One Hot Summer

by Rosemary Ashton

  diphtheria (i)

  D’Israeli, Isaac (father) (i), (ii)

  Disraeli, Benjamin (i), (ii)

  1858’s greatest political achievement (i)

  admission of Jews to House (i)

  Athenaeum blackballs (i)

  bill to cleanse Thames (i)

  Bulwer Lytton and (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

  dandyism (i), (ii)

  Darwin, Dickens and (i)

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

  Dickens and (i)

  getting into Parliament (i)

  hot weather helps project (i)

  India Bill (i), (ii), (iii)

  Jewishness of (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  late developer, a (i)

  marriage (i)

  money problems (i)

  Oudh proclamation and (i)

  Palmerston, Russell and (i)

  parodied by Thackeray (i)

  Royal Academy (i)

  Stanley praised by (i)

  stink compels him to rush from Commons (i)

  summary of achievements in government (i)

  Thames Purification Bill (i), (ii)

  Times praises (i)

  troubled by heat (i)

  upbeat letter (i)

  Victoria and (i)

  writings: Coningsby (i); Sybil, or the Two Nations (i); Tancred (i)

  Disraeli, Mary Anne (wife) (i), (ii)

  Disraeli, Sarah (sister) (i)

  divergence (i), (ii) n22

  divorce (i), (ii)

  Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act (1857) (Divorce Act) (i)

  amendments to (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Anna and Frederick Dickens use (i)

  comes into force (i)

  Dickens’s separation deed and (i)

  Disraeli and (i)

  Era on (i), (ii)

  Lyndhurst’s interventions (i)

  pantomime and (i)

  passed and takes effect (i)

  troublesome passage of (i)

  Divorce Court

  creation of (i)

  Divorce Act tested in (i), (ii)

  first well-known case (i)

  judges authorised to sit in (i)

  Robinson v. Robinson and Lane (i), (ii), (iii)

  smooth working of (i)

  Dixon, Hepworth (i)

  Doctor Thorne (Anthony Trollope) (i)

  ‘Doctors and their Bills, The’ (Punch) (i)

  Doctors’ Commons (i), (ii), (iii)

  Doland, Alexander (i), (ii), (iii)

  Donati, Giovanni Battista (i)

  Donati’s Comet (i), (ii), (iii)

  Doncaster (i), (ii)

  Donizetti, Gaetano (i)

  Donne, William (i), (ii) n18

  Dorchester, Lord (i)

  Down, John Langdon (i)

  Down[e], Kent (i), (ii), (iii)

  Down House (i), (ii)

  drainage (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Dramatic Authors’ Society (i)

  Drury Lane Theatre (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Drysdale, Charles (i)

  Drysdale, George (i)

  Drysdale, Lady (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Dublin (i)

  Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester (i)

  Dutch art (i), (ii)

  East India Company (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Eastlake, Sir Charles (i)

  Ecclesiastical Courts (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Edinburgh Review (i), (ii)

  Edinburgh University (i)

  Effingham Saloon, Whitechapel (i), (ii)

  Egg, Augustus (i), (ii), (iii)

  Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly (i)

  Elements of Social Science (George Drysdale) (i)

  Eliot, George (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) see also Marian Evans

  Elizabeth I, Queen (i)

  Ellenborough, Lord (i), (ii), (iii)

  embankments (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo (i)

  Engels, Friedrich (i), (ii), (iii)

  English Woman’s Journal (i)

  Epsom Downs (i), (ii)

  Era

  calls Thames a sewer (i)

  contagious disease rumours (i)

  Derby government achievements (i)

  Derby poem (i)

  Dickens’s readings (i)

  Dickens’s separation statement (i)

  Divorce Court cases (i), (ii)

  hails Thames clean-up (i)

  Lane case (i)

  on pantomimes (i)

  praises Derby (i)

  Royal Academy exhibition (i)

  Essay on the Principles of Population, An (Thomas Malthus) (i)

  ‘Essay on the Tendency of Varieties to depart indefinitely from the Original Type, An’ (Alfred Russel Wallace) (i)

  Eugénie, Empress (i)

  Evans, Bessie (i), (ii)

  Evans, Frederick (i), (ii), (iii)

  Evans, Frederick Jr (i)

  Evans, Isaac (i)

  Evans, Marian (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) see also Eliot, George

  Evans, Robert (i)

  Evans’s Supper Rooms (i), (ii)

  Examiner (i)

  Extraordinary Nature of an Outrageous Violation of Liberty and Law, in the Forcible Seizure and Incarceration of Lady Lytton Bulwer, in the Gloomy Cell of a Madhouse!!! and the Proceedings to Obtain her Release (i)

  Eyton, Thomas Campbell (i)

  Faraday, Michael (i), (ii)

  Farrer, Ouvry and Farrer, Messrs (i), (ii) see also Ouvry, Frederick

  Farringdon (i)

  Fielding, Henry (i)

  First World War (i)

  FitzRoy, Robert (i), (ii)

  Fladgate, Frank (i), (ii)

  Flaubert, Gustave (i)

  Florence (i), (ii), (iii)

  food supply (i)

  Forster, Eliza (i)

  Forster, John

  assists Catherine Dickens (i)

  Bulwer Lytton and (i)

  Carlyle confides in (i)

  Carlyle receives news of Rosina Bulwer Lytton from (i)

  Dickens’s confidant (i), (ii)

  Dickens on his marriage and (i)

  Dickens on his writing (i)

  Dickens recommends George Eliot to (i)

  Dickens’s separation agreement (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Garrick Club meeting (i)

  Household Words wound up (i)

  performs with Dickens (i)

  Rosina Bulwer Lytton insults (i), (ii)

  Rosina’s asylum (i)

  staid nature of (i)

  warns Dickens about performing (i), (ii)

  Fox, Henry (i)

  Fox, W.D. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Fra Diavolo (Daniel Auber) (i)

  France (i), (ii), (iii)

  Fraser’s Magazine (i), (ii), (iii)

  Frederick the Great (i), (ii)

  Frederick William, Prince (Prussia) (i)

  Free Trade Hall, Manchester (i)

  Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (i)

  Freemasons’ Hall, Covent Garden (i)

  French Revolution (i), (ii), (iii)

  Friends of Italy (i)

  Frith, William Powell (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Frozen Deep, The (Wilkie Collins) (i), (ii)

  Fullwood, Charles (i)

  Gad’s Hill

  described (i)

  Dickens dies at (i)

  Dickens divides time between office and (i), (ii)

  Dickens prepares for reading tour (i)

  Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street (i)

  Galton, Francis (i), (ii)

  Garrick Club (i), (ii)

  cause of rift at (i)

  Dickens, Thackeray and (i), (ii)

  foundation of (i)

  newspapers report on (i)

  Thackeray’s satires (i)

  Gaskell, Elizabeth (i)

  Gautier, M. (i)

  General Medical Council (i)

  Ge
neral Post Office (i), (ii)

  German Academy of Naturalists (i)

  Gladstone, William (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gloucester Crescent (i), (ii)

  God (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) see also Christianity

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (i)

  Gore, Catherine (i)

  Gough, Mr (i)

  Government of British Columbia Bill (i)

  Graham, Sir James (i), (ii)

  Graves, Caroline (i), (ii)

  Gray, Asa (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Great Barrier Reef (i)

  Great Eastern, SS (i)

  Charles Drysdale and (i)

  in pantomime (i), (ii)

  largest to date (i)

  stuck at Deptford (i)

  visitor attraction, a (i), (ii)

  Great Exhibition (1851) (i)

  Great Ormond Street Hospital (i)

  Greeley, Horace (i)

  Greenhow, Edward (i)

  Greenwich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Grey, Sir Charles (i)

  Grey, Sir George (i)

  Gully, Dr James (i)

  Gurney, Goldsworthy (i), (ii)

  Hackney Coach Tax (i)

  Haeckel, Ernst (i)

  Hall, Sir Benjamin (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Hall of Science (i)

  Handy Book on the New Law of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, and the Practice of the Divorce Court, A (anon.) (i)

  Harlequin Father Thames (pantomime) (i)

  harlequinade (i)

  Harrington, N.H. (i)

  Hartfield (i), (ii)

  Harun al-Rashid (i)

  Harvard University (i)

  Harvey, Edward (i)

  Haughton, Professor (i)

  Hawksley, Thomas (i)

  Hawley, Sir Joseph (i)

  Haymarket (i), (ii)

  Henry IV, Part One (William Shakespeare) (i)

  Henry VII, King (i)

  Henry VIII, King (i)

  Hertford (i), (ii), (iii)

  Higgins, Matthew (i)

  Hill, Dr Reginald Gardiner (i), (ii)

  Hinduism (i)

  Hogarth, Catherine see Dickens, Catherine

  Hogarth, George (i), (ii)

  Hogarth, Georgina

  Dickens and his tours (i)

  Dickens praises (i)

  helps Catherine (i)

  helps keep house at Gad’s Hill (i), (ii), (iii)

  rumours spread re Dickens (i), (ii), (iii)

  taking Dickens’s side against her family (i)

  Hogarth, Helen

  Dickens requires statement signed (i)

  Dickens suspects of spreading rumours (i)

  Dickens unforgiving to (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hollingshead, John (i)

  Holman Hunt, William (i)

  Homer (i)

  Hook, Rev. Dr William (i)

  Hooker, Frances (i)

  Hooker, Joseph (i), (ii), (iii)

  anticipating On the Origin of Species (i)

  correspondence with Darwin (i)

  Darwin and natural selection (i)

  Darwin Medal for (i), (ii)

  Darwin speaks of Lane (i)

  Darwin’s gratitude (i)

  Huxley–Wilberforce row and (i)

  natural selection doubts (i)

  praises Origin (i)

  time taken to be convinced on Origin (i), (ii)

  Wallace receives letters from (i)

  Hoop de dooden do Galop (Charles Marriott) (i)

  Hope, Henrietta (i)

  Hope, Henry (i)

  Hospital for Sick Children (Great Ormond Street) (i)

  hot weather

  Disraeli seeks to take advantage (i)

  June temperatures (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Punch’s survival guide (i)

  House of Commons

  Bank Acts committee (i)

  bills going to Lords (i)

  Disraeli leader of (i)

  Disraeli’s speeches (i)

  Edwin James forced to retire from (i)

  India Bill and censure motion (i)

  Jews admitted to (i), (ii), (iii)

  Lord Stanley’s excellent work (i)

  medical bills (i)

  sanitation committee formed (i)

  Thames stink and (i)

  House of Lords

  admittance of Jews and (i), (ii), (iii)

  Bulwer Lytton and (i)

  divorce debates (i), (ii), (iii)

  India Bill and censure motion (i)

  India debates (i)

  Telegraph campaigns for reform of (i)

  Household Words (i)

  Court Circular and (i)

  Dickens on divorce (i)

  Dickens’s separation statement (i)

  discontinued (i)

  Garrick affair and (i)

  Holman Hunt complains to (i)

  Morley assists at (i)

  offices of (i)

  social deprivation themes (i)

  Houses of Parliament

  Charles Barry’s new building (i)

  divorce and (i)

  location on Thames (i), (ii), (iii)

  possible removal (i)

  How I Tamed Mrs Cruiser (G.A. Sala) (i)

  Howlett, Robert (i)

  Hughenden Manor (i), (ii)

  Hungerford Bridge (i)

  Hunt, William Holman (i)

  Huxley, Leonard (i)

  Huxley, Thomas Henry (i), (ii)

  anticipating On the Origin of Species (i)

  Darwin Medal for (i)

  Darwin seeks reassurance and support (i), (ii)

  ‘Darwin’s bulldog’ (i)

  Darwin’s obituary by (i)

  death of (i)

  on natural selection (i)

  reviews written by (i), (ii)

  row with Bishop Wilberforce (i)

  Wallace and (i), (ii)

  Hyacinth (i)

  Hyde Park (i), (ii), (iii)

  hydropathy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Hydropathy: or the Natural System of Medical Treatment. An Explanatory Essay (Edward Lane) (i)

  Hythe (i)

  Illustrated London News

  cholera (i)

  criticises Palmerston (i)

  death of Bazalgette (i)

  Dickens’s readings (i)

  end of parliamentary session (i)

  Jews in Parliament (i), (ii)

  Linnaean Society natural selection meeting (i)

  Thames stench (i)

  welcomes Thames sewage plans (i), (ii)

  Illustrated Times (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  ‘Increase of Lunacy in Britain’ (Karl Marx) (i)

  India (i)

  India Bill (i)

  Disraeli pushes (i)

  Disraeli’s close call (i), (ii)

  hot weather and (i)

  House of Lords and (i)

  pantomime and (i)

  passed (i), (ii)

  slow progress of (i)

  tricky nature of (i)

  Inner Temple (i), (ii)

  intercepting sewers

  Bazalgette lays out plans (i), (ii)

  go-ahead to build (i)

  Hall’s qualified approval (i)

  Harlequin Father Thames and (i)

  route of (i)

  vital role of (i)

  Inverness Lodge (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  ‘Ireland of the Adelphi’ (i)

  Irving, Joseph (i), (ii), (iii)

  Isle of Dogs (i), (ii)

  Isle of Wight (i), (ii)

  Ivanhoe (Walter Scott) (i)

  James II, King (i)

  James, Edwin (i)

  Bulwer Lyttons in contact with (i), (ii)

  specialised work of (i)

  Turner case (i)

  various activities of (i)

  Yates’s Garrick suit (i), (ii), (iii)

  James, Henry (i)

  Jena University (i)

  Jerrold, Douglas (i), (ii)

  Jews (i)

  Chel
msford’s opposition to (i), (ii), (iii)

  Disraeli as (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  first lord mayor of London (i)

  representation in Parliament (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  John Murray publishers (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Jones, Ernest (i), (ii)

  Kelly, Sir Fitzroy (i), (ii)

  Kelly’s Post Office London Directory (i)

  Kendall, Mr (i), (ii)

  Kenilworth, or ye Queene, ye Earle, and ye Maydenne (i), (ii)

  Kensal Green cemetery (i)

  Kew Gardens (i), (ii)

  Kingsley, Charles (i), (ii)

  Knebworth Park (i), (ii)

  Koch, Robert (i)

  Lake District (i)

  Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste (i)

  Lambeth Company (water) (i)

  Lancaster (i)

  Lancet (i)

  Landseer, Edwin (i)

  Lane, Dr Edward (i)

  Darwin admires hydropathy book (i)

  Darwin visits (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Divorce Act amended in light of (i)

  Robinson v. Robinson and Lane reconvened (i), (ii)

  Robinson’s case against (i)

  Lankester, Edwin (i)

  Lankester, Sir Ray (i), (ii)

  Lansdowne, Lord (i)

  Lavater, Johann Kaspar (i)

  Lawes, James (i)

  Lawrence, Samuel (i)

  Lawrence, St (i)

  ‘Lectures on the English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century’ (William Makepeace Thackeray) (i)

  Lee, Dr John (i)

  Leech, John (i), (ii), (iii)

  Leeds (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lees, Dr (i)

  Leigh, Percival (i)

  Lemon, Mark (i), (ii), (iii)

  Leopold, King of the Belgians (i)

  Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill, A (Caroline Norton) (i)

  Lettington, Henry (i)

  Lever, Charles (i)

  Leviathan, SS see Great Eastern, SS

  Levy, Joseph (i)

  Lewes, Agnes (i)

  Lewes, G.H. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Lewis, George Cornewall (i)

  Liberals

  Bulwer Lytton’s re-election and (i)

  Conspiracy to Murder Bill (i)

  Jews in Parliament (i), (ii)

  Palmerston leads (i)

  Palmerston’s rivalry with Russell (i)

  working with Derby and Disraeli (i)

  Liebig, Justus von (i)

  Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala, Written by Himself (G.A. Sala) (i)

  lime (i), (ii), (iii)

  Linnaean Society (i)

  Darwin, Wallace and (i), (ii)

  fiftieth anniversary (i)

  Hooker’s parcels from (i)

  Robert Brown (i), (ii)

  Wallace’s paper read (i)

  Literary Gazette (i)

  Liverpool (i), (ii), (iii)

  Liverpool Mercury (i)

  London

  population statistics (i), (ii)

  social geography (i)

  underground system (i)

  water usage (i)

  London, University of (i)

  London Bridge (i)

  London Bridge station (i)

  Londonderry, Lady (i)

  Long Acre (i)