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A Taste of Honey (1961) 627 Ancrene Wisse (Guide for Anchoresses) Abernethy, John 390 78–84 abolitionism 326 Anger, Jane, Her protection for women 174 Abrams, M. H. 372 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 13, 17–18, 26, Ackroyd, Peter 622, 642 35–6, 73 Adam of Murimuth 86 Anne, Queen 221–3, 294 Adams, James Eli, Dandies and Desert Annotation to the Book of Revelations from the Saints 485 Rheims–Douai Bible 142 Adams, John 297 Apollonius of Tyre 45–6 Addison, Joseph 244, 246, 260, 268, 270 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, The Ethics of essay in The Spectator, No. 69 272–4, 280 Identity 293 A. E. (George Russell) 559 Apuleius, The Golden Ass 257 ‘affective individualism’ 239 The Arabian Nights see Galland, Antoine Aikin, John 342 Arden, John 626 Akenside, Mark, The Pleasures of the Ariosto, Ludovico 166 Imagination 251, 260 Orlando Furioso 195 Albert, Prince 409, 419 Aristotle 144, 166, 174, 175–6 Alcuin of York 16, 50 On the Generation of Animals 174 Aldington, Richard 557 Nicomachaean Ethics 78 Death of a Hero 564 Arkwright, Richard 312 Aldini, Giovanni 319, 390 Arminius, Jacob/Arminianism 121 Alfred the Great 16–17, 18, 19 Armitage, Simon 632 Proverbs 36 Armstrong, Isobel 446, 450–1 translations from Latin 17 Arnold, Matthew 403, 450–1, 491–2 Ali, Monica, Brick Lane 641 Culture and Anarchy 451, 455 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 563 ‘Dover Beach’ 474 allegory 165 ‘The Function of Criticism at the alliterative verse 35 Present Time’ 430, 457 Altholz, Josef 471, 475 ‘To Marguerite – Continued’ 451 Altick, Richard 417, 424, 426, 432, Arnold, Thomas 503 433, 503 Arthur, Prince of Wales (brother of Amadis de Gaul 256 Henry VIII) 119 Amis, Kingsley 621 Arundel, Thomas, Archbishop of ‘Against Romanticism’ 621 Canterbury 33 Lucky Jim 633–4 Ascham, Roger 148 Amis, Martin 622, 625 Asquith, Herbert 540 London Fields 623, 629 Auchinleck manuscript 83

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Auden, W. H. 557, 558 Ballantyne, Robert, The Coral Island 479 (with Christopher Isherwood), The Dog Ballard, J. G. Beneath the Skin 559 Concrete Island 630 Auerbach, Nina 452 Crash 630 Augustine of Hippo, St 13, 156 Balzac, Honore´ de 465 Confessions 296 Bamford, Samuel 345 Soliloquies 17 Banks, Lynne Reid 637 Austen, Jane 347, 361–2, 364–5, 439, 632 Banks, Sir Joseph 318 Emma 347 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia 342–3, 358 Mansfield Park 347, 348, 354–5 Eighteen Hundred and Eleven 362, 366 Northanger Abbey 346, 347 ‘Washing-Day’ 362 Persuasion 347 Barbusse, Henri, Le Feu (Under Fire) 563 Pride and Prejudice 237, 347, 355 Barker, Pat 625, 628 Sense and Sensibility 347, 377–82 Union Street 636, 651–3, 652 Barnes, Barnabe, Parthenophil and Ælfric, Ealdorman 78 Parthenope 178 Ælfric Bata 69–70 Barnes, Julian 622, 625 Ælfric of Eynsham 69 England, England 629 Colloquy 25, 28 Flaubert’s Parrot 630 Grammar 37–8 Barnes, William, ‘Rustic Childhood’ 466–7 Homily on the Maccabees 18 Barnfield, Richard, The Affectionate Shepherd Lives of the Saints 52 178–9 Æthelbert, King of Kent 14–16 Barons’ Revolt (1264–7) 21 Æthelflad 59 Barrie, J. M. 558 Æthelræd II ‘the Unready’ 18, 74–5, Barry, James 316 77, 78 Barstow, Stan 622 Æthelstan the Ætheling 16, 57 The Battle of Brunanburgh 42 Æthelwold of Winchester, Regularis The Battle of Maldon 40, 42, 72–4 Concordia 47 manuscript 78–4 Beardsley, Aubrey 451, 453 Babbage, Charles 419 Beaufort see Somerset Bacon, Francis 146, 150, 152, 157, 160, Beaumont, Francis 158 185, 211, 263, 295, 470 The Knight of the Burning Pestle 152 Discourse touching the Happy Union 138 Becket, Thomas 20, 30 Essays 156; Beckett, Samuel 551, 629, 654, 655 ‘Of Counsel’ 135; Endgame 567 ‘On Followers and Friends’ 150; Waiting for Godot 629 ‘Of Nobility’ 172–3 Beckford, William 331 letter regarding publication of his Vathek 345 works 161 Becon, Thomas, The Book of Matrimony 175 letter to George Villiers 138 Beddoes, Thomas 358 speech in the House of Commons, 157 Bede, St (the Venerable) 13–14, 34, 42 Bagehot, Walter 429 Ecclesiastical History of the English People 17 The English Constitution 455 Beer, Gillian 475 Baillie, Joanna, Plays for the Passions 348 Beer, Samuel H., Britain Against Itself 610 Bakhtin, Mikhail 95, 255, 257, 258, 258 Behan, Brendan, The Hostage 627, 638 Baldwin, Stanley 540 Behn, Aphra 163, 231, 244, 259, 299 Baldwin, William, and George Ferrers, The Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave 185, 257–8, Mirror for Magistrates 166 275, 279, 281–5, 286, 287, 288–9, 291 Ball, John 23 The Rover, or, The Banished Cavaliers Letter to the Essex Commons 71–2 253, 254 Ball, Sir Alexander 364 Bell, Michael 569 Ballantyne, John 334 Benbow, William 334

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Bennett, Arnold 549, 558, 572, 575–6 Boulton, Matthew 312, 314, 321 Bentham, Jeremy 409, 412 Bowdler, Thomas 430 Beowulf 18, 40–1, 42, 42, 43, 44, 56–9, Bowen, Elizabeth 557, 620 72, 77–8 Bowles, William Lisle, Fourteen Sonnets 330 Bergson, Henri 584 Boydell, John 316 Betjeman, John 648 Boyle, Robert 264 Beveridge, William 608 Boyne, Battle of the (1690) 222 Bevin, Ernest 607 Boys from the Blackstuff (TV) 627 Bible 174, 267 Bradbury, Malcolm 622 Authorised (King James) Version 144, 169 (with James McFarlane), Modernism 548 Tyndale/Coverdale translation 168 Braddon, Mary, Lady Audley’s Secret 442, Big Brother (TV) 645 452, 464 Bill of Rights (1689) 221 Braine, John 622, 635 bin Laden, Osama 636 Room at the Top 634, 635 Bishop, Elizabeth 632 Braithwaite, E. R., To Sir, with Love 641 Black, Clementina 415 Brantlinger, Patrick 478, 501 Blair, Robert, The Grave 332 Braque, Georges 567 Blair, Tony 601, 612–13 Brecht, Bertolt 550 Blake, William 266, 268, 316, 321, 328, Brenton, Howard 631, 654 329, 333, 337, 358–9, 361, 460 The Romans in Britain 654 America 337 Brewer, John 234 Europe 337 A Bridge Too Far (1977) 602 The Four Zoas 337 Bridges, Robert 558 The French Revolution 337 Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Jerusalem 337, 358–9 Earl of 471 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 321 Brihtric Grim 58 Milton 337 Bronte¨, Anne 255, 441 The Song of Los 358 Agnes Grey 441, 464 Songs of Innocence and Experience 337, Bronte¨, Charlotte 255, 438, 440, 441, 351–2, 368–70 457, 481 Visions of the Daughters of Albion 370 Jane Eyre 403, 441, 452, 464, 468–9, 477, Blind, Mathilde, ‘Manchester By Night’ 464 481, 482, 488–92, 506 Bloomfield, Robert 344 Shirley 439, 462–3 Blunden, Edmund 558, 563 Villette 441, 488, 491 Undertones of War 563 Bronte¨, Emily 255, 441, 451 Boccaccio, Giovanni Wuthering Heights 441, 469, 501 De casibus illustrium virorum 166 Brooke, Rupert 538, 561 Decameron 257 ‘Peace’ 536 Bodel, Jean 43 Brooke-Rose, Christine 622 Bodin, Jean, Les six livres de la Re´publique 172 Brooks, Peter 440 Boer War 424, 429, 480, 531, 531, 547 Brothers, Richard 315, 321 Boethius 156 Brown, Ford Madox 448 The Consolation of Philosophy 17 Brown, Hablot (‘Phiz’) 431 Bokenham, Osbern 38–9 Brown, Lancelot ‘Capability’ 354 Boleyn, Anne, Queen 140–1 Browne, Sir Thomas, The Garden of Cyrus 156 Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 451, 457 1st Viscount 222 Aurora Leigh 449–50, 482 Bond, Edward 550, 631, 654 ‘The Cry of the Children’ 461 Saved 627, 654 Sonnets from the Portuguese 448, 488 Booth, William, In Darkest England 464 Browning, Robert 450 Bosworth Field see Wars of the Roses ‘Andrea del Sarto’ 450 Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of 125 ‘Childe Roland’ 450 Boucicault, Dion 453 ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ 450

