Norwich Post (newspaper), 123
Novello, Alfred (music publisher), 365
novels: multi-volume, 184 & n; partpublication and serialization, 188-9; see also books
Nuneham, Simon Harcourt, Viscount (later 1st Earl Harcourt), 380
Oban: hotels and accommodation, 228
Observer (newspaper), 140
O’Connell, Daniel, 257n
Offer, George, 436
Ogilby, John: The Traveller’s Guide, 70
Okell, Benjamin, 133
Old Vic Theatre see Coburg Theatre
Oldham, Lancashire: friendly societies, 31
Olympic Theatre, London, 208, 298
Omai (Tahitian), 198
omnibuses: running costs and fares, 98-9; see also individual towns and cities
open spaces: reduced, 436-7
opera: in London, 347-9; touring companies, 367
Opie, John, 390
Orange Blossoms (magazine), 163
orchestras (and bands): in seaside resorts, 249-50; formed, 348; at Crystal Palace, 368; see also concerts
Orchestrion (formerly Panharmonicon), 265
Oriental Repository (London store), 396
Original Bath Guide, 234-5
Orléans, Philippe, duc d’ (‘Philippe Égalité’), 392
Orsini, Felice, 415
Ossian see Macpherson, James
Owen, Robert, 80
Owen, William, 166
Oxford: clubs and societies, 5
Oxford English Dictionary, 26
Oxford Music Hall, London, 375-6
Paderewski, Ignacy, 372
Paine, T. (popular novelist), 175
Paine, Thomas: Common Sense, 139; The Rights of Man, 167
painting: history painting, 387-8, 390
Pall Mall Gazette, 146
Palmer, John, 128, 231, 295n
Palmer, Dr William (the Rugeley Poisoner), 272
panoramas, 252-3, 261-4, 266-71, 273
Pantheon, Oxford Street, London, 107-8, 349-50
pantomime, 305-8, 312; see also extravaganzas, theatre
Papendieck, Charlotte Louise Henrietta: Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte, 470
paper: manufacture, 148-9, 182
Paris: department stores, 109, 113n, 117; Louvre museum, 391
Park, Mungo: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 197
Parker Bowles, Camilla (Duchess of Cornwall), 11n
parks: public, 437; see also enclosure
Parliament, Houses of: burning of (1834), 267
Parry, Captain Sir William Edward, 92
patent medicines, 133-5, 162
Paterson, Daniel: road guides, 200-1
Paul Pry (newspaper), 141
Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel, 327
Paxton, Joseph, 3, 27, 34, 226
Pears, A. and F. (soap manufacturers), 417
pedlars see hawkers and pedlars
Peel, Robert (‘Parsley’), 75
Peel, Sir Robert, 75, 407
peep shows, 285
Pendred’s Directory of the Book Trade, 389
Pennant, Thomas, 223
Penny Bell’s Life and Sporting News see Sporting Life
penny gaffs (theatres), 297
Penny Magazine, 156-7, 407
Penny Times, 142
Penny Weekly, 96
Pepper, John Henry, 272
Pepusch, J.C., 343
Pepys, Samuel, 257n, 277
Peterloo Massacre (1819), 139
Petticoat Lane, London (market), 87
Philharmonia Society, 366
Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), 159
photography: exhibitions, 270; availability, 271; and stage, 336n; early techniques, 412n; see also Daguerre, Louis; Gambart, Ernest; Talbotypes
Piano-Forte Magazine, 358
pianos: at Great Exhibition, 20-1; possession, 26, 359-60, 364-5; manufacture and development, 354-5, 361-4; sheet music for, 357; prices, 360-2, 364; uprights, 361; imported, 363-4; iron-framed, 363-4; on hire, 364; and singing of carols, 474; see also under individual manufacturers
Pickwick Adertiser, The, 189
Pickwick Bicycle Club, 454
Pictorial Times, 157
picturesque, the, 217
piers (seaside), 230 & n, 247-8
Pigot’s London and Provincial New Commercial Directory, 42
Pilotelle, Georges, 116n
Piozzi, Gabriel, 356
Piozzi, Hester Lynch (earlier Thrale), 356
Pitt, William, the younger, 128-9
Place, Francis (tailor), 100, 102
Planché, James Robinson: produces Mr Buckstone’s Voyage, 39; extravaganzas, 200, 252, 308-9; memorializes Mme Tussaud, 257; and Shakespeare, 328-9; Christmas plays, 475; The Brigand, 324; The Discreet Princess, 335-6; The Good Woman in the Wood, 328; The New Planet, 272
Playfair, Lyon, 15 & n
pleasure gardens, 232-3, 236, 276-80, 294, 296; and musical concerts, 350; see also individual gardens
Plimsoll, Samuel, 244n
Plumptre, Revd James: The Lakers, 217, 222-3
Plumptre, Revd Joseph: ‘A Narrative of a Pedstrian Journey . . .’, 222-3
Plymouth: theatre in, 294
Pocock, Isaac: The Miller and his Men, 331
Polytechnic Institution: founded, 271-2
Pond, Arthur, 409, 411
Pontings (London store), 113, 497
Poole, John: Hamlet Travestied, 328
Poor Law Board, 477
Pope, Alexander, 381-2
population: England and Wales, 26
porcelain, 62; see also china Post Office: carries newspapers without charge, 127-8, 144; letter-rate, 134 & n, 151; uses railways, 144-5; telegraphs horseracing results, 432-3; and greetings cards, 483-5; penny post, 483, 485; parcels and packages, 487
Post Office Supply Association, 81
postal service, 9, 128-30
postcards, 485-6
Pound, Ezra, 143n
Powys, Mrs Lybbe, 212-15, 260, 391, 423
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 414
Press Association: and sports reporting, 151n
Priestley, Joseph, 74n
Prime Meridian Conference, Washington (1884), 195n
printing: government control of, 123; technological developments, 148-9, 182; see also chromolithography, lithography
prints and print-sellers, 388-91, 409, 412-13
Professional Concert (orchestra), 348-9
prostitution: and theatre, 298n
Pryde, James Ferrier, 418
Public Advertiser, 349, 352
public houses and taverns: theatre in, 296-7; purpose-built, 372; and football, 439, 449-50
publishing: in London, 165; popular, 174; ‘libraries’ (series), 188-90, 205; and railway reading, 190-2; see also books, booksellers, individual companies
Puückler-Muskau, Prince Hermann, 260, 278, 307-8, 316
Pugin, Auguste, 267n
Pultney, Walter, 248
Punch (magazine): on standard of living, 26; on workers at Great Exhibition, 28-9; on modern travel, 196-7; advertises shows, 286; on artists, 415; on professional footballers, 447; bicycle cartoons, 455; on ladies in bloomers, 463; on mistletoe and kissing bough, 473; on railway bookstalls, 1912
Purcell, Henry, 344
Purefoy family, Shalstone (Buckinghamshire), 48
Quarterly Review, 187
Queen Theatre, London, 342
Queen’s (magazine), 115, 161, 163, 339
Quilter, William, 410
Racing Calendar, 151, 420, 424-6
Racing Times, 432
Radcliffe, Ann, 69n
Raikes, Robert, 124, 130, 133, 176
Raikes, Robert, Jr, 124n
Railway Magazine, 475
railways: excursions to Great Exhibition, 30, 32-6; station bookstalls, 38, 191-2; carry mail, 144-6; effect on reading, 187-8, 190-4; development of, 188; timetables and regularization of time, 194-5; and guidebooks, 203-4; tourist tickets,
204; and development of recreational travel, 225; excursions, 225-6; hotels, 227-8; and seaside trips, 241-3, 247; represented in panoramas, 269; and location of entertainments, 282-3; and theatre attendance, 301; in melodramas, 331-2; and musical concerts, 366-7; and horseracing, 430-2, 435; football excursions, 450; carry bicycles, 455-6; and Christmas travel, 474-5, 487
Rambler ( journal), 168
Ramsay, Alan (songwriter), 353
Ramsay, Allan (painter), 382, 385
Ramsgate, Kent, 247
Ranelagh Pleasure Gardens, London, 236, 280
Rawthmell’s Coffee House, Covent Garden, 6
Rayner, Benjamin, 298
reading see books
Reading Mercury, 130
Read’s Weekly Journal, 424
recreation: and open space, 436-7; see also enclosure; leisure; sport
Red Barn murder, 181n
Reform Bill (1832), 407
Regent Street: building of, 97
Regent Street Polytechnic, 378
religion: and encouragement of literacy, 138; dislike of theatres, 274; see also churches, evangelicalism
Religious Tract Society, 184
Retail Trader, 119
Reynolds, G.W.M., 189
Reynolds, Sir Joshua: on necessities and ornaments, 55; portrait of Omai, 198; in Johnson’s Club, 379; membership of Dilettanti, 380; Richard Payne Knight on lack of classical education, 381; on connoisseurship, 382; as first president of Royal Academy, 383-5; social background, 384; and history painting, 387; exhibition of works, 393; Discourses, 55, 384-5
Reynolds’s Miscellany, 189
Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper, 140-2, 155, 162
Rich, John, 240
Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa, 184n; Pamela, 165; Sir Charles Grandison, 164-5
Rigaud, John Francis, 390
Rimbault, E.F., 474
roads: eighteenth-century, 69-72; and post, 128; in Scotland, 129; Paterson’s guides to, 200-1; see also turnpikes
Roberts, David, 310
Robinson, Peter (London store), 114, 121, 244, 496
Robson, Frederick, 336
Rochdale Pioneers, 80
Rockingham, Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquis of, 380
Rodgers, Joseph and Sons (Sheffield), 17
Rodney Music Hall, Birmingham, 373
Rolfe, William and Sons (piano manufacturers), 362-3
Romantic movement, the, 216-20
Romney, George, 390
Rose, Mr (Norwich bookseller), 58
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 414-15
Roubilliac, Louis François, 277, 380
Routledge, George (publisher), 190, 192
Routledge’s Handbook of Football, 459
Routledge’s Railway Library, 190-2
Rowe, Nicholas, 241n
Royal Academy: founded (1768), 212, 383-4; exhibitions, 385-6; purpose and management, 385-6; and sale of pictures, 386; and Boydell, 391; and British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts, 393
Royal Academy of Music: established, 347-8
Royal Brunswick Theatre, London, 177
Royal Circus (theatre), London, 314, 329
Royal Manchester Institution, 406-7, 411
Royal Society of Arts: beginnings, 6; and Great Exhibition, 6, 8-9; prizes, 7; membership, 8; Cole and, 10; exhibitions, 10-11
Royal Society of Musicians, 346
Royal Zoological Society, Regent’s Park: menagerie, 39, 276-7
rubber: in footwear, 93; in footballs, 463-4
Ruff ’s Guide to the Turf, 204
Rush, James Blomfield, 285
Ruskin, John: on excursion travel, 228; and Whistler libel trial, 303n; on influence of art, 399; and Howell, 415; King of the Golden River, 306n; Sesame and Lilies, 228
Russell, John Scott, 10
Ryde, Isle of Wight, 230n
Sadler’s Wells, London: Theatre, 276; spa, 281
St Cecilia’s Day concerts, 344-6
St Ives Mercury (Cambridgeshire), 124
St Ives Post (Cambridgeshire), 124
St Ives Post-Boy, 171
St James’s Gazette, 147
St James’s Hall, London, 368
St Paul’s Cathedral, 258-9
Sala, George Augustus, 87-8 & n, 92n, 108, 301
Salford, 98
Salisbury: theatre in, 294
Salisbury Journal, 123
Salisbury Square fiction, 175
Salmon, Mrs (waxworks), 256
Salomon, Johann Peter, 348-9
saloons: music and theatre in, 372-5
Salt, Sir Titus, 408, 437
Saltero, Don, 396
Salvation Army, 374n
Sandown Park racecourse, 433-5
Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of, 345
Sandys, William, 474
Sanger, ‘Lord’ George: Circus, 282-3
Santa Claus see Father Christmas
Satirist (newspaper), 141-2
Satirist, or Monthly Meteor, 316
Saturday Afternoon Rambles Round London, 204
Saturday Night (newspaper), 155
Saturday Review, 193n
Saunder and Otley (circulating library), 185
Savile House, Leicester Square (London), 285
Savoy Theatre, London, 299
Scheemakers, Pieter, 258
schools: libraries in, 183-4
Schopenhauer, Johanna, 102
Scotland: friendly societies, 31; road improvements, 129; as tourist country, 215-16, 218-21, 226-7; musical settings, 220; steamboats, 242-3
Scott, Sir Walter: writes words to Scottish melodies, 220; visits Loch Coruisk, 242; stage adaptations, 329; The Bride of Lammermoor, 337; Kenilworth, 241n; The Lord of the Isles, 243
Scott, William Bell, 414
sea-bathing, 230-1, 245
seaside, 230, 241-5, 247-50
Sedgeley, Staffordshire, 25
Seditious Societies Act (1799), 125
Seguier, William, 402
Select Committee on Public Walks (1833), 436; see also enclosure
Select Views in the North of England, 220
self-improvement: magazines for, 157
Selfridge, Gordon, 106, 117-19, 121-2, 491
Selfridge’s (London store), 119, 121-2, 342, 497
sewing machines, 90-1
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of, 381
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of, 34, 138
Shakespeare: and development of Stratford, 236-8; bicentenary celebrations, 238-41; supposed poaching exploit, 241 & n; monument, 258; staging of, 326-7; burlesqued, 328, 335; authorship question, 381n; Antony and Cleopatra, 326; Coriolanus, 312; Hamlet, 299, 327, 335; Henry V, 326; King Lear, 239, 255, 310; Macbeth, 239, 322; The Merchant of Venice, 326-7; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 239; Richard II, 312; The Winter’s Tale, 303
Shakespeare Gallery, 389-91; see also Boydell, John
Sharp, Thomas, 237
Shaw, George Bernard, 339
Sheffield Evening Telegraph, 151
Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein and theatrical adaptations, 330
Sheridan, Elizabeth see (Elizabeth Linley)
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 233, 379
Shield, William: The Choleric Fathers, 357; The Farmers, 357
Shields, Frederick, 414
Shillcock, William, 465
Shillito, Charles, 170-1
Shipley, William, 6, 8
Shipton, Mother, 257 & n, 285
shoes and boots: mass produced, 93-4
Shoolbred, Cook and Co. (drapers), 104, 105n, 121, 496
shooting (sport), 420, 464
‘shopping through ’, 109
shops: eighteenth-century household suppliers, 42-8, 75; decoration and fitting, 49-53, 100-2, 104, 112; and prices, 54; in nineteenth century, 78; and mass retailing, 81-5; in London, 104-5; browsing in, 106-7; service in, 109-11; see also department stores; individual shops
shows and exhibitions: popularity, 256-8, 261-2, 281; in pleasure gard
ens, 278-81; travelling, 282; of crime and murder, 285; types, 285-6
Shudi, Burkat (Burkhardt Tschudi), 355, 360
Sibbald’s circulating library, Edinburgh, 173
Siddal, Elizabeth (Mrs D.G. Rossetti), 415
Siddons, Sarah, 240n, 295
sightseeing, 258-61
Simms, McIntyre (publishers), 190
Singer, Isaac, 90-1
Skegness, Lincolnshire, 243
slavery, 58n
Sloane, Sir Hans, 394, 396
Smirke, Robert, 390
Smirke, Sir Robert (son), 390n
Smirke, Sydney, 390n
Smith, Adam, 16, 72, 139, 379, 385
Smith, Albert, 228, 286
Smith, Charles Manby, see Manby Smith, Charles Smith, Henry, 145
Smith, J., 82
Smith, Nash, Kemble and Travers (wholesalers and retailers), 54
Smith, Revd Sydney, 125
Smith, Thomas, 220
Smith, Tom, 482
Smith, W.H. (company): bookstalls, 38, 186, 193n; advertising, 290
Smith, William Henry: and delivery of newspapers, 145-6; circulating library, 186-7
Smith, William Henry, Jr, 191-2
Smollett, Tobias, 70, 230; Humphry Clinker, 219
Smyth and Roberts (piano manufacturers), 20
Soane, Sir John, 265
Society of Artists of Great Britain (later Incorporated Society of Artists), 383
Society of Artists, Norwich, 405
Society of Arts: annual art exhibition, 382, 398
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 139, 156, 407
Society of Lovers of Music, Salisbury, 345
Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, 183
Society for the Rescue of Boys Not Yet Convicted of Any Criminal Offence, 207
Society for the Suppression of Vice, 125, 207
Society of Travelling Scotchmen, Shrewsbury, 76
Soho Bazaar, 86
Solomon, Abraham: Waiting for the Verdict (painting), 324
Somerset House, London, 385-6, 401
songs, 358-9, 365, 377-8
South Kensington Museum see Victoria & Albert Museum
Southey, Robert, 104, 172, 202, 218
Southport, 247
Southwark Bridge, 300
Southwark Fair, 283
spas, 231-6, 280; and theatre, 295; see also under individual towns
Spectator ( journal), 4 & n, 216
Spiegelhalter, Messrs (East End jewellers), 114n
Spielmann, Marion Harry, 416-17
sport: reported in newspapers, 151-5; books on, 204-5; as ritual, 419; and class, 420-1; land for, 438; clothes for, 459-62; goods and equipment, 463; see also under individual sports
Sporting Gazette, 432
Sporting Kalendar, 151, 424
Sporting Life, 153, 432
Sporting Opinion, 432
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