Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of, 218
Lloyd, Charles, 91, 117, 225, 241, 247, 258
‘candle’ story about William, 282
Lloyd, Priscilla, 112
engaged to Christopher Wordsworth, 117
marriage and death, 258
Lockhart, John Gibson, 283
Lomond, Loch, 157, 158, 182, 328
London: 1791 stay in, 48–9
ambivalent attitude to, 60–61
as 1793–5
base, 63, 64–5, 74
brief 1802 visit en route to France, 139, 140, 147, 171
1806 visit, 177–80
frequent later visits, 178, 187, 192, 198, 220–1, 250, 285, 286–7, 301, 326–7, 332
visionary experience in, 187
London Magazine, 281
Longmans, 102, 179, 201, 319
publish new Lyrical Ballads, 123, 128
publish Excursion, 241
William’s dissatisfaction with, 297
Lonsdale, James Lowther, first Earl of, 6, 7, 8, 71
debts owed to Wordsworth family, 22, 26, 49–50, 145
death, 140
Lonsdale, James Hugh William Lowther, seventh Earl of, 228
Lonsdale, William Lowther, first Earl of second creation, 195, 237
pays off family debts, 140, 182, 216
as benefactor to William, 182–3, 197, 217–18, 220, 233, 282, 292, 294
William’s obsequious letters to, 183, 217
and 1818 election, 232, 233, 235, 236
Excursion dedicated to, 237
helps Southey, 268
helps William’s son John, 292, 301
Losh, James, 96
Loughrigg Holme, 332
Louis XVI, 54, 64
Lovell, Robert, 81
Lovell, Mrs Lovell, 264
Lowther family, 7–8, 37
legal action against, 22, 30, 48, 49–50, 51, 145
William’s hatred of, 50, 217
settlement of action, 151, 182, 216
William’s changed attitude to, and anxiety to serve, 217, 228, 232–6, 281, 282
and 1818 election, 232–6
Lowther, Colonel Henry, in 1818 election, 233, 234–6
Lowther, Sir James—see Lonsdale, James Lowther, first Earl of
Lowther, Sir John, 7
Lowther, William, Lord (later second Earl of Lonsdale), in 1818 election, 233, 234–6
Malta, Coleridge in, 165, 170, 184
Marat, Jean Paul, 54
Marie Antoinette, 64
Marshall (formerly Pollard, q.v.), Jane, Dorothy’s letters to, 114, 133, 145
Martineau, Harriet, 334
on William’s friendship with Miss Fenwick, 316
her own move to Lakes and friendship with William, 317—19, 326
on William’s delight in children, 321
Matthews, William, 83, 87
Melrose, 160
Menai Bridge, 286
Mingay, Mr (Hawkshead dancing master), 23
Mont Blanc, 47
Montagu, Basil, 74–5, 154
promise to pay William annuity, 75
defaults, 87, 95, 152
provides London home for Coleridge, 200–201
repeats William’s criticisms to Coleridge, 205, 206, 207
pays off debt to William, 216
given lock of his hair, 325
Montagu, Mrs Basil, 335
Montagu, Basil jr, 75, 86, 87, 246
Monthly Literary, Byron’s attack on 1807 Poems, 189–90
Monthly Review, 124
on first published verse, 62
on White Doe, 240
on ‘Peter Bell’, 276
Moore, Thomas, 277, 287
Moorman, Mary, 21
Moresby (Cumberland), John Wordsworth’s living at, 307
Morning Post, 107, 178
Coleridge’s work for, 121, 184
teasing notice of William’s wedding, 148–9
Moxon, Edward, 319, 322, 340
Mull, Isle of, 289
Murray, John, 297
Myers, John (cousin), 28
Nab Cottage (Rydal Water), 224, 333, 349
Nab Scar, 114
Napoleon, 141, 164, 184, 269, 270
Nelson, Horatio, Southey’s Life of, 263, 312
Nether Stowey, 88, 89, 95, 348
Newbiggen Hall (Cumberland), 9
Newcastle Journal, 305
Newton, Sir Isaac, 32
Orleans, 140
1791–2 visit to, 51–4
liaison with Annette in, 53–4
Owen, Robert, 231
Oxenholme, 337
Oxford: son John at New College, 291–2
honorary degree for William, 312
Paine, Tom, 64
Pantisocracy, 77–8, 81–2, 84, 89