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‘My Last Duchess’ 450 Hymn 34 The Pied Piper of Hamelin 434 Caird, Mona, The Morality of Marriage 446 The Ring and the Book 449–50 Calvin, John 141–3 ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister’ 450 Camden, William 147 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 421 Campion, Thomas, Observations in the Art of Bucer, Martin 140 English Poesy 156 Buchan, John 558 Canning, George 335 Buchanan, Robert 451 Carew, Thomas 150 Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke Carlile, Richard 335 of 121 Carlyle, Thomas 317, 430, 438, 455, Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke 456, 474 of 252 Past and Present 459 Buckley, Arabella 420 Sartor Resartus 421, 430–1, 440, 457 Bull, John 631 ‘Signs of the Times’ 459–60 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 1st Baron Lytton Carretta, Vincent 371 485–6 Carroll, Lewis Bunting, Basil, Briggflatts 622 Alice in Wonderland 403, 433, 434, Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim’s Progress 441, 490 445, 503 Burbage, James 151 Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange 629 Found There 445 Burke, Edmund 280–1, 318, 334, Carter, Angela 622, 640 365, 379 Nights at the Circus 630, 639 Enquiry Concerning the Origin of our Ideas of Cartwright, Thomas 143 the Sublime 331, 354 Cary, Elizabeth, Lady Falkland 159, 175 Reflections on the French Revolution 349–50 Tragedy of Mariam 160, 176, 189–93 Burney, Fanny 346–7, 361–2 Casley, David 74 Burns, Robert 330, 344 Castiglione, Baldassare, Il Cortegiano 150 Burton, Richard (explorer) 385 Cathy Come Home (TV) 627, 635 Butler, Josephine 484 Catullus, G. Valerius 164, 200–1 Butler, Marilyn 390 Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Butler, Samuel 475 Newcastle 168, 175 Erewhon 549 Cavendish, William see Newcastle Erewhon Revisited 549 Ceadel, Martin 563 The Way of All Flesh 429, 549 Cecil, Sir Robert 120 Buzard, James 480 Centlivre, Susanna 253 Byrhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex 72–8 Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote Byron, George Gordon, Lord 328, 335, 340, 256, 257 340–1, 347, 348, 367–8, 386, 430–1 Chadwick, Edwin 414 Beppo 340 Chamberlain, Joseph 478–9 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 340, 340, 356–7 Chamberlain, Neville 540 The Corsair 340, 368 Chambers, Ephraim, Cyclopedia 277 Don Juan 339, 340, 385 Chambers, Robert, Vestiges of the Natural The Giaour 340, 368, 382–6 History of Creation 418, 472 The Island 340 Chambers, Sir William 316 Manfred 340, 356–7 Chaplin, Charlie 567 Marino Faliero 349 Chapman, George (trans.), Iliad/Odyssey 165 Sardanapalus 385 character, representation of 583 ‘Turkish Tales’ 367, 382 Charlemagne 16, 17, 18, 43 The Vision of Judgment 340 Charles I 121–3, 125, 127, 132, 135, 137, 138, 139, 144, 150–1, 218, 220, 222, Cabot, John 181 248, 283–4 Cabot, Sebastian 181 Charles II 124, 125, 216–19, 219, 225, 231, Cædmon 34 248, 249, 249, 252, 253

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Chatterton, Thomas 332 A Clockwork Orange (1971) 635 Chaucer, Geoffrey 38, 39, 46, 72, 86, 177 Clutterbuck, Richard, Britain In Agony 610 The Canterbury Tales 68–9, 139, 433 Cnut 18–19, 28, 36, 60 The Clerk’s Tale 66 Cnut’s Song 36 The Cook’s Tale 66 Cobbett, William 335, 409 The Franklin’s Tale 46 Rural Rides 355 The Friar’s Tale 66, 69 Cobbing, Bob 632 General Prologue 29 Cocker, Edward, English Dictionary 277 The Knight’s Tale 44 Cockeram, Henry, The English Dictionarie 277 The Merchant’s Tale 66, 69 Coe, Jonathan, What a Carve-Up! 636 The Miller’s Tale 47, 65–7 Cold War 604–6 The Parson’s Tale 83, 84 Cole, Henry 419 The Prioress’ Tale 22,52 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 317, 318, 319, The Reeve’s Tale 66, 69 322, 328, 329, 330, 335, 336, 337–9, Retraction 55 347, 349, 351, 352–3, 358, 359–60, The Shipman’s Tale 66 361, 364–5, 366, 368, 372 The Summoner’s Tale 66, 69, 95 Christabel 337, 363–4 The Tale of Sir Thopas 66, 84 ‘Conversation Poems’ 337 The Wife of Bath’s Tale 46, 63–5 The Eolian Harp 360 ‘Complaint of Venus’ 84 ‘Kubla Khan’ 337, 366 The Legend of Good Women 64 Lyrical Ballads see Wordsworth The Ploughman’s Tale 22 Osorio 348 Troilus and Criseyde 42, 64, 177 Poems on Various Subjects 343 (trans.) The Romance of the Rose 64 ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ 329, Chester mystery cycle, Playe of the Shepherds 337, 363 93–4 ‘This Lime-tree Bower My Prison’ 356 Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of (with Southey), The Fall of Robespierre 348 277–8 Colet, John 147 Letters to his Son 245 Colley, Linda 365 Chesterton, G. K. 501 Collier, Jeremy, A Short View of the Chichester, Sir Arthur 126–7 Immorality and Profaneness of the English Christian IV of Denmark, visit to James I’s Stage 253, 261 court 135, 136 Collier, Mary 248 Christie, Agatha 558 Collins, Wilkie 503 Christina the Astonishing, St 52 The Frozen Deep 452 Christine de Pisan 64, 65 Heart and Science 475 ‘The God of Love’s Letter’ 64 The Moonstone 479 Churchill, Caryl 631 The Woman in White 442 Cloud Nine 638–9 Collinson, James 448 Top Girls 635–6 Colman, George, the Younger Churchill, Winston 607 The Iron Chest 348 Cibber, Colley 255 Love Laughs at Locksmiths 348 Cicero, M. Tullius 155–6, 164 Columbus, Christopher 181, 274 Civil War (1642–9) 122–3, 216 combat, knightly rules of 89 Clare, John 315, 344, 353–4 Compton-Burnett, Ivy 558 ‘The Mores’ 354 Congreve, William 244 ‘Remembrances’ 353–4 The Way of the World 253–4 ‘The Village Minstrel’ 353 Connolly, Cyril 620 Clarke, Charlotte 253 Conquest, Robert, New Lines 621 Clarkson, Thomas 326 Conrad, Joseph 486, 557, 643 Cleanness 84 Heart of Darkness 424, 479, 532, 571–2 Cleave, Chris, Incendiary 636–7 The Secret Agent 571 Clever, Richard see Dod, John Constable, Henry, Diana 178

