Cintra, Convention of (1808), 196–7
Clarkson, Catherine, 112
Dorothy’s letters to, 153, 165, 167, 270, 271, 295
Clarkson, Thomas, 112, 222, 235, 336
Cocker, River, 5–6
Cockermouth, 5–6
birthplace, 5, 6, 7, 71, 347
childhood in, 9–11, 14, 21
grammar school, 10
William revisits, 334
Coleorton (Leics), 185–6, 292
Coleridge, Berkeley, 107
Coleridge, Derwent, 120, 202, 333
and parents’ separation, 185, 187
at school in Ambleside, 187, 206, 253
at Allan Bank, 195
Southey’s support of, 263
Coleridge, Hartley, 88, 89, 117, 135, 202
precocity, 154, 254, 263, 332–3
and parents’ separation, 185, 187
at school in Ambleside, 187, 206, 253
at Allan Bank, 195, 200
teaches Willy, 257
Southey’s support of, 263
on Dora’s devotion to William, 293
death, 332, 333, 349
on two-sided William, 343
Coleridge, Henry Nelson, 310
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 33, 34, 125, 133, 151, 192, 238, 243, 342
and Pantisocracy, 78, 79, 80–82, 84, 261
early life, 78–9
meets
Southey, 79, 80
differences with him, 82, 84
lectures, 82–3
meets William, 83
ends friendship with Southey, 84, 261
marriage to Sara Fricker, 84
begins correspondence with William, 85, 87–8
first meeting with Dorothy and William, 88
importance to William, 88, 91, 94, 122, 131–2, 208–9
contacts with Southey as brother-in-law, 88
increasing intimacy with Dorothy and William, 89–96, 110
worship of William’s genius, 90, 91, 92, 106, 122, 128, 277
character, 90–91, 92, 131, 208
rejection of play, 92
concentration on poetry, 93–4, 96
drug-addiction, 93, 119, 159, 185, 199, 200, 201
obtains annuity, 95–6, 185
publication of Lyrical Ballads, 96, 101–2, 106–7
in Germany, 96, 98–9, 100, 107
Prelude addressed to, 101, 165, 340
and ‘Idiot Boy’, 105
tour of Lakes with William, 108, 111–12, 116
rents Greta Hall, 117–18
shared life with William and Dorothy, 118–22
passion for Sarah Hutchinson, 119, 120, 149, 158, 187, 200, 302
health problems, 119–20, 150, 154, 158
fell-walking, 120
collapse of marriage, 120–1
journalism, 121–2
renewed friendship with Southey, 122, 262
helps William with new edition of Lyrical Ballads, 122, 123, 125–6, 127
grouped with William and Southey as Lake Poets, 129, 189
William’s light-hearted letter to, 135
affection for Dorothy, 137
and William’s marriage, 149–50
strange dream, 149–50
jealousy of William’s domestic happiness, 150, 166, 173, 182, 207
godfather to John Wordsworth, 152
methods of child care, 153–4
Scottish tour with William and Dorothy, 154, 249
depression and self-pity, 156, 158, 171, 199–201
continues tour alone, 158–60
tensions between William and, 159, 161
portrait painted by Hazlitt, 163
leaves Lakes for Malta, 165
lack of news from, 166, 167, 171, 184
uncertainty over future plans, 167, 171, 173
on death of William’s brother John 170
usually addressed by surname, 180
in Malta, 184
return to England, 184–5
Poor health and changed looks, 185, 207
separation from wife, 185, 186, 187
winter or Beaumont estate, 185–6
move to Allan Bank, 186–8, 192, 195, 198, 204
illness in London, 187, 198
produces Friend magazine, 195–6, 199
on William’s Cintra pamphlet, 196
causes unhappy atmosphere, 199–200
given home by Montagu, 201, 205
gift from De Quincey, 202
grievances and slanders against William, 205–7
so-called reconciliation, 207, 209
contrasted with William, 207–9
and deaths of Wordsworth children, 211, 212
disappointed in Excursion, 240
affectionate letters to wife, 249
castigation of her, 264–5
and Keats’s skit on ‘Peter Bell’, 275
Hazlitt’s praise of, 278
tour of Belgium and Rhineland with William, 287, 293, 304
on Sarah Hutchinson, 302
death, 304
Coleridge, Sara (wife) (formerly Fricker), 81, 82, 83, 88, 96, 152, 195, 202, 262, 266
marriage, 84
at Nether Stowey, 88, 89
Coleridge’s neglect of, 89, 92, 98, 119, 121
at Greta Hall, 117, 120
Dorothy’s antipathy to, 120, 150, 154, 200, 265
collapse of marriage, 121–2
separation, 185, 186, 187
at Allan Bank, 195, 198, 200
and Coleridge’s grievance against William, 206
Coleridge’s castigation of, 264–5
blossoming after separation, 265
Coleridge, Sara (daughter), 120, 153, 195, 198, 202, 265, 331, 336
and parents’ separation, 185
at Allan Bank, 200
Southey’s support of, 263
marriage to cousin Henry, 310
on Miss Fenwick, 316–17
Colthouse, Ann Tyson’s house in, 21, 24
Como, Lake, 138
Cookson, Ann—see Wordsworth, Ann
Cookson, Christopher—see Crackenthorpe, Christopher
Cookson, Dorothy (grandmother), 9, 12, 13–14, 17, 26, 70
Cookson, Mary (cousin), 66
Cookson, William (grandfather), 9, 12, 13–14, 26
Cookson, Rev. William (uncle), 9, 31, 32, 68, 180
help and advice to William, 28–9, 40
disappointed in William, 39, 40, 66, 75
marriage, 40
gives Dorothy a home, 40, 66, 70, 75
reaction to news of Annette, 63
as Dean of Windsor, 66, 179
changed attitude to William, 179
Cooper, Thomas, 324
Cottle, Joseph, 86, 87, 91, 108
arranges lectures by Coleridge and Southey, 82–3
publishes Lyrical Ballads, 96, 101–2, 107
ceases publishing, 102, 122, 298
Courier, 196, 198
Cowper, William, 33
Crackenthorpe family, 9
Crackenthorpe (formerly Cookson), Christopher (uncle), 9, 13
dislike of William, 13, 23, 26, 28
as guardian, 22, 25, 39, 62–3, 68, 70
death, 145
Crackenthorpe, Mrs Christopher (aunt), Dorothy’s letter to, 70–71
Crackenthorpe, William (cousin), 235
Critical Review, attack on Poems in Two Volumes, 190, 191
Crosthwaite Church, Southey’s grave at, 349
Crump, Mr (Liverpool attorney), builder of Allan Bank, 172, 194
Cumberland Pacquet, 22
Curse of Kehama, The (Southey), 262, 267
Curwen family, 37, 38, 307
Dalton, John, 11
Danton, George Jacques, 54
Darlington, Beth, 249
Davy, Sir Humphry, 92, 173, 264, 306
sees new Lyrical Ballads through press, 123, 133
visits Lakes,
167
Dawson, Mary, 248
De Quincey, Margaret, 224, 349
De Quincey, Thomas, 210, 336
impressed by Dorothy, 137, 303
fan letter to William after reading Lyrical Ballads, 201–2
introduction and aid to Coleridge, 202
momentous meeting with William, 202–3
takes over Dove Cottage, 203
on William’s attitude to women, 203–4
devotion to Wordsworth children, 203, 204–5, 211, 223
his comparison of William and Coleridge, 208
ill-feeling between Wordsworths and, 223–4
break in friendship, 224–6
liaison and marriage, 224
renewed friendship with William, 226, 236
edits Westmorland Gazette, 236–7
on William’s ‘animal passions’, 250
description of Southey, 265
on William’s achievement of fame, 279
on Dorothy’s strong emotions, 303
on Mary’s kindness, 335
‘Dejection: an Ode’ (Coleridge), 149
Derwent, River, 5, 6
Derwentwater, in, 117
Devonshire, fifth Duke of, 197
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of, 127
Dixon, James, 325, 326
Don Juan (Byron), 267
Dove Cottage (Grasmere), 321, 348
first seen by William, 108
move to, 112–13
life at, 113–22, 128, 135
garden hut, 114, 174
neighbours, 115
visitors, 116–20, 135, 145, 149, 150, 163–4, 167, 202–3, 208
William and Mary’s return to, with Dorothy, after marriage, 146, 148, 150
domestic routine, 150–1
overcrowding, 166, 167, 177
move from, 186, 192
taken over by De Quincey, 203, 204, 223, 226, 237
Duddon valley, 166, 278, 299, 328
Dumfries, 156
Durham, University of, honorary degree for William, 312, 316
‘Eagle, The’ (Tennyson), 327
Earl of Abergavenny (ship), 41
John Wordsworth as captain of, 116, 168–9
sinking of, 169, 170
Easedale, 114, 306, 336
Eclectic Review, 240, 274, 276
Edinburgh, 160, 289
Edinburgh Review, 232, 243, 262, 276
ignores Lyrical Ballads, 125, 128
originates ‘Lake Poets’ term, 129
attack on Poems in Two Volumes, 190–1
attack on Excursion, 239, 241, 242
on White Doe of Rylstone, 240
on Ecclesiastical Sonnets, 279
Edridge, Henry, his portrait of William, 179
Ennerdale, 108
‘Eroica’ Symphony (Beethoven), 164
Esthwaite Water, 19, 20, 35
Evans, Mary, 78, 82
Examiner, 275
Hazlitt’s review of Excursion in, 239
Fenwick, Isabella, 334, 335
joins Wordsworth circle, 315–17
defends Quillinan, 316, 330
her notes on William’s memories of background to poems, 317, 341
and birthday festivities, 321
Fisher, Molly, 115, 135, 151
Flagellant, 79
Fleming, Lady Diana, 214–15
Fleming, Lady Diana the younger, 214, 215, 294–5
Fletcher, Miss (Rydal neighbour), 323, 328
Fox, Charles James, 141
William’s obsequious letter to, 127
William’s meeting with, 178
Fox, Mrs Charles James, 178
France: 1790 trip to, 40, 42, 45–8
1791–2 stay in, 51–5, 100, 111
possible trip in 1793, 67, 69
1802 visit, 139–42
1820 visit, 272, 285–6
French Revolution, 43, 45, 48, 50, 52–5, 79, 140–1, 164, 173–4, 229–30, 232, 287
Fricker, Edith—see Southey, Edith
Fricker, Eliza, 264
Fricker, Martha, 264
Fricker, Sara—see Coleridge, Sara
Friend, The, Coleridge’s weekly paper, 195, 199–200, 201, 206
‘Frost at Midnight’ (Coleridge), 93
George III, 66
Germany, 1798–9 trip to, 96, 98–101, 107, no, 159
Gillbanks, Rev. Joseph, 10, 11
Gillman, Dr James, 287, 304
Gilpin, William, 37, 98, 112
Gladstone, William Ewart, 322, 327
Glasgow, 156
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 74
Godwin, William, 92, 103, 179
influence on William, 74
Goslar, 99–101
Grantham, ‘abandoned women’ in, 29
Grasmere, 41, 70, 114, 151
move to Dove Cottage in, 108, 110, 112, –13
local life, 115, 215
changes in, 172, 194
plans to leave, 172, 177
move to new house (Allan Bank) in, 186, 192, 194–5
move to Parsonage, 209–10, 349
deaths of Catherine and Thomas at, 210–12
final move from, 212, 214, 215
Wordsworth Museum, 290, 348
Coleridge and Wordsworth graves at, 333. See also Allan Bank
Dove Cottage
Grasmere Lake, 114, 182, 203
Grattan, Thomas, on William’s ‘unrefined’ appearance, 287
Gray, Thomas, 32, 33, 38, 47
Great Malvern, 337
Green family, appeal for, 197–8
Green, Sally, 197, 210
Greta Hall (Keswick), 349
Coleridge at, 117, 120, 122, 148, 149, 150, 161, 167–8, 200
Southey at, 122, 161, 167–8, 261, 263–6, 310–12, 315
Hazlitt hidden at, 163
Gretna Green, 156
Guide to the Lake District (Gilpin), 98, 112
Halifax: Dorothy’s childhood in, 14, 23, 24
her secret meeting with William in, 68, 69–70
Hamburg, 99, 159
Hampton Court, 286
Hanway, Joseph, 36
Harper, G. M., 55
Hatfield, John, 155–6, 172
Hawkshead, 16–17, 111
Tyson house and shop in, 16, 17, 21, 35, 348
schooldays in, 17–21, 22, 23–4, 26, 27, 30, 230
grammar school, 18—19, 29, 252, 348
summer vacations in, 35–8, 43
social life, 36–8
Haydon, Benjamin, 220
close friendship with William, 221, 327–8
paintings of William, 327
suicide, 328
Hazlitt, William, 91, 97, 125, 280
first impression of William, 92, 105–6
on Lyrical Ballads 106
enchanted by Dorothy, 137
at Dove Cottage after Keswick escapade, 163–4
condemns Excursion, 239
admits William’s genius, 277–8
his ‘candle’ story about William, 281–2
Helvellyn, 108, 114, 118, 167, 327
Hogg, James, William’s poem written on death of, 304–5, 314
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 178
back-handed compliment to William, 195
donation to Green appeal, 197
Hood, Edwin Paxton, 325
‘Hope, Hon. Augustus’ (John Hatfield), 155–6
Howley, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 327
Hunt, Leigh, 220
on William’s poetic genius, 277
Hutchinson family, 143–4
Hutchinson, George, 144, 168
Hutchinson, Henry, 144
Hutchinson, Joanna, 120, 144, 154, 295
Hutchinson, John, 144, 181
Hutchinson, Margaret, 101, 144
Hutchinson, Mary—see Wordsworth, Mary
Hutchinson, Sarah, 117, 118, 132, 141, 144, 146, 185, 215, 220, 221, 241, 242
Coleridge’s passion for, 119, 120, 149, 158,
185, 186, 187, 200
devotion to William, 149, 186
at Dove Cottage, 150, 151, 154, 166, 173, 195
possibility of marriage to John Wordsworth, 170, 302
helps Coleridge on his magazine, 186, 187, 196, 199
at Allan Bank, 196
leaves Allan Bank, 199
and Catherine’s death, 210–11
in Scotland and Wales, 246
on William’s spoiling of Willy, 257
as universal aunt to Wordsworths and Southeys, 264, 265, 295, 302
on ‘tourist attraction’ of William, 280
death, 302, 303
grave, 333
Hutchinson, Tom, 144, 199, 210, 211
godfather to Tom Wordsworth, 181
In Memorium (Tennyson), 342
Industrial Revolution, 230
Ireland, 1829 visit to, 288–9
Isola (Italian teacher), 38
Italy, 1837 trip to, 307, 320, 328
James (family servant), 12, 17
Jeffrey, Francis (later Lord), 125
attack on 1807 Poems, 190
review of Excursion (‘This will never do’), 239, 241, 242
claim to be admirer of William, 279
Jerdan, William, 285
Joan of Arc (Southey), 80, 83, 87, 102, 262
Johnson, Joseph, 61, 65
Johnson, Samuel, 121
Jones, John Paul, 11
Jones, Robert, 69, 286
accompanies William on first trip to France, 46–7, 51, 159, 285
in North Wales with William, 49
Journal of a Few Months Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain (Dora Wordsworth), 331
Keats, John, 262, 327, 335
first meeting with William, 220, 221
disappointed in him, 221, 222, 288
parodies ‘Peter Bell’, 274, 275
considers William a genius, 277
death, 325
Keble, John, 291
Keepsake, 281
Kendal, 185
1818 election, 234–6
Kendal Chronicle, 230, 234, 275
Kendal and Windermere railway, projected, 322–3, 329
Keswick, 70, 114, 128, 152, 266, 268, 349
William’s nursing of R, Calvert at, 72–4
Southey’s grave, 349. See also Greta Hall
Kingston, Mr (Comptroller of Stamps), 220, 221
Kirkby Lonsdale, 219
‘Kubla Khan’ (Coleridge), 93
Lamb, Charles, 82, 89, 117, 179, 262, 296
ridicules William’s shoes, 91
on Lyrical Ballads, 124–5, 132
possible author of teasing paragraph on William’s wedding. 149
clears up doubts over John Wordsworth’s death, 170
on ‘sad Josephs’, 198
and Coleridge’s grievance against William, 206, 207
tipsy teasing of William, 221
on Excursion, 240
death, 304
Landor, Walter Savage, 80
Lausanne, 286
Lay of the Last Minstrel (Scott), 160, 161, 178, 180, 191
Lectures on the English Poets (Hazlitt), 277–8
Legouis, Emile, 55, 271, 342