Paris, 52, 54–5, 56
supposed secret 1793 visit to, 63
Caroline’s wedding in, 271
meeting between William, Mary and Annette in, 272
last meeting with Caroline in, 307
Patterdale, 167, 181, 182, 304
Peel, Sir Robert, 302, 310, 313
Peel Castle, 179
Penrith, 7, 11–12, 26, 39, 41, 72
Cookson home in, 9, 11, 12, 13, 347
William’s life with grandparents in, 11, 12–14, 21
dame school, 12, 142
Dorothy’s return to, 24–5, 28, 40
Hutchinson home in, 143
Penrith Beacon, 12, 347
Pickersgill, Henry William, portrait of William, 312, 348
Pinney brothers, 75, 86
Pitt, William, 7, 31, 80
Pocklington, Colonel, 111
Pollard (later Marshall, q.v.), Jane, Dorothy’s letters to, 41, 49, 66, 67–8
Poole, Thomas, 89, 95, 141
on Coleridge and Southey, 81
help for Coleridge, 91
disapproves of his journalism, 122
William’s letters to, 199, 247
Potter, Beatrix, 21
Pye, Henry James, 220
Quarterly Review, 262
Quillinan, Edward, 304, 318, 328, 336, 341
unfavourable first meeting with William, 284
later friendship, 284, 286, 308
correspondence with family, 293, 294
marriage to Dora, 308–10, 316
row with William, 309, 316
financial insecurity, 330
wanderings, 330–1
and Dora’s death, 332, 333
help in biography of William, 341
Quillinan, Rotha, 284
Racedown Lodge (Dorset), 348
William and Dorothy’s first home together, 75, 85–8, 89
visitors, 87, 88, 145, 320
first meeting of Coleridge with William and Dorothy, 88
Radnor, William Pleydell-Bouverie, third Earl of, 268
Ratzeburg, 99
Rawnsley, Canon H. D., 321, 322, 333
Ray, Martha, 75
Recollections of the Lake Poets (De Quincey), 202–3, 204, 210, 225, 226, 265
Reed, Henry Hope, 336, 341
William’s letters to, 321, 323, 327, 334
Reform Act (1832), 306, 323, 324
Reminiscences of Wordsworth among the Peasantry of Westmorland (Rawnsley), 321–2
Reynolds, John Hamilton, 274, 275
Rights of Man, The (Paine), 64
Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore, 54, 55
Robinson, Henry Crabb, 207, 224, 238, 276, 279, 287, 322, 337, 341
close friendship with William, 221–2, 334
in Lake Poets circle, 262, 264
told of Annette, 269
at William’s meeting with Annette and Caroline, 272
fury at Hazlitt’s criticism of William, 277
Dorothy’s letter to, 301
Italian tour with William, 307, 320, 328, 355
William’s letters to, 312, 31
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Christmases at Rydal, 334
and biography of William, 342
Robinson, Mary, 155, 156
Rogers, Samuel, 326
William’s letters to, 238, 239, 297
negotiates between William and Murray, 297
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 43
Rydal Mount, 349
move to, 214–16
furnishing of, 215–16, 219
as tourist attraction, 280, 295, 326
visitors and neighbours, 283–5, 315–19, 324, 326, 334, 336–7
settled life at, 294–6, 336
Dora’s field, 295
illness at, 302
Dora’s honeymoon at, 310
seventy-fourth birthday party at, 321
only royal visitor to, 326
shower bath for Dora’s use, 331
Dora’s death at, 332
Christmasses at, 334
William’s death at, 338
Rydal Water, 112, 114, 182, 296
Salisbury Plain, 69
Sandwich, John Montagu, fourth Earl of, 74
Sandys, Edwin, Archbishop of York, 18
Scafell Pike, Coleridge’s ascent of, as first recorded climb, 120
Scotland: 1803 tour, 154–62
1831 tour, 289, 304
Scott, Sir Walter, 170, 173, 180, 181, 195, 264, 289, 293, 315
shows William the Border country, 160–1
visits Lakes, 161, 167, 283
popularity of, 178, 239, 279, 287
concern over William’s new school of poetry, 188
