by Fred Kaplan
Moscheles, Ignaz, 36
Moxon, Edward, 212
Mulgrave, Lord (George Constantine Phipps), 130, 139, 169, 214
Napier, Macvey, 144, 200
Naples, 172, 186–87, 247, 291, 295–97
Napoleon, Louis, 312–13, 463, 479
Naylor Vickers (industrial firm), 491
New Burlington Street, no. 8, 98
Newcastle Mercury (newspaper), 88
Newcastle upon Tyne, 87, 281, 447
Newgate prison, 65, 142, 199
New Monthly Magazine, 88
Newnham, Richard, 46
Newnham, Mrs. Richard, 25, 31
New Spirit of the Age, A (Horne), 268
Newsvendors’ Benevolent Institution, 551
New York, 152, 164, 191, 247, 413, 455, 511; Dickens’ first visit to, 129–30, 132–34, 136, 141–42; second visit to, 518–21, 523, 527–28; Dickens sees great improvements in, 519–20
New York Evening Tatler (newspaper), 151
New York Herald, The (newspaper), 519
New York Times, The (newspaper) 519
New York Tribune, The (newspaper) 406
Niagara Falls, 139–40, 152, 184, 255, 525
Nineveh, 296, 330
Normanby, Lord, see Mulgrave, Lord (George Constantine Phipps)
Norton, Caroline, 132
Norton, Charles Eliot, 517, 526
Norton-Melbourne trial, 89, 314
Norwich, 241, 243, 246–47
Nova Scotia Gardens, 263
O’Connell, Daniel, 61
Olliffe, Joseph, 350
Olympic Theatre, 367–68
Ordnance Terrace (Chatham), 25–26, 31
Osgood, James, 523–24
Ouvry, Frederic, 514; draws up Gad’s Hill sale contract, 348; acts as Dickens’ lawyer in separation, 392, 394, 396; is against American tour, 413; helps with Dickens’ will, 542; attends funeral, 556
Overs, John, 141
Palace Gate (Hyde Park), 485
Palais-Royal, 218
Palazzo Brignole Rosso, 182, 184
Palazzo Peschiere, 173, 181, 184, 294
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 331, 446
Paris, 172, 178, 187, 190, 204–5, 223, 228, 231, 248, 273, 298, 307, 311, 321, 325, 337, 346, 349–50, 394, 402, 416, 427, 441, 455, 507, 519; Dickens’ first visit to, 171; first residence in, 213–16, 218–19; visits morgue, 215, 276; visits with Maclise, 276–77; second residence in, 328, 339–42, 346; visits with Collins, 334–35; vacationing in, 449–50; third residence in, 462; sees as wicked as ever, 463; gives readings in, 464–65, 468; sees Fechter act in, 492
Park Cottage, Northampton Park, Canonbury, 408
Parker House Hotel (Boston), 516
Parthenon Club, 111
Past Two o’Clock in the Morning (farce), 192
Paxton, Joseph, 194–95, 200
Peel, Robert, 201
Pentonville, 70
Perkins Institution (Boston), 143
Philadelphia, 134, 152, 521
Picken, Eleanor, 163–64
Pigott, Edward, 284, 350, 356
Planché, James Robinson, 319
Plymouth, 236, 448
Plymouth Church (Brooklyn), 521
Poe, Edgar Allan, 153; meets Dickens, 135; reacts to Martin Chuzzlewit, 153; works: Tales of the Grotesque, 135
Poole, John, 139, 231; works: Comfortable Lodgings, 231; Deaf as a Post, 139; Sketches and Recollections, 231; Turning the Tables, 231
Poor Law Commission, 262
Porter, Jane, 35; works: Scottish Chiefs, 35
Portsmouth, 18, 21, 116
Preston, 306, 308, 530–40
Preston strike, 306
Prima Donna (play), 553
Princess’s Theatre, 371
Procter, Bryan (Barry Cornwall), 72, 314, 484; meets Forster, 90; meets Dickens, 91; complains to Forster, 450; disparages Americans, 481; on farewell banquet, 504; on Dickens’ American tour, 511, 526
prostitution, 149–50, 228, 260–61, 341, 427, 538
Providence Chapel school, Chatham, 25
Provident Union of Literature, Science, & Art, 233
Putnam, George Washington, description of Dickens by, 133; description of Catherine by, 133
Rae, John, 352–53
ragged schools, 149
Ragged School Union, 148
Reade, Charles, 431, 512
readings: private, to friends, 177, 179, 212–13, 240; as a fund-raiser, 213; of Carol and Cricket for charity in Birmingham, 304; of Carol in Birmingham, Peterborough, and Sheffield, 319–21; in Manchester, Sheffield, and Peterborough, 336–37; of Carol for Jerrold fund in London, 366; considered for personal profit, 372–73; of Carol for charity in Rochester, 381–382; begun on a professional basis, 384–85; tour, 407–8; 1858 provincial tour, 411–13; 1859, 1861 in London, 443–44; 1861 in England and Scotland, 444–50; 1863 in Paris, 464; 1862 in London, 467–69; 1867 provincial tour, 483–84; Dickens as Justice Stareleigh in, 492; profits from, 1866 506–7; Dickens decides to tour America with, 507–13; American tour, 515–29; profits from, 527; farewell tour, 532–33, 538–41, 546–50
Reform Bill (1832), 50, 82, 87, 211, 296, 476–77
Reynold’s Weekly Newspaper, 396
Richardson, Samuel, 26; works: Clarissa, 94
Richmond (Virginia), 112, 276
Ridley, James, 28; works: Tales of the Genii, 28
Robespierre, 464
Roche, Louis, 170, 178, 186, 220
Rochester, 83, 214, 252, 364, 500, 555; Dickens’ first impressions of, 22–24; returns to in middle age, 28–29; exile from, 32–33; honeymoons in, 71; visits, 153, 191, 201, 239, 250, 307; memories of childhood in, 347, 432–34; reads in, 381, 445; at home near, 495, 500
Rochester Cathedral, 22, 24, 32, 322, 347, 555
Rockingham castle (Northamptonshire), 211, 234, 278–79, 282–83, 287
Rogers, Samuel, 91, 153, 244
Roland for an Oliver, A (farce), 139
Rome, 172, 184–85, 187–89, 290, 297
Rome Street school, 25
Rookwood (Ainsworth), 73
Rosemont, 205, 210
Ross-on-Wye, 513
Royal Academy of Art, 314, 402, 552
Royal Academy of Music, 36, 40–41, 43, 47, 55
Royal General Theatrical Fund, 234–35, 258–59, 402, 552
Royal Literary Fund, 265, 332–34
Roylance, Elizabeth, 41–42
Rudd, Martha, 488
Ruskin, John, 61, 481
Russell, Lord John, 331, 543
Russell, John Scott, 197
Russell, Lord William, 199
Russell, William Howard, 362, 404, 451
Russia, 291, 329
Ryland, Arthur, 381, 544
St. Bernard Convent, 208–9, 211, 215
St. George’s Church (London), 20
St. George’s Hall (Liverpool), 533
St. James’s Hall, 444, 448, 532, 547, 552
St. James’s Theatre, 75–76, 92, 213
St. Louis (Missouri), 137–38
St. Luke’s Church (Chelsea), 71
St. Martin’s Hall, 366, 383–84
St. Mary’s, Higham, 418, 530
St. Mary’s, Portsmouth, 19
St. Paul’s, 35, 85, 121, 269, 326, 349
St. Peter’s, 187, 297
Sala, Henry Augustus, 490
Sand, George, 341, 354
Satis House (DC), 434, 437
Scenes and Recollections of Fly-fishing, 77
Scheffer, Ary, 339–40
Scott, Sir Walter, 66, 86, 115, 118
Scribe, Eugène, 219, 463
Sebastopol, 313, 331
Selwood Place (Chelsea), 68, 92
Seymour, Robert, 77–80, 154
Shaftesbury (Lord Ashley), 145, 446; description of Dickens by, 144
Shakespeare, William, 56, 276, 351, 368, 400; Dickens’ early attitude toward, 23–24, 322, 347; sees first performance of, 28, 54; recites from, 48; reads, 49, 123, 178; Macready’s revivals of
, 90, 111–12; Stratford restorations, 111–12, 233; Dickens company performs, 233, 235–36; Fechter performs, 493; works: Hamlet, 493; Henry IV, 23; King Lear, 112; Macbeth, 28, 276; Merry Wives of Windsor, 233, 235; Othello, 493; Richard II, 112; Richard III, 28; Romeo and Juliet, 178; characters: Master Ford, 236; Pistol, 236; Justice Shallow, 236; Master Slender, 236
Shakespeare Club, 111–12, 227
Shakespeare House Committee, 233
Shakespeare House Museum, 233, 235–36, 278
Shallow, Justice (Shakespeare), 236
Shepherd’s Bush, 228
Sherborne, 276, 278, 317, 321
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 278; works: School for Scandal, 278
silent system, 143, 178
Sir Joseph Williamson’s Free School (Rochester), 495
Slough, 276, 501, 508
Smith, Albert, 319, 366, 367, 426, 456
Smith, Arthur, 367, 391–92, 395, 406–8, 443–47, 456
Smith, Henry Porter, 206
Smith, Southwood, 148, 262–63
Smith and Elder, 443
Smithson, Charles, 163
Smithson, Mrs. Charles (Elizabeth Dorothy Thompson), 163
Smollett, Tobias, 26
solitary system, 143, 478
Somers Place, no. 16, Hyde Park West, 471, 478
Southey, Robert, 88
Squib Annual, The (Seymour), 77
Stanfield, Clarkson, 146, 173, 177, 240, 279, 317, 345, 349–50, 357–58; as set designer, 90; on Cornwall excursion, 153–55, 551; as Dickens’ theatre companion, 162, 317; brings Turner to banquet, 170; at Chimes reading, 170–80; designs sets for theatricals, 191–92, 279, 317, 349–50, 357–58; converts to Catholicism, 227; illness of, 464; death of, 483
Stanhope, Lord, 550
Stanley, Arthur, dean of Westminster, 547, 555–56
Stanley, Lord, 74
Stanton, Edwin, 522
Staplehurst railway accident, 458–62, 466, 471, 500, 520, 534
Steinway Hall, New York, 518–19
Stephen, Leslie, 499
Stone, Arthur, 455
Stone, Frank, 345, 349, 469; acts in theatricals, 192, 231, 235, 367, 456; meets Dickens, 227; goes on walking tours, 239, 276; has lease of Tavistock House, 270; visits Boulogne, 288, 314; death of, 454–55
Stone, Marcus, 450–51; Dickens is fond of, 314; impressions at Boulogne, 317–18; describes Dickens, 338; Dickens helps, 455; illustrates Our Mutual Friend, 469–71
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 288
Stratford, 112, 233, 235, 281
Stroughill, George, 25
Stroughill, Lucy, 25, 254
Stroughill family, 25
Sue, Eugène, 219
Sumner, Charles, 130–32, 522
Sun (newspaper), 489
Swinburne, Algernon, 246
Swinburne, Lady Jane, 245
Swiss chalet, Gad’s Hill Place, 493–94, 496, 530, 553–54
Switzerland, 282; Dickens travels through, 190; lives in, 203, 205–13; begins autobiography in, 216; thinks of returning to, 279, 287, 310, 370; revisits, 292–93
Sykes, Henrietta, 109
Tagart, Edward, 173, 175, 396
Talfourd, Frank, 368
Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 109, 230, 231, 321, 368; legal career of, 89–91; Pickwick is dedicated to, 91; supports and defends Macready, 111–13; represents Reading, 145; wife of, 154; visits Switzerland, 212; visits Isle of Wight, 246; death of, 314–15
Tavistock House, 257, 282, 299, 302, 317, 326, 342, 346, 348–49, 352, 361, 365, 374, 378, 383, 387, 398, 403, 413, 485, 494; Dickens moves into, 269; renovates, 270–71; mock titles for library at, 286, 494; theatricals at, 321, 352, 356–57, 359; Dickens sells lease of, 425, 472
Taylor, Tom, 225–26, 451
Telbin, William, 357
Tennent, James Emerson, 296, 533
Tenniel, John, 240
Tennyson, Alfred, 17, 166, 170, 192, 212, 278, 481
Ternan, Ellen, 17, 382, 488, 518, 536, 538, 547, 555–56; meets Dickens, 367; as Hippomenes, 368; as Eliza Comfort, 369; family of, 368; career of, 368–69; in Frozen Deep, 369; Dickens falls in love with, 370–72; performs in Doncaster, 374; as Dickens’ princess, 376–77; career assisted by Dickens, 379–80; and Catherine, 386; rumors about, 389, 391–93, 402, 404, 407; is supported by Dickens, 409–10; relationship with Dickens, 410–12, 426, 428, 465; Dickens does not wish to leave, 413–14, 448–49, 510; as Lucie Manette, 415–16; reads proofs of Great Expectations, 437; in France, 448, 464–66, 468; in Staplehurst accident, 459–62; as Bella Wilfer, 476; residence in Slough and Peckham, 500–501; considers trip to America, 513–14, 516; Dickens’ legacy to, 542–44
Ternan, Fanny, 368, 380, 397, 408–9, 411–12, 461–62, 514, 529
Ternan, Frances (Fanny Jarman), 367–69, 374, 397, 408–9, 411–12, 459–60, 462, 466, 493, 501
Ternan, Maria, 367, 368–69, 371, 374, 380, 408, 411–12, 461, 501
Ternan, Thomas, 368
Thackeray, Anne, 453, 499
Thackeray, Harriet (Minny), 453, 499
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 17, 457; meets Dickens, 72; desires to illustrate Pickwick, 80; draws Dickens, 86; does caricature of Dickens and friends, 155–56; in Ireland, 170; attends Courvoisier execution, 199; is in love with Jane Brookfield, 212; has argument with Forster, 225–26; describes Dickens and family, 244–45; reaction to Gore House auction, 274; describes Dickens, 277; speaks in Manchester, 282; visits Boulogne, 317; lectures, 320, 382; visits at Folkestone, 336; on separation, 390, 394; Yates-Garrick Club affair and, 401–6; edits Cornhill, 443; is concerned about Leech, 451; reconciliation with Dickens, 453; death and funeral of, 454–55; daughters of, 499; works: Punch’s Prize Novelists, 226; Vanity Fair, 225, 402; The Virginians, 404
Thackeray–Yates–Garrick Club dispute, 402–3, 404–6, 453
Theatre Royal, Doncaster, 371, 374
Theatre Royal, Rochester, 24, 28
Thompson, Caroline, 335–36
Thompson, Henry, 512, 533
Thompson, Thomas James, 165–67, 212, 294–95
Thompson, Mrs. Thomas James, see Weller, Christiana
Thomson, Georgina, see Hogarth, Georgina Thomson (Mrs. George Hogarth)
Ticknor and Fields, 509, 515, 527
Times (London), 37, 60, 148, 179, 196
Tomkison, Thomas, 36
Topographical Dictionary, 77
Townshend, Reverend Chauncey Hare, 293, 350, 526
Town Talk, 402
Tracey, Augustus Frederick, 228
Tremont Temple (Boston), 517
Tribune, The (newspaper), 519
Tringham, Charles (pseudonym for Dickens), 501
Trio Club, 110
Trollope, Anthony, 461, 500, 529
Trollope, Frances (Mrs. Thomas Anthony Trollope), 124, 408, 461
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 408, 461, 501, 544
True Sun (newspaper), 58, 88
Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 170, 280 Twain, Mark, 137, 521; response to Dickens’ reading, 521
Twelfth Night parties, 155–56, 319, 380 Tyler, John, 135
Unitarianism, 175
Urania Cottage, 149–50, 228–29, 260–62, 335
Venice, 178, 291, 298, 456
Verdi, Giuseppe, 295, 352; works: Trovatore, 352
Versailles, 219
Vesuvius, Mount, 185–87, 296, 330, 553
Victoria, Queen, 137, 246, 464, 503; Dickens watches coronation of, 108, 222; Dickens is in love with, no, 501; attends Macready benefit, 237; sees Dickens perform, 280, 365–66; death of husband of, 447; Dickens’ audience with, 549–50
Villa Bagnerello, 171–72
Villa des Moulineaux, 349–50
Villa du Camp de Droite, 310, 311, 312
violated letter, 406–7
Virgil, 45
“Walking Club,” 227
Warren’s Blacking, 45, 52, 170, 217, 332, 435; Dickens employed at, 38, 42–43; is discharged from, 43–44; effects on Dickens of, 59, 141, 159, 200–201, 299
, 309, 372, 547
Washington, D.C., 134–36, 247–48, 521–22
Watson, Lavinia, 293; meets Dickens, 211; Dickens visits, 234, 240, 278; Dickens’ admiration for, 283, 361; is hostess at Rockingham, 337
Watson, Richard, 240, 287, 293; meets Dickens in Switzerland, 211; friendship develops with Dickens, 213–14; Dickens visits, 234; death of, 282–83
Watson, Sir Thomas, 540–41
Webster, Benjamin, 350
Webster, Daniel, 135
Webster-Ashburton treaty, 125
Weller, Anna (Mrs. Frederick Dickens) (sister-in-law), 167, 223, 240, 422
Weller, Christiana (Mrs. Thomas James Thompson), 170; Dickens falls in love with, 165–68; marries Thompson, 167; becomes pregnant, 212; sees Dickens perform, 232; Dickens visits in Italy, 294–95
Weller, Mary, 25, 29, 49
Weller, Thomas, 165–67
Wellington, Duke of, 145, 147, 261, 266, 280
Wellington House Academy, 44–47, 370
Westminster Abbey, 555–56
Westminster Hotel (New York), 519
Westminster Ragged School, 262
White, James, 245–46, 341, 455
Whitman, Walt, 151
Wigan, Alfred, 367
Wilkie, David, 115
William IV, death of, 85, 91
William Tell, 319
Wills, William Henry, 274–76, 335, 360, 367, 374, 380, 396–97, 400–401, 408–9, 463, 486, 491–92, 501, 506, 511–12, 537; works for Daily News, 197; as assistant editor of Household Words, 265–68; complains about Forster, 297; visits at Boulogne, 318; helps with Gad’s Hill, 347–49; as go-between with Ellen, 488–89, 501, 513–14, 516, 518; gives printing press to Gad’s Hill Gazette, 496; riding accident of, 530, 547; retirement of, 531; as Dickens’ “Grand Vizier,” 537
Wills, Mrs. William Henry, see Chambers, Janet
Wilson, John, 114
Windsor, no, 174, 276, 365, 550
Windsor Lodge (Peckham), 501, 514
Winter, Henry, 323
Winterbourne Villa (Bonchurch), 245, 247
Wit’s Miscellany, The, 99
Wordsworth, William, 88
Yarmouth, 241–43
Yates, Edmund, 492; insults Thackeray, 402–3; as disciple of Dickens, 403; Garrick Club affair and, 403–6; Dickens’ fatherly interest in, 490; sees Dickens off to America, 514; sees Dickens as exhausted, 534; description of Dickens by, 536–37; on Dickens’ illness, 540
Yates, Elizabeth, 322
Yates, Frances, 403, 450
York, 126, 526, 533
York Place (Chelsea), 66, 70–71
Yorkshire, 117, 384
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