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Constable, John 316 Cynegisl, King of the West Saxons 29 English Landscape Scenery 467 Cynewulf, King 41, 42 Constantia Munda, The Worming of a Mad Dog 175 Dabydeen, David 623, 624 Constantine, Stephen 544 Dacre, Charlotte 331, 363 consumer society 314 Confessions of the Nun of St Omer 346 Cook, Eliza, ‘Song of the City Artisan’ 461 Zofloya, or The Moor 346 Cook, James, Captain 241, 279 Daguerre, Louis 419 A Voyage Toward the South Pole and Round D‘Aguiar, Fred 623, 624 the World 280–1 D‘Alembert, Jean le Rond 277 Cook, Thomas 421–2 Dalton, John 318–19 Cooper, Elizabeth 253 The Dam Busters (1954) 601 The Muses’ Library 259 Dame Sirith 48, 66, 67–9 Cooper, Thomas 460 Danegeld 75 copyright 334 Daniel, Samuel 150, 159, 160 Corneille, Pierre 252 Delia 160, 178 Cornwallis, Sir William, Essayes: The Tragedy of Cleopatra 161 Of Love 179 Dante (Alighieri), The Divine Comedy 267, 465 Coronation Street (TV) 627 D‘Arcy, Ella, ‘White Magic’ 445 Cosway, Maria 316 Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord 125 Cotton, Sir Robert 74–8 Darwin, Charles 471, 485–6, 501, 527, 549 Coverdale, Miles 168 The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation Coward, Noel 559 to Sex 418, 478 Cowley, Hannah 330 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural A Bold Stroke for a Husband 348 Selection 418, 471–2, 472 Cowper, William 326, 380 Voyage of the Beagle 418 The Task 329–30, 365 Darwin, Erasmus 320–1, 322, 343, 350, Crabbe, George 315, 339, 361 360–1 The Borough 339 The Botanic Garden 360–1 ‘The Parish Register’ 339 D’Avenant, Sir William 168, 231 The Village 339, 352 David, Jacques-Louis 316 Craik, Dinah, John Halifax, Gentleman Davie, Donald 621, 628 464, 485 Purity of Diction in English Verse 621 Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop Davies, Emily 415 ‘Answer to the articles of the rebels’ Davies, Sir John (poet), ‘Orchestra’ 145 130, 141 Davies, W. H. 558 Croker, John Wilson 362 Davis, Sir John (explorer) 181 Crompton, Samuel 312 Davis, Paul 465 Cromwell, Henry 127 Davis, Philip 418 Cromwell, Oliver 110, 123–4, 125, 127, Davison, Emily 534–5 135, 217, 249, 251, 266, 269 Davy, Sir Humphry 319, 358 Cromwell, Richard 124 Day, Thomas 320 Cromwell, Thomas 119, 124, 134, 248 Day-Lewis, C. 558 Crowley, Robert, An Information and Petition de la Mare, Walter 558 Against the Oppressors of the Poor De Quincey, Thomas 317, 335, 336, 364–5 Commons of this Realm 129 Confessions of an English Opium Eater 368 Cruikshank, George 317, 431 Recollections on the Lakes and the Lake Cruikshank, Isaac 317 Poets 336 cubism 567 de Vere see Oxford Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah 275, 276, 371 Defoe, Benjamin, Compleat English Culloden, Battle of see Jacobite Rebellion Dictionary 277 (1745) Defoe, Daniel 217, 246, 258 Curran, Stuart 362 A Journal of the Plague Year 258

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Defoe, Daniel (cont.) ‘The Indifferent’ 206 Moll Flanders 259 ‘The Relic’ 205 Robinson Crusoe 211, 255, 257, 258–9, 270, ‘Sappho to Philaenis’ 180, 205–6 275, 279, 285–90, 291, 292, 294 Sermon on Elizabeth I and James I 120 Roxana 259 ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’ 206 A Tour through the Whole Island of Great ‘A Valediction of Weeping’ 177 Britain 229–30 ‘Woman’s Constancy’ 206 Dekker, Thomas, The Shoemaker’s Holiday 152 Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) 558, 565 Delaney, Shelagh 622, 626, 635 Douglas, Keith 619–20 A Taste of Honey 627, 635 ‘Vergissmeinnicht’ 620 Dennis, John 253 Dowling, Linda 486 Deor 40 Dowson, Ernest 451 deproletarianisation 635 Doyle, Arthur Conan 438, 445 Devereux, Penelope 200 The Sign of Four 445 Devereux, Robert see Essex Drabble, Margaret 622 Diana, Princess of Wales 616 Drake, Sir Francis 181–2 Dickens, Charles 255, 403, 416, 430, Drayton, Michael, Idea 178 431–2, 436, 438–9, 440, 446, 457, The Dream of the Rood 35, 40, 51, 51,54 465–6, 572, 632 Drummond of Hawthornden 158 Bleak House 440, 465, 466, 477, 483, 492–6 Dryden, John 39, 204, 248, 249, 260, 268 A Christmas Carol 403 Absalom and Achitophel 249, 249 David Copperfield 441, 464, 486, 489 All For Love 249 Dombey and Son 422–3 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 252 Great Expectations 237, 441, 464, 485 Annus Mirabilis 249 Hard Times 462 ‘Astraea Redux’ 249 Little Dorrit 403, 440, 465 Aureng-Zebe 249 Mr Nightingale’s Diary 452 The Conquest of Granada 249 Oliver Twist 459, 483, 506 Of Dramatic Poesy 249 Our Mutual Friend 486 The Hind and the Panther 249 The Pickwick Papers 425, 429, 430, 431, MacFlecknoe 249, 249 433, 438 Marriage a` la mode 249 Sketches by Boz 431 The Medall 249 A Tale of Two Cities 430, 464, 465 Religio Laici 249 ‘A Walk in a Workhouse’ 412 The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man 248 Diderot, Denis 277, 297 Duck, Stephen 248 Disraeli, Benjamin 409, 411, 411, 445, Dudley, John see Northumberland 478, 529 Dudley, Robert see Leicester Sybil, or The Two Nations 439, 458, 459 Duffy, Maureen 642 Dod, John, and Richard Clever, A Godly Dunbar, William, ‘The Flyting of Dunbar Forme of Household Management 176 and Kennedie’ 70 Dodda (Saxon minister) 12 Dunn, Nell, Up the Junction 635 Domesday Book 19, 26, 59 Dunstan, Archbishop (later St) 18 Donne, John 145, 148, 154, 156, 158, 162, Dyche, Thomas 277 177, 178, 199, 200, 202–6 ‘The Canonization’ 204, 205 Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester 12 ‘The Expiration’ 177 Edel, Leon 585 ‘The Extasie’ 206 Edgar, David 631 ‘The First Anniversary’ 204 Edgar ‘the Peacemaker’ 17–18, 30 ‘Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward’ 205 Edgeworth, Maria, Castle Rackrent 347 ‘Holy Sonnet III’ 204 Edgeworth, Richard 320 ‘Holy Sonnet XI’ 204 Edinburgh Review 335 ‘Holy Sonnet XIV’ 205 Edmonds, Charles, A Subaltern’s War 564 ‘Holy Sonnet XVIII’ 206 Edmund, St 52

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Edmund Ironside 16 epic (genre) 40–6, 258 education 147, 148 epiphany 569 Edward I 21, 32, 124 Equiano, Olaudah 275, 371 Edward II 21 Erasmus, Desiderius 168, 185 Edward III 21, 24, 86 The Education of a Christian Prince 135 Edward IV 117, 200 Essays and Reviews 471 Edward VI 119, 125, 126, 128, 141 Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of 126, Certain Sermons, or Homilies, Appointed by 134, 150 the King’s Majesty 141, 142 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Edward the Confessor 19, 43, 52 (2004) 295 Egerton, George (Mary Chavelita Etheredge, George, The Man of Mode 252–3 Dunne) 549 etiquette, feminine 482 Egg, Augustus 483 European Union 606 Einstein, Albert 571 Evangelicalism 321 Eisenhower, Dwight D. 604 Evans, Edmund 434 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen 20, 46 Evans, Mary Ann see Eliot, George Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) 255, 417, Evelyn, John 229 438, 440, 443–4, 457, 475, 577 exclusion crisis 218–19 Adam Bede 440, 443, 463, 483 Exeter, Thomas Beaufort, Duke of 38–9 Daniel Deronda 440, 452 Exhortation concerning Good Order and Obedience Middlemarch 420, 440, 443, 463 to Rulers and Magistrates 136, 137 The Mill on the Floss 441, 443, 489 Scenes of Clerical Life 442–3 Faithfull, Emily 415 Silas Marner 443, 468 Falkland, Lady see Cary, Elizabeth ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’ 480–1 Falklands War (1982) 605 (trans.) Essence of Christianity 481 Faraday, Michael 319 Eliot, T. S. 203, 216, 548, 553, 557, 567, 569, Fawcett, Millicent Garrett 565 570, 620, 643 Feltes, N. N. 444 The Family Reunion 559 Ferrers, George see Baldwin, William The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 567 Ferrier, Susan, Marriage 347 Murder in the Cathedral 559 Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas von 481 ‘Ulysses, Order and Myth’ 553 Ficino, Marsilio 155 The Waste Land 465, 560–1, 581–2 Fielding, Henry 246, 258, 288, 297 Elizabeth I 120, 121, 126, 130, 134, 138, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great 143, 150, 172, 173, 181–3, 195 254–5 speech at Tilbury, 134 Tom Jones 235–7, 257 Elizabeth of York, Queen 117 Fisher, Roy 632 Elliot, Ebenezer 345 Fitzgerald family 126 Ellis, Sarah Stickney, The Women of England: Fitzralph, Richard, Archbishop 52–3 Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits Flamsteed, John 240 415, 481 Fletcher, Giles, Licia 179, 179 Elphinston, John 74 Fletcher, John 158 Elyot, Thomas, The Boke Named the see also Shakespeare Governour 130, 134–5 Ford, Ford Madox 558, 618 Emma (queen of Cnut) 19 Parade’s End 564 enclosure 128, 315 Forster, E. M. 557, 558 Encyclopedia Britannica 277 Howards End 532, 566 Engels, Friedrich 464 Forster, W. E. 414–15, 533 The Condition of the Working Class in Fowles, John 622 England 458–9 The French Lieutenant’s Woman 630 Englishness 643 Fox, Charles James 317, 323, 330, 352 immigrants’ view of 642 The Fox and the Wolf 66 Ensor, R. C. K. 519 Fox Talbot, Henry 419, 493

