Milles, Jeremiah, 12, 29
Milton, John, 237, 260
Miro, Joan, 323
Miscellany, 141
Mitford, Nancy, 352
Mitterrand, François, 339
Monk, Ray, 374
Montand, Yves, 340
Monthly Review, 211
Moore, Henry, 339
Moore, Thomas, 274, 275
More, Sir Thomas, 184, 186
Morgan, Sydney, Lady, 155
Motion, Andréw, 375
Mourois, André, 340
Murger, Henri, 59, 60, 63
Murphy, Gerald, 324, 329
Murray, John, 154–5, 275, 278
Murray, John (descendant of above), 274, 276
Nadar, Felix (nei Tournachon), 53, 58–66
Napoleon Bonaparte, 81, 275, 303
Nassau, Comtesse, 381–2, 386–7, 390
Nassau, Count, 380, 381
nature, observation of, 244–5, 247–8
Nerval, Gérard de (Gérard Labrunie): appearance, 55, 95–6, 104; arrests by police, 98–9; asylum internments, 54, 92, 93–4, 100–1, 116–27; career, 54; childhood, 123–6; death, 54, 65, 90–2, 131; dreams, 129–31; drugs, 104–5; on Gautier, 69; friendship with Gautier, 54; health, 106–7, 109; influence, 104; last days, 77, 127–31; lobster-walking, 105–6; in love, 96, 108, 114; madness, 92–4, 113, 122–3; mother, 126–7; relationship with Nadar, 60, 61; on pantomime, 86; pantomime-going, 81; photograph, 54, 63, 65; playwriting, 108–9; radio-drama of life, 89–131; travels, 102–3, 113–14; visions, 97–8, 110–13, 115–16, 119–21; ‘Angelique’, 94; ‘Aurélia’, 94, 122; ‘Christ in the Garden of Olives’, 104; Imagier, 108–9; ‘Pandora’, 94; sonnets, 104, 123, 131; ‘Sylvie’, 94, 114
New Monthly Review, 157
Newton, Isaac, 350, 351, 352, 383
Newton, Mrs (née Chatterton, sister of TC), 11, 13, 18, 21
New York, 330–1
New York Review of Books, 320
New Yorker, 325
Nicolson, Harold, 372, 375
Nicolson, Nigel, 375
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 322
Nightingale, Florence, 372
Nixon, J.E., 165
Noble Savage, 250
Nodier, Charles, 80
Nordberg, Christoffer, 241
Norman-Butler, Christopher, 274
Norway, MW in, 234, 235, 236
Nouvel Observateur, 338
Nugent, Thomas, 380, 382
Nystrom, Per, 239, 240, 242, 254
Ober, Harold, 321, 325
Offenbach, Jacques, 63, 64
Opie, John, 213
Ossian, 156
Owen, Wilfred, 373
Paine, Tom, 200, 201, 203
Painter, George, 373
Pandora, 80
Paris: Bibliothèque National, 53, 61; bird market, 335, 337; boulevard des Capucines, 57–8, 64; Bureau de Poste, 53; Fitzgeralds in, 321, 326; Funambules Theatre, 78–83, 87; Jardin des Plantes, 339; Left Bank, 59–60; MW in, 203, 211, 215, 226, 236; ‘New French Family’ debate, 337–8; Pantheon, 340, 363; parc Monceau, 340–1, 342; Passage Jouffroy, 77; Porte-Sainte-Martin Theatre, 108–9; RH in, 54–5, 319–20, 333–4, 337–42; rue Condorcet, 53; rue Saint-Lazare, 63; rue Washington, 319–20, 333–4; Tuileries, 339, 341
Parker, Peter, 376
Pascal, Blaise, 350
Paulhan, Jean, 338
Peacock, Thomas Love, 180
Pearson, Hesketh, 372
Percy, Thomas, 19, 156
Perkins, Maxwell, 325, 326
Petipa, Marius, 72
Philipon, Charles, 61, 62, 63, 65
Phillips, Thomas, 18, 23
photography, 53–4, 58–9, 63–4
Picasso, Pablo, 370
Pierrot, 77–87
Pimpette (mistress of Voltaire), 348
Pinkerton, Miss, 208
Pivot, Bernard, 343
Placide (comedian), 83
Plato, 259, 303, 391
Plenel, Edwy, 343
Plutarch, 383
Poe, Edgar Allen, 145, 153
Pole, Cardinal Reginald, 184–5
Pomeau, René, 344
Pope, Alexander, 29, 350, 351, 353
Portugal, MW in, 210, 214, 224, 229, 236
Pound, Ezra, 15
Presse, La, 54, 61, 67, 69, 70
Pre vert, Jacques, 335–6, 340
Price, Richard, 214
Priestley, 200
prodigy-figure, 7–8
Proust, Marcel, 340–1, 373
pseudonyms, 60–1, 63
Purchas, Samuel, 259
Quested, Cephas, 145
Rackham, Arthur, 141
