One Hot Summer

by Rosemary Ashton

  Frozen Deep performance (i)

  Palmerston observed (i)

  Rarey show (i)

  Albert Embankment (i), (ii)

  Alfred, Prince (i)

  All the Year Round

  Charley Dickens takes over (i)

  Dickens invites George Eliot to contribute (i)

  Dickens publishes Yates in (i)

  Dickens stays overnight (i)

  Frank Dickens works at (i)

  Once a Week rivals (i)

  replaces Household Words (i)

  Woman in White serialised (i)

  Allan, James Gordon (i)

  Allen, Charles (i)

  Amazon, river (i)

  Amboyna (i)

  anaesthesia (i)

  Anglo-Catholicism (i)

  Annals and Magazine of Natural History (i), (ii)

  Annals of Our Time, The (Joseph Irving) (i), (ii)

  Annual Exhibition see Royal Academy

  Annual Register (i), (ii)

  Apollo (i)

  Apothecaries’ Act (1815) (i)

  Arabian Nights (i)

  Arbury Hall (i)

  Arcedeckne, Andrew (i)

  Ariosto, Lodovico (i)

  Aristotle (i)

  Arru Islands (i), (ii)

  art (i)

  Art of Taming Wild Horses, The (James Rarey) (i)

  Ascent of Mont Blanc, The (Albert Smith) (i)

  Ashburton, Lady (i)

  Athenaeum

  account of natural selection (i)

  burlesque on Amy Robsart (i)

  crinoline and excessive heat (i)

  Edwin Lankester’s medical article (i)

  Ellen Ternan (i)

  on Trollope’s Doctor Thorne (i)

  Royal Academy exhibition (i)

  Athenaeum Club (i), (ii)

  Atlantic Cable

  breaks (i), (ii)

  Great Eastern and (i)

  in pantomime (i), (ii), (iii)

  laying of (i), (ii)

  rehearsal for (i)

  Atlantic Telegraph Company Bill (i)

  Auber, Daniel (i)

  Austin, Henry (i), (ii)

  Australia (i), (ii), (iii)

  Auvergne (i)

  Baikie, William (i)

  Balzac, Honoré de (i)

  Bank Acts (i), (ii)

  ‘Baptiste’ (poet) (i)

  Barking Creek (i), (ii)

  Barry, Sir Charles (i), (ii), (iii)

  Barry, Edward (i), (ii)

  Bastille (i)

  Bates, Henry (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Bazalgette, Joseph

  appointed (i), (ii), (iii)

  Barking Creek (i), (ii)

  Benjamin Hall opposes (i), (ii)

  death (i)

  lime placed in sewers (i)

  plans drawn up for intercepting sewers (i), (ii)

  Beadsman (racehorse) (i), (ii)

  Beagle, HMS

  germs picked up on? (i)

  most important event in Darwin’s life (i)

  notes and reports from (i)

  Syms Covington (i)

  Wallace reads journals from (i)

  Beckenham (i)

  Becker, Dr Ernest (i)

  Beethoven, Ludwig van (i)

  Bell, Thomas (i)

  Bellinzona (Switzerland) (i)

  Bengal (i)

  Bengal Mounted Police (i)

  Bennett, John Joseph (i)

  Bentham, George (i)

  Bentinck, Lord George (i)

  Bentley’s Miscellany

  Epsom Derby (i)

  India Bill (i)

  Oliver Twist (i)

  on Disraeli (i)

  Palmerston (i)

  Berger, Francesco (i)

  Berlin (i), (ii)

  Bermuda (i)

  Bernard, Bayle (i)

  Bernard, Dr Simon (i)

  Berners Street (i)

  Bethnal Green (i)

  Beverley, William (i)

  Bible (i)

  Bidder, George (i)

  Bidder, Hawskley and Bazalgette, Messrs (i)

  Big Ben (i), (ii)

  Billingsgate fish market (i), (ii)

  Birthplace of Podgers, The (John Hollingshead) (i)

  Blackfriars Bridge (i)

  Blackwood, John

  publishes Bulwer Lytton (i)

  publishes George Eliot (i), (ii)

  Thackeray and (i), (ii)

  Blackwood’s Magazine (i), (ii)

  Blake, Robert (i) n76

  Blanchard, Edward Leman (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Blighted Life, A (Rosina Bulwer Lytton) (i), (ii)

  Blue Books (i)

  Blyth, Edward (i)

  Board of Health (i)

  Board of Works see Metropolitan Board of Works

  Botanic Garden of Ceylon (i)

  Bradbury, William (i)

  Bradbury and Evans publishers

  Dickens severs contact (i), (ii), (iii)

  Dickens’s reading texts (i)

  Thackeray on Dombey and Son (i)

  Thackeray’s Virginians (i), (ii), (iii)

  Brighton (i)

  British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  British Columbia (i)

  British Medical Journal (i)

  British Museum

  Darwin and its experts (i)

  Marx in the reading room (i), (ii)

  natural history collections (i)

  Richard Owen (i)

  Robert Brown (i)

  British Novelists and Their Styles (David Masson) (i)

  Broad Street pump (i), (ii)

  Broadstairs (i)

  Bromley (i)

  Bromley Record (i), (ii)

  Brooks, Shirley (i)

  Brooks, William (i)

  Brough, Robert (i)

  Brougham, Lord (i)

  Brown, Robert (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Browne, Hablot Knight (‘Phiz’) (i)

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (i)

  Brunel, Isambard Kingdom (i)

  Charles Drysdale (i)

  Great Eastern a visitor attraction (i), (ii)

  Punch on (i)

  Thames Tunnel (Rotherhithe) (i)

  Brydges Willyams, Sarah

  Disraeli writes to or confides in (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Disraeli’s friend and benefactor (i)

  Mary Anne Disraeli and (i)

  Napoleon III’s attempted assassination (i)

  Buchanan, James (i)

  Buckinghamshire (i)

  Buckstone, John (i), (ii)

  Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de (i)

  Builder (i), (ii), (iii)

  Bulwer Lytton, Sir Edward (i), (ii), (iii)

  accepts Derby’s offer (i)

  Blackwood’s Magazine publishes (i)

  commits Rosina to asylum (i)

  Disraeli and discuss names (i)

  giving evidence for Yates (i)

  parody of (i)

  Punch poem (i)

  Thackeray’s description of (i), (ii)

  Bulwer Lytton, Emily (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Bulwer Lytton, Robert (i), (ii), (iii)

  Bulwer Lytton, Rosina (i), (ii), (iii)

  accuses Disraeli of sodomy (i)

  committed to asylum (i), (ii)

  on divorce, morality and hypocrisy (i)

  Burdett-Coutts, Angela (i)

  Dickens on Charley (i)

  Dickens on his unhappy marriage (i)

  supportive of Catherine Dickens (i), (ii)

  Burke, Edmund (i)

  Burlington House, Piccadilly (i), (ii), (iii)

  ‘Cage at Cranford, The’ (Elizabeth Gaskell) (i)

  Calcraft, Captain Granby (i)

  Camberwell (i)

  Cambridge, duke of (i)

  Cambridge House Plot (i), (ii)

  Cambridge Philosophical Society (i)

  Cambridge University (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Campbell, Sir Colin (i), (ii), (iii)
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br />   Campbell, Lord (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Canada (i)

  Canning, Lord (later Viscount) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cardwell, Edward (i), (ii), (iii)

  Carlisle (i)

  Carlyle, Jane (i), (ii), (iii)

  Carlyle, Thomas

  Chelsea Interior, A (i)

  criticises English conduct in India (i)

  Dickens’s marriage (i)

  Frederick the Great, book on (i)

  Great Eastern (i)

  hot weather perturbs (i)

  Past and Present (i)

  Rosina Bulwer Lytton and (i), (ii), (iii)

  Sartor Resartus (i)

  Carnarvon, Lord (i)

  Carpenter, W.B. (i), (ii)

  Castlerosse, Lord (i)

  Catholic Church (i)

  cesspools (i), (ii)

  Chadwick, Edwin (i), (ii)

  Chambers, Robert

  Huxley savages Vestiges (i)

  Lane case (i), (ii)

  turns to spiritualism (i)

  Vestiges of Creation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Chambers’s Exeter Journal (i)

  ‘Chant of the Expiring Ecclesiastical Court’ (Punch) (i)

  Chapman, Dr John (i)

  Chapman and Hall publishers (i)

  Charles I, King (i)

  Charles II, King (i)

  Charterhouse school (i)

  Chartists (i)

  Chelmsford, Lord (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Chelsea Interior, A (Robert Tait) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Chelsea Pensioners (David Wilkie) (i)

  Cheyne Row (i)

  chloroform (i), (ii)

  cholera (i), (ii), (iii)

  ‘Cholera and the Water Supply’ (John Snow) (i)

  Christianity see also God

  Darwin and (i)

  India and Europe (i)

  Jews in Parliament and (i)

  science and (i)

  to be imposed on India (i), (ii)

  Christy Minstrels (i), (ii), (iii)

  Church of Ireland (i)

  City Corporation (i)

  Clanricarde, marquess of (i)

  Clarendon, Lord (i)

  Clarges Street, Piccadilly (i)

  Clyde, river (i)

  Coal Tax (i)

  Cockburn, Sir Alexander (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Collins, Charles (i)

  Collins, Wilkie

  Dickens and the Arabian Nights (i)

  Dickens’s matrimonial troubles and (i)

  Frozen Deep performed (i), (ii)

  Garrick Club meeting (i), (ii)

  Woman in White (i), (ii)

  Combe, George (i), (ii), (iii)

  Commission of Sewers (i), (ii)

  Commissioners of Lunacy (i) see also Lunacy Commission

  Communist Manifesto, The (Karl Marx) (i)

  ‘Confessional in Belgravia, The’ (The Times) (i)

  connections (between people) (i), (ii)

  Conolly, Dr John (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Conservancy Board (i)

  Conspiracy to Murder Bill (i), (ii), (iii)

  Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (Karl Marx) (i)

  Copland, Edward (i)

  Corn Laws (i)

  Cornelius, Anne (i)

  Cornhill Magazine (i), (ii)

  Court Circular (i), (ii)

  Court of Arches (i), (ii)

  Court of Chancery (i), (ii)

  Court of Common Pleas (i), (ii)

  Court of the Exchequer (i), (ii), (iii)

  Court of the Queen’s Bench (i)

  Coutts, Angela Burdett see Burdett-Coutts, Angela

  Coutts’s Bank (i)

  Covent Garden (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Covent Garden Theatre see Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

  Covington, Syms (i)

  Cowper, Lady (i)

  Cowper, Lord (i)

  Cowper, William (i)

  Cresswell, Sir Cresswell (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Crim. Con. Gazette (i)

  Crimean War (i)

  crinolines (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Critic (i)

  Crossness (i)

  Cruiser (stallion) (i), (ii)

  Crystal Palace (i), (ii)

  Crystal Palace and West End Railway (i)

  Cubitt, Alderman William (i)

  Daily Telegraph (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Darlington (i)

  Darwin, Charles (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) see also natural selection

  1858’s greatest individual achievement (i)

  assessments of (i)

  burial of young son (i)

  contagious diseases at Down (i)

  death (i)

  Dickens, Disraeli and (i)

  divergence, Wallace and (i) n122

  Edward Lane and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) see also Lane, Dr Edward

  family of (i)

  health concerns and attempted remedies (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) n159

  household of (i)

  late developer, a (i)

  Marx and (i)

  natural selection see natural selection

  On the Origin of Species (i); death knell to intelligent design (i); Dickens and Disraeli unaware of (i); first part finished (i); Huxley reviews (i); on elephants (i); Owen reviews (i), (ii); rare ants (i); Sedgwick’s reaction to (i), (ii); significance of year of publication (i); sketch of (i); variation of species (i); working with urgency on (i)

  other writings: Descent of Man, The (i); ‘Historical Sketch of the Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species, An’ (i), (ii) n3; Journal (i); Life and Letters (i), (ii)

  positive personality of (i), (ii)

  reading Adam Bede (i), (ii)

  reading Malthus ‘for amusement’ (i)

  reclusive nature (i)

  Wallace and his crucial letter (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Darwin, Charles Waring (son) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Darwin, Emma (wife) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Darwin, Erasmus (grandfather) (i)

  Darwin, Erasmus Alvey (brother) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Darwin, Francis (son) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Darwin, Henrietta (daughter)

  ill health of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  on Charles Waring Darwin (i)

  on crinoline (i)

  Darwin, Leonard (son) (i)

  Darwin, Dr Robert (father) (i), (ii)

  ‘Darwin–Wallace Celebration’ (i)

  Darwin Medals (i)

  Darwinism (Alfred Russel Wallace) (i)

  Davies, Mrs (i)

  de Cerjat, William (i), (ii)

  Death and Mr Pickwick (Stephen Jarvis) (i) n4

  Delane, John (i), (ii)

  Deptford (i), (ii), (iii)

  Derby, Edward Stanley, 14th earl of

  Bulwer Lytton and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Clarendon and (i)

  Disraeli and, a team (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Ellenborough resigns (i)

  Era supports (i), (ii), (iii)

  gout lays low (i), (ii)

  India Bill (i)

  interest in horse racing (i)

  Jewish question (i)

  loses power in 1859 election (i)

  newspaper assessments (i)

  Poisons Bill (i)

  remarkable record of reforms (i)

  resigns over Reform Bill (i), (ii)

  Rosina Bulwer Lytton writes to (i), (ii), (iii)

  Royal Academy (i)

  summary of achievements (i)

  survival in government (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Derby, Epsom (i), (ii), (iii)

  ‘Derby Alphabet, The’ (‘Baptiste’) (i)

  Derby Day, The (William Powell Frith) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Devonshire, duke of (i)

  Dickens, Alfred (son) (i)

  Dickens, Anna (sister-in-law) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Dickens, Augustus (brother) (i), (ii)

  Dickens, Catherine (wife) (i)
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  Dickens and their children (i)

  Dickens confides in re childhood (i)

  Dickens suggests mental illness in (i), (ii)

  marries Dickens (i)

  no last words from husband (i)

  relations with (i)

  separation from Dickens (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Dickens, Charles (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) see also All the Year Round; Household Words

  a year of no novels (i)

  actor/director (i)

  Bradbury & Evans split (i), (ii), (iii)

  Catherine and Georgina (i)

  Catherine and separation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  Catherine a victim of his harshness and ruthlessness (i), (ii), (iii)

  Charley Dickens’s marriage (i), (ii), (iii)

  childhood of and feelings of shame (i)

  Darwin, Disraeli and (i)

  death (i)

  Disraeli and (i)

  Edwin James and A Tale of Two Cities (i), (ii)

  Ellen and the Ternan family (i), (ii), (iii) see also Ternan, Ellen

  family (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Frederick Dickens and (i)

  Garrick Club dispute (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Great Ormond Street hospital (i)

  Marx reads (i)

  on divorce (i), (ii)

  on India (i)

  on Palmerston (i)

  one-man shows and readings (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Royal Academy (i)

  statement denying rumours and gossip (i)

  summarised (i)

  supported by Yates (i)

  supports Yates (i), (ii), (iii)

  Thackeray and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  theatre company (i), (ii)

  trip with Wilkie Collins (i), (ii)

  ‘Violated Letter’ further enflames situation (i)

  writings: All the Year Round (i); Bleak House (i); ‘Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn’ (i); Chimes, The (i); Christmas Carol, A (i), (ii); Cricket on the Hearth, The (i); David Copperfield (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Dombey and Son (i), (ii); Great Expectations (i), (ii), (iii); ‘In Memoriam’ (i); ‘Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, The’ (i); ‘Life and Death of Little Dombey’ (i), (ii); Little Dorrit (i), (ii); Martin Chuzzlewit (i), (ii); ‘Mrs Gamp’ (i); Mystery of Edwin Drood, The (i), (ii); Oliver Twist (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v); Our Mutual Friend (i), (ii); Pickwick Papers (i), (ii), (iii), (iv); Poor Traveller, The (i); Sketches by Boz (i), (ii), (iii); Tale of Two Cities, A (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Dickens, Charles Jr (Charley) (son) (i)

  All the Year Round (i)

  attends Derby (i)

  father disapproves of marriage (i), (ii), (iii)

  kindness towards mother (i), (ii)

  Thackeray, Punch and (i), (ii), (iii)

  Dickens, Edward (son) (i), (ii)

  Dickens, Frank (son) (i)

  Dickens, Frederick (brother) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Dickens, Harry (son) (i), (ii)

  Dickens, John (father) (i)

  Dickens, Katey (daughter) (i), (ii)

  Dickens, Letitia (sister) (i)

  Dickens, Mamie (daughter) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Dickens, Sydney (son) (i), (ii)

  Dickens, Walter (son) (i)