childhood disappearance, 116
health, 73–4
at ICI, 72–3, 155
inventions, 59
kinship with Clare, 14, 155, 240
leaves Glinton, 14, 334
London-Peterborough drive, 139, 140
in Mexico, 66
at Oxford, 14, 71, 264
as pilot, 58–60, 61, 97, 268, 343
poetry, 14, 156, 341–4
as marksman, 49–50
Hadman, Joan (Anna's mother), 68, 255
Hadman, Lawrence William (‘Lawrie’) (1906–83), 64, 255, 258, 259, 280, 334
Hadman, Louisa Maria (née Devonshire) (1839–1907), 260, 263, 264, 267, 270
Hadman, Mary Annabel Rose (‘Anna’). See Sinclair, Anna
Hadman, Robert (1808–63), 264, 267, 269, 272, 273, 332, 344–5, 350
Hadman, Robert (1835–1924), 260, 264, 267, 270–72, 280, 317
Hadman, Robert John (b. 1946), 58, 60, 67, 340, 341
Hadman, Susa (b. 1950), 340, 341, 342
Hadman, William (1873–1943), 54, 55–6, 254, 255, 258, 267, 271
buys Red House, 264, 267
as forester, 302
personal appearance, 259, 260
Hadman, William Geoffrey (b. 1944), 58, 59, 60, 67, 259, 264, 340, 341
Hadman family, 14–15, 296, 301, 306, 350
of Caldecote, 344–5
farm, 253
of Glinton, 53–4, 65, 254–5, 258–60
graves, 263–5
holidays, 60–62
kinship with Clare, 15, 40, 222, 239–40, 254, 260–61, 306, 351
of Paston, 277
of Washingley, 353
of Werrington, 267, 277, 284, 292, 301
Hardy, Thomas, 15–16, 33, 42, 314
Harwood, Lee, 40, 42
Hazlitt, William, 38, 101
Helpston, Northants, 13, 44–5, 49, 340
Clare in, 44, 47, 79, 81, 92, 148, 339
Clare's burial, 24–6
Clare's cottage, 20, 21, 38–9, 41, 42, 43–4, 275, 339, 340
‘Helpston £9,850’ (Raworth), 43–4, 339
Hertford, 140, 149–50
Herzog, Werner, 142, 286
Hetzel, Val, 252, 257
High Beach, Epping Forest, 15, 30, 38, 126, 128–31, 132, 134
Clare escapes from, 30, 110, 121, 122, 123, 277
Clare in, 110, 115–20, 196, 281–2, 283
Hill, Elizabeth (1767–1813), 351, 357
Hilton, William, 39, 40, 41, 82–3
Holme Fen, 182, 293
Holme Lode Covert, 182–3
Holmes, Richard, 190, 197, 198, 207, 208
Holy Sepulchre Church, Northampton, 214, 215
Holy Trinity Church, Great Paxton, 170, 172, 173, 176
How the Dead Live (Self), 139, 148
Hughes, Ted, 27, 55
Hunt, Leigh, 198
Huntingdon, 92, 145
County Record office, 344–5, 350, 353
ibis hotels, 152–3, 217, 234
Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place (Barrell), 18, 42
John Clare: The Living Year, 1841, 283
John Clare by Himself (ed. Robinson & Powell), 124, 226, 346
John Clare Society, 284, 306, 339
Joas, Maria, 237
‘Journey out of Essex’ (Clare), 158, 222, 341, 345
Joyce, Giorgio, 242
Joyce, James (Glinton farmer), 29, 50, 70
Joyce, James (Irish writer), 51, 69, 141–2, 233, 234, 304, 347
death, 235
and Lucia, 236, 237, 238–9, 282
writing method, 234
Joyce, Lucia Anna, 51, 234–9, 245, 297
and Beckett, 234–5, 238
designs lettering, 238–9
grave, 346, 347–8
and Jung, 282
portrait, 69
in St Andrew's Hospital, 216, 230, 231, 232, 233, 237, 239
Joyce, Mary, 5–6, 15, 68, 69, 158, 252
Clare first meets, 29
death, 119, 228, 261
grave, 51, 65, 68
as muse, 44, 67, 119, 133, 212
schooldays, 29, 67, 68
as spiritual bride, 118, 120, 122, 153
Keats, John, 89, 103, 198
Clare and, 99–100, 195
health, 24, 99–100, 101
Kerouac, Jack, 103
Kesey, Ken, 231
Keyes, Sidney, 43, 344
Knight, William, 228, 229
Knowlson, James, 231, 242
Kötting, Andrew, 210
Labour in Vain public house, Enfield Highway, 123, 226
Lamb, Charles, 38, 108, 127
Lawrence, T. E., 119
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 38
Lawrence, William, 205
Letters of John Clare (Tibble), 115
Levis, Howard C., 96
Lippitts Hill, High Beach, 115, 117–18, 129, 130, 135, 136
Literary Britain (Brandt), 41
London
Clare visits, 8, 27, 30, 38, 89, 90–91, 92, 97, 98–110, 122, 145
fringes, 5, 6–7, 8, 125
London Brick Company, Whittlesey, 287–8, 359
London Magazine, 104, 174
London Orbital (film), 125, 236
Lutton Church, 351, 356–7, 360
Macdonald, Dr, 237
Maddox, Brenda, 239
Magus (or Celestial Intelligencer) (Barrett), 226–7
Mann, Anthony, 356, 361, 362
Mapleston, Charles, 15, 135
Maroger, Dominique, 348
Marsh, Mrs George (bishop's wife), 275, 276, 277
Martin, Frederick W., 79–80, 81, 84, 87, 88, 101, 105, 110, 180, 275
Mary, Queen of Scots, 233, 285, 358–9
Matthews, Charles Skinner (‘Citoyen’), 196
Matthews, Dr, 172–3
Matthews, Emma, 166–7, 168–70, 171–3, 174, 175
Matthews, Ruth Constance, 170, 172–3
May, James, 103
Medwin, Thomas, 196
Melbourne, Lord, 31, 282
Merrick, Joseph, 220, 276
Milne, A. A., 52–3
Milton, John, 109
Milton, Lord, 22, 28, 38, 83
Milton Hall, 22, 213, 261, 297, 301, 302–3
Molly Gangs, 298–9
Moon and the Sledgehammer, The (film), 210
Moore, Alan, 214, 219, 220, 223, 226–8, 237, 244, 253, 298, 349
on Boadicea, 260
on Bunyan, 218
at home, 215, 217, 225, 232–3, 234
on retirement, 227
schooldays, 230
visits Lucia Joyce's grave, 346, 347–8
writing, 214, 216, 225, 226
Moraes, Henrietta, 156
Morris, Thomas, 126
Morris, William, 52
Morrison, Arthur, 119
Mossop, Revd, 213
Moving (Raworth), 43–4
Moyse, Peter, 284
Murdoch, Iris, 257, 284
Murdoch, Rupert, 214
Myddelton, Sir Hugh, 144
Nash, Paul, 352, 355
National Portrait Gallery, London, 39
Nene River, 21, 22, 23, 30, 210, 211, 228, 285, 358
Sinclair / Catling voyage, 306–12
Northampton, 211, 214–23, 224, 345
Central Library, Clare collection, 216, 219–23
General Theory, 348
poetry-reading, 214–15
Victoria's procession, 349
Northampton General Lunatic Asylum (later St Andrew's), 216, 303
Clare in, 9, 11, 39, 46, 213, 228–9
Northborough, 49
Clare's return to, 30, 46, 54–65, 121, 212–13, 276
Poet's cottage, 65, 70, 122, 161, 254, 276, 346
Nutting, Myron, 69
Old Soke Books, Peterborough, 275, 281
Olson, Charles, 43, 89, 278, 289, 326
‘open field’ poetics, 43, 278
Oxey Wood, 340, 341,
343
Oxford, 14, 71, 72, 200–202
Page, William, 11, 213
Parker, James Henry, 292
Parker, John Donald, 27, 254, 292, 358
Pepys, Samuel, 8, 102, 103, 178–9
Perceval, Spencer, 218–19
Peterborough, Northants, 14, 33, 83, 276, 278–9
Agricultural Fair, 292, 334
Cathedral, 285, 318
Library, 278–80
Museum, 279, 280
orbital motorway, 10, 13, 34, 252–3, 275, 301–2, 304
riverside, 285–6
Petit, Chris, 10, 20, 32, 56, 132, 137, 143, 144, 68
dress, 12, 133
at film festivals, 36–8
as filmmaker, 13, 17, 18–19, 22–3, 33–4, 35, 53, 60, 134, 142, 160, 166–7, 181, 304
as writer, 19, 134
Petit, Louis, 168, 172, 173
Plant, Robert, 269, 270
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (Clare), 90, 101
Poems on Several Occasions (Ramsay), 220
Porter, Thomas, 146
Pound, Ezra, 42
Powell, David, 124, 226
Prehistoric London, Its Mounds and Circles (Gordon), 125
Prichard, Dr, 229
Prynne, J. H., 326
Radio On (film), 60, 160, 181, 304
Radstock, Lord, 38, 101
Ramsay, Allan, 220, 244
Ramsey, Hunts, 182, 292, 312–16
voyage to, 306–12
Ramsey Abbey, 184, 202, 256, 287, 293, 315
Psalter, 285
Randall, Jack, 38, 108, 121, 133
Raworth, Tom, 42, 43–4, 67, 339
Rectory Lane, Glinton, 50, 252, 255
Red House, Glinton, 50, 51–2, 64, 70, 71, 252, 257–9, 264, 291, 299
Reynolds, J. H., 38, 101
Richter, Gerhard, 166, 169
Right to Song, The (Storey), 35, 173
Rippingille, E. V., 38, 104–5,108,226
Roberts, Harry, 126–7
Robinson, Eric, 124, 226, 262, 346
Robinson (Petit), 134, 190
Rogers, Anton, 88
Rose, Dorothy Muriel (née Stokes), 284, 306
Rose, George A., 323, 328, 329–30, 333, 391
Rose, Mary (Anna's great-grandmother), 291, 301
Rose, William (1844–1910), 291, 292, 332–3
at Delavals Farm, 328, 329, 354
funeral, 284, 289, 292, 311
at Glassmoor, 292, 301, 328, 329
at Windmill Inn, 291, 300
Rose, William (Anna's great-uncle), 291, 300, 304, 316, 329
Rose family, 288–9, 290–92, 306, 311–12, 316, 329, 330–33
in Whittlesey, 284, 288, 292, 301, 322
Rouse, Alfie, 218, 226
Rowbotham, Samuel Birley, 324, 325
St Andrew's churchyard, Northborough, 253–4
St Andrew's Hospital, Northampton, 216, 226, 229–30, 232, 348
Lucia Joyce in, 216, 230, 231, 232, 233, 237, 239
St Benedict's Church, Glinton, 46, 50, 51, 53, 66, 254
schoolroom, 67, 68, 122
spire, 47, 48
St Botolph's Church, Helpston, 254
Clare's tomb, 24, 25–7
St John the Baptist, Werrington, 263–6
St Luke's, Old Street, 294–5
St Mary-le-Virgin, Baldock, 157–8
St Neots, Hunts, 163–5
St Thomas à Becket, Ramsay, 313–15
Saramago, José, 316, 362
Saunders, C. E. W., 304, 323, 334
Schafer, Martin, 182
Seasons, The (Thomson), 80–81, 82, 222
Sebald W. G., 169
Self, Will, 139, 148
Sharpe, James, 126, 127
Sharpe, Tom, 87
Shelley, Harriet, 195
Shelley, Lady, 197–8, 204
Shelley, Mary, 192, 196, 209
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 193–5, 196, 208
drowning, 24, 190–92, 197, 205, 207–8, 221
and Jane Williams, 192
Oxford memorial, 204, 205–6
portraits, 204–5
watch, 198, 200, 207–9
Shelley, Percy Florence, 197, 198
Shelley: The Pursuit (Holmes), 190
Shelley, Sir Timothy, 196
Shloss, Carol Loeb, 236, 237, 238, 348
Sieveking, Lance, 355
Simblett, Sarah, 204
Sinclair, Anna (née Hadman), 130, 202, 225
box collection, 280–81
childhood, 14–15, 56–7, 58–65, 66–9, 70, 72, 73–4, 259
dreams, 189, 340–41, 352
in Dublin, 69, 70, 156, 240, 241
in Glassmoor, 327
in Helpston, 339, 340
at Holme Fen, 182, 183
London-Peterborough drive, 139, 140
Lutton walk, 351, 352, 355–6
name, 66–7, 288, 343
Nene voyage, 306, 307, 309, 310, 312, 317, 321
and Northamptonshire, 51–2, 124
as poet, 155–6
at Werrington, 262, 263, 267
Sinclair, Daniel, 315–16, 362
Sinclair, Henry 235–6, 241
Sinclair, lain
as bookseller, 88, 93
writing, 93–4
Sinclair, Peggy, 71, 241, 251
Sinclair, William ‘Boss,’ 241
Sinclair family
Dublin, 240–42
Skrimshire, Fenwick, 11, 128, 213
Smith, Sir Harry, 290, 300
Smith, William, 21,161, 243–4
Spirit's Expense (Hadman), 341–4
Springfield Farm, High Beach, 129, 130–31
Squire's Gate Aerodrome, Blackpool, 59
Stamford, Lincs, 13, 65, 85–7, 93, 94, 97
booksellers, 65, 85, 86–7
and Clare, 96
Clare on, 97, 204, 297
market, 13, 79, 83
university, 85, 217
Stephen, J. K., 216
Stevenage, Herts, 140, 149, 151–3, 154–5
Stewart, James, 356, 361, 362
Stewart, James, T., 361, 362
Stilton, Hunts, 10–12, 350
Clare at, 5, 10, 11, 181
Hadman family, 184, 306, 341, 347
Stimson family, 265, 272, 273, 292
Street, Chris, 160
Sugden, Mary (née Hadman), 46, 56, 66, 67, 69, 255, 259, 332
swimming, 190–91
Talking about John Clare (Blythe), 51
Taylor, John (Clare's publisher), 38, 83, 89, 90, 99, 100, 101, 103, 107–8, 127
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 38, 55, 119
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardy), 15–16, 33, 314
Thomas, Dylan, 22, 342
Thomas, Edward, 43, 119
Thomas, Helen, 119
Thomas, R. S., 43
Thomson, James, 80–81, 82, 92, 104, 117, 146, 151, 222
Tibble, Anne, 93, 115, 225
Tibble, John, 93, 115
Titman family, 53, 56, 66, 252
Trelawny, Edward John, 191, 193, 194, 195, 198, 205
Trevelyan, Philip, 210
Trinity College, Dublin, 69, 70, 156, 231, 241
Turner, Carol, 329, 330, 333
Turner, Edith (née Rose), 328–9
Turner, Mary (née Rose), 328–9, 330
Turner, Michael, 330, 333
Turner, Norman, 329, 330
Turner, Pat, 333
Turner family, 328–9
Turpin, Dick, 9, 126–7, 138, 320
Tyler, Caroline (née Hadman), 267, 273
Tyler family, 267–8, 272
University College, Oxford,
Shelley memorial, 204, 205–6
Vergette family, 66, 252, 269, 272
Victoria, Queen of England, 31, 38, 282, 349
Voice of the Fire (Moore), 214, 216, 226, 227, 228
Wainewright, Thomas, 38
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nbsp; Waltham Abbey, Essex, 128, 137, 140–41
Walton, Izaak, 142, 146, 175, 222
Washingley, 273, 344–5, 347, 351–2
Watkinson, Val, 266
Watson, Colin, 87, 88
Weaver, Harriet, 236, 237
Webster family, 252, 257, 258, 269
Werrington, Hunts, 13, 34, 260–61, 262–74, 277, 292, 345
Werrington Through the Ages, 267, 268
Wheatsheaf Inn, Glassmoor, 323, 326–7, 328–34, 330, 333
White, Kirk, 82
White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (Sinclair), 95, 96, 294
Whittlesey, Cambs, 284, 288–91, 292, 311, 317, 333
Library, 311, 327, 329
Museum, 295
Straw Bear Festival, 296–300, 317, 333–4
Whittlesey Mere, 99, 182, 184, 204, 292–3, 321, 322, 334, 351, 355
Williams, Edward, 191, 192, 194, 195, 205, 207
Williams, Elizabeth Anne Mould (later Lady Blount), 325
Williams, Jane, 191, 192, 193
Williams, Thomas, 103
Wisbech, Cambs, 30
Clare's voyage to, 210, 275, 284, 285
Wordsworth, William, 105, 170, 349
Wrestlers Inn, St Neots, 162, 163–4, 170
Table of Contents
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Map: Journeys out of Essex
Edge of the Orison
FLYING
Eighty Miles Out
Stilton
Hopes and Ashes
Helpston
Glinton Spire
Flying
DREAMING
Poet in the Park
In Transit
London
WALKING
Forest
High Beach
High Beach to Broxbourne
To Stevenage
To St Neots
Ouse
To Stilton
DROWNING
Salt Green Death
Oxford
Northampton
The Sun Looks Pale upon the Wall
Cousin Sam
REFORGETTING
Glinton
Werrington
Peterborough
Whittlesey
Straw Bear
Ramsey
The Cherry House
The Wheatsheaf