Principal Sources Consulted

Main Texts

The Letters of Wilkie Collins, 2 vols, eds. William Baker and William M. Clarke (London: Macmillan, 1999). The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: The Collected Letters, 4 vols, eds. William Baker, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law and Paul Lewis (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005). The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens, 12 vols, eds. Madeline House, Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson, and others (Oxford: Oxford University Press, The Clarendon Press, 1965–2002). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 60 vols, eds. H.C.G. Matthew and others (Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the British Academy, 2004). William Baker, Wilkie Collins’ Library: A Reconstruction (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002). William M. Clarke, The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins (Farr Thrupp, Glouc.: Alan Sutton, 1996). Wilkie Collins, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R.A., 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1848). ———, Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was, A Romance, ed. Ira B. Nadel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999). Davis, Nuel Pharr, The Life of Wilkie Collins (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1956). Gasson, Andrew, Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Page, Norman, Wilkie Collins: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1974). Parrish, M.L., with E.V. Miller, Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade: First Editions Described with Notes (London: Constable, 1940; New York: Burt Franklin, 1968 reprinted). Peters, Catherine, The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). Thompson, Julian, Wilkie Collins: The Complete Shorter Fiction (London: Robinson, 1995). William B. Todd and Ann Bowden, Tauchnitz International Editions in English, 1841–1855: A Bibliographical History (New Castle, Delaware and London, 1993, second printing).

Secondary Texts

Anonymous. “‘Celebrities at Home,’ No. 81, Mr. Wilkie Collins in Gloucester Place,” The World, 26 December 1872 [reprinted by Edmund Yates, Celebrities at Home, 3rd Series, London 1879] 355.

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This index is divided into three sections: (1) works by Wilkie Collins arranged by: Articles/Short Stories/Reviews Novels/ Plays/Collections (2) people – references to family, friends, contemporaries and others (3) places – homes, visits/stays in British Isles/Europe/America, etc.

1. Works by Wilkie Collins [Publication dates, alternative titles, collection republication, and other publication dates are given if not included in the text of A Chronology]:

Articles/Short Stories/Reviews

‘The Air and the Audience’, see ‘The Dead Alive’, 165–166 ‘The Use of Gas in Theatres’ ‘The Dead Hand’, 96 ‘The Arts’, 71 ‘The Dead Lock I, Italy …’, 135 ‘Awful Warning to Bachelors’ [review], 98 ‘The Debtor’s Best Friend’, 95 ‘Deep Design on Society’, 97 ‘Bachelor Bedroom’, 105 ‘The Deliverance’, 90 ‘A Batch of Fictions’, 74 ‘The Devil’s Spectacles’, 182 ‘The Black Cottage’, 91 ‘The Diary of Anne Rodway’ ‘Bold Words By a Bachelor’, 90 [‘The Brother Owens Story of ‘Books Necessary for a Liberal Anne Rodway’], 87 Education’, 199 ‘Doctor Dulcamara M.P.’, 102 ‘A Breach of British Privilege’, 103 ‘Double-bedded Room’, 96 ‘Brinsley Norton …’ ‘Douglas Jerrold’, 103 [projected? Peters 140], 68 ‘A Dramatic Author’, 104 ‘The British Artists’, 78 ‘Dramatic Grub Street Explored in ‘Brother Griffith’s Story of Mad Two Letters’, 98 Monkton’, 47 ‘The Dream Woman’, 81–82, 165, ‘Burns. Viewed as a Hat Peg’, 103 168–169, 182 ‘The Duel in Herne Wood’, 177–178 ‘The Captain’s Last Love’, 174–175 ‘The Cauldron of Oil’ [‘Case Worth ‘É.D. Forgues on the Caricaturists of Looking At’], 113 England’, 80 ‘A Clause for the New Reform Bill’ ‘The Exhibition of the Royal [with CD], 101 Academy’, 43 ‘The Clergyman’s Confession’, 171 ‘A Column to Burns’, 103 ‘A Fair Penitent’, 93 ‘Considerations on the Copyright ‘Farmer Fairweather’, 201 Question’ [pamphlet], 184 ‘Fatal Fortune’, 169 ‘The Courier of Lyons’, 71 ‘Fie! Fie! Or the Fair Physician’, 182, ‘The Cruise of the Tomtit’, 81 190

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‘Fine Passages in Verse and Prose’, 205 ‘The Little Huguenot’, 92, 97, 99 ‘The First Officer’s Confession’, ‘Love’s Random Shot’, 182, 192 205–206 ‘The Frozen Deep’ [prose novella], 85 ‘Magnetic Evenings at Home’ ‘M. Forgues and the Caricaturists of [‘Magnetic Letters’], 47–49 England’, 57 ‘A Marriage Tragedy’, 97 ‘Four Novels’, 77 ‘Memoirs of an Adopted Son’, 112 ‘The Fourth Poor Traveller’, 73 ‘Memorandum Relating to the Life and Writings of Wilkie Collins’, ‘Gabriel’s Marriage’ [‘The Nun’s Story 116 of Gabriel’s Marriage’], 57, 78 ‘A Message from the Sea’, 110, 117 ‘Geoffrey Crayon’s New Sketchbook’, ‘The Midnight Mass: An Episode on 76 the History of the Reign of Terror’ ‘The Ghost in the Cupboard’, 106 [translation Balzac], 49–51 ‘The Ghost’s Touch’, 196–197, 203 ‘Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman’, ‘The Girl at the Gate’, 195 171 ‘Give Us Room!’, 97 ‘Miss or Mrs?’, 158 ‘The Great (Forgotten) Invasion’, 103 ‘The Monkton’s of Wincot Abbey’, 47 ‘Mr. Silk Buckingham’ [review], 75 ‘The Haunted House’, 106, 117 ‘Mrs. Badgery’ [reprinted in Novels ‘The Hidden Cash’, 200, 204 and Tales From Household Words. ‘Highly Proper!’, 101 Tauchnitz, 1857 and in Alicia ‘House to Let’ [with CD], 101–102 Warlock, 1875], 95 ‘How I Married Him’, 187 ‘Mrs. Bullwinkle’ [My Miscellanies], 98 ‘How I Write my Books’, 205 ‘My Black Mirror’, 61, 88 ‘My Lady’s Money’, 176–177, 180 ‘The Incredible Not Always ‘My Spinsters’, 88 Impossible’, 50 ‘The Mystery of Marmaduke’, 180

‘John Steadiman’s (the Chief Mate’s) ‘The National Gallery and the Old Account’, 90 Masters’, 89 ‘A Journey in Search of Nothing’, 95 ‘A National Wrong’ [with J. Payn], 150 ‘A New Book Selling Dodge’, 75 ‘The Lady of Glenwith Grange’, 86 ‘A New Mind’, 102 ‘Laid Up in Two Lodgings. My Paris ‘Nine o’Clock’, 51 Lodging’, 83, 85 ‘No Thoroughfare’, 137–139, 142, 144 ‘The Last Stage Coachman’, 20 ‘The Novels of M. Hendrick ‘The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Conscience’ [review], 80 Apprentices’, 95–96 ‘Les Dimans de la Couronne’, 72 ‘An Old Maid’s Husband’, 202–203 ‘Let at Last’ [with CD], 102 ‘The Ostler’, see ‘The Dream Woman’ ‘[Letter: Errors in Athenaeum review of ‘Over the Way’, 102 The Queen of Hearts]’, 106 ‘Letters about Italy’ [unpublished], ‘Paradoxical Experience’, 101 68 ‘A Passage in the Life of Mr. Perugino ‘Life of William Etty, R.A.’ [review], Potts’, 46 75 ‘Percy and the Prophet’, 176–177 ‘Literature’ [‘Bentley’s New Publishing ‘A Petition to the Novel-Writers’, 90 Adventure’], 75 ‘Picking up Waifs at Sea’, 115 Index 217

‘A Pictorial Tour of St. George ‘Talk Stoppers’, 89 Bosherville’, 30, 42 ‘A Terribly Strange Bed’, 50, 163 ‘The Picture Galleries of England; I, ‘Thanks to Dr. Livingstone’ [review], The Earl of Ellesmere’s Collection; 97 II, Northumberland House and ‘Theatres’ [review], 72 Syon House; III, Dulwich Gallery’, ‘To Think or Be Thought For’, 88 [non-fiction], 43–44 ‘Tom Tiddler’s Ground’, 115, 117 ‘Pity a Poor Prince’, 102 ‘[Trollope’s The Warden]’ [review], 76 ‘A Plea for the Sunday Reform’ ‘Trottle’s Report’, 102 [non-fiction], 44 ‘The Twin Sisters’, 41 ‘Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer’ [review], 74 ‘Uncle George on the Family Mystery’, ‘The Poetry Did It: An Event in the 92 Life of Major Evergreen’, ‘The Unknown Public’, 100 198–199 ‘The Use of Gas in Theatres’ [‘The Air ‘The Poisoned Meal’, 101 and the Audience’], reprinted ‘Portrait of an Author Painted by his Mask, October 1924 and in New Publisher’ [on Balzac], 104 York: 1885; Wilkie Collins Society ‘Pray Employ Major Namby!’, 104 Journal 6 (1986), 19–26, 185 ‘The Prison in the Woods’, 96 ‘La Promise’ [review], 70 ‘The Victims of Circumstances, Discovered in Records of Old ‘A Queen’s Revenge’, 94 Trials’, 201, 203 ‘A Queer Story’ [review], 79 ‘The Village’ [with CD], 111 ‘Visit to a Copper Mine’, 42 ‘Recollections of Charles Fechter’, 188 ‘Who is the Thief’, 98–100 ‘A Remarkable Revolution’, 94 ‘Who Killed Zebedee?’, 184–185 ‘Reminiscences of a Story-teller’, 207 ‘[Wilkie Collins]’, 107 ‘The Restitution’ [with CD], 111 ‘A Word About a Painted Window’, 69 ‘Royal Love’, 195 ‘The Wreck of the Golden Mary’ [with CD], 90 ‘A Sad Death and a Brave Life’, 201 ‘Save Me From My Friends’, 97 ‘The Yellow Mask’, 79–80 ‘Sea Breezes with the London Smack’, ‘Your Money or Your Life’, 186–187 100 ‘The Seafaring Man’, 111 Novels/Plays/Collections and ‘A Second Batch of New Books’, 71 ‘A Sermon for Sepoys’, 97 other miscellaneous items ‘She Loves and Lies’, 192–193 After Dark and Other Stories, 50, 57, 73, ‘A Shocking Story’, 180 82, 87–88 ‘A Shockingly Rude Article’, 100 Alicia Warlock and Other Stories, ‘A Shy Scheme’, 98 169–170 ‘The Siege of the Black Cottage’, 91 American History [proposed drama], ‘Sister Rose’ [‘The French Governess’ 198 Story of’], 73, 76–78 Antonina, 28–29, 31, 35–38, 70–71 ‘Strike!’, 97 Armadale, 18, 114, 119, 123, 125–134, ‘Sure to be Healthy, Wealthy and Wise’, 203 104 Armadale [play], 134–139, 172–173 218 Index

Basil, 40–41, 44–45, 49–50, 53–56, The Lighthouse, 56–57, 78–80, 89, 70–71 93–96, 104, 108 Black and White [play], 146–148 Little Novels, 171, 175–177, 180, 184, The Black Robe, 179, 183–185 187, 193, 195, 197, 203–204 Blind Love, 205, 208–210 The Lord Harry see Blind Love

Christmas Stories, 117–118 Man and Wife, 145, 148–153 Collected Edition [to the American Man and Wife [play], 152–153, People], 164 161–162, 204 A Court Duel [drama: translated from Memoirs [of the Life of Wilkie Collins], the French], 37 4–7, 9–12, 17–22, 24–25, 27–33, 37 The Dead Alive. Boston. Shepard and Miss Gwilt [play], 172–174 Gill, 1874, 165–166 Miss or Mrs? and Other Stories in The Dead Secret, 84, 89, 90–96, 98, 157 Outline…, 106, 115, 158–159, Dead Secret [play], 176–177 161, 169–170 [Diary for 1868], 144 The Moonstone, 137–146, 148, The Dream-Woman, 82, 165, 154–155, 177 168–169 The Moonstone [play], 174, 176–177 Mr. Wray’s Cash-Box [‘The Mask of The Evil Genius, 194–202 Shakespeare’], 45–47, 69 The Evil Genius [play], 198, 200 My Lady’s Money and Percy and the Prophet, 177 The Fallen Leaves, 167, 178–182, My Miscellanies, 88–89, 94, 97–98, 184–185 100–101, 103–105, 112–113 The Frozen Deep and other Stories, 85, 87–88, 94, 166, 168–169 The New Magdalen, 154, 159, 162–164 The Frozen Deep [play], 89–90, 93–94, The New Magdalen [play], 162–165, 98, 135–136, 168 167, 169–170, 193, 200 No Name, 56, 112–122, 124, 137 The Guilty River, 201–203 No Name [play], 151, 153–155 The Guilty River and The Ghost’s Touch, No Thoroughfare [play L’Abîme], 197, 202–203 140–144, 175

The Haunted Hotel, 178–180 [A Plot in Private Life and Other Tales], Heart and Science, 28, 186–191 106 Hide and Seek, 21, 57, 59, 68–72, 82, Poor Miss Finch, 154–161, 164 89, 113, 157 The Queen of Hearts, 47, 57, 52, Ioláni, or Tahiti as it was, A Romance, 91–92, 97–98, 101–102, 25–26, 212 106–107, 114 ‘I Say No’ [or The Love Letter Answered], 190–195 Rambles Beyond Railways, 40, 42, 44, Iris [unpublished], 204–205 46, 50, 69, 87–88, 103, 112 Rank and Riches [play], 185, Jezebel’s Daughter, 179, 182–183 190–191 Readings and Writings in America The Law and the Lady, 161, 168–171 [see also The Frozen Deep and Other The Legacy of Cain, 202, 204–209 Stories], 169 Index 219

The Red Vial, 96–98, 100–101, 104 Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850), A Rogue’s Life, 75, 82, 84, 180–181 author, 51, 104; ‘Épisode Souls la Terreur’, 49; Le Père Goriot, 191 The Two Destinies, 171–175 Bancroft, Marie née Wilton (1839–1921), actress, 161 The Woman in White, 83, 98, 100, Bancroft, Squire (1841–1926), 105–111, 115–119, 132, 150 actor-manager, 161–162 The Woman in White [play], 147, 153, Barnes, A.S. & Co., New York 156, 158–159, 166 Publishers, 180 Barnes, Robert, Mayor of Manchester, 48 2. People Bartley, Carrie née Graves (1851–1905: HE), WC’s A’Becket, Gilbert Abbott (1811–1856), amanuensis and adopted writer, 88 daughter, 86, 102, 107, 114, 118, Albert, Prince Consort (1819–1861), 124, 131, 143, 146, 149, 161, 171, 41, 73, 93 174, 178, 182, 191, 195, 207, 210 Alfieri, Vittorio (1749–1803), Italian Bartley, Doris Edith (b. 1879), HE’s dramatist, 84 first child, 182 Alfred, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh Bartley, Henry Powell (1854–1897), (1844–1900), 23 HE’s husband, 174, 176, 178, Allston, Washington (1779–1843), 182, 195 American artist, 20 Beard, Francis Carr (1814–1893: Anderson, Hans Christian Beard), doctor and close friend, (1805–1875), Danish author, 93 115, 117, 120–122, 132, 137, 140, Anderson, Mary (1859–1940), 142, 144, 146, 152, 154, 156, 160, American actress, 196, 198 190, 200–202, 208, 210 Angelo, Michael (1475–1565), Italian Beecheno, Yaxley & Co., wine artist, Last Judgement, 27 merchants, 193, 197 Antrobus, Edward Edmund (1806–1886), Beethoven, Ludwig van tea importer, 15, 19, 21–24, 28 (1770–1827), ‘Kreutzer Sonata’, Arc, Joan of (1412–1431), 26 108 Archer, Frank (1844–1917: FA), 76, Beetz, Kirk H., Wilkie Collins, An 163, 166–167, 193, 205 Annotated Bibliography Arrowsmith, J.W., Bristol publishers, 1889–1976, 211 202 Belinfante, Brothers, Dutch Auber, Daniel (1782–1871), French publishers, 149–150 composer, Mansaniello, 115 Bellini, Vincenzo (1801–1835), composer, 8 Badon, Edmond, French dramatist, 37 Benham, Charles, WC’s solicitor, 110, Bainton, George (1847–1925), 135, 143–145, 147–148 Congregationalist minister, 205 Bentley, George (1828–1895: GB), Baker, William, The Letters of Wilkie publisher, 45, 50, 55, 59, 68–70, Collins (L), 6, thereafter passim; 74–75, 112, 157–161, 163–165, The Public Face of Wilkie Collins 167, 169, 171–172, 181 (CL), 5, thereafter passim; ‘Wilkie Bentley, Richard (1794–1871: RB), Collins Diary for 1868’, 144; publisher, 35–38, 40–41, 45, 50, Wilkie Collins’ Library [Library], 54–55, 69–72, 75, 87–88, 94, 103, 6, 50, 76, 83, 104, 108, 127, 187 169 220 Index

Bentley & Son, publishers, 35–36, 41, Bullar, Mrs. Henry, wife of the above, 46, 53, 60, 69, 158, 169, 181 73, 103, 130 Benzon, Edmund Ernst Leopold Bulwer, Lytton, see Lytton, Sir Edward Schlesinger (d. 1873), steel George manufacturer, 116, 127 Burns, Robert (1759–1796), poet, Benzon, Elizabeth née Lehmann, 103 sister of FL, 116, 127, 147 Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron Beppo, Byron’s cook, 12 (1788–1824), poet, 12; Cain, 84; Berger, Francesco (1834–1933), Don Juan, 17 composer, 89, 100 Bernard, William Bayle (1807–1875), Caccia, Alberto, WC’s Italian agent dramatist, adapts No Name, 121 and translator, 183 Besant, Walter (1836–1901), novelist, Caine, Henry Hall (1853–1931), 210 novelist, 206 Bigelow, Jane Tunis née Poultney Carpenter, Margaret née Geddes (1828–1889), 136, 138, 151, 165, (1793–1872), distinguished artist, 170, 186, 193, 195 WC’s aunt, 3 Bigelow, John (1817–1911), American Carpenter, William Hookham journalist and diplomat, husband (1792–1866), Keeper of Prints of the above, 136, 165 and Drawings at the British Blewitt, Octavian (1810–1884), Museum, husband of the above, Secretary, Royal Literary Fund, 26 38, 42 Cassell, Petter & Galpin, publishers, Bonner, John, New York Theatrical 148–151, 153–154, 156 agent, 158 Cavendish, Ada (1839–1895), actress, Boothby, Lady Louisa Cranstoun 163, 172, 190 [Miss Mordaunt] (c. 1812–1858), Chambers, Nina (1830–1902), comic actress, 48 see Lehmann, Nina Boucicault, Dion (1822–1890), Chantrey, Lady née Wale dramatist, Corsican Brothers (1787–1875), dedicatee of (1852), 49; Janet Pride (1855), 75 Antonina, 36 Brandling, Henry C. (1805–1862), Chantrey, Sir Francis Leggatt illustrator, 37, 39–40, 52 (1781–1841), sculptor, husband Brandling, sisters, 52 of the above, 36 Bradbury & Evans, printers, 46, 92 Chapman and Hall, publishers, 26, Britton, John (1771–1857), antiquary, 139 41 Chapman, Frederic (b. 1823), Browning, Robert (1812–1889), poet, publisher, 139 dramatist, 126 Chapman, John (1821–1894), Bruce, Mr. (North Scotland), 19 publisher, physician, 50 Buckland, William, Dean of Chatrian, Pierre Alexandre Westminster (1784–1856), 33 (1826–1890), dramatist, 50 Buckler, John Russell, Stroud wool Chatto, Andrew (1841–1913), broker, 118 publisher, 170, 181, 183–184, Buckstone, John (1802–1879), 186, 191–192, 197, 204, 209 dramatist; Uncle John, 91, 94 Chatto & Windus, publishers, Bullar, Henry (1815–1870), WC’s 169–170, 174, 178–183, sailing companion, 73, 118–119, 185–188, 190–191, 201–202, 125 204, 207–209 Index 221

Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?–1400), poet, Collins, William John Thomas 74 (1788–1847: WMC), WC’s father, Chorley, Henry Fothergill artist, 3–32, 36, 39, 75, 91, 137 (1809–1872), reviewer, 38, 121, Conscience, Hendrick (1812–1883), 134 Belgian writer, 80 Clapisson, Louis (1808–1866), French Constable, John (1776–1837), artist, 5 composer, La Promise, 70 Cooper, Frederick Fox (1806–1879), Clarke, William M., The Letters of dramatist, The New Wags of Wilkie Collins (L), 6, thereafter Windsor, 73 passim; The Secret Life of Wilkie Cooper, James Fenimore (1789–1851), Collins (Clarke), 6, 8–9, 13–14, 29, American writer, The Deerslayer, 97, 110, 176, 211 191 Clow, Joseph Charles (?1846–1927), Corneille, Pierre (1606–1684), French 146 dramatist, Horace (1640), 24 Clunes, Emily Elizabeth Guest née Coyne, Joseph Stirling (1803–1868), Geddes (c. 1805–1888), WC’s dramatist, 104 aunt, 4, 145 Croker, John Wilson (1780–1857), Clunes, William Deane (1803–1886), politician, journalist, 31 husband of the above, 4 Coutts, Angela Georgina Burdett Cobbe, Frances Power (1822–1904), (1814–1906), CD’s wealthy writer, 189 patron, 60, 68, 90 Coghlan, Charles Francis Cunningham, Peter (1816–1869), (c. 1842–1899), actor, adapter, 199 writer, 77, 81, 85 Cole, Francis, wife of Rev. Henry Cole, 13, 15, 22 Dallas, Eneas Sweetland (1828–1879), Cole, Rev. Henry, Headmaster, 13–15, journalist, 110 22 Daly, Augustin (1838–1899), Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834), American theatre manager and 20 producer, 153, 155, 165 Collins, Charles Allston (1828–1873: Dana, Richard Henry Jr (1812–1882), CAC), WC’s brother, artist, 5, American writer and lawyer, 20, 7–10, 13–14, 20–22, 32, 34–40, 32–34, 38–39; Two Years Before the 42–43, 50, 59, 63–64, 72–73, 77, Mast (1840), 39 86, 96, 102, 106, 109, 120, 123, Dante, Alighieri (1265–1321), 187 126, 128, 131, 133, 135–137, Dawson, Harriet Constance 143–144, 146, 148, 153–154, 160, (1871–1955), WC’s and MR’s 162–163; ‘Convent Thoughts’, second daughter, 155, 196 42–43; ‘A Court Duel’, 37; ‘The Dawson, Marian (1869–1955), WC’s Empty Purse’, 34 and MR’s first child, 148, Collins, Francis, WC’s uncle, 3, 6 159–160 Collins, Harriet (1790–1868: HC), Dawson, Martha see Rudd, Martha WC’s mother, 3, thereafter Dawson, William [WC as], 208 passim; ‘Manuscript Account of Dawson, William Charles Collins her Life’, 81 (1874–1913), WC’s son, 170 Collins, Margaret (d. 1833), WC’s Deems, Dr. Charles Force grandmother, 6 (1820–1893), American Collins, William (1740–1812), WC’s Methodist minister, 132 grandfather, 3; Memoirs of a Delane, John Thaddeus (1817–1879), Picture, 4 editor, 160 222 Index

Dennis, John, critic, 202 Eastlake, Sir Charles (1793–1865), Desbarats, George Edward (1838–1893), painter, 91 Canadian publisher, 154 Easton, Harriet, WC’s maternal Devonshire, William George Spencer grandmother, 3 Cavendish, 6th Duke of Easton, James (1722–1799), coal (1790–1858), patron of the arts, merchant, HE’s grandfather, 3 42–43 Eden, George, Earl of Auckland Dickens, Charles (1812–70: CD), 8, (1784–1849), politician, 41–43, 45, 47, 50–62, 64–68, 70, Governor-General of India, 19 72–83, 85, 87–124, 126–128, Edison, Thomas Alva (1847–1931), 130–135, 137–148, 150–152, 175, American inventor, 208 181–182; Battle of Life, 34; Bleak Edward, CD’s courier, 60, 65 House, 49, 53–54, 58–59; A Egerton, Francis, First Earl of Christmas Carol, 77; David Ellesmere (1800–1857), patron of Copperfield, vii, 49; Dr. Marigold’s the arts, 43 Prescription, 133; Edwin Drood, Egg, Augustus (1816–1863: AE), artist, 181; Great Expectations, 113; The 41–42, 60, 63–64, 66–67, 89, 109, Haunted Man, 34; Letters, 63, 181; 118, 122–123 Little Dorrit, 97, 109; Our Mutual Eliot, George [Marian Evans] Friend, 126 (1819–1880), author, 49, 72 Dickens, Mrs. Charles (Catherine Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888–1965), Thomson Hogarth [1816–1879]), writer; ‘Wilkie Collins and wife of the above, 54, 58, 64–65, Dickens’ [1927], 211 67, 117, 140, 182 Elliotson, John (1791–1868), Dickens, Charles Jr (1837–1896), physician, mesmerist, 122 editor, son of the above, 175 Elliott & Fry, photographers, 134 Dickens, Henry, Sir (1849–1933), Ellis, Frederick Startridge High Court Judge, CD’s son, 74 (1830–1901), publisher, 151–152 Dickens, John (1785/6–1851), CD’s Emden, William Samuel father, 42 (c. 1801–1872), theatre manager, Dickens, Katherine (1839–1929), Kate, 95, 103, 124, 126 CD’s youngest daughter, 109, Erckman, Émile (1822–1899), French 135–137 dramatist, 50 Dickens, Sydney Smith Haldimand Ernouf, Alfred-Auguste (1817–1889), (1847–1872), CD’s son, 110 French literary critic, 16, 116, 119; Dickinson, Frances, Mrs. Elliot ‘Les Nouveaux Romanciers de (1820–1898), journalist, 69, 131, l’Angleterre: Wilkie Collins’, 119 135, 138, 158 Escott, Thomas Hay Sweet Dillwyn, Elizabeth Amy (1845–1935), (1850–1924), journalist and novelist, reviewer, 185 newspaper editor, 191 Disraeli, Benjamin (1804–1881), Etty, William (1787–1849), painter, statesman, novelist, 31, 126 17, 75 Dixon, William Hepworth Evans, Frederick Mullett (1821–1879), editor, 77 (c. 1803–1870), printer and Donizetti, Gaetano (1797–1848), publisher, 89, 92–93, 96, 99 Lucia di Lammermoor, 27; Lucrezia Evans, Marian, see Eliot, George Borgia, 70 Durham, Joseph (1814–1877), Fauntleroy, Henry (1785–1824), sculptor, 45 banker and forger, 101 Index 223

Fechter, Charles Albert (1824–1879), Geddes, Alexander (c. 1763–1843), Anglo-French actor, 133, father of HC, 3 143–144, 147–148, 188 Geddes, Harriet see Collins, Harriet Fern, Fanny (pseud: Willis, Sarah George IV, King, 4 Payson [1811–1872]), American Gibbon, Edward (1737–1794), Decline novelist, Ruth Hall: A Domestic and Fall of the Roman Empire, 38 Tale of the Present Time (1855), 75 Gilchrist, Alexander (1828–1861), Field, Kate (Mary Katherine Keemle biographer; The Life of William [1838–1896]), American actress, Etty, R.A., 75 190; Charles Albert Fechter (1882), Gill, William F. (1844–1917), 188 American publisher, 170 Fitzball, Edward (1792–1873), Girardin, Sophie-Dauphine de, French dramatist, Thirty-Five Years of a dramatist; La Joie fait peur, 69 Dramatic Author’s Life (1859), 104 Gladstone, William Ewart Forgues, Émile (1813–1883), French (1809–1898), prime minister, critic, 95, 112, 117, 121; Étude author, 200 sur le roman anglais’, 56; La Godwin, George (1815–1888), Carricature en Angleterre (1855), architect, 32 57, 80–81 Goldsmid, Lady Louisa (1819–1908), Forster, John (1812–1876), author and patron, 113, 132 biographer, 42, 52, 64, 86, Goldsmids, 115, 135 89–90, 95, 97, 112–113, 116, Goldsmith, Oliver (1730–1774), 126, 133–134, 136, 173 author, The Good-Natur’d Man Foyle, William Alfred Westropp (1768), 34 (1885–1963), bookseller, 33 Graves, Caroline (c. 1830–1895: CG), Frith, Isabelle (1834–1880), wife of WC’s mistress, 82, 85–86, 97, the artist, 150, 168 102, 104–108, 110, 112, 114, Frith, William Powell (1819–1909), 117–118, 120, 123–124, 131, 146, artist, 38, 122, 129, 137, 148, 154 148, 154–155, 159, 174, 177, 182, Frith family, 129, 139, 154, 158, 201, 210 160–161, 163, 169, 175, 178 Gray, Catherine (née Geddes), WC’s aunt, 19 Gale, William (1823–1909), painter, Gregory, E.R., editor, 211 ‘Mr. F’s Aunt: from “Little Gregory, George Samuel Dorrit”’, 93 (c. 1813–1900), surgeon, 108–110 Galignani’s Library, 26 Gregson, George, dentist, 144 Galpin, Thomas (b. 1828), publisher, Griffin, Gerald (1803–1840), Irish 153 writer, The Collegians (1829), 103 Galway, Thomas, UK Consul in Griffin, Richard & Co., publishers; Naples, 10 Handbook of Contemporary Galway, [Thomas Jr], 10 Biography, 107 Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth (1810–1865), Grisi, Giula (1811–1869), Italian novelist, x, 72 soprano, 70 Gasson, Andrew, The Public Face of Guizot, François (1787–1874), Wilkie Collins, 5, thereafter, French historian and statesman, passim; Wilkie Collins: An 102 Illustrated Guide (Gasson), 21, 41, 47, 88, 121, 134, 152, 156–157, Hachette, Librairie et Cie, Paris 162, 166, 177, 198, 207, 212 publishers, 95, 144 224 Index

Haggard, H. Rider (1856–1925), Hunt, Catherine [Kate] (née Glidden, writer, King Solomon’s Mines Thornton Hunt’s wife), 23 (1886), 203 Hunt, James Henry Leigh Haghe, Louis (1806–1885), Belgian (1784–1859), author, 23 painter, 64 Hunt, Thornton Leigh (1810–1873), Hall, Samuel Carter (1808–1889), journalist, 23 editor, 69 Hunt, William Holman (1827–1910: Hanslick, Dr. Eduard (1825–1904), WHH), artist, 20, 45, 109, German musicologist, 116 111–112, 123, 125, 130, 142–143, Harper, Joseph W. Jr. (1830–1896), 162, 196, 199, 201, 203; Finding son of the above, 167 of Christ in the Temple, 108, 111; Harper, Joseph Wesley (1801–1870), Pre-Raphaelitism, 123; The publisher, 141 Triumph of the Innocents, 196 Harper & Brothers, New York Hunter, Mrs., sister of Sir David Publishers, 92, 153, 158, 163, 191 Wilkie, 37 Hart, Solomon Alexander Hunter, Rose & Co., Canadian (1806–1881), painter, 26 publishers, 151–152, 154, 156, Hayne, Paul Hamilton (1830–1886), 158, 160, 162, 166, 168–171, 173, South Carolina poet, 194–195, 175 197, 199, 201 Hutton, Richard Holt (1826–1897), Hazlewood, C.H. (1823–1875), journalist, 159 dramatist, 111 Heussey, Robert Du Pontavice de Iggulden, Charles, son of William (1850–1893: RPH), Breton author, Iggulden, 10, 63 185, 189, 197, 204 Iggulden, William (1794–1864), Hills, Thomas Hyde (1815–1891), banker, 10, 63 chemist, 141 Inchbald, Elizabeth (1753–1821), Hinchliff, John James (1805–1875), author, Animal Magnetism, 90 engraver, 32 Irving, Sir Henry (1838–1905), Hodgson, Thomas, London publisher, actor-manager, 183 82 Irving, Washington [Knickerbocker, Hogarth, Georgina (1827–1917: GH), D.] (1783–1859), American CD’s sister-in-law, 66, 72, 94–95, writer, 76; Chronicles of Wolfert’s 127–128, 141–142, 146, 152, 181 Roost, 76; Complete Works, 76 Hollingshead, John (1827–1904), Iserbyt, Albéric (b. ?1861), WC’s journalist, theatrical manager, German correspondent and 107, 121, 147–148 copyist, 192 Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–1894), jurist, man of letters, 165, 169 Jeffries, Judge George (1648–1689), 102 Homer; school assignment, 13 Jenke, Berlin publishers, 144 Horne, Kate (Catherine Clare Jerrold, Douglas (1803–1857), St. George Foggo [b. c. 1825], novelist, dramatist, journalist, 20, estranged wife of R.H. Horne), 54 37, 42, 47–48, 93–94, 103 Horne, Richard Henry [Hengist] Jerrold, William Blanchard (1802–1884), writer, 54 (1827–1884), son of the above, Howard, J., dramatist; The Wags of writer; The Life and Remains of Windsor, 73 Douglas Jerrold, 103 Hugo, Victor-Marie (1802–1885), Jewsbury, Geraldine (1812–1880), French novelist, Les Misérables, 146 novelist, 71, 145 Index 225

Joslyn, Charles (1832–1906), Lehmann, Emil (1829–1898), attorney, Oneida Community, translator, 140, 142–143, 150, 167 152 Lehmann, Frederick (1826–1891: FL), Kean, Charles (1811–1868), actor, industrialist, close friend of WC, theatrical manager, 48 49, 109, 116, 118, 127–128, Kelly, Frances Maria (1790–1882), 130–133, 137–141, 144–146, theatre, 37, 42 148–149, 152, 154, 160, 183, 189, Kemble (Sartoris), Adelaide 192, 203, 206, 210 (?1815–1879), singer and author, Lehmann, Nina, née Chambers 134 (1830–1902: N), close friend of Kemble, Charles (1775–1854), WC, wife of the above, 49, actor-manager, 134 108–109, 116, 120, 123, 131–133, Kenney, James (1780–1849), 135–138, 141, 143, 146, 148–149, dramatist; Raising the Wind, 37 152, 172, 180, 188, 192, 203, 205 Kent, Charles (1835–1902), literary Lehmann, Rudolf (1819–1905), artist editor, 186, 200 and brother of FL, 183 Kinglake, Alexander William Leighton, Frederic, 1st Baron Leighton (1809–1891), writer, 81; Eothen, of Stretton (1830–1896), artist, 81 84 Knickerbocker, D. see Irving, Lemaître, Frédérick (1798–1876), Washington French actor, 75–76 Knight, Charles (1791–1873), author Lemon, Mark (1809–1870), journalist, and publisher, 48 73, 81, 89, 94; Mr. Nightingale’s Knowles, James Sheridan Diary, 42–43 (1784–1862), dramatist; Virginius Leopold, King of the Belgians (1820), 105 (1790–1865), 93 Leslie, Frank, American publisher, 184 Lahure, Charles. Parisian publisher, Lever, Charles (1806–1872), novelist, 94–95 119 Landseer, Sir Edwin (1802–1873), Lewes, George Henry (1817–1878), artist, 39 man of letter, 49–50, 72, 143; Lane, Samuel Haycroft (1804–1871), Sunshine Through the Clouds, 70 theatrical manager, 111 Lewis, Paul; The Public Face of Wilkie Langton family, 58 Collins, 5, thereafter passim Langtry, Emily Charlotte, ‘Lilly’ Lincoln, Abraham (1809–1865), U.S. (1852–1929), actress, 199 President (1861–1865), 118 Law, Graham, The Public Face of Linnell, John (1792–1882), painter, Wilkie Collins, 5, thereafter passim 29–30, 40 Layard, Austen Henry (1817–1894), Linnell, Mary (d. 1863), first wife of archaeologist, politician, 63, 99 John Linnell, 30 Leader and Sons, publishers, 183 Linton, Eliza Lynn (1822–1898), Leclercq, Carlotta (‘Mrs. Nelson’ from journalist, novelist, 74 1877; 1840–1893), 147, 165 Livingstone, David (1813–1873), Leech, Anne Viola (Annie), explorer, Missionary Travels … in (nèe Eaton c. 1818–1868), South Africa, 97 wife of the artist, 58 Lockhart, John Gibson (1784–1854), Leech, John (1817–1864), artist and editor, biographer, 64; The Life of illustrator, 8, 58, 129 Sir Walter Scott, 187 226 Index

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Milnes, Richard Monckton (1807–1882), American poet, (1809–1885: Lord Houghton, man of letters, 167 1863), poet, editor, patron of the Longmans, publishers, 25, 33 arts, 99, 109, 112, 127–128 Low, Sampson (1797–1886), Milton, John (1608–1674), writer, publisher, 107, 109, 111–114, Paradise Lost, 84 119, 121, 124–125 Mitchell, Alexander (d. 1873), M.P., Lowe, James (d. 1865), journalist and 117, 137 translator, 98 Mitchell, Mrs. Fanny (née Hasler), Luard, John Dalbiac (1830–1860), wife of Alexander, 117, 137 painter, 77 Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Lytton, Sir Edward George Lytton (1622–1673), French dramatist, 78 Bulwer (1803–1873), 42, 52, 70, Mordaunt, Jane, actress, see Lady 72, 140; Not So Bad As We Seem, Boothby 41, 43–44, 45–48, 50–51; Pilgrims Morland, George (1763–1804), artist, of the Rhine, 160; A Strange Story, 4 113 Mudie, Charles Edward (1818–1890), publisher, 111 Macaulay, Thomas Babington Munro, George, New York publisher, (1800–1859), statesman, politician, 192, 202 historian, History of England, 34, 39 Munro, Seaside Library, New York Macleane, Walter, reviewer, 171 publishers, 185, 190, 193 Macready, William Charles (1793–1873), actor-manager, 31, Nadel, Ira B., editor, Ioláni; or, Tahiti 87 as it was, a Romance, 25, 212 Maddyn, D. Owen, reviewer, 55 Napoleon (Bonaparte), Emperor of Mansel, Henry Longueville France, 61 (1820–1871), Oxford don and Nash, Esther (née Elton), clergyman, 122 headmistress, 112 Mariani, Napoleone (1808–1878), Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson Italian tenor, 27 (1758–1805), 102 Marsh, John Thomas, RB’s office Neville, Henry (1837–1910), actor, manager, 45–46, 49–51, 103 177; ‘The Yellow Passport’, 146 Mathews, Keeper of Lord Ward’s Noble, James Ashcroft, reviewer, 209 Picture Gallery, 44 Norris, James (1796–1872), President Mathews, Charles (1776–1835), of Corpus Christi College, dramatist; Used Up, 52 Oxford, 22 Mayus, William S. Frederick, editor, 103 Norton, Brinsley (1831–1877), son of McClellan, George B. (1826–1885), Caroline, 68 Union General during the Norton, Caroline (1808–1877), author American Civil War, 118 and law reform campaigner, 68 Méjan, Maurice (1765–1823), French author, Recueil des Causes Célèbres Ohnet, Georges (1843–1918), French …, 83 man of letters, Enemies, 199 Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1791–1864), Oliphant, Margaret (1828–1897), composer, Le Prophète, 67 writer, 117, 124, 153 Millais, John Evertt (1829–1896: Oppenheim, Mrs., 134 JEM), artist, 20, 35, 39, 45–46, 57, Otter, Captain, 17, 19 68, 74–75, 79, 118, 124, 162 Otter, Charles, 45 Index 227

Otter Family, 17, 24, 54 Planché, James Robertson Ouvry, Frederic (1814–1881), (1796–1880), dramatist, Charles solicitor, 126 XII, 52 Poles, Stefan (c. 1839–1875), literary Page, Norman, literary critic (Page), agent, 163–164, 169, 172 Wilkie Collins: The Critical Poole, John (1786–1872), dramatist, Heritage, 38, 55–56, 171, 211 Paul Pry, 49; ‘Turning the Tables’, Parker, John William Jr. (1792–1870), 89 publisher, 81 Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), 192 Parkinson, Joseph Charles Procter, Adelaide (1825–1864), poet (1833–1908), journalist, 148–149 and journalist, daughter of Bryan Payn, James (1830–1898), novelist, and Anne, 7, 74 146–147, 149–150, 180; Procter, Mrs. Anne (c. 1801–1888), Gwendoline’s Harvest, 151 wife of the poet, 109, 125, 149 Peel, Sir Robert (1788–1850), Procter, Bryan Waller statesman, 16, 19, 31 (Barry Cornwall: 1787–1874), Penco, Rosino (1825–1894), soprano, poet, 109, 149 63–64 Putnam, American publishers, 148 Percy, Algernon, Fourth Duke of Pym, Horatio Noble (1844–1896), 205 Northumberland (1792–1865), patron, landowner, philanthropist, Quaritch, Bernard, booksellers, 33 41 Quilter, Harry (1851–1901), Perry Mason & Co. of Boston, journalist, 207; ‘A Living publishers, 195–196 Story-teller: Mr. Wilkie Collins’, Peters, Catherine, biographer (Peters), 207 The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins, 4–6, 8–10, 12, Rachel (Eliza Félix, 1820–1858), 15–16, 18, 21, 23–25, 33, 36–37, French actress, 24 44, 49, 54, 57, 76, 81, 85, 89, 91, Radcliffe, Dr. Charles (1822–1889), 97, 101, 124, 128, 145–147, 154, physiologist, 129 157, 168, 211 Ravel, Pierre Alfred (1814–1857), Phipps, Lieut.-Colonel, the Hon. French actor, 56 Charles Beaumont (1801–1866), Reade, Charles (1814–1884: CR), court official, 93 writer, 56, 113, 122, 134, ‘Phyllis,’ WC’s steam yacht, 192 149–151, 154, 157, 161, 170, 174, Pigott, Edward Frederick Smyth 177, 179, 181–182, 194 (1824–1895: EP), journalist, Redpath, James (1833–1891), literary editor, Examiner of Plays, 44–49, agent, 166 53, 56–57, 62–63, 68–69, 71–72, Reeve, Wybert (1831–1906), actor, 83, 74–75, 77–81, 86, 88–89, 92, 99, 158, 166 107, 110, 118, 124, 127–132, Régnier, François (1807–1885: FR), 135–136, 138, 164, 192, 194, 198, French actor, 76, 135, 137, 139, 202 144, 147, 153–155, 170 Pigott, George Octavius, EP’s younger Reinagle, Ramsay Richard brother, 74–75, 86 (1775–1862), painter, 29 Pigott, John Hugh Smyth Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), (c. 1792–1853), EP’s father, 57 artist, 28 Pius IX (1792–1878), Pope Richards, Brinley (1817–1885), (1847–1878), 65, 126 composer, 147 228 Index

Richardson, physician, 51 Schlesinger, Sebastian (1837–1917: Richmond, George (1809–1896), SS), 152, 156, 167, 173, 175, artist, 30, 32 180, 193, 196, 203, 205–206, Ricketts, Maria Matilda, wife of 208–210 G.O. Pigott, 75 Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832), The Ristori, Adelaide (1822–1906), Italian Antiquary, 191; Guy Mannering, actress, 84 204; A Legend of Montrose, 197; Roberts, David (1796–1864), artist, [Moredun: A Tale], 79; ‘Abbotsford’ 32, 42, 64 Edition’, The Pirate, 17, 19 Robinson, Kenneth (1911–1996), Scrope, George Julius Poulett politician, Wilkie Collins: A (1797–1876), geologist, political Biography, 211 economist, politician, 31 Robson, Frederick (d. 1864), actor, 101 Seaver, Col. William A. (d. 1883), Rose-Belford, Publishing Co., 178–179 New York raconteur, 165, 183 Rose, George Maclean, Toronto Severn, Joseph (1793–1879), artist, 8, publisher, 178, 181, 185, 189 125 Rossetti, Christina (1830–1894), poet, Seymour, Mrs. Laura (c. 1820–1879), 71 actress, 154, 156, 170, 174–175, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882), 177, 182 artist, 71 Shakespeare, William, 78, 126; As You Rossetti, William Michael Like It, 75; The Merchant of Venice, (1829–1919), critic, 71 183 Routledge, Edmund (1843–1899), Shedden-Ralston, William Ralston publisher, 140 (1828–1889), Russian scholar, Rubens, Peter Paul (1577–1640), 155 Flemish painter, 172; Descent Simon, Joseph Philippe [Lockroy], from the Cross, 28; Marriage of French dramatist, 37 St. Catherine, 28 Simpson, John Palgrave (1807–1887: Rudd, Martha (Mrs. Dawson: JPS), writer, 93, 96, 108, 120, 1845–1919: MR), the mother of 134–135 WC’s three children, 128, 146, Smith, Elder, publishers, 55, 82, 107, 148, 164–165, 167–168, 210 133–134, 139, 147–148 Ruskin, John (1819–1900), writer, 35, Smith, Albert (1816–1860), dramatist 43; Modern Painters, 34 and novelist, 92 Russell, John Scott (1808–1882), civil Smith, George (1824–1901), engineer, 131 publisher, 35, 80, 107, 114, 129, 131, 157 St. John, Horace, reviewer, 93 Southey, Robert (1774–1843), Essays, Sala, George August (1828–1895), 6; Madoc in Wales, 17 author, editor, illustrator, 74, 154 Stanfield, Clarkson (1793–1867), Sams, William Raymond, bookseller artist, 78, 80, 115 and publisher, 91 Stebbing, William (1831–1926), Sarcey, F., French critic, 144 journalist, 151 Sarony, Napoleon (1821–1896), New Sterne, Laurence (1713–1768), A York photographer, 191 Sentimental Journey, 23 Satchell, Thomas, civil servant, 156 Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894), Sayers, Dorothy Leigh (1893–1957), Kidnapped (1886), 204 author, Wilkie Collins: A Critical Stoltz, Rosine (1815–1903), French and Biographical Study, 211 mezzo-soprano, 67 Index 229

Stringfield, Joseph, physician, 46, 99, Tindell, William Frederick (WT), 135, 143 solicitor, 142, 148–149, 152–155, Sue, Eugène (1804–1857), French 157–159, 162, 164, 167–171, 173, novelist, 55 175–176 Tinsley, Samuel, publisher, 157 Tauchnitz, publishers, 86–87, 89–90, Tinsley, William (1831–1902), 110, 117–118, 121, 145, 158–159, publisher, 144, 147–148, 151 163, 169, 177, 180, 182–183, 185, Tintoretto, Jacopo Comin 191, 195, 202–203, 208 (1518–1594), WC’s admiration Tauchnitz, Christian Bernhard for ‘Crucifixion’, 12 (1816–1895), publisher, 86, 88, Titian, Tiziano Vecellio 106, 161 (c. 1488–90–1576), Venetian Tennant, Mrs., wife of Charles painter, 12 Tennant, M.P., 57 Tolstoi, Leo Nikolaevich (1828–1910), Tennent, Eleanor (Edith), daughter, Russian writer, Childhood and 63 Youth, 117 Tennent, Lady Letitia (d. 1883), wife Tommy, WC’s Scotch terrier, 186, 197 of Sir James, 63, 111 Topham, Francis William Tennent, Sir James Emerson (1807–1877), watercolourist, 47 (1804–1869), author, politician, Towle, George Makepeace 62–63, 111 (1841–1893), American Tennent, William (1835–1876), son Journalist, 24, 153 63 Townshend, Rev. Chauncy Hare Tenniel, John (1820–1914), illustrator, (1782–1868), wealthy eccentric, 42 61, 85, 108 Ternin, Ellen Lawless ‘Nelly’ Trollope, Anthony (1815–1882), (1839–1914), actress, CD’s author, 76, 126; The Warden, 76 mistress, 95, 99 Trübner, publisher, 184 Terry, Ellen (1847–1928), actress, 183 Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich Thackeray, William Makepeace (1818–1883), Russian writer, 187 (1811–1863), writer, 55, 71, 81, Twain, Mark (pseud. Samuel 94, 125–126; The History of Henry Langhorne Clemens: 1835–1910), Esmond, 55 author, 167 Thière, Roma Le (d. 1903), Italian-born actress, 191 Underwood, Francis Henry (1825–94), Thompson, Dr., physician, 38 American lawyer and writer, 100 Thompson, Julian, Wilkie Collins: The Complete Shorter Fiction, 86, Verdi, Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco 91–93, 96–98, 101–102, 106, (1813–1901), 111; Nabucco, 66; 112–113, 115, 166, 168–169, Othello, 24; Il Trovatore, 62–64 171, 175–176, 180, 184, 187, Vernet, Horace (1789–1863), French 190, 192–193, 195, 197, 199, painter, The Taking of Smalah, 201, 203, 206, 211 27 Tillotson, William Frederic Vernon, Robert (1774–1849), patron (1844–1889: WFT), Northern of arts, 33 newspaper proprietor, 179, 183, Viardot, Pauline (1821–1910), French 195, 197, 199–200, 205–207, 209 mezzo-soprano, 67 Timbs, John, Things Not Generally Victoria, Queen (1819–1901), 23, 43, Known, 97 93, 101, 204–205 230 Index

Vining, George (1824–1875), actor, Ward, Leslie (1851–1922), second son 156, 158–159 and illustrator, 181 Virgil, school exercises on the Aenid, Ward, Stanhope, Ward’s youngest 13 son, 134 Voltaire (pseud. François Marie Ward, William, eleventh Baron Ward Arouet: 1694–1778), 108 (from 1860) first Earl of Dudley (1817–1885), patron of the arts, Wales, Prince of (later Edward VII), 44 193 Ward, Wriothesley, third child of Wales, Princess of, 193 EMW, 71 Walford, Edward (1823–1897), Watkins, Herbert, photographer, biographer, editor, 14, 112 98–99, 112, 117 Ward, Alice (b. 1849), WC’s Watts, Alaric Alexander (1797–1864), goddaughter, 131 poet, journalist, 31–32 Ward, Charles James (1814–1883: Watt, Alexander Pollock (1834–1914), CW), WC’s close friend, 3, 15, 20, literary agent, 187–192, 194–196, 22–25, 28–31, 35–36, 38–42, 53, 198, 200–209 55, 60–62, 69, 73, 80, 84, Webster, Benjamin (1797–1882), 104–109, 112, 114, 116–120, actor-manager, 79, 140, 144 122, 124–128, 131, 136, 138, Wellington, Duke of (1769–1852), 39, 145, 147, 149–150, 152–153, 53–54 158, 167, 191 Westmacott, Richard (1799–1872), Ward, Edward Matthew (1816–1879: sculptor, son of Sir Richard, 33 EMW), artist and close friend of Westmacott, Sir Richard (1755–1856), WC, 8, 35, 42, 56, 70–72, 76, 83, sculptor, 33 93, 102, 107, 109, 111–113, 116, Whiting, Charles, CD’s printer, 147 127–130, 133, 138, 142, 157, Wigan, Alfred Sydney (1814–1878), 180–181; ‘Antechamber at actor-manager, 79–80, 101 Whitehall during the Dying Wilkie, Sir David (1785–1841), WC’s Moments of Charles II’, 111; godfather, artist, 5, 7, 11, 16, 37; ‘Charlotte Corday Going to The Reading of a Will, 13 Execution’, 56 William, Prince of Prussia, 43 Ward, Emily Blanche (1848–1895), Williams, D.E., reviewer, 158 Ward’s second daughter, 188 Willis, Sarah Payson, see Fern, Fanny Ward, Eva, Ward’s fourth child, 77 Willis, William Henry (1810–1880), Ward, Frank (b. 1850), WC’s godson, confidante of CD, editor, 70, 166 76, 78, 87–89, 91, 95, 104–105, Ward, Frederick Oldfield 107, 112–113, 115, 119–121, (?1817–1877), writer, engineer, 127–128, 130–131, 137, 140, 56 142, 144, 147 Ward, Henrietta Ada Mary Winter, William (1836–1917), 126, (1832–1924), wife of EMW, 178–179, 194, 199, 205, 210 painter, 93, 104, 108, 111, 116, Wordsworth, William (1770–1850), 128–129 poet, 39 Ward, Jane, née Carpenter Wyllie, John W.S. (1835–1870), (1826–1891: JW), daughter of Indian expert, 144 Margaret Carpenter, WC’s Wynne, Anne Elizabeth le Poer, favourite cousin, 3, 22–23, 25, ‘Nannie’ (?1873–1950: NW), 102, 106, 124 197–198, 206 Index 231

Wynne, Emily Sarah le Poer née Bath, 75; Assembly Rooms 45; Gould, widow of Henry Wynne, St. Swithin’s Walcot, Bath 75 197–198 Beauvais, 58–59 Wynne, Henry le Poer (1836–1874), Berkshire, 156 197 Berlin, 144 Bideford, North Devon, 110 Yates, Edmund Hodgson Birmingham, Fine Arts, 56; Hen and (1831–1894), 15, 99, 127, 171, Chicken Hotel, 68; Town Hall, 51 196; ‘Celebrities At Home’, 15, Bologna, 12, 135 24; ‘W. Wilkie Collins’, 92 Bolsena, 65 Yelverton (Marriage Case, 1861), 145 Bosherville, Abbey of St. George Yonge, Charlotte Mary (1823–1901), Bosherville, 30, 42 novelist, The Heir of Redclyffe Boston, Mass., 91, 98–99, 140, 143, (1853), 102 152, 165, 167–168, 170, 188, 195, 196, 203; Globe Theatre, 163; Hotel Vendome, 167; Lyceum, 3. Places 166; Music Hall, 165; Tremont House Hotel, 165; St. James’s Hall, Aberystwyth, 6 166; St. James’s Hotel, 166, 167 Aix-la-Chapelle, 123; Neullans Hotel, Botley (near Oxford), 40 123 Boulogne, 5, 27, 36, 57–59, 72–73, Aldborough, 114 75–76, 80, 88, 163, 169, 177; Albury, near Guildford, Surrey, 28, 41 Cathedral, 58; Chateau des Alderbury, near Salisbury, 3 Molineaux, Rue Beaurepaire, 57; Alessandria, 67 diphtheria epidemic, 88; Hôtel Algeria, Steamship, 164 des Bains, 164; Villa des Algiers, 122 Moulineaux, 87; Villa du Camp Allonby, Cumberland (22 miles from de Droite, 72, 87 Carlisle), 95 Bournemouth, 122; Sanitorium, 79 Amalfi, 11 Brighton, 5, 35, 91–92, 113, 161; American, 9, 20, 98, 100, 118, 121, Bedford Hotel, 92, 101, 103; 132, 136, 140, 143, 148–149, 153, Chain Pier, 5; Egremont Place, 5 158–159, 161, 164–166, 168, 174, Bristol, 45, 110, 202 180, 184; copyrights, 190, 196, Bristol Channel, 110 198, 208 Broadstairs (Kent), 100, 105–106, Amiens, 58–59 113–114, 117–118; Albion Hotel, Antwerp, 28–29; Hôtel de St. Antoine, 114; Church Hill Cottage, 106; 28, 172 Fort House, 117–118; Prospect Apennines, 7 Place, 100 Armadale (Scotland), 18 Bruges, 29 Ashford, Kent, 77 Brussels, 28, 172, 177; Hôtel de Assisi, 11 Flândre, 28, 172 Aux Andelys, Normandy, Hôtel du Buckinghamshire, 28 Grand Cerf, 30 Buez, 61 Buffalo, New York, 166 Baden Baden, 145 Baltimore, Maryland, The Carollton Calais, 23, 68, 123 Hotel, 166 Caledonian Canal, 19 Basel, 60–61 Cambridge, 114 232 Index

Cambridge, Mass., 165, 167 Folkestone, 80–81; 3 Albion Villas, Canada, 155 80 Canterbury, 54; ‘The Fountain’, 119 Fontainebleau, 36 Capri, 63, 68 Fowey (Cornwall), 39 Cardiff, 99 France, 23, 25–26, 31, 35–36, 56, 69, Carlisle, 95; County Hotel, 95; 76, 96, 124, 155 see Wigton Fryston Hall, near Ferrybridge, Carrock Fell, 95 Yorkshire, 109, 128 Chalons, 68 Chamounix, 61 Gad’s Hill, 55, 92, 101, 104–105, 109, Chatham; Lecture Hall, 102 113, 124, 128, 135, 138–139, Chepstow, 6 147–148, 152 Cherbourg, 86 Geneva, 61 Chicago, Illinois, 167; Sherman Genoa, 7, 62, 67, 125 House, Hotel, 167 Germany, 31, 123, 145, 155, 177 Civita Vecchia, 63, 125 Ghent, 123 Cleveland, Ohio, 167 Glamorganshire, 99 Clifton, near Bristol, 45; Victoria Glasgow, 19 Rooms, 45 Gravesend, Kent, 75, 86; Wates’, 97 Cologne, 13 Great Yarmouth, 128; Victoria Hotel, Cornwall, 39–41, 47, 110 128 Cowes, 86, 124 Hague, 133, 172 Derby, 52; Lecture Hall, 52; Royal Havre, Le, 24 Hotel, 52 Heidelberg, 13 Domo d’Ossola, 61 Higham, Kent, 109 Doncaster, Angel Hotel, 95 Highland Falls, on the Hudson, Douglas, see Isle of Man upstate New York, 165 Dover, 53–54, 68, 115, 118, 130, 170; Holland, 155 Camden Crescent, 53; Lord Warden Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, Hotel, 128; Ship Hotel, 85, 95 28 Dumfries (Scotland), 119–120 Dungeness, 86 Innsbruck, 12 Dutch, 18–19, 28, 121, 133, 149–150, Inverness, 19 169, 172 Ipswich, 114 Ischia, Isle of, 10 East Sheen (West of London), 91 Isle of Man, 124; Douglas, Fort Anne Edinburgh, 4, 17 ; Calton Hill, 17; Hotel, 124 English Episcopal Chapel, York Isle of Wight, 22, 25, 109; Ryde, Royal Place, 4; Princess Street, 17; Victoria Yacht Club, 127 Salisbury Crags, 17; Tait’s Hotel, Italian Alps, 61 17 Italy, 7, 12, 31, 61, 68, 88, 124, 127, Eton, 56 135, 178 Iver (Buckinghamshire), 28–29 Falmouth, 39 Farley Hill Court, see Reading John O’Groats, 18 Florence, 7, 11, 65–66, 126; Fiesole, 12; Florentine galleries, 12; Royal Kenilworth, 51 Farms, 12 Kent, coast of, 88 Index 233

Lake Erie, 167 Marylebone, Regent’s Park, Lake Maggiore, 61 85–87, 93, 96–99; Harley Street, Lake Thrasimene, 11 85, 107–108, 112–113, 116–117, Lancaster, 95 120, 126–127, 129; Highbury Land’s End, 86 Place, 13; Highgate, Woodlands, Lausanne, 61 131, 139; Household Words [HW] Leghorn, 62, 125 Offices, 78, 83, 91, 96, 101, 103; Leicester, Theatre Royal, 153 Howland Street, Fitzroy Square, Leipzig, 106, 121, 133 85–86; Kensington, 79; Lerwick (Shetland), 18–19 Kensington Gardens, 6; Lincoln’s Lewes (Sussex), 154 Inn, 28, 34, 42, 44–45; Liége, 123 Marlborough House, Pall Mall, Liskeard, Cornwall, 110 68; Marylebone Road, 165; Liverpool, 19, 48, 53, 124, 132, 140, Marshall & Snellgrove, 133; 143, 164, 168, 172; Adelphi Hotel, Melcombe Place, Dorset Square, 48, 53; Alexandra Theatre, 172; 129–133, 135–138; National New Philharmonic Hall, 48, 53 Portrait Gallery, 183; New Lizard, The (Cornwall), 39–40 Burlington Street, 49–50, 60; New London, General, 3, thereafter passim Cavendish Street, Marylebone, 5, but note specific locations. 103–106; North Western Train Addresses, Buildings, Galleries, Terminus, Euston Square, 50–51; Museums, Streets, banks and Northumberland House, 44; institutions including places now Oxford Terrace, 15, 21; Porchester regarded as in Greater London. Terrace, Bayswater, 5; Royal Albany Street, 86, 102–103; Academy, 3–4, 15, 20, 23, 27, 34, Adelaide Gallery, Lowther Arcade, 42–43, 69, 126, 131, 159; Royal 47; Avenue Road, Regent’s Park, College of Surgeons, 28; Royal 13, 15; Baker Street, 134; Balsover Institution, 155; Southwick Place, Street, Marylebone, 155; 133; Syon House, 44; Strand, The, Blandford Square, 32, 34–36, 39; 15, 50, 60, 94, 147, 156, 188; Bridgewater House, Green Park, Taunton Place, 168; Tavistock 43; British Museum, 26–27, 155; House (CD’s home), 74, 79, 89, Campden House, Kensington, 79; 90–92; Wimpole Street, 206–208, Coutts Private Bank, Strand, 15, 210; Westminster Hall, 23; 30, 60, 109; Clarence Terrace, Zoological Gardens, 6; Cemeteries, Regent’s Park, 102–104; churches: Chapel Royal, 188; Devonport Street, Hyde Park Kensal Green Cemetery, 125, 210; Gardens, 21, 31–32; Devonshire St. Marylebone’s Church, 146; House, 42–43; Edgware Road, St. Mary Marylebone Parish Maida Hill Academy, 6; Gallery of Church, 5; St. Mary’s, Illustration, Regent’s Street, Paddington, 6; Westminster 93–94; Gloucester Place, Portman Abbey, 151; Clubs: Arts Club, 131; Square, 138, 140, 142–143, 145, Athenaeum, 112, 139, 160; 154, 156–157, 172, 174–175, 183, Garrick Club, 73, 77–78, 99, 117, 187, 195, 200–201, 207; 128, 130, 185; National Liberal Hampstead Green, Pond Street, 5; Club, 207, 209; Events in London: Hampstead Square, 5; Hanover Hyde Park disturbances, 79; Terrace, 5, 39–40, 51, 55–56, 59, Hotels, Taverns, Restaurants, etc: 73, 75, 81–83, 85; Harley Place, Freemason’s Tavern/Hall, 130, 234 Index

140; Hanover Square Rooms, Naples, 9–11, 14, 62–63, 65, 125; 43–44; London Tavern, 42, 81; Baiae side, 63; Bay of, 63; Church Queen’s Hotel Upper Norwood, of S. Maria Della Nova, 11; Hôtel nr. Crystal Palace, Sydenhamm d’Angleterre Chaia, 125; Hôtel 156; St. James’s Hall, 111; des Étrangers, 62; San Carlo Verey’s, 137, 146; Theatres: (Theatre), 64 Adelphi Theatre, 103, 141, 147; Netherlands, see under Dutch Britannia Theatre, 111; Covent New York, 92, 104, 106, 133, Garden Theatre, 42; Charing 140–141, 143, 158, 163–166, Cross Theatre, 170; Dean Street, 168, 180, 182, 184–185, 187, Mrs. Kelly’s Theatre, 37, 42; 189–193, 199, 201–203; Drury Lane Theatre, 185; Globe Association Hall, 165; Broadway Theatre, 163, 173; Haymarket Theatre, 165; Franklin Square, Theatre, 204; Holborn 167; Lotus Club, 164; Amphitheatre, 167; Hollingshead’s Westminster Hotel, 164–167; Gaiety Theatre, Strand, 147; Union Club, 165; 5th Avenue Novelty Theatre, 193; Prince of Theatre, 153, 155 Wales Theatre, 161–162, 199; New Zealand, 170 Royal Lyceum Theatre, 49; Royal Newcastle, 52; Queen’s Hotel, 52; Marylebone Theatre, 75; Royal Westgate Street, Assembly Olympic Theatre, off the Strand, Rooms, 52 94, 101; Royal Princess’s Theatre, Newnham Paddox, near Coventry, Oxford Street, 48, 49; St. James’s 135 Theatre, 69–70; Strand Theatre, Nice, 7, 125 73; Vaudeville Theatre, 198 Norfolk, 127–128 Lowestoft, 172; Royal Hotel, 131 Normandy, 30 Lyons, 68 Nottingham, 52; George the Fourth Hotel, 51; Mechanics’ Hall, 51 Maidenhead, 58 Manchester, 48, 52, 94, 142, 144; Oneida Community, New York, 167 Athenaeum, 52; Free Library, Orkney Islands, 18, 25 53; Free Trade Hall, 53, 94; New Orléans, 36 Theatre Royal, 148; Royal Hotel, Oxford, 16, 22, 40, 70, 170 52 Mantua, 12 Padua, 12, 66 Margate, 86, 113, 205 Paris, 7, 22–27, 29–31, 36, 60, 75–76, Marseilles, 125, 135 82–85, 98, 102, 110, 117, 122, Martigny, 61 125, 130, 133, 135–137, 143–144, Mayence, 13 147, 153–155, 163–164, 170, Melrose (Scotland), 17 174–175, 177; Ambigu-Comique Mentone, 125 Theatre, Boulevard St. Martine, Mer de Glace, 61 75, 84; Avenue des Champs Milan, 61–62, 135; Cathedral, 61; Elysées, 83; art galleries, 84; Hotel de la Ville, 61; La Scala, 61 Beaux Arts, 26; Hotel Bristol, 68, Mont Cenis, 68 125; Hôtel de Londres, 60; Hôtel Montreal, 154, 166 des Tours, 23; Hôtel des Tuileries, Munich, 13; Hotel des Quatre Saisons, 24–26, 30; Hôtel du Helder, 130, 177; Royal Palace of Schleisheim, 133, 137, 164; Hôtel Meurice, 75; 13 Hotel Westminster, 175, 177; Index 235

Palais Royal, 23, 26; Rue de Scarborough, 95 Rivoli, 24, 30, 75; St. Denis, 24; Scilly Isles, 81 Théâtre Français, 24, 76; Theatre Scotland, 17, 149 Italien, 27; Les Trois Frères, 110; Shanghai, 116 Tuileries, 76 Shanklin, Isle of Wight, 109 Parma, 12, 67 Sheffield, 52; Music Hall, 52; Royal Parthia, Steamship, 168 Hotel, 52 Perugia, 11 Shetland Islands, 17–19, 25 Philadelphia, 165 Shrewsbury, 50–51 Pisa, 62 Shute End House, Alderbury, Polynesia, 24 Wiltshire, 3 Pompeii, 63 Sienna, 7 Portsmouth, 22, 133 Simplon pass, 61 Prospect Hill, Southborough, 134 Slough (West of London) Buckinghamshire, 56, 131 Queenstown Harbour, 164 Sorrento, 9, 63 Southampton, 22, 24, 73 Radicofani, 65 Southborough, see also Prospect Hill, Ragland, 6 134, 138–139 Ramsgate, Kent, 6, 160, 179, 182–183, Southsea (Hampshire), 17, 19, 35, 186–187, 189, 191–192, 194, 51 196–198, 202; Granville Hotel, Staffordshire colliery, 170 East Cliff, 163; Nelson Crescent, Staplehurst, Kent, 131 160, 201; Wellington Crescent, Strasbourg, 60, 123; Hotel de Paris, 208 60, 123 Ravello, 11 Stratford-upon-Avon, 51 Richmond Park (West of London), Stroud (Gloucestershire), 31, 108, 91 110, 118 Reading, 46, 152; Farley Hill Court, Sunderland, 52; Bridge Hotel, 52; 135, 138 Lyceum Theatre, 52 Rome, 7–11, 30–31, 35, 39, 64–66, Sunburgh Head (Shetlands), 18–19 125–126, 135; Appian Way, 64; Swiss Valleys, 61 Forum, 64; Hotel des Iles Switzerland, 88, 135, 145, 174–175; Britannique, 64, 125; Sala Reggia, see individual locations 8; St. Peter’s, 8, 65; Siege of, 31, Sydenham, 156; Queen’s Hotel, 35; Sistine Chapel, 8 Upper Norwood, near Crystal Rotterdam, 13 Palace, 156 Rouen, 24–25, 30 Syracuse, New York, 165, 167 Ryde, see Isle of Wight Terni, 11 St. Austell (Cornwall), 39 Thurso, 17–18 St. Moritz, 145 Tintern, 6 St. Petersburg, 121 Toronto, 151–152, 154, 162, 166, 178, Salisbury, 3, 17 189 Saltzburg, 12 Torquay (Devon), 25, 86; Imperial Sandusky, Ohio, 167 Hotel, 187 San Remo, 125 Tours, 36 Savona (Italy), 125 Troy, New York State, 165 Scalloway (Shetlands), 18 Truro, 39 236 Index

Tunbridge Wells, 132–133, 136, 141; Vietri, 11 Bentham Hill Cottage, near Tunbridge Wells, 141–142; Wales, 6 Mount Ephraim, 130–132; Wallingford Community, see Prospect Hill, Southborough Connecticut, 167 nr Tunbridge Wells, 134 Walmer, Kent, 53 Turin, 62, 67–68; Hotel de l’Europe, Washington, D.C., 166 67; Teatro Carignano, 67 Waterloo, 39; sight of the battle of, 39 Tyrol, 177–178 Weston-super-Mare (Somerset), 44, Tyrolese Alps, 12 46, 99 Whitby, 114; Royal Hotel, 114 United States of America, 100, 118, 163 Wick (Scotland), 17–19 Wicklow, County, 3 Venice, 12, 66–67; Caffé Florien, 67; Wigton, Southwest of Carlisle, 95 Church of San Salute, 66; Grand Wildbad (Black Forest), 123; Hotel de Canal, 66; St. Mark’s, 66–67; l’Ours, 123 Teatro Camploy a S. Samuel, 66 Worthing, 174 Verona, 12 Versailles, 24, 27 Yarmouth, see Great Yarmouth Vesuvius, 63 York, 114 Vevay, 61; Castle of Chillon, 61 Yorkshire, 109, 127