Sidetracks

  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

  Churchill, Charles, 19, 31, 32

  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