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Foxe, John 168 Germanic invasions 14–16 Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church Gervais, David 629 (Book of Martyrs) 168–9 Gifford, William 335 Francis II of France 125 Gikandi, Simon 640 Franklin, Caroline, ‘Feminism 1890–1940’ Gilbert, Sandra 489–90 565, 567 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey 183 Franklin, John 389 Gilbert, W. S. 452 Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 536 Gilby, Anthony, An Admonition to England Franz Josef, Emperor 536 andScotlandtocallthemtorepentance142 Frazer, Sir James, The Golden Bough 553 Gildas, St 13–14 Frederick V of Bohemia, Elector Giles, Peter 185, 186, 187–8 Palatine 121 Gillray, James 317 French Revolution 322–323, 323, 336–7, ‘The New Morality’ 330 349–51, 378–9, 390–1, 409, 430–1 Gilmour, Robin 403, 429, 474, 476, 480, 499 Freud, Sigmund 268, 391, 571, 583 Gilpin, William 354, 373 Frobisher, Sir Martin 181–2 Observations on the River Wye 376 Froissart, Jean 86 Gilroy, Paul, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Froud, Richard 416 Jack 614 Froude, J. A., Thomas Carlyle: A History of the Gissing, George 549, 549 First Forty Years of His Life 457 New Grub Street 438 Fuseli, Henry 316, 377 Gladstone, William Ewart 411, 445, 478, 529 Glencoe Massacre 222 Galen 174 ‘Glorious Revolution’ 220, 289 Gallagher, Catherine 463 Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Galland, Antoine (trans.), The Thousand and Duke of 90 One Nights 366 Godric, St 36 Galsworthy, John 558, 572 Godwin, William 322, 331, 361, 377, 386 Galt, John 347 Caleb Williams 346, 348 Galvani, Luigi 319, 390 Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 334, Gardiner, Stephen, Concerning True 350, 390 Obedience 137 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 430–1 Garrick, David 343 Gogol, Nikolai 465 Gascoigne, George, A Hundreth Sundrie Goldsmith, Oliver 315 Flowers 159 ‘The Deserted Village’ 228, 352 Gaskell, Elizabeth 440, 468, 481 She Stoops to Conquer 255, 348 Cranford 468, 477 Gordon, Charles, General 503 The Life of Charlotte Bronte¨ 457, 468 Gosse, Edmund 475 ‘Lizzie Leigh’ 483 Father and Son 474 Mary Barton 420, 439, 461–2, 468, 483 Gosse, Philip Henry 474 North and South 439, 462, 466 Gothic 331, 456 Ruth 439 male vs female 363 Gaskell, Philip, Landmarks of English Gower, John 83, 86 Literature 643 Confessio amantis 45 Gates, Barbara, Kindred Nature 420–1 Vox clamantis 22, 29 Gaunt, John of 22 Grand, Sarah 446, 549 Gay, John 245 The Beth Book 445 The Beggar’s Opera 254 The Heavenly Twins 445 gender issues 174, 175, 177, 482, 639 Granville-Barker, Harley 558 see also suffrage Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That 564 General Strike (1926) 541 Gray, Thomas 332 George I 138, 223, 225, 294 ‘Elegy in a Country Churchyard’ 251, 332 George II 225 Great Exhibition (1851) 419 George IV 343 Green, Henry 622

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Greenaway, Kate 434 Harrington, Sir John ‘The Little London Girl’ 466 description of a court entertainment 136 Greene, Graham 558, 620 (trans.), Orlando Furioso 165, 195 Greene, Robert, The Third and Last Part of Harris, Wilson 622 Conny Catching 154 Harrison, John 241 Greenwood, Walter, Love on the Harrison, Tony 631 Dole 544 v. 631 Gregory, Isabella Augusta, Lady 453 Harvey, William 274 Gregory, St Hastings, Battle of 19, 26, 76 Dialogues 17 Hastings, Warren 281, 365 Pastoral Care 17 Havelock the Dane 45 Grein, J. T. 556 Hawkins, Sir John 181, 182 Grenfell, Julian 561 Hawksmoor, Nicholas 240 Greville, Fulke 170 Haydon, B. R. 342 Grey, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl 326, Haywood, Eliza 244, 253 410, 411 The Anti-Pamela; or, Feign’d Innocence Grey, Lady Jane 119, 148, 154 Detected 259 Grierson, Sir Herbert 203 The Femaile Spectator 259 Griest, Guinevere 438 Hazlitt, William 297, 335, 336, 339 Griffiths, Trevor 631 Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays 336 Grimald, Nicholas 170 Lectures on the English Poets 336 Gubar, Susan 489–90 The Plain Speaker 336 Guillaume de Lorris see Jean de Meun The Spirit of the Age 336 Guise, Marie de 125 Table Talk 336 Gunn, Thom 621 Headley, Victor, Yardie 641 Gunpowder Plot (1605) 144 Heaney, Seamus 631 Gwynn, Nell 231, 252 Hearne, Thomas 74 Heath, Edward 611, 611 Habermas, Ju¨ rgen 227, 261–2 Hegley, John 632 Hadley, Elaine 452 Heile van Beersele 67 Hadrian, Emperor 13 Helsinger, Elizabeth K. 467 Haggard, H. Rider 479 Hemans, Felicia Dorothea 343–4, 362 King Solomon’s Mines 479 ‘The Factory’ 460–1 She 480 Hengest 14 Hakluyt, Richard 183 Henry I 19–20, 26, 28, 31 Hali Meiðhad (treatise) 62 Henry II 20, 30–1, 46 Hallam, Arthur Henry 446–7, 486 Henry III 21 Hamilton, Elizabeth 346 Henry IV 86 Hamilton, Richard 609 Henry ‘the Navigator,’ Prince, of Hampden, John 251 Portugal 180 Hanley, James 622 Henry V 23, 38 Hardie, Keir 533 Henry VI 117 Hardy, Thomas 255, 438, 444, 469, 475, Henry VII 24–5, 117, 117–19, 139, 181 549, 549, 558, 577 Henry VIII 119, 120, 126, 129, 134, 135, ‘Drummer Hodge’ 531 138, 139–41, 148, 168, 177, 181, 185, Far from the Madding Crowd 251 186, 376 Under the Greenwood Tree 444 Assertio septem sacramentorum (A Defence of Jude the Obscure 444 the Seven Sacraments) 140 The Return of the Native 444, 469 Henry of Huntingdon 16 Tess of the D‘Urbervilles 444, 483 Henty, G. A. 479 Hare, David 631 Herbert, George 178, 199 Hargreaves, James 312 Herbert, Mary see Sidney, Mary Harold Godwinson, King 19, 44, 76 Herbert, William see Pembroke

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Hereward the Wake 19 Hulme, T. E. 558 Hic Mulier, or the Man-Woman 176 Humanism 145 Higden, Ranulph, Polychronicon 92 Hume, David 263–4 Hill, Geoffrey 631 ‘Of the Standard of Taste’ 260–1 Mercian Hymns 631 Hundred Years’ War 21, 23–4, 39 Hill, Selima 632 Hunt, Henry ‘Orator’ 325 Hilliard, Nicholas 150 Hunt, John 335, 336 Hitler, Adolf 539 Hunt, Joseph W. see Richards, Denis Hobbes, Thomas Hunt, Leigh 335, 335, 336, 341–2 Leviathan 269, 270 Hunt, Peter 479 Hoby, Sir Thomas (trans.), The Book of the Hurd, Richard 332 Courtier 150 Hus, John 242 Hoccleve, Thomas 39 Hutcheon, Linda 622 Hockney, David 609 Hutton, James 320 Hogarth, William 234 Huxley, Aldous 558 Hogg, James 344, 347 Huxley, T. H. 471–2, 472 Confessions of a Justified Sinner 501 On the Physical Basis of Life 418 Hogg, T. J. 341 Hymn to Mary 53–4 Holbein, Hans 150 Holcroft, Thomas Ibsen, Henrik 550 The Road to Ruin 348 A Doll’s House 446 A Tale of Mystery 348 Ghosts 556 Holinshed, Raphael, Chronicles 166 Hedda Gabler 446 Hollinghurst, Alan, The Swimming-Pool Imlay, Gilbert 377 Library 639–40 Inchbald, Elizabeth Holman Hunt, William 448 Every One Has His Faults 348 ‘The Awakening Conscience’ 483 Lovers’ Vows 348 Holtby, Winifred, Women in a Changing Indian Mutiny 423 Civilisation 566 Industrial Revolution 312 Homer 77 Interludium de clerico et puella 67–8 Iliad 284 Interregnum (1649–60) 123–4, 216 Odyssey 287, 289, 553 Iraq War (2003) 606 translations of 165, 235, 250, 294 Ireland, political history 222, 313 Homily of the State of Matrimony 175, 177 Isherwood, Christopher 558 Hood, Thomas, ‘The Song of the Shirt’ 461 (with W. H. Auden), The Dog Beneath the Hooke, Della, Worcestershire Anglo-Saxon Skin 559 Charter Bounds 12 Ishiguro, Kazuo 625 Hooke, Robert 229, 240 The Remains of the Day 642, 643 Micrographia 265 Hopkins, Gerard Manley 451, 474, 486 ‘Jack the Ripper’ 438, 502 ‘God’s Grandeur’ 474 Jacobite Rebellion (1715) 223 Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus) 164, 227 Jacobite Rebellion (1745) 224–5 Ars poetica 166 James I of England/VI of Scotland 120–1, Horsa 14 124, 125, 131, 134, 135, 137, 138–9, Hotman, Franc¸ois, Francogallia 172 144, 169, 171, 182, 183 Howard see Norfolk; Surrey speech to the Star Chamber, 20 June Howitt, William, The Rural Life of England 468 1616 131, 138 Hugh of Lincoln 22 The Trew Law of Free Monarchies 171 Hughes, Linda K. 486 James II 218–19, 221, 222, 222, 224, 225, Hughes, Ted 631 275, 284, 300 Birthday Letters 625 James, Henry 440, 549–50, 551–2, 570, 580 Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown’s Schooldays The Ambassadors 551 465–6, 485 The Golden Bowl 551

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The Turn of the Screw 571 Kafka, Franz 567 What Maisie Knew 551 Kane, Sarah 627 The Wings of a Dove 551 Blasted 653–5, 655 James, William 584 Kant, Immanuel 262, 296, 317–18 Principles of Psychology 552 Katherine of Aragon, Queen 119, 140–1, 185 Jea, John 371 Kauffman, Angelica 316 Jean de Meun (and Guillaume de Lorris), Kay, John 312 Le roman de la rose 62–3, 64 Keats, John 262, 328, 335, 342, 344, 348–9 translation see Chaucer ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ 342 Jefferson, Thomas 270 Endymion 341, 342 Jeffrey, Francis 335, 339 The Eve of St Agnes 342 Jekyll, Gertrude 420 ‘On a Grecian Urn’ 342 Jenkins, Alan, The Twenties 543 Hyperion 342 Jennings, Elizabeth 621, 632 Lamia 342, 359, 364 Jews in England 22 ‘To a Nightingale’ 342 Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 638 ‘To Psyche’ 342 John, Errol 624 Keble, John 416 John, King 20–1 The Christian Year 473–4 Johnson, B. S. 622 Kegan Paul, Charles 425 Johnson, Linton Kwesi 624, 632 Kemble, John Philip 348 Johnson, Lionel 451 Kempe, Margery 54 Johnson, Paul 530 Kempe, William, The Education of Johnson, Samuel 235, 245, 260–1, 264, Children 148 266, 268, 343 Kennedy, John F. 606 Dictionary 277–9 Kent, Christopher 455 ‘Life of Addison’ 262 Kent, Prince Edward, Duke of 409 ‘Preface to the Plays of William Keyes, Sidney 619 Shakespeare’ 261 Killigrew, Thomas 231 Jones, David 548, 558 King, Andrew 425 The Anathemata 622 King, John, England Away 642 Jones, Ernest 447 Kingsley, Charles 474 ‘The Song of the Lower Classes’ 460 Alton Locke 439, 462 Jones, Henry Arthur 558 ‘Review of Mary Barton’ 461–2 Jones, Inigo 240 The Water Babies 433, 445, 474 Jones, Lewis, Cwmardy 544 Yeast 439 Jones, Sir William 366, 368 Kingston, W. H. G. 479 Jonson, Ben 132, 149, 150, 151, 154, 156, Kinkead-Weekes, Mark 561 158, 199 Kipling, Rudyard 479–80, 558, 566 The Alchemist 143–4, 152, 163, 167 ‘The Female of the Species’ 566 Bartholomew Fair 143–4, 152 The Jungle Book 479–80 Volpone 167 Just So Stories 445, 479–80 Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews 190 Plain Tales from the Hills 479 Journey’s End (1930) 563 ‘Recessional: A Victorian Ode’ 427–8 Joyce, James 548, 552, 557, 567, 570, ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 423, 476 571, 643 Knight, Charles 433 Finnegans Wake 548, 628 Knight, Richard Payne 354, 354 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Knighton, Henry 33 569, 571 Knox, John, The First Blast of the Trumpet Ulysses 553, 567, 569, 571 against the Monstrous Regiment of Judith 41 Women 174 Julian of Norwich 54 Koch, Robert 420 Julius Caesar 13 Kops, Bernard, Awake for Mourning 635 Juvenal (D. Junius Juvenalis) 164 Kotzebue, August Friedrich von 346–8

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Kramnick, Isaac, Is Britain Dying? 610 Leavis, Q. D., Fiction and the Reading Public Krebs, Paula 480 625, 627 Kureishi, Hanif 624 Lee, Sophia, The Recess 345 Kyd, Thomas 195 Lehmann, Rosamund 637 The Spanish Tragedy 195 Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of 149, 150 Leighton, Angela 448 La amon, Brut 43–5, 55–6 Leo X, Pope 140–1 Labour Party, founding of 533 Leonard, Tom 632 ‘Lake School’ 339 ‘Good Style’ 630 Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 320 Lessing, Doris 622, 624, 637 Lamb, Charles 335, 364 The Golden Notebook 638 Essays of Elia 336 In Pursuit of the English 641 (with Mary Lamb) Tales from Levine, George 440 Shakespeare 336 Levinson, Marjorie 376–7 Lamb, Mary 336 Levy, Amy, ‘Ballade of an Omnibus’ 466 Lambarde, William, Archeion, or a Discourse Lewes, George Henry 441, 457, 481 upon the High Courts of Justice in Lewis, Alun 619 England 136–7 Lewis, Matthew 331 Lamming, George 624 The Castle Spectre 345, 348 The Emigrants 641, 642 The Monk 345–6, 363, 386 The Land of Cockaigne 71 Tales of Wonder 345 Landon, Laetitia Elizabeth (‘L.E.L.’) Lewis, Percy Wyndham 558, 567 344, 362 Life of St Guthlac 52 landscape 354 Lily, William 147 Lane, Allen 625 Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linne´) 360 Lane, John 433 Lipsius, Justus (Joost Lips), Six Bookes of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury 30 Politics or Civil Doctrine 157 Langland, William 38, 84 literature, scope of definition 246 The Vision of Piers Plowman 13, 23, 26, 29, Littlewood, Joan 627 38, 48, 61, 82,83 Oh! What a Lovely War 627 Lanyer, Aemilia 180 Litvak, Joseph 453 Larkin, Philip 621, 631 Liverpool, Lord 326 ‘MCMXIV’ 649, 650 Livingstone, David 424 ‘The Arundel Tomb’ 649 Livy (T. Livius) 164 Collected Poems 625 Lloyd George, David 531, 533–4, 540 ‘Dockery and Son’ 649 Locke, John 263, 269–71, 272, 274, 274, ‘Going, Going’ 631 278, 329, 358–9 High Windows 625 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ‘Mr Bleaney’ 649 269, 317 The Whitsun Weddings (collection/poem) (?and others), Fundamental Constitution of 648–51 the Carolinas 275 Latane´, David 430 First Treatise of Government 219, 269 Lateran Council, Fourth (1215) 30, 83 A Letter Concerning Toleration 263, 269, Laud, William, Archbishop of 270–1, 288 Canterbury 125 Second Treatise of Government 269, 270, Laurel and Hardy 629 271, 275, 287 Lawrence, D. H. 557, 559–61, 567, 583, 618 Lodge, David 622 Kangaroo 559–60 The Modes of Modern Writing 557, 558 Lady Chatterley’s Lover 567 Lodge, Thomas 195 The Rainbow 566, 571, 577–81, 582, 583 Lok, Anne Vaughan 178, 199 Sons and Lovers 571, 579 Lombroso, Cesare 501 Women in Love 560–1, 564, 569–70, 578 London, Great Fire of (1666) 228–9, 229 Lawrence, William 321, 390 The Longest Day (1962) 601

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longitude 241 Marx, Karl 268, 414 Look Back in Anger (1958) 627 Mary, Queen of Scots 125, 134 Louis XIV of France 218 Mary I (‘Bloody Mary’) 119–20, 126, Louis XVI of France 322, 323 142–3, 169 Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de 316 Mary II (of Orange) 138, 220, 221, 240, 270 Lucas, J. R. 472 Mary of Modena, Queen (of James II) 220 Luther, Martin 140, 141, 168 Masefield, John 558 Lydgate, John 39, 47, 86 Massey, Gerald 460 Lyell, Charles 471 Massie, Joseph 227 Principles of Geology 418, 472 Masson, David 439 Matilda, Empress 20 Macaulay, Thomas Babington 455, Matthews, Elklin 433 470–1, 476 Maturin, Charles R. 331 Macaulay, Zachary 321 Bertram 348 Macaulay, Rose 637 Melmoth the Wanderer 346 MacDiarmid, Hugh 558 Maugham, W. Somerset 558 MacDonald, George 445 Mayhew, Henry 464 ‘A Manchester Poem’ 465 London Labour and the London Poor 459 The Princess and the Goblin 433 McCord, Norman 411, 416 MacDonald, Ramsay 540 McEwan, Ian 625 Machiavelli, Nicolo 157, 157 McFarlane, James see Bradbury, Malcolm Mackenzie, Compton 558 McGann, Jerome 376 Mackenzie, Henry, The Man of Feeling McKeon, Michael, The Origins of the English 314, 329 Novel, 1600–1740 258 Macmillan, Harold 606 meanings, changes in 39 MacNeice, Louis 558 Mearns, Andrew, The Bitter Cry of Outcast Macpherson, James (‘Ossian’) 332 London 464 Magellan, Ferdinand 181 Medwall, Henry, Fulgens and Lucrece 47 Magna Carta 20–1 Melanchthon, Philipp 140 Major, John 611, 612–13 Mellor, Anne 358, 362–3, 391 Malory, Thomas 46 ‘mental theatre’ 348 Morte Darthur 43, 45, 256 Meredith, George 549 Mandeville, Bernard de, Fable of the Bees 234 The Ordeal of Richard Feverel 441, 444 Mankind (morality play) 48, 95 Merry, Robert 330 Manley, Delariviere 244, 253 methodism 320 Manning, Frederic, Her Privates We 564 Mew, Charlotte 558 Manning, Henry Edward, Cardinal 503 Meynell, Alice 469 Mansel, Henry 442 ‘Winter Trees on the Horizon’ 469 Mansfield, Katherine 558, 565, 571 Michaelangelo 390 Margaret, St 52, 82 Mill, Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Margaret of Anjou, Queen 117 Women 484–5 Marlowe, Christopher 148, 149, 156, 177 Mill, John Stuart 411–12, 455, 457, 475 Doctor Faustus 48, 167 Mill, John Stuart, The Subjection of Women Hero and Leander 164 484–5 The Jew of Malta 157 Millais, John Everett 431, 448 Tamburlaine 48 Milton, John 156, 248, 251, 366 Marsh, Jan 483 Of Education 148 Marston, Una 624 Paradise Lost 164, 174, 248, 250, 260, Martial (M. Valerius Martialis) 164 266–9, 286, 295–6 Martin, John 316 Mirk, John, Festial 49–50 Martineau, Harriet 457, 481 Mitchell, Sally 425, 468 Martyn, Edward 453 Mitford, Mary Russell 344 Marvell, Andrew 177 Our Village 467

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Mo, Timothy 624 Nelson, Carolyn 445–6 An Insular Possession 623 Nelson, Claudia 479 modernism 548 Nelson, Horatio 325, 371 Moers, Ellen 345 ‘New Woman’ 446 Molie`re (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) 252 Newcastle, William Cavendish, 1st Duke Monboddo, Lord 320 of 147, 168 Monck, George, General 124 Newcomen, Thomas 312 Moncrieff, W. T., Rochester, or Charles the Newman, John Henry, Cardinal 416–17, Second’s Merry Days 348 457, 486 Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of 219, 249 Newnes, George 437–8 Montague, C. E., Disenchantment 563 Newton, Isaac 250, 263, 272, 273, 274, Montaigne, Michel de 156, 157 296–7, 358–60 Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Nietzsche, Friedrich 571 baron de 262 Nightingale, Florence 415, 484, 503 Montfort, Simon de 21 ‘Cassandra’ 482 Monty Python’s Flying Circus 610 Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of 135 Moore, George 549, 549 Norman occupation 19, 76–7 Literature as Nurse, or Circulating Morals 555 North, Marianne 420 The Mummer’s Wife 555 North, Thomas (trans.), Plutarch’s Lives 166 Moore, Thomas 338 Northumberland, John Dudley, 1st Duke Lalla Rookh 367–8 of 119 More, Hannah 321, 326, 344–5, 371, 380–1 novel (genre) 258 Cheap Repository Tracts 350 evolution 644 Slavery 370–2 history 257 More, Thomas 134, 140 women writers 259 Utopia 130, 160, 183–9 Moretti, Franco 244, 258 Oates, Titus 218 Morris, William 433, 448 O‘Casey, Sean ‘The Voice of Toil’ 464 Juno and the Paycock 559 Morte Arthure (alliterative poem) 44 The Plough and the Stars 559 Morton, John, Cardinal 186, 187 The Shadow of a Gunman 559 Morton, Thomas, Speed the Plow 436 The Silver Tassie 559 Moser, Mary 316 Odo, Bishop of Bayeux 27 Mountjoy, Charles Blount, Lord 126 Oersted, Hans Christian 319 Moxon, Edward 425, 433 Offa, King of Mercia 13, 16 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 235 O‘Gorman, Francis 444 Mudie, Charles Edward 425, 435–6, 438, Oldcastle, Sir John 33 444, 554 Oliphant, Margaret 444 Muggeridge, Malcolm, ‘England, Whose Oliver, Isaac 150 England?’ 613 Olivier, Laurence 563 Murray, John 421–2, 425 O‘Neill family 126 ‘mythical method’ 553 see also Tyrone Only Fools and Horses (TV) 633 N-Town cycle 95 Opie, Amelia 346 Naipaul, V. S. 624 Oppenheim, Janet 486 The Enigma of Arrival 623 Orientalism 366 The Mimic Men 623 Orosius, Paulus, History Against the Pagans 17 Nairn, Tom, The Break-Up of Britain 610 Orton, Joe, Loot 638 Napoleon I, Emperor 323, 325 Orwell, George 558, 603, 620 Napoleonic Wars 325 ‘England Your England’ 546 Nashe, Thomas 194–5 Nineteen Eighty-Four 628–9, 632–3, Nasser, Gamal Abdel 604 643–5, 645 naturalism 549 The Road to Wigan Pier 544, 544

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Osborne, John 622, 627, 635 Philip II of Spain 120, 126, 143 Look Back in Anger 626, 627, 628, 629, 630, Philips, Katherine 180 634, 654 Phillips, Caryl 624 A Patriot for Me 638 Crossing the River 623 Osbourne, Francis 136 Strange Fruit 641 Oswald, St 12, 29, 52 Where There Is Darkness 641 Oswine, King 42 Phillips, Edward, The New World of Words 277 Ovid (P. Ovidius Naso) 164, 227 Phillips, Tom, The Humument 630 Owen, Richard 417–18, 472 Phipps, Constantine 371, 389 Owen, Wilfred 558, 561 Picasso, Pablo 567 ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ 538 Pinero, Arthur Wing 558 ‘Futility’ 519, 562 Pinter, Harold 551, 622, 629, 630–1 Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan 347 The Caretaker (programme notes) 654 Owl and the Nightingale 62, 68 Pitt, William (the Younger) 323, 334 Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of 158 Pius V, Pope 143 Pix, Mary 253 Pabst, G. W. 563 Place, Francis 315 Paine, Thomas 330, 379 plague 131, 228–9 The Age of Reason 322 Planche´, James Robinson, The Vampyre 348 Agrarian Justice 313–14 Plath, Sylvia 632 The Rights of Man 340, 350 Plato 155 Pankhurst, Emmeline 565 Axiochus 154 Pardon, William 277 Republic 183 Parry, William Edward 389 Platter, Thomas 183 Parsons, Eliza 345 Plautus, T. Maccius 164 Pasteur, Louis 420 Menaechmi 166–7 Pater, Walter 557 Play of the Sacrament 48–9 Marius the Epicurean 445 Pliny the Elder (G. Plinius Secundus) 164 Studies in the History of the Renaissance 429, Plotinus 155 457–8 Plunkett, John 425 Patience 84 Plutarch (Mestrius Plutarchus) 157, 164 Patmore, Coventry, ‘The Angel in the Lives 166 House’ 482 Polidori, J. W., The Vampyre 348 Paxton, Joseph 419 political allegory 249 Peacock, Thomas Love 347, 364 politics Nightmare Abbey 346, 347 parties 219, 533 Pearl 38, 60–1, 84 seventeenth-century 217 Peasants’ Revolt (1381) 21–3, 32–3, 71–2 Polo, Marco 180 Pecham, Henry, The Art of Living in Polwhele, Richard 377 London 133 Pope, Alexander 217, 235, 245, 247, Peel, Sir Robert 411, 414 248, 339 Pembroke, Countess of see Sidney, Mary An Essay on Criticism 249–50, 260 Pembroke, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of 201 An Essay on Man 249, 250–1, 294–7 Penda, King of Mercia 29, 52 Dunciad 249–51 A Pennyworth of Wit 66 Letters 245 Pepys, Samuel 216 population (of England) 27 Percy, Thomas, Bishop, Reliques of Ancient Porden, Eleanor, The Veils, or the Triumph of English Poetry 332 Constancy 344 ‘Peterloo Massacre’ 325, 341 Porter, Andrew 423–4 Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) 145, 155, Porter, Bernard 476 178, 205, 206 Porter, Roy 419, 459 Canzoniere 177, 199 Portland, William Cavendish-Bentinck, Petty, John, Five Fags a Day 635 3rd Duke of 323

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post-realism 654 Reeve, Clara 331 post-modernism 623 The Old English Baron 345 Potter, Beatrix 420 Reid, Mayne, Captain 479 Pound, Ezra 548, 557, 567, 569, 570 Remarque, Erich Maria, Nichts Neues im Powell, Enoch 614 Westen (All Quiet on the Western Front)563 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 448 Renaissance, defined 117 Price, Richard, Discourse on the Love of Our Renan, Ernest, La Vie de Je´sus 417 Country 349 Repton, Humphry 354 Price, Uvedale 354 Restoration 216–17 Priestley, J. B. Reynolds, G. W. M. 433 English Journey 544–6 Reynolds, John Hamilton 342 Johnson Over Jordan 559 Reynolds, Joshua 315, 316 Time and the Conways 559 Rhodes, Cecil 476 Priestley, Joseph 238, 318, 321, Rhys, Jean 558 322, 360 After Leaving Mr Mackenzie 566 Prince, Mary 371 Rich, Lord 200 Proust, Marcel, A la recherche du temps Richard I ‘the Lionheart’ 20 perdu 571 Richard II 21–2, 23, 56, 84–6, 90 Prynne, J. H. 632 Richard III 24–5, 117 Ptolemy, Claudius 144, 156 Richard the Redeless 84–5 Pusey, Edward 417 Richards, Denis, and Joseph Hunt, An Puttenham, George, The Art of English Illustrated History of Modern Britain 537 Poetry 170 Richardson, Dorothy 548, 552, 558, 565, Pykett, Lyn 502 570, 571 Pym, Barbara 637 Pilgrimage 571 Pythagoras 156 Richardson, Samuel 246, 258, 288, 329 Clarissa 239, 257, 259, 280, 297–300 Qualls, Barry 441 Pamela 259, 297 Quarterly Review 335 Ritchie, Harry, Success Stories 621 Queensberry, John Douglas, 9th Marquess Robert of Gloucester (historian) 36 of 504 Robespierre, Maximilien 323, 323, 350 Robins, Elizabeth, Votes for Women 565 Rabelais, Franc¸ois 95, 185 Robinson, Mary 330, 343 Radcliffe, Ann 331, 345, 363 Robinson, Ralph 185 The Italian 345 Roche, Regina Maria 345 The Mysteries of Udolpho 345 Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of 299 A Sicilian Romance 345 Rolle, Richard, Meditations on the Passion 54 Raining Stones (TV) 627 Roman occupation 13–14 Ralegh, Sir Walter 131, 177, 181–2, 183 romance, as genre 40–6, 439 Discovery of Guiana 158 Romanticism, defined 328 History of the World 158 Room 101 (TV) 645 Ralegh family 150 Rosenberg, Isaac 558, 561 Rathbone, Eleanor, The Disinherited Ross, James Clark 389 Family 566 Ross, Sir John 389 Rattigan, Terence Rossetti, Christina 448, 448, 451, 457 The Deep Blue Sea 638 ‘Goblin Market’ 483, 496–9 Ross 638 ‘In the Round Tower’ 478 Separate Tables 638 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 448, 448, 499 Raven, James 332 ‘Found’ 483 Ravenhill, Mark 628, 655 House of Life 488 Reade, Charles 442 Rossetti, William Michael 448 Reading, Peter 632 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 84, 297, 329, 358, Redgrave, Richard 461 379, 389, 390

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Rowlandson, Thomas 317 Seymour, Robert 431 Rubens, Peter Paul 150–1 Shadwell, Thomas 249 Rune Poem 51 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Rushdie, Salman 622, 624, 625, 628, 630 Earl of 218–19, 219, 244, 249, 270 The Satanic Verses 616, 625 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Ruskin, John 451, 456, 457, 475 Earl of 416 The Crown of Wild Olives 456 Shakespeare, William 48, 149, 150, 162–3, The King of the Golden River 445 170, 176–7, 200, 201, 366, 430 ‘The Nature of the Gothic’ 456 Antony and Cleopatra 166, 179–80, 193 Praeterita 475 As You Like It 128–9, 129, 176–7 ‘Of Queen’s Gardens’ 482 The Comedy of Errors 166–7 Unto This Last 455, 456 Coriolanus 166, 173, 191 Russell, George see A. E. Hamlet 139, 146, 156, 191, 193–8 Ruthwell cross 51 Henry V 173 Julius Caesar 156, 162, 193 Said, Edward 366, 383, 424 King Lear 156, 166, 193 Salkey, Andrew 624 Macbeth 166, 193 Escape to an Autumn Pavement 641 Measure for Measure 167 Sancho, Ignatius 275, 371 The Merchant of Venice 167, 179 Sanders, Andrew 442 Othello 193 Sassoon, Siegfried 558, 561–2 The Rape of Lucrece 202 ‘Absolution’ 561–2 Richard II 196 ‘The General’ 562 Richard III 157 Memoirs of an Infantry Officer 564 Sonnets 178, 179 Saussure, Ferdinand de 569 The Tempest 173, 182 Sayers, Dorothy L. 558 Titus Andronicus 195 Schreiner, Olive 549 Twelfth Night 144, 177, 179, 180 The Story of an African Farm 445, 485, 549 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 179 Scotland, political history 222 Venus and Adonis 164, 176 Scott, Paul The Winter’s Tale 152–3, 176, 343 The Raj Quartet 623 (with John Fletcher), Henry VIII 158, 163 Staying On 623 (with John Fletcher), The Two Noble Scott, Walter 334, 338, 339, 347, 349, 361, Kinsmen 158, 180 365, 380, 439 (with unknown collaborator), Pericles 158 Ivanhoe 365 Shaw, George Bernard 453–4, 462, 548, The Lay of the Last Minstrel 339 549–51, 556, 558–9 Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 339 Arms and the Man 454, 550 The Talisman 365 Major Barbara 550 Waverly 347 Man and Superman 454, 550 scribes 82 Mrs Warren’s Profession 454, 464, 550 Scum (1977) 635 The Quintessence of Ibsenism 550 Seacole, Mary 415 Widowers’ Houses 550, 556 Selkirk, Alexander 285 Sheets, Heather 423 Selvon, Sam 624, 635 Shelley, Harriet, ne´e Westbrook 341, 386 The Lonely Londoners 628, 645–8, 648 Shelley, Mary, ne´e Godwin 266, 268, 331, Moses Ascending 648 341, 358, 363 Moses Migrating 648 Frankenstein 346, 360, 386–92, 501 Seneca, L. Annaeus 164, 166, 190 Shelley, Percy Bysshe 328, 335, 341, sensibility 329 343, 347, 349, 352, 357–8, 360, Sermon against Disobedience and Wilful 368, 386, 390 Rebellion 137 The Cenci 348 Seward, Anna 343 ‘England in 1819’ 352 Seymour see Somerset The Masque of Anarchy 341

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe (cont.) Smiles, Samuel, Self-Help 414, 421, 457, ‘Mont Blanc’ 357 464, 485, 500 The Necessity of Atheism 341 Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations 274, ‘Ode to the West Wind’ 341, 352 280–1 ‘Preface to Frankenstein’ 388 Smith, Alexander, ‘Glasgow’ 466 Prometheus Unbound 368 Smith, Charlotte 346 Queen Mab 341 Beachy Head with other Poems 343 The Revolt of Islam 368 Elegiac Sonnets 330, 343, 361 ‘The Sensitive Plant’ 341 Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle 345 ‘The Skylark’ 341 The Old Manor House 345 ‘The Witch of Atlas’ 368 Smith, George 425 Shelley, Sir Timothy 388 Smith, Sir Thomas, De republica Anglorum Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 255 (The commonwealth of England, and The Rivals 348 manner of the government thereof) 130, The School for Scandal 348 137–8, 174 Sherriff, R. C., Journey’s End 563 Smith, W. H. 425, 452 Showalter, Elaine 583 Smith, Zadie 624 Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Snow, C. P. 617 Fin de Sie`cle 500 Social Darwinism 478 Siddons, Sarah 348 Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke Sidney, Elizabeth 199 of 117 Sidney, Mary (Herbert), Countess of Somerset, Edward Seymour, 1st (Seymour) Pembroke 149, 150, 170, 173, Duke of 119, 125, 128 198–9 The Song of Roland 41, 44 Sidney, Sir Philip 149, 158, 160, 164, Sophia, Duchess of Hanover 221 165–6, 170, 198–201 South Sea Bubble 223–4, 289 An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Poesy) 161, 165, 170, 199, 259–60 Earl of 150 Arcadia 170 Southcott, Joanna 315, 321 Astrophil and Stella 155, 170, 178, Southey, Robert 330, 335, 337–9, 340, 199–201, 202 341, 368 The Lady of May 150 The Curse of Kehema 339, 367 Sidney, Sir Robert 199 The Fall of Robespierre see Coleridge Sidney family 150, 190, 198–9 Madoc 339 Sierz, Aleks 655 Thalaba the Destroyer 338–9, 366–7 Sigeric, Archbishop 73 Sowernam, Ester, Ester Hath Hang’d Haman Sillitoe, Alan 635 175, 176 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 634–5, Spanish Armada 126, 134 635, 636 Spanish Succession, War of 222, 223 Simcox, Edith 415 Speght, Rachel, A Muzzle for Melastomus 175 Simnel, Lambert 117 Spence, Thomas 314 Sinclair, Iain 622, 642 Spencer, Herbert 418–19 Lights Out for the Territory 630 First Principles of a New System of Sinclair, May 558, 565 Philosophy 478 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 42, 44, Spender, Stephen 558 84–90 Spenser, Edmund 150, 156, 162, 164 Sir Launfal 45 Amoretti 155, 178 Sir Orfeo 45 The Faerie Queene 155, 165, 166, 267 Sitwell, Edith 558 Shepheardes Calendar 165 Skelton, John 200–1 Spivak, Gayatri 385–6 slavery 274, 326, 371 Sprat, Thomas, History of the Royal Society Slinn, E. Warwick 450 265–6, 278, 299 slum conditions 544 St Clair, William 332

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Stanhope, Charles, 3rd Earl 332 Swift, Jonathan 217, 245, 246, 258, 263, Statute of Labourers (1351) 60 268, 288, 430 Stead, W. T. 436–7 Gulliver’s Travels 211, 255, 257, 258, 259, Steele, Richard 244, 260–2, 270 259, 263, 279, 290–4 Stephen, James 321 A Modest Proposal 291 Stephen, King 20 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 451, 475 Stephen, Leslie 457 Poems and Ballads, Series 1 451 Sterne, Lawrence 263, 329, 430 Symonds, John Addington 486 Stevenson, Robert Louis 438, 444–5, Symons, Arthur 451 485–6 Synge, J. M. Kidnapped 445 The Playboy of the Western World 559 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Riders to the Sea 559 403, 444–5, 464, 499–503 Syrett, Netta, ‘The Heart’s Desire’ 445 Treasure Island 445 Stewart, Garrett 489 Tacitus, P. (or G.) Cornelius 41, 157, 164 Stewart, Jack 561 Germania 14 Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury 30 The Tale of Genji 257 Stoker, Bram, Dracula 403, 446, 480 Tasso, Torquato 166 Stone, Lawrence 239, 239 Taylor, Elizabeth (novelist) 622, 637 Storey, David 622 At Mrs Lippincote’s 638 Stow, John, A Survey of the Cities of London Taylor, Helen 415 and Westminster 133, 152 Taylor, Jane/Anne 344 Strachey, Lytton 503 Taylor, John 344 Strachey, Ray (Rachel), The Cause 566 Tebbit, Norman 614 Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl Tenniel, John 434 of 127 Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron 433, 446–8, Strauss, David Friedrich, Das Leben Jesu 417 451, 457, 467, 475, 485–6 Stretton, Hesba, Jessica’s First Prayer 441 ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ 448, 478 Stuart, Charles Edward (The Young ‘The Defence of Lucknow’ 478 Pretender) 224–5 Idylls of the King 449–50 Stuart, James Francis Edward (The Old In Memoriam, A. H. H. 446, 447, 472–4, Pretender) 220, 221–3, 223, 224, 225 486, 488 Stubbes, Philip, Anatomy of Abuses 177 ‘The Lotos-Eaters’ 447 Sturgeon, William 319 ‘Mariana’ 447 Suckling, Sir John 168 ‘Ode on the Death of the Duke of Sudbury, Simon of 23 Wellington’ 447–8 Suez crisis (1956) 604 Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 446 Suffolk, Mary, Duchess of (sister of Henry The Princess: A Medley 447, 482–3 VIII) 119 ‘Ulysses’ 470–1 suffrage movements 565 Terence (P. Terentius Afer) 164, 166 Sullivan, Arthur 452 Thackeray, William Makepeace 438, 439 Surrey, Henry Howard, 3rd Earl of 169–70, The Roundabout Papers 403, 506 177–8 Vanity Fair 439–40, 477 Surtees, Robert, Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Thatcher, Denis 611 Jollities 430 Thatcher, Margaret 610, 611, 611–12, 613, Sussman, Herbert, Victorian Masculinities 485 614, 633, 636, 637 Swedenborg, Emanuel 321 theatres 231 Sweet, Henry 25 Themsecke, Georges de 186 Swetnam, Joseph, Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Thirkell, Angela 620 Froward Women 175 Thirty Years’ War 121, 130, 131 Swift, Graham 622, 625, 629 Thomas, Dylan 548, 558, 620 Last Orders 629 Thomas, Ronald 494 The Sweet Shop Owner 642 Thomas Aquinas, St 296

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Thompson, E. P. 420 Volta, Alessandro 319 Thompson, James, ‘Rule Britannia’ 275 Voltaire (Franc¸ois-Marie Arouet) 262, 358 Thomson, James, ‘City of Dreadful Candide 296 Night’ 465 Letters on England 263 Thorkell the Tall 75 Vortigern, King 14 Thornhill, James 240 Vrettos, Athena 494 Thornton, Henry 321 Tighe, Mary Blanchford, Psyche, or the Wace, Roman de Brut 46 Legend of Love 344 Wade, John 335 Tindal, Henrietta, ‘The Cry of the Wain, John 621 Oppressed’ 463 Wakefield mystery cycle see Towneley plays Tone, Wolfe 324 Walpole, Horace 235, 240, 245–6, 345 Tottel, Richard, Songs and Sonnettes ...and The Castle of Otranto 331, 345, 386 other (Tottel’s Miscellany) 169–70 Walpole, Hugh 558 Towneley plays 91–6 Walpole, Robert 224, 225, 254 The Killing of Abel 92, 95–6 The Wanderer 14, 40 Second Shepherds’ Play 68, 92–5,96 Warbeck, Perkin 117 Trevisa, John 35, 38, 92 Ward, A. C. Trollope, Anthony 416, 436, 438 The Nineteen-Twenties 564, 576 Autobiography 440 Twentieth-Century Literature 1901–25 547 Trollope, Frances Ward, Mary Augusta 566 The Life and Adventures of Michael Robert Elsmere 475 Armstrong, the Factory Boy 439, 462 Wars of the Roses 23–5, 117, 117 Tucker, Herbert 498–9 Warton, Thomas 332 Tunstall, Cuthbert 186 Watson, Thomas, Hecatompathia 178 Turner, J. M. W. 316 Watt, James 312, 321, 360 Tyler, Wat 23 Watts, G. F. 461 Tynan, Kenneth 627 Waugh, Evelyn 558 Tyndale, William 168, 169 Sword of Honour 620, 620 Obedience of a Christian Man 163 Weber, A. S. 418 ‘A Prologue into the Second Book of Webster, John 149 Moses called Exodus’ 164 Wedderburn, Robert 371 Tyrconