Baring, Maurice, 372
Barnes, Julian, 376
Barrault, Jean-Louis, 86
Barrett, Elizabeth, 372
Barrett, William, 19–21, 25, 35–6, 45
Basset, Anne, 192
Bataille, Charles, 60
Bath, MW in 224
Baudelaire, Charles: Gautier’s patronage, 54; on Melmoth, 150, 160; relationship with Nadar, 60, 62, 66; Nerval’s influence, 104; on pantomime, 81, 86; on Paris, 329; photographs, 63, 66; on photography, 65–6; Rimbaud on, 40; Les Fleurs du Mal, 54; On My Contemporaries, 150; The Soul of Laughter, 86
Beach, Sylvia, 323
Behn, Aphra, 375
Bell, George, 113, 114, 116, 127–8
Benson, Arthur, 164
Bentham, Jeremy, 174, 175, 179
Bentham, Matilda, 213
Bentley, Richard, 140, 141, 143, 145
Bernstorff, Count A.P., 235, 241, 248
biography: authenticity, 197; Boswell’s status, 367–68, 369; choice of subject, 4; DNB, 371; double-life of biographer, 3–4; empathy, 4; experiments with, 136; handshake across time, 198; modern, 373–6; as pursuit, vii-ix; status of biographer, 370; truth-telling, 368, 375–6; twentieth-century, 372–3; Victorian, 371–2
Bird, Isabella, 264
Birnie, Richard, 145
Bisson frères, 58
Blackwood, Algernon, 164
Blackwood’s, 140, 145
Blake, William, 200
Blanche, Emile, 92, 100, 118–19, 121–2, 127
Blanche, Esprit, 100
Blinshall, James, 396, 397
Blood, Fanny, 210, 221–3, 224
Blunt, W.S., 9
Boissard (painter), 104–5
Bolden, Sarah, 143–4
Boleyn, Anne, 184, 185, 187, 191
Bond, Fanny (nee Barham), 142–3, 145, 148
Bosnian crisis, 337
Boswell, Charles, (son of JB), 377, 390, 391
Boswell, James: in Amsterdam, 394, 395–7; as biographer, 367–8, 369–71, 393; dress, 379, 381, 386, 399; relationship with Dutch ladies, 380–4, 385–95, 397–401; education, 377, 381, 391–2; at the Hague, 385–6; in Holland, 368, 377–401; Inviolable Plan, 380; visit to Voltaire, 358; at Zuylen, 397–8, 399, 400
Boswell, Margaret, 369, 375
Boyd, William, 338
Breton, André, 157
Briggs, Julia, 372
Brissot, Jean-Pierre, 258
Bristol: Chatterton in, 10–12, 28–9, 38; Coleridge and Southey in, 38; St Mary Redcliff church, 11, 13–14, 16, 19, 29–30
Brown, Robert, 379, 397
Brown, Thomas, 262
Browne, Brockden, 327
Browning, Oscar, 165
Brummell, Beau, 280
Brunel, Marc Isambard, 69
Brussels Exhibition (1856), 63
Buffon, Comte de, 339
Bunyan, John, 237
Burke, Edmund, 214, 259
Burnet, Timothy, 277, 279
Burney, Charles, 370
Burney, Fanny, 45
Bute, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of, 31
Byatt, A.S., 376
Byrne, Muriel St Clare, 185–6, 190, 192–3
Byron, Allegra, 288
Byron, George Gordon, Lord: bankers, 273; Drury Lane Theatre Committee, 154; Fitzgerald on, 328; in Greece, 236; manuscripts, 275–6; publisher, 274; royalties scheme, 155; friendship with Scrope Davies, 271–2, 275–81; Shelley’s visit, 310; works, 151
Cairns, David, 374
Calais, 183–4, 185, 186–7, 190–1
Calas, Jean, 358–9
Calas, Marc-Antoine, 360–1
Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 292
Cambridge: Churchill College, 367; King’s College, 161–3, 165–7, 171
Cameron, Julia Margaret, 58
Camus, Albert, 336–7, 346
Canterbury, Barham in, 139–40, 147
Canynges, William, 13–14, 20
Carlyle, Thomas, 173, 175, 178, 179, 371, 374
Carne, Marcel, 86
Cary, Thomas, 15, 35, 37
Casa Magni, 283, 284–93, 296–7,
299–300, 302, 306, 308–9
Catcott, Alexander, 38–9, 45
Catcott, George, 19, 21–2, 25, 35–7
cats, 168–9, 368, 403–8
Champfleury (Jules Fleury-Husson), 60, 63, 81, 87
Channel Tunnel, 69, 73
Charivari, 61
Châtelet, Marquise du, 320, 351–5 Chatterton, Thomas: appearance, 38–9, 46; apprenticeship, 19, 23, 24–5; birth, 10; in Bristol, 21–5, 29; character, 11–12, 34–5; childhood, 11–14; death, 5, 25–6, 45–6; drug taking, 5, 25, 40, 45; education, 15–16, 17–18, 32; father, 11; friends, 18, 34–5; letters, 34, 39, 42–4; in London, 25–6, 42–8; reading, 32–3; reputation, 6–10, 26–34; Rowley, 14–17, 19, 29, 35, 38–9, 43–4, 48–50; venereal disease, 45; works, 5–6, 26; writing, 19–25; ‘Æella’, 21, 25, 30–1; ‘African Eclogues’, 23, 25, 39, 41–2; ‘Apostate Will’, 17; ‘The Death of Sir Charles Bawdin’, 21, 22–3, 29; ‘The Excelente Balade of Charitie’, 25, 42, 44, 48–50; ‘Godwyn’, 21; ‘Happiness’, 36; ‘Onn Oure Ladies Church’, 20, 30, 31; ‘Sly Dick’, 16–17, 20; ‘The Whore of Babylon’, 23, 31–2; ‘Will’, 14, 17–18, 24, 36, 46
Chatwin, Bruce, 338
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 44, 141
Chenevard, Paul, 97–8
Chernaik, Judith, 277, 279
Christiania, 229, 235, 236, 237, 246
Christie, Mrs (friend of MW), 228
Christie, Thomas, 240
Clairmont, Claire, 276, 277, 279, 288, 305, 314
Clarke, Austin, 31
Clarke, Edward Daniel, 246
Cobb, Richard, 183
Cockshut, A.O.J., 371
Coldstream, John, 320
Coleridge, Hartley, 269
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: alternative future, 372; in Bristol, 38; finances, 155; Forster’s influence, 258; in London, 197; influence of Chatterton, 6, 23; on MW and Godwin, 265; MW’s influence, 247, 256, 257, 259–61; Mill on, 179; Pantisocracy, 38, 236; publisher, 200; RH’s biography, 269; on Voltaire, 345; works, 151; ‘Kubla Khan’, 42, 259–60, 374; Notebooks, 244, 261; The Rime of the Ancient Manner, 23; ‘This Lime Bower My Prison’, 259
Coleridge, Sara, 269
Colon, Jenny, 96, 108
Colston Hall school, 15, 17–18, 32
Compton Burnett, Ivy, 373
Congreve, William, 350
Conrad, Joseph, 68, 338
Constable, Archibald, 157, 159
Copenhagen, MW in, 234, 235, 248–50
Cornhill Magazine, 4
Cottle, Joseph, 233
Cowper, William, 259
Coxe, William, 235, 246
Cranmer, Thomas, 187
Crash, Wall Street (1929), 322, 325, 327
Croce, Giulio, 79
Croft, Herbert, 25, 35, 46, 47–8
Cromwell, Thomas, 184, 186, 187, 188–92
Cross, Mr (chemist), 25, 40, 44, 45
Cruickshank, George, 141
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquis
Curzon of Kedleston, 372
Cuvier, Georges, 339
Daniel, Jean, 336
Daumier, Honoré, 65
Davies, Decimus, 275
Davies, Martin R., 274, 282
Davies, Scrope Berdmore, 270–82
Dawson, Mrs (employer of MW), 224
Debailly, Pascal, 344
Deburau, Adelaide, 78
Deburau, Jean-Gaspard, 54, 78–87
Dee, John, 167
Defoe, Daniel, 210
de Gaulle, Charles, 346
de la Tocnaye, Bernard, 258, 259
Dempster, George, 378, 393
Denis, Madame (niece of Voltaire), 355–6
Denmark, MW in, 234, 235, 248–50
de Quincey, Thomas, 40
Descartes, Rene, 350, 353
Desmoulins, Mrs, 369
d’Herm
enches, Constant, 384, 390, 394, 399
Dickens, Charles, 141, 175, 373
Diderot, Denis, 156
Disderi, André-Adolphe-Eugène, 64
Dodsley of Pall Mall, 23
Doisneau, Robert, 336, 339
doppelgänger, 65, 146, 308–10, 327
Dore, Gustave, 60
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 271, 322
Dowson, Ernest, 27
dreams, 94–5, 307–8
drugs, 40–2, 104–5, 269, 288
Dryden, John, 351
Dublin, 153–4, 214, 224, 229
Du Camp, Maxime, 93, 106, 128
Duck, Stephen, 27
Dumas, Alexandre (pere), 60, 62, 63, 123, 128
Durant, William Clark, 219, 238
Dutourd, Jean, 341
Duval, Jean, 60
Eccles, David, 1st Viscount, 274
Edgeworth, Maria, 213
Elbe, River, 252–3
Eliot, George, 175
Eliot, T.S., 15, 185, 326
Ellefsen (Ellyson), Peder, 238–42, 246, 251, 255
Ellmann, Richard, 373
Emmet, Robert, 153
Ernesta (opera-singer), 71
Esquirol (doctor), 104–5
exhibitions: Brussels (1856), 63; Crystal Palace (1851), 74–5
Fallois, Bernard de, 340
Farley, Felix, 19
Farr, Paul, 24
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 321–31; ‘Babylon Revisited’, 329; The Beautiful and Damned, 322; ‘Between Three and Four’, 330; ‘Crazy Sundays’, 329; ‘Echoes of the Jazz Age’, 329; ‘Family in the Wind’, 329; The GGreat Gatsby, 322, 324; ‘My Lost City’, 329, 331; ‘One Trip Abroad’, 327–8; ‘The Rough Crossing’, 321; Tender is the Night, 319, 327, 329
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 319, 321, 323–7, 329–30, 375
FitzUrse, William, 143
Flaubert, Gustave, 54, 347–8
Fletcher, Ronald, 174
Flower, John, 24
Ford, Ford Madox, 376
Forel, Otto, 325, 326
Forster, Johann Georg, 258
Forster, John, 371
Fournier, Marc, 108
Fox, Elizabeth, 143
France: MW in, 236, 250; Revolution, 203, 211, 214, 250; RH in, 54; see also place names
Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, 354, 355, 399
Frederikstad waterfall, 247, 261
Freud, Sigmund, 170, 175
Friedrich, Caspar David, 251
Froude, James Anthony, 371
Funambules Theatre, 78–83, 87
Fuseli, Henry, 153, 211, 212, 217–18, 224, 225, 228
Garnerin, Charles, 340
Gaskell, Elizabeth, 373
Gautier, Judith, 319–20
Gautier, Théophile: appearance, 54, 62; career, 54; drugs, 104–5; in London, 67–76; on Maturin, 150; relationship with Nadar, 60, 62; friendship with Nerval, 54, 91, 95–8, 99–100, 101–2, 105–6, 107, 122, 128–9; on pantomime, 81, 86; photograph, 54, 63; on photography, 65
Gay, John, 17
Geelvinck, Catherina Elisabeth, 382–3, 385, 386–90, 391
George III, King, 31
ghost-stories, 9, 136, 143, 162–71
Gilbert, W.S., 141
Gilpin, William, 258
Girardin, Emile de, 61, 63, 69
Gisborne family, 289
Gittings, Robert, 373
Glanville, Joseph, 156
Glendinning, Victoria, 377
Godwin, William: appearance, 204; as biographer, 219, 226–32; career, 203; daughter, 227, 285; finances, 155; first meeting with MW, 200–2; marriage, 198, 206–9, 211, 218, 264; Caleb Williams, 203; relationship with MW, 204–9, 218, 229–32, 233, 264–5; Fleetwood, 215; Memoirs of the Author of the Rights of Woman, 198, 200, 204, 206, 209–32, 265–6; Political Justice, 201, 203, 204–5, 211; St Leon, 151, 215
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 151, 292; The Sorrows of Werther, 225
Golding, William, 376
Goncourt frères, 62, 63
Gordon, Charles George, 372
Gosse, Edmund, 371
Gothenburg, MW in, 229, 234, 251
Grand Tour, 233, 250, 380
Grant, Hugh, 334
Gray, Thomas, 233, 259
Greville, Fulke, 33
Grey, Lord Leonard, Viscount Grane, 191
Grieg, Edvard, 256
Grisi, Carlotta, 71, 72
Gronow, Rees-Howell, 272, 280, 281
Gruffudd, Elis, 192
Gustav III, King of Sweden, 234
Hague, Boswell at the, 385–6
Hamburg, MW in, 229, 234, 251–4
Hamilton, Ian, 375–6
Haussmann, Baron, 340
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 327
Hays, Mary, 203, 213, 228, 257
Hayter, Alethea, 41
Hazlitt, William, 7–8, 203, 229, 257, 265
Headlam, Walter, 162
Helvetius, Claude-Adrien, 345
Hemingway, Ernest, 319, 323–4
Henry VIII, King of England, 183, 185, 188–9, 192–3
Hill, Christopher, 188
Hill, David Octavius, 58
Hillier, Bevis, 274, 282
Hobhouse, John Cam, 272, 275, 278
Hodge (cat), 405–6, 410
Holcroft, Thomas, 203, 212
Holinshed, Ralph, 193
Holland, Boswell in, 377–401
Holroyd, Michael, 373
Hook, Theodore, 140
Horne, Richard Hengist, 142
Houssaye, Arsène, 91, 100, 107, 128
Howard, Philip, 135
Huber, Jean, 361–2
Hugo, Victor, 57, 63, 65, 80, 108, 150, 346
Hugounet, Paul, 86
Hume, David, 379
Hunt, Leigh, 286, 310
Husee, John, 187–92
Imlay, Fanny, 203, 206, 208, 229, 239, 252
Imlay, Gilbert: business affairs, 235–6, 237–41, 255–6; daughter, 203, 211; relationship with MW, 203, 205, 211, 216, 218, 224, 226, 228–9, 236, 251, 253, 255–6, 259, 262; treasure ship, 237–41
Inchbald, Elizabeth, 203
Ireland, 210, 214, 223, 236
James, Henry, 69, 327
James, M.R., 139, 151, 161–71
Janin, Jules, 80, 85, 101
Janson-Smith, Peter, 4
John Bull, 140
Johnson, Joseph: friendship with MW and Godwin, 200, 209, 211, 215, 223, 228; publishing, 200–1, 256–7
Johnson, Lionel, 27
Johnson, Samuel: Boswell’s Life, 367–8, 369–71, 373–5; cats, 403–7; on Chatterton, 27–8; RH on, 368; on travel, 233; Life of Richard Savage, 266
Johnson, Tatty, 375
Journal des Debats, 80–1
Joyce, James, 323, 373
Judd, Alan, 376
Jung, Carl, 325
Karr, Alphonse, 81, 85, 98, 99–100, 104, 339
Katherine of Aragon, 187
Kean, Edmund, 154
Keats, John: biography, 373; opinion of Chatterton, 7, 28, 31; Coleridge meeting, 197; death, 9; on drugs, 40; at Hazlitt’s lectures, 7–8; on Negative Capability, 39; venereal disease, 45
Ker, W.P., 15
Kerouac, Jack, 40
Kingsley, Mary, 264
Kinnaird, Douglas James William, 272, 273
La Barre, Chevalier de, 362
Labrunie, Gérard, see Nerval
Labrunie, Marie-Antoinette, 126–7
Lake District, 269
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 61, 63
Lambert, John, 19, 22, 24–5, 32
Landor, Walter Savage, 270
Lautréamont, Comte de (Isidore-Lucien Ducasse), 150
Lawrence, Thomas, 71
Leech, John, 141
Le Gray, Gustave, 58
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 353
Leigh, Augusta, 272, 275
Lennon, John, 370
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 6
Lepape, Pierre, 345, 362
Lerici, 284–5, 287
Lévi, Bern
ard-Henri, 337
Lewis, Matthew ‘Monk’, 150
Lewis, Sinclair, 323
Lisbon, MW in, 214, 224, 229
Lisle, Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount, 183–93
Lisle, Honor, Lady, 184, 185, 190, 192
Lively, Penelope, 376
Locke, John, 350, 353, 362
London: cemetery, 76; Chatterton in, 25–6, 42–8; Coleridge in, 197, 269; Drury Lane, 71–2; Gautier in, 67–76; Great Exhibition (1851), 74–5; Hampstead Heath, 197; literary life, 140–1; poets, 26–7; RH in, 197; Strand, 67; Sundays, 75–6; Tower, 184, 191, 192–3; Tunnel, 69; Voltaire in, 350–1
London Review, 179
Lort, Michael, 38, 45
Loti, Pierre, 338
Louis XV, King, 351, 354, 359
Lowes, John Livingston, 260
Lucretius, 367
Lumière, Antoine, 58
Lumley, Benjamin, 67
Lyon, Nadar in, 59
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 371
Macaulay, Catharine, 213
McBryde, Gwendolen, 168
McBryde, Jane, 168
McBryde, Jim, 168
McCalls, 325
McGann, Jerome, 277
madness, 24–5, 92–4, 198, 325–7
Maillol, Aristide, 339
Malraux, André, 336, 363
Mann, Thomas, 151, 326
Manning, Henry Edward, 372
Marchand, Leslie, 271, 282
Marguerite (MW’s maid), 239, 251, 252
Maria and Margaretha, 239–41, 255
Marischal, George Keith, 10th Earl of, 399, 400
Marlowe, Christopher, 151
Marmontel, Jean-François, 176, 180
Marx, Karl, 175
Mary I, Queen, 187
Masson, David, 6
Matilda, Queen of Denmark, 234, 249
Mattei, Marie, 75
Matthews, Charles Skinner, 272, 279
Maturin, Charles Robert, 149–60
Maturin, Henrietta (nee Kingsbury), 153
Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de, 352
Maurois, André, 352
Mayle, Peter, 338
Mazarac, François, 379
Meredith, George, 6
Mery, Joseph, 108, 128
Meyerstein, E.H., 6, 32, 37, 45
Meynell, Wilfred, 9
Mickiewicz, Adam, 61
Milford, Nancy, 327
Mill, James, 174, 178, 180
Mill, John Stuart: appearance, 173–4; career, 173, 182; education, 173, 174–5; relationship with Harriet Taylor, 137, 177–82, 198; Autobiography, 175–7, 181; ‘Bentham’, 179; ‘Coleridge’, 179; ‘On Liberty’, 180, 181; Principles of Political Economy, 174; ‘The Subjection of Women’, 180; A System of Logic, 174