (with WC), 178; Little Dorrit, 137, 146, 166, 172; Martin Chuzzlewit, 69; Mr Nightingale’s Diary (play, with Mark Lemon), 87; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 306, 316, 373; Oliver Twist, 233; ‘The Perils of Certain English Prisoners’ (with WC), 178; Pickwick Papers, 3, 17, 48; Sketches by Boz, 48; A Tale of Two Cities, 139, 189; �
��Why Shave?’ (article), 126; ‘The Wreck of the Golden Mary’, 166
Dickens, Charles Culliford Boz (Charles Dickens Jr), 362
Dickens, Dora (Charles’s daughter): death, 86
Dickens, Henry (Charles’s son), 137, 254
Dickens, John (Charles’s father): death, 87
Dickens, Kate Macready (Charles’s daughter) see Collins, Katey
Dickens, Mary (‘Mamie’; Charles’s daughter), 20, 206
Dickinson, Frances (‘Florentia’; later Mrs Gilbert Elliot): WC meets, 120–1; writes on Italian art, 127–8; and marriage, 169; Dickens disparages Caroline Graves to, 209; marriage to Gilbert Elliot, 237; West Indian source of fortune, 249; WC visits, 255, 266, 287; visits WC’s mother in Tunbridge Wells, 262; Poor Miss Finch dedicated to, 317; daughter’s wedding, 337; The Priest Miracles of Rome, 121
Dicks, John, 406
Dictionary of National Biography, 401
Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth: Greater Britain, 342
Disraeli, Benjamin, 264, 354
divorce laws, 169–70, 181, 195
Dixon, William Hepworth, 345; Spiritual Wives, 198, 343; New America, 342
Dodsworth, Elizabeth (née Buller-Yarde-Buller), 28
Dodsworth, Revd William, 28, 42–3, 57, 71
Doncaster, 176–7
Donne, William Bodham, 351
Douhault, Marquis de, 198
Dover, 102, 110, 251
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 275
‘Dream Woman, The’ (WC; story), 338, 342, 351
Drummond, Henry, 28, 77
‘Duel in Herne Wood, The’ (WC; story), 362
Dugléré, Adolphe, 219
Dyke, Mrs (‘Aunt Christy’), 413
Eastbourne, 333
Eddy, Revd John, 156
Education Act (1870), 354
Edward (factotum on trip to Italy), 19
Edward, Prince of Wales, 332
Egg, Augustus: in Clique, 69; and amateur dramatics, 82, 86, 140, 172; exhibits at Royal Academy, 88; on sex and matrimony, 116; travels to Italy with Dickens and WC, 118, 123; occupies Little Campden House (The Elms), 141; WC entertains, 210; visits WC in Broadstairs, 229; death, 239; marriage, 240; Past and Present (triptych), 116, 239
Eliot, George (Marian Evans), 92, 133, 162, 203; Middlemarch, 324
Eliot, T.S.: on The Moonstone, 3; writes on WC and Dickens, 419
Elliot, Gilbert, Dean of Bristol, 237
Elliot, Mrs Gilbert see Dickinson, Frances
Elliotson, Dr John, 95, 229, 236, 278
Ellis, F.S. (publishers), 306–7
Ellis, William: Polynesian Researches, 62
Emden, W.S., 175
England (Conservative weekly), 382
English Woman’s Journal, 189
Era (magazine), 112
Evangelicalism, 12, 26, 29, 202–3
Evans, Frederick: publishes WC, 173; Dickens breaks with, 180, 183
Evans, Marian see Eliot, George
Evil Genius, The (WC), 389, 392; dramatisation, 393
Eytinge, Rose, 367–8
Fallen Leaves, The (WC): describes house, 346; utopian community in, 346; plot and themes, 369–72; dedicated to Caroline Graves, 372; published as book and reviewed, 373–4, 378; poor sales, 378
Family Herald (journal), 185
Farley Court, near Reading, 128
Farnham, Surrey, 217
‘Fatal Fortune, A’ (WC; story), 351
Fechter, Charles: character and acting career, 244; moves to London, 244; gives Swiss chalet to Dickens for Gad’s Hill, 254; takes lead in No Thoroughfare, 283; and WC’s Black and White, 297–8; borrows money from WC, 299, 325; moves to USA, 315; makes visit from USA, 325; WC meets in USA, 335, 337, 345; financial problems, 337; death and tributes, 374; friendship with WC, 417
Female Emigration Fund, 76
Fenning, Elizabeth, 183
Fenwick, Dr Samuel, 407
Ferguson, Sir William, 390
Ferrier, David, 385
Field, Inspector Charles, 86
Field, Kate, 367, 374
Fields, Annie, 332
Fildes, Luke, 306–16
Fireside Companion (US publication), 339
Folkestone, Kent, 143, 313
Forgues, Emile, 190
Forrester, Andrew: The Female Detective, 273
Forster, John: biography of Goldsmith, 74; play reading in rooms, 86; and WC’s acting, 102; stays with Dickens in Boulogne, 117; friendship with Dickens, 133, 150, 179; and Dickens’s discontent, 137; Dickens confesses end of marriage to, 176; at Charles-Katey Collins wedding, 206; Armadale dedicated to, 265; life of Dickens, 317, 338
Fox, Edwin, 195, 216
France: and The Woman in White, 198–9; see also Boulogne; Paris
Franco-Prussian War (1870–1), 308, 322
Franklin, Sir John, 165–6
Fraser’s Magazine, 97
Freeman-Heathcote, Sir Thomas, 13
Freemason’s Hall, London, 283
Fremantle, Revd the Hon. W.H., 356
Frith, William Powell: in Clique, 69; amateur dramatics, 73; unconventional domestic life, 116; portrait of Dickens, 188; friendship with Egg, 239; values WC’s father’s paintings, 272; WC entertains, 309; Mr Honeywood Introduces the Bailiffs to Mrs Richland as his Friends (painting), 74
Frozen Deep, The (WC; play, with Dickens), 165–7, 172, 174, 259, 265, 268, 270, 282, 315, 347
Frozen Deep and Other Stories, The (WC), 351–2
Fryston Hall, Yorkshire, 210, 248, 277
Fuseli, Henry, 10, 23
‘Gabriel’s Marriage’ (WC; story), 140
Gad’s Hill Place, Kent: Dickens purchases and moves to, 146, 164–5, 173; Dickens shows to WC, 164; improvement works, 172; WC visits, 188–9, 214, 283; paintings in, 214; Swiss chalet, 254
Galignani’s Messenger (continental newspaper), 364
Gall, Revd James, 32
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 242
Garibaldi, Ricciotti, 210
Garrick Club: WC’s membership, 132, 138, 169, 252; WC sponsors Luard for, 142; and Dicken’s breach with Thackeray, 180; moves to Garrick Street, 253; WC and Dickens resign from, 253; WC serves on general committee, 253
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 128, 131, 183
Geddes, Captain Alexander (WC’s maternal grandfather), 11–12
Geddes, Christine (Christy; WC’s aunt), 23
Geddes, Harriet (née Easton; WC’s maternal grandmother), 11
Geddes, Margaret (WC’s aunt) see Carpenter, Margaret
Geils, Lieut. John-Edward, 121
George IV, King, 7, 16
German Foreign Legion, 143
‘Ghost in the Cupboard Room, The’ (WC; story), 202, 204
ghost stories, 275
‘Ghost’s Touch, The’ (WC; story), 391
Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 64
Gibbons, Elizabeth, 151
Gilbert, W.S.: Pygmalion and Galatea, 394
Gilbert, W.S. and A. Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore, 383
Girardin, Delphine de: La Joie Fait Peur (Sunshine Through the Clouds; play), 132–3
Girardin, Emile, 132
Gladstone, William Ewart, 292, 354
Gloucester Place, Regent’s Park, 272, 281–2, 294, 309, 314, 353, 380, 403
Goethe, J.W. von: The Sorrows of Young Werther, 37–8
Goldsmid, Sir Francis and Louisa, Lady, 212–13, 266
Goldsmith, Oliver, 73–4; The Good Natur’d Man, 73; She Stoops to Conquer, 12; The Vicar of Wakefield, 73
Gordon, Charles Alexander, 386
Goschen, George (later 1st Viscount), 268
Gothic, the: in WC’s fiction, 106
Gounod, Charles, 332
Graphic (newspaper), 313, 349, 351, 355–6
Graves, Caroline: wishes to marry younger man, 2; background, 155–60; WC’s liaison with, 155, 160–1, 169, 171, 177, 179–81, 186, 325, 349; portrayed in The Woman in White, 159–60; Dickens’s disapproval of, 161, 203, 224; holi
days with WC, 187, 190; WC lives openly with, 187–8; moves to Harley Street, 204, 228; absent from Charles-Katey Collins wedding, 207; devotion to WC, 209; accompanies WC to Paris, 218–19, 361; recorded in 1861 census as WC’s wife, 224; dines out with WC, 231; nurses WC, 236; hysterical-nervous attacks, 237–8; unmarried state, 237; as model for WC’s heroines, 238; in Isle of Man with WC, 241; travels to Italy with WC, 241; influence on Armadale, 247, 257; at Melcombe Place, 252, 262; takes separate holiday from WC, 255; diminishing role in WC’s life, 259–60, 269; appearance, 260; and WC’s liaison with Martha Rudd, 262, 267, 271, 290–1; social exclusion, 279, 323; assists as amanuensis on The Moonstone, 280; marries Clow, 290, 293, 392; WC supports financially, 296, 330, 333; returns to WC after marriage collapse, 309–10, 314; receives rent from stable letting, 325; in WC’s will, 333, 413; settled domestic life with WC, 353, 356, 380, 396; visits Brussels with WC, 360; travels abroad with WC, 363; The Fallen Leaves dedicated to, 372; in Ramsgate with WC, 380; and move to Wimpole Street, 404; character, 405–6; and WC’s funeral, 409; moves to Newman Street, 412; death, 415
Graves, George Robert, 157–8, 177
Graves, Harriet see Bartley, Elizabeth Harriet
Graves, Mary Ann (Caroline’s mother-in-law), 158, 363
Gray, Alexander, 78, 343, 398
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