* If Eugenia was lying, one wonders about the role played in her life by the family doctor, Mr Gay, to whom she was – at eleven – already betrothed. The surgeon referred to her as his 'little wife', and it was he who examined her body for signs of sexual molestation. Gay observed 'slight marks of violence', he said.
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INDEX
Adams, John Couch, 142
Adelphi theatre, 84
Albert, Prince, 217
All the Year Round, xxii, 125, 159, 267
Alloway, John, 4, 9–10, 12, 18
Alresford, 265
Annual Register, 106
aquaria, 273–4
Arabia, 96
Arundel, Lord, 264
Ascot, 56
Asmodeus, 158
Australia, 53, 263, 265, 291
William Kent in, 283–9
Constance Kent in, 288–90
Avon, river, 44
Axbridge, 164
Baily, Mr and Mrs, 151–2
Balaklava, 73
Baldwin, Mary, 122
ballads, broadside, 69, 251–2
banknotes, 69
baobab trees, 286
Barnes, Constance Amelia, 288
Barry, Sir Charles, 162
Bath, 137, 164, 167, 182, 198, 203, 207
Constance and William Kent's flight, 91–3, 95, 107, 143, 300–1
Greyhound Hotel, 91–2
police, 207–8
Bath Chronicle, 110
accounts of Road Hill case, 27–8, 34, 37, 60–1, 95, 97, 102, 111–12, 127, 130, 143, 159
and suspicion of Samuel Kent, 169–70
criticisms of Whicher, 174, 179
Bath Express, 93, 110, 116, 149, 169, 182
Battersea, 275
Baudelaire, Charles, 296
Baxter, Richard, 294
Baynton House, 73–4, 290, 293
Beckington, 4–5, 9, 19, 77–9, 137, 182, 236
Manor House school, 78, 143
Methodist chapel, 210
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 296
Beeton, Mrs Isabella, 74n, 296
Belgravia, 120
Benger, Thomas, 15–17, 22, 24, 29, 128, 237
Bennett, John, 52
Bennett, Thomas, 279
Bentham, Jeremy, 216
Berkshire, 82, 190
Bermondsey, 69, 105
Bethlehem asylum, 80
Bird, J.J., 137
Biss, river, 44
Blackall, Dr, 72
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 123
Blandford, 166
Bloemfontein, Bishop of, 280
Bloomsbury, 48–9
Bonwell, Rev. James, 55, 133, 181
Booth, John Wilkes, 253–4
Bow Street magistrates' court, 227–8, 234, 241, 254
Bowyer, Sir George, 173–4
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Lady Audley's Secret, 217–18, 222, 225, 238, 243
Aurora Floyd, 222
Bradford–upon–Avon, 193, 198
Brighton, 227, 229, 241, 254, 258, 288
St Mary's Home (Hospital), 224, 227, 229, 241, 298
Aquarium, 273–4
Brisbane, 284, 289
Bristol, 91–2, 123, 125, 201
Clifton, 148
Bristol Daily Post, 27, 95, 112, 119, 143, 183, 185, 193–4, 198
Bristol Mercury, 195
British Museum, 48, 271, 273
Brontë, Charlotte, 82, 96
Jane Eyre, 72, 102
Brown, Hannah, 69
Brunei, Isambard Kingdom, xix
Buckingham Palace, 49
Buckinghamshire, 180
Bucknill, Charles, 244–5, 252, 256, 258
Burlington House, 286
Burne–Jones, Edward, 229
Burns, Robert, 176
Butcher, Chief Superintendent, 278
Buxted, 288
Cain and Abel, 112
Calne, 191
Camberwell, 44–5, 69, 171, 267, 278
Cambridge Zoological Museum, 271
cameras, see photography
Canada, 288
Carlyle, Thomas, 105
Cams, Dr, 38
Cavanagh, Timothy, 121, 163, 211
Cenci, Beatrice, 176
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 51–2
Chandler, Raymond, 304
Charbury, 123
Charlie, Bonnie Prince, 293
Cheshire, 164
Chesterton, G.K., 272
children: criminal, 121–3
illegitimate, 136
and murder, 233, 244
Chile, 263
Chippenham, xix, xxiii, 180, 188, 232
Church of England, 181, 224, 229, 239, 241–2
Civil Service Gazette, 29
Clapton, 71
Clark, Henry, 137, 148–51, 153, 158, 220, 234
Cockburn, John, 262
Coleridge, John Duke, 248–50, 253, 266
Collins, Wilkie, 125, 190, 270
The Moonstone, xi, 75, 77–8, 87, 138, 168, 267–9, 301
The Woman in White, xxii, 41, 68, 81, 102, 105, 138, 159, 182
'The Diary of Anne Rodway', 70
'Mad Monkton', 80
No Name, 225
Armadale, 263
Colne, river, 252n
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 66n, 269, 276n, 30n
constables, 12
Convent de la Sagesse, 211
corals, 271–2, 285, 287
Cork, 248
Court of Arches, 133
Covent Garden, 227
Cowper, William, 176
Cox, Sarah, 3–4, 7–8, 12, 14, 31, 33, 63
denies guilt, 20
and nightdress, 26, 28, 32, 101, 138–40, 183
gives evidence, 28–9, 139
and examination of Constance Kent, 153
and examination of Gough, 185
and discovery of shift, 202
and Constance Kent's confession, 237
marriage, 237
Crawley, Rev. 118
Cresswell, Sir Cresswell, 263
Crichton–Browne, James, 244
Criminal Investigation Department, 277
crinolines, 140n
Cross, Richard, 279–80
Crowthorne, 83
Croydon, 265
Crystal Palace, 109
Cunningham, Sarah, 166
Daily Telegraph, 88, 170, 175, 227, 232, 234, 248–9
Dallimore, Eliza, 23–4, 28, 33–4, 35
and examination of Gough, 186–8
and discovery of shift, 202
Dallimore, PC William, 23, 35, 186, 196–7
Dalton, Mr, 164
'Dancing School', 66
Dann, Inspector, 172
Darwin, Charles, 86, 142, 216, 221, 271, 294
Davies, Rev. James, 241–2
de Quincey, Thomas, 55
Denbigh, 271
detective fiction, 52–3, 75, 88, 157, 168, 223, 267–9, 276, 303–4
see also Collins, Wilkie
Dickens, Charles
Poe, Edgar Allan
'sensation' novels
detectives: demeanour of, 52
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and clues, 68–9, 138, 141–2
methods of, 82–9
hunches, 82–3
sagacity, 95–6
'sleuths', 96
and psychoanalysis, 103–4
and image on retina, 112
and confessions, 119–20
French, 125
solitude of, 139–40, 223
and astronomers, 142
social status, 146, 175
etymology, 157–8
tricks, 161n
public obsession with, 168
and rewards, 175
female amateurs, 187–8
press disillusion with, 190–1
private inquiry agents, 198, 263, 266
reliance on good fortune, 216
and testimony and proof, 216
impact of Road Hill case, 222–3
range of types, 277
corruption among, 277
Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette, 102, 110, 112, 175, 211
Devizes gaol, 119, 129–31, 147, 154, 235–6, 240, 247, 254
Devonshire, 71, 73, 93, 102, 296
magistrates, 252
Diary of an Ex–Detective, 139
Dickens, Charles, 79, 162, 267, and detectives, xx–xxii, 44, 50, 52, 83, 96, 120, 142, 198
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, xi, 272–3, 301
Bleak House, 1, 53, 84, 87, 105, 141, 157–8, 187–8, 218
'Hunted Down', 85
Great Expectations, 106
theory on Road Hill case, 190, 207, 272
death, 272
Dinan, 209, 211, 223, 288
dinosaurs, 286
Disraeli, Benjamin, 279
divorce courts, 198, 263
Dr Kahn's Museum, 106
doctors, and mental illness, 80–1
Doel, Emily, 4–5, 10, 128
dog, Newfoundland, 7–9, 12, 66, 107
Dorset, 166, 278
Drake, Sarah, 133–6, 138, 146
Dublin, 241
Dublin Review, 223
Ducker, Miss, 207
Dunn, William, 129–30, 148, 155
and Slack inquiry, 182–3
and Constance Kent's confession, 234–5
Durkin, Superintendent, 231
East Coulston, 32, 73
East Grinstead, St Swithun's church, 278
Ebury, Lord, 241
Eden, Emily, 168
Edgware Road, 69
Edinburgh, 69, 96, 222
Edinburgh Daily News, 270
Edlin, Peter, 148–57, 175, 254
Elephant & Castle, 252
Eliot, George, 270
Eliot, T.S., xi, 269
Elizabeth I, Queen, 176
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 38
Epsom, 54
Essex, 55, 72, 252n
Eton, 190, 229
Euston Square station, 135
Evans, Mrs, 263
Exeter, 72, 102
eyes, and detection, 112
Factory Act, 61
Farrer, Mr, 164
Female Detective, The, 161n
Field, Detective–Inspector Charley, 53–5, 69–70, 96, 162, 263, 277
Fielding, Henry, 96
Finsbury Square, 71
fishing, 5, 8, 61, 129
Flaubert, Gustave, 296
Foley, Superintendent John, 13, 43, 127, 154, 172, 177, 257
leads investigation, 20–2, 24–8, 31, 33–5, 80
works with Whicher, 59, 61–2, 64, 95, 118
and Samuel Kent's obstruction, 107–8, 184
and discovery of shift, 196–7, 202–3
and Road Hill auction, 209–10
death, 232
Folkestone, Lord, 236
Forrester, Andrew, 68, 97, 187–8, 216
France, 209
Franz, Johann Karl, 212–16
Freud, Sigmund, 85, 103, 259
Fricker, James, 4, 23, 194
Frith, William, xix
Frome, 33, 60, 101, 119, 148, 196, 198, 210, 235, 240
Frome, river, 33, 60, 63, 99, 159
Frome Times, 29, 106
and Samuel Kent's unpopularity, 61, 101
accounts of Road Hill case, 117, 119, 143, 157, 169
and criticisms of Whicher, 174
and Saunders' inquiry, 195, 198
and Constance Kent rumour, 207
Fulham gaol, 280
Gagg, John Edmund, 180–1, 232
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 68
Gay, Mr, 123n
Gee, William, 167
Gerstenberg, Wilhelm, 214
Gladstone, William, 280
Glamis, Lady, xix
Glasgow, 104, 252
Globe, 169
Gloucester, 185
Gloucester Terrace, 144
Gloucestershire, 137, 241
Goff, Charles, 51
Gollop, Harriet, 144–5, 235
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de, 216
Good, Daniel, 50–1
Gough, Elizabeth, 3–4, 6–8, 14, 100, 124, 130
discovers child missing, 9–12, 87
testimony about blanket, 18, 20, 34, 128, 149, 184, 188
interviewed and searched, 22–4, 33
kisses corpse, 25–6, 31
gives evidence, 28–9, 116, 118, 139
and Constance Kent, 30–1, 35, 149
suspicion of, 34–5, 80, 86, 126–9, 145–6, 164–6, 169–70
apprehended, 34–7, 43
reexamined and released, 61–2
character, 129
and insanity, 137
as object of sexual fantasy, 146
leaves Kent family's employ, 181
re-arrested and examined, 183–8
continuing suspicion of, 189–90, 200–1, 242
and Constance Kent's confession, 235–7
fund established for, 253;
marriage, 262
Gough, Sarah, 136
Governess Life, 145–6
Gray, Amy, 267, 276
Gray's Inn Road, 49
Gream, Katharine, 227, 232, 234–5, 238–9, 253, 262
Great Barrier Reef, 285, 287
Great Exhibition, 109
Great Western Railway, xix, xxiii
Green, Elizabeth (née Harding), 56, 262
Greenacre, James, 69
Greenhill, Joseph, 14
Grey, Sir George, 240, 253
Griffiths, Major Arthur, 277–9
Groser, Albert, 86, 181
Guildford, 165
Hall, Ann, 13, 19
Halliday, Mary, 212–15
Hamburg, 212
Hampshire, 265, 286–7
Handcock, Chief Superintendent John, 123, 201
Hanover Square, 167
hansom cabs, 48
Harcourt, Sir William Vernon, 280–1
Hardy, Thomas, 296
Harris, Mrs, 232
Harris, Superintendent, 232, 234
Hatch, Rev., 122–3
Hatherill, Louisa, 124, 153, 241, 248
Havana, 74, 290
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 176
Hayward, W.S., 187
Heenan, John, 124
Henry, Sir Thomas, 227–32
Herbert, Frederick, 97
Heritage, Ann, 13, 20
Heritage, PC Henry, 13, 21, 108
Hobart, 283, 288
Holborn, 46, 48–9, 57, 79, 119, 121–3
Holcombe, James, 4–5, 8–10, 12–13, 26, 101
Holcombe, Mary, 15, 24
Holley, Hester, 5, 28, 31, 33, 129, 138–9, 153, 167, 171, 237
Holley, Martha, 28, 31–2, 237
Holliwell, James, 267
Holliwell, Sarah, 161, 267, 276
Holloway, 240
Holmes, Sherlock, see Conan Doyle, Arthur
Holywell Street, 161–3, 225, 267
Home Office, 33, 39, 51, 74n, 166, 270
homes and families, Victorian, 37–8, 99, 109–11, 156–7, 220
Hood, Edwin Paxton, 242
Horsemonger Lane gaol, 181<
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House of Commons, 173, 225, 241
House-hold Words, xxi, 146
Hughes, William, 208
Hull, 214
Hunter Place station house, 47, 57
Hutchinson, Jonathan, 296–7
Huxley, Thomas, 271, 286
Hyde Park, 106
Indian Mutiny, 267
insanity, 80, 172–3
and McNaghten rule, 136
in Lady Audley's Secret, 218
women and, 243–4
and syphilis, 297
Ireland, 180, 211, 248
Isle of Wight, 106, 278
Isleworth, 36, 129, 181, 183, 190, 235
'Jack the Ripper', 277
James, Henry, 104, 219, 270, 278
The Turn of the Screw, xi–xii, 205, 301
The Princess Casamassima, 261
What Maisie Knew, 295
Janin, Jules, 158
Jersey, 69
Johnson, Samuel, 176
Johnston, Mrs, 134–5
Kenealy, Edward, 266
Kensington Gardens, 49
Kent, Acland Saville, 159, 270, 283–4, 288
Kent, Constance Emily, 3, 5, 7
learns of missing brother, 11, 87
and nightdress, 21, 26, 28, 67–8, 80, 87, 118–19, 129, 137–42, 153, 168, 176–7, 180, 186, 200, 237–9, 257 259
gives evidence, 29–30, 107
and Gough, 31, 35
and insanity, 33, 80, 94, 102, 125, 137, 143, 243–5, 258, 300
her bedroom, 64, 67
birth, 72
and stepmother, 73–4, 243–4, 251, 254–9, 280, 291–6, 302
schooling, 78, 292, 294–5
and Whicher's suspicions, 86–7, 94–5, 103–5, 115–6, 137–42, 170, 201
and William, 87, 91–5, 101, 107, 124–5, 232 244 251 288–9, 294–5, 299–302
flight to Bath, 91–3, 95, 107, 143, 300–1
and Saville, 93–4, 107, 118, 143, 149–50, 152, 156
and Madeleine Smith trial, 104–5, 107
arrested, 115–20, 223
strength, 124, 126
in gaol, 129–31
examined, 147–55, 177
freed on bail, 155–6
continuing suspicion of, 158, 189, 200, 220
and examination of Gough, 185–6
offers of marriage, 189
rumours concerning, 207, 209
attends French finishing school, 209, 211, 223
kindness to children, 211
depicted in Lady Audley's Secret, 217–18
enters convent, 224
confession of murder, 227–40, 298–302
trial, 240, 247–50
murder motive, 243–4, 251, 254–9, 280, 299, 302
sentence commuted, 252–3
her account of the murder, 254–9
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