donation to Green appeal, 188
refuses Laureateship, 220
his poetry deprecated by William, 238–9
bust displayed by William, 281
at Hampton Court, 286–7
bankruptcy, 298, 304
last meeting with William, 304
death, 304
Scrambler, Mr (Grasmere doctor), 210, 255
Sedbergh School, son John at, 254, 257, 291
Selincourt, Ernest de, 21, 133
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 74
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 138, 262
visits Southey, 266–7
skit on ‘Peter Bell’, 275
acknowledges William as ‘great poet’, 277
death, 325
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 92
Shrewsbury, 105
Silver Howe, 114, 194
Simplon Pass, 47
Skiddaw, 6, 122, 152
Waterloo celebration on, 265–6
Smith, Adam, 77
Smith, Charlotte, 151
Smith, Sydney, 125, 319
Sockbridge (Cumberland), Wordsworth family estate, 7, 8
Sockburn on Tees, 107, 144
Southey, Mrs (mother of Robert), 80, 82
Southey, Cuthbert, 264
Southey (formerly Fricker), Edith, 81, 83, 88, 262, 264, 265, 310
marriage, 84
mental decline and death, 311
Southey, Herbert, 263–4
Southey, Isabel, 310, 311
Southey, Kate, 311, 312, 315
Southey, Robert, 101, 117, 119, 156, 163, 179, 198, 225, 238, 239, 279, 315
and Pantisocracy, 78, 79, 80–82, 84, 267
early life and radicalism, 79–80, 267–8
friendship with Coleridge, 79, 80–84
differences with him, 82, 83, 84
lectures, 82–3
meets William, 83
marriage to Edith Fricker, 84
William’s unfavourable impression of, 87
occasional contacts with Coleridge, 88
Dorothy’s poor opinion of, 93
reviews Lyrical Ballads unfavourably, 102, 123, 261
renewed friendship with Coleridge, 122
move to Lakes, 122, 124, 262
at Greta Hall, 167–8, 261, 263, 266, 295
revised opinion of Lyrical Ballads, 124
as one of Lake Poets, 129, 188, 189, 220, 243
William more favourable to, 161
revulsion against France under Napoleon, 164, 173, 268
on Lakes tour with Scott, 167
comforts William on brother John’s death, 170
bitter comment on William’s social success, 178
on choice of name for second Wordsworth son, 180
on reviewers, 191
William’s letter to, on Tom Wordsworth’s death, 211–12
as Poet Laureate, 219–20, 261, 278, 312
visits Owen’s factory, 231
hurt by attacks on Excursion, 242–3
closer relations with William, 261, 265, 269
reputation as poet, 262, 274
other literary activities, 262–3
his household, 263–4
his ‘three wives’, 264–5
De Quincey’s description of, 265
celebration of Waterloo, 265–6
visitors and correspondence, 266–7
row with Byron, 267
high-Toryism, 267, 268
embarrassed by publication of early republican play, 267–8
meets Annette and Caroline, 269
‘Peter Bell’ dedicated to, 276
Hazlitt’s praise of, 278
bust displayed by William, 281
declines baronetcy, 310
mental decline and death of wife, 311
re-marriage, 311
his own mental decline and death, 311–12
on William’s dormant sense of smell, 320
grave, 349
Spedding family, 69, 70
Spedding, John, 37
Spedding Mary, 37
Stafford, Marchioness of, 178
Stair, ninth Earl of, 19
Stephen, J. K., 343
Stuart, Daniel, 234, 271
as Morning Post editor, 121, 149, 196
and teasing paragraph on William’s marriage, 149
William’s letter to, 218
Swinburne, Algernon, 336
Taylor, Henry, 288
Taylor, William (Hawkshead headmaster), 30
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 326
William’s praise of, 327
rise to fame, 342
on William’s ‘thick-ankled’ element, 343
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 343
at Cambridge, 32, 34
Thalaba (Southey), 128
Thelwall, John, 94, 95
‘Three Bears, The’ (Southey), 312
Times, The, 262, 275
Tintern Abbey, 69, 83, 106, 109
Trevelyan, G. M., 29
Tyler, Miss (Southey’s aunt), 79, 84
Tyler, Wat, Southey’s dramatic poem about, 81, 267–8
Tyson, Ann, 16
William boarded with while at school, 17, 19, 21
as mother figure, 17–18
identification of her cottage, 21, 348
fits William out for Cambridge, 29
William’s summer vacations with, 35–6
shuts up shop, 45
Tyson, Hugh, 16, 17, 19, 21
Ullswater, 20, 112, 114, 134, 157, 181
purchase of property on, 182–3
Vallon, Annette, 132, 137
William’s affair with, 53–9, 61, 65, 67, 137, 174
birth of Caroline, 54
William’s plan to marry, 55, 58
her letters, 55–7, 140, 141, 250
secrecy over, 55, 204, 250, 269, 342
William’s uncles told of, 62–3, 68
William’s disentanglement from, 139–42
later contact with, 26–70
visited by Southey, 269
marriage of Caroline, 271
first meeting with Mary, 272
death, 340
Vallon (later Baudouin), Caroline, 56, 57, 63, 142
birth, 54
christening, 141
William’s sonnet to, 141, 273
reveals story to Southey, 269
engagement and marriage, 269–71
William’
s annual payments to, 271
his final settlement on, 272, 340
children, 272
meeting with William, 272
last meeting with him, 307
death, 341
descendants, 341
Vallon, Paul, 141
Victoria, Queen, William presented to, 326–7
Wadsworth (Yorks), 7
Walsh, G. (Home Office secret agent), 94–5
Walter, John, 263
Waterloo, Battle of (1815), 265, 270
Watson, Richard, Bishop of Llandaff, 32
William’s invective adressed to, 64–5
William’s changed attitude to, 222
Wedgwood, Josiah, 95, 96, 98
Wedgwood, Tom, 95, 96, 98
Weekly Entertainer, William’s only signed letter to newspaper in, 86
Weeks, Shadrach, 82
West, Thomas, 37
Westminster School, 79
Westmorland, 1818 election in, 232–6
Westmorland Gazette, 234
De Quincey as editor of, 236–7
Whitehaven, 8, 9, 69, 70
Paul Jones raid on, 11
Whitwick (Leics), John Wordsworth’s curacy at, 292, 300–301
Wight, Isle of, 56, 88
Wilberforce, Barbara, 283
Wilberforce, William, 31–2, 66, 127
impressed by Dorothy’s class for poor children, 41
at Rydal Mount, 283
Wilkinson, Rev. Joseph, 289
William Wordsworth and Annette Vallon (Legouis), 271
Williams, Helen Maria, 51–2
Wilson, John: fan letter to William, 128, 201
move to Lakes, 201
godfather to Willy, 205
leaves Lakes, 224, 226
helped by William despite offending him, 283
Windermere, 20, 35, 37, 38, 111, 136, 323
Windsor, 66, 179
Windy Browe (Calvert farm), 69, 70–71, 349
Wordsworth, Ann (mother), 6, 9, 11
character, 10
illness and death, 13, 14
Wordsworth, Catherine (daughter), 254
birth, 195
De Quincey’s devotion to, 204
death, 210–11, 212; ‘Surprised by joy’ written in memory of, 212, 213
Wordsworth, Charles (nephew), 281
Wordsworth, Christopher (brother), 6, 23, 93, 180, 259
character, 10, 25, 66, 285
at Cambridge, 34, 66, 83, 117, 280
engagement, 117
allowance to Dorothy, 145
successful Church career, 179, 258
marriage, 258
closer relationship with William, 258
William’s letter to, 306
death, 332
Wordsworth, Christopher (nephew), 281
as biographer, 55, 143, 197, 313, 320, 341, 342
Wordsworth (later Quillinan), Dora (daughter), 251, 286, 327, 336
birth, 166
as William’s favourite, 181, 254, 256, 284, 292, 308
on walk to Patterdale and Ullswater, 181–2
character, 254–6, 292–3
education, 255
ill health, 257, 293, 302, 331, 332
on Napoleon’s escape from Elba, 270