Radcliffe, Ann, 150
radio: biographical story-telling, 55; Nerval play, 54–5, 89; Shelley drama, 270, 283
Ratcliffe, Michael, 135
Reagan, Nancy, 370
Revue des Deux-Mondes, 114
Reynst, Petre, 394–5, 399
Richardson, Samuel, 375
Riche, Sir Richard, 187
Richelieu, Cardinal, 79
Ricks, Christopher, 369
Rimbaud, Arthur, 10, 39, 40
Riviere, Henri, 83–4
Rohan-Chabot, Chevalier de, 349–50
Roland, Manon, 203, 213
Romney Marsh, 135–7, 139, 140
Roscoe, William, 212
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 6, 31
Rotterdam, Boswell in, 378
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 214, 258, 303, 374
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 215, 257
Rowley, Thomas, see Chatterton
Rowse, A.L., 184
Rudhall, John, 35
Rumsey, Miss (friend of Chatterton), 23, 43
Russell, Bertrand, 175
Ruthven (Bow Street runner), 145
Ryan, Alan, 174
Sackville-West, Vita, 372, 375
Sagan, Françoise, 341
St Clair, William, 371, 374
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 63, 80
St Mary Redcliff church, Bristol, 11, 13–14, 16, 19, 29–30
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 339
Salinger, J.D., 376
Sand, George, 81, 82, 86, 87
Sandford, Francis, 193
San Terenzo, 311–12
Sartelet, M. (witness), 85
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 336, 346
Satanic pact, 151
Saturday Evening Post, 321, 326, 330
Savage, Richard, 29, 44, 266
Scala, Flaminio, 79
Scott, Reginald, 145
Scott, Walter, 154, 159
Scribner’s Magazine, 323
Seymour, Jane, 187
Seward, Anna, 27, 257
Shakespeare, William, 258, 352, 353
Shelley, Mary (née Godwin): birth, 209, 211, 227; at Casa Magni, 284–6; children, 288; elopement, 257; miscarriage, 305–6; pregnancy, 288–9; relationship with PBS, 285, 289–91, 296–7, 300, 306, 310, 314; on San Terenzo, 311; Shelley manuscripts, 277–8; on Trelawny, 293; Frankenstein, 150
Shelley, Percy Bysshe: alternative future, 374; boating, 283–4, 290, 292, 294–6, 297–9, 306–7, 310–11, 314–15; at Casa Magni, 283, 284–93, 296–7, 299–300, 306, 308–9; children, 288–9; commune ideal, 236; death, 270, 314–15; drug taking, 288; elopement with Harriet, 213; elopement with Mary, 257; flirtation with Jane Williams, 290–2; influence, 263, 328; in Keswick, 269; last days, 270, 283–315; manuscripts, 275–6, 277–80; relationship with Mary, 285, 289–91, 296–7, 300, 306, 310, 314; MW’s influence, 248, 256, 257; Mill’s discussions, 178; RH’s biography, 53; RH’s radio drama, 270, 283; on Scrope Davies, 280; suicidal thoughts, 299–300; vision of child, 287–8; ‘Adonais’, 9–10; Hellas, 226; Prometheus Unbound, 308–9; ‘To Laughter’, 278–9; ‘The Triumph of Life’, 303–5, 309, 312, 314
Shelley, Percy Florence (son of above), 288, 290
Skeys, Hugh, 228
Smith, Peter, 24, 29
Smith, Sydney, 14
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Smith, William, 29, 35
Smollett, Tobias, 233
Socrates, 370
Southey, Robert: BHL comparison, 337; in Bristol, 38; edition of Chatterton, 35; on Godwin’s Memoirs, 210; Pantisocracy, 38, 236; on A Short Residence, 233, 257
Spengler, Oswald, 322
Spenser, Edmund, 30
Spouting Club, 37–8
Spurling, Hilary, 373
Staël, Madame de, 269
Stallworthy, Jon, 373
Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 371
Steiner, George, 367
Stephen, Leslie, 371, 372
Stephens, Mr (relation of Chatterton), 34
Sterne, Laurence, 234, 257
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 151, 257
Stone, Laurence, 183
Stone, Will, 168
Strachey, Lytton, 136, 372, 373
Struensee, Johann Friedrich, Graf von, 234, 248
Sue, Eugène, 150
Sully, Duc de, 349
Surrey, Thomas Howard, Earl of, 187
Surrey Institute, 7, 8
Sweden, MW in, 234
Swift, Jonathan, 350, 358
Symons, A.J.A., 372
Tallentyre, S.G., 345
Talmadge, Constance, 322
Taylor, Harriet, 137, 177–82
Taylor, John, 178–9, 180
Telegraph, Daily, 320
Temple, Sir William, 380
Temple, William Johnson, 385, 393–4
Tenniel, John, 141
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 179, 372
Tennyson, Hallam, 54
Ternan, Ellen, 371
Thistlethwaite, James, 12, 33, 35, 37
Thompson, Francis, 9
Times, The, 135
Tomalin, Claire, 214, 373
Tone, Wolfe, 153
Tonsberg, MW at, 244, 259
Tooke, Horne, 203
Tournachon, Adrien, 59, 63
Tournachon, Felix, see Nadar
Tournachon, Victor, 59
Town and Country magazine, 23, 35, 37
Townshend (Bow Street runner), 145
travel: Gautier’s, 70; Grand Tour, 233, 250, 382; literature, 233–4, 258, 380; MW’s, 233–4, 236–7, 243–4, 250–1
Trelawny, Edward, 293–4, 299, 315
Tremain, Rose, 319–20, 333, 341, 342–3
Trewin, Ion, 135
Trotz, Professor, 379, 382, 386, 392
Tuchman, Barbara, 183
Tucker, W.H., 273
Tuke, Sir Brian, 188–9
Turgenev, Ivan, 175
Tyrwhitt, Thomas, 26
Ungar, A.J., 241
Utrecht, Boswell in, 368, 377–95
Vallon, Annette, 259
Verne, Jules, 63, 65
Vian, Boris, 335
Vielin, Nicholas, 84–5
Vigny, Alfred de, 6, 179
Villiers de l’Isle Adam, Auguste, Comte de, 150
Villon, François, 17, 46
Virgil, 393
Vivian, Charles, 270, 314
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet): appearance, 343; beating, 349–50; Calas lawsuit, 358–60; childhood, 347–8; death, 363; in London, 351–2; relationship with Madame du Châtelet, 351–5; name, 349; relationship with niece, 355–6; old
Voltaire – cont. age, 361–2; readership, 383, 391; RH’s study, 320; statues, 342, 344; tomb, 363; travels, 351; tricentenary, 342, 343–5; wit, 346–7; works, 344–5; Candide, 345, 350, 356–8; Elements de la philosophe de Newton, 352; Micromegas, 345, 353–4; Treatise on Tohration, 360–1; The White Bull, 345, 362–3; Zadig, 354
Waldstein, Dr, 162
Waley, Daniel, 274
Wallis, Henry, 6, 46
Walmsley, Mr and Mrs (Chatterton’s landlord and landlady), 46–7
Walpole, Horace, 23, 34–5, 150, 233
Warner, Marina, 376
Warton, Thomas, 28
Watteau, Antoine, 80, 84
Webster, Lady Frances, 275
Wedd, Nathaniel, 166
Wedgwood family, 215
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 275
West, Timothy, 54–5
Westbrook, Harriet, 213
Wilde, Oscar, 149, 160, 275
Wilkes, John, 19, 31
Williams, Edward, 286–7, 288, 289–91, 297, 306, 307–9, 314
Williams, Jane, 286–7, 289–91, 297–9, 305, 307–314
Wilson, Edmund, 323, 325, 326, 329, 330
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 374
Wolfe, Thomas, 326
Wollstonecraft, Everina, 228
Wollstonecraft, Mary: appearance, 204, 229; business mission in Scandinavia, 235–6, 237–42, 254–6; career, 210, 223; childhood, 210, 220–1, 224; death, 209, 211, 226–8; friendship with Fanny Blood, 221–3, 224; in France, 203, 211, 215, 226, 236, 250; relationship with Fuseli, 211, 217–18, 224; German journey, 251–4; first meeting with Godwin, 200–2; relationship with Godwin, 204–9, 218, 229–32, 233, 264–5; relationship with Imlay, 203, 211, 218, 224, 226, 228–9, 235–6, 251, 255–6, 260–1; influence, 259–63; in Ireland, 210, 214, 223, 236; in London, 210–11; marriage, 198, 206–8, 211, 218, 264; motherhood, 203, 206, 208, 211; in Portugal, 210, 214, 236; reputation, 209–14, 256–7; in Scandinavia, 211, 233–7, 242–51; suicide attempts, 203, 211, 216–17, 226, 251, 261; A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, 198, 200, 203–4, 233–7, 256–63, 265–6; Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, 223; Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 201, 205, 215; Wrongs of Woman, 220
Wolsey, Thomas, 186
Woolf, Virginia, 264, 372
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 245, 375
Wordsworth, William, 175, 200, 243, 257, 259, 269
Wulfsberg, Jacob, 242, 244, 255
Wyatt, Thomas, 187
Xenophon, 372, 393
Young, Edward, 258
Zélide (Isabelle van Tuyl van Serooskerken): appearance, 383; character, 383, 392–3; correspondence with d’Hermenches, 384, 390, 394, 399; family, 383, 388, 391, 395, 397–8; relationship with Boswell, 368, 382, 386–9, 390–401; writing, 383, 384, 390, 392
Zola, Emile, 346
Zuylen, Boswell at, 397–8, 399, 400
Zuylen, Mademoiselle de (Isabelle van Tuyl van Serooskerken), see Zélide
About the Author
RICHARD HOLMES’ first book was Shelley: The Pursuit which won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize; his next book Dr Johnson and Mr Savage won the James Tait Black Prize and in 1996 he published Coleridge: Selected Poems, an anthology of 101 poems which gives a fresh and enlarged sense of Coleridge’s creative powers. In 1998, he published Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which covers the latter part of Coleridge’s life, which won the Duff Cooper Prize. Richard Holmes is also the author of Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985), described by Michael Holroyd as ‘a modern masterpiece’. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1992 was awarded an OBE. He lives in Norwich and London with the novelist Rose Tremain.
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ALSO BY RICHARD HOLMES
One for Sorrow (poems: 1970)
Shelley: The Pursuit (1974)
Gautier: My Fantoms (translations; 1976)
Shelley on Love (1980, 1996)
Coleridge (1982)
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985)
Nerval: The Chimeras (with Peter Jay; 1985)
Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin:
A Short Residence in Sweden and Memoirs
(Penguin Classics; 1987)
Kipling: Something of Myself
(with Robert Hampson: Penguin Classics; 1987)
De Feministe en de filosoof (1988)
Coleridge: Early Visions (1989)
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage (1993)
Coleridge: Selected Poems (1996; Penguin Classics, 2000)
The Romantic Poets and their Circle
(N
ational Portrait Gallery, 1997)
Coleridge: Darker Reflections (1998)
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‘Holmes makes the past exciting, imbuing it with usefulness. In his essay on Voltaire, he quotes Flaubert’s remark that “every lawyer carries inside him the wreckage of a poet”. Reading Sidetracks one senses that occasionally a biographer can carry inside him this same poetic craving – not stifled or wrecked, however, but breathing and intact.’
HENRY HITCHINGS ,New Statesman
‘Holmes is a master of the biographer’s art.’
ALAIN DE BOTTON, Spectator
‘Inspired and inspiring’
GRAHAM ROBB, TLS
‘Splendid … often breathtaking’
MIRANDA SEYMOUR, Literary Review
‘An enchanting mixture of biographical fragment and memoir by the writer who has done more than any to illuminate biography’s genome project – mapping, without confusing, the complex chemistry of subject and quest.’
ALAN JUDD, Daily Telegraph, Summer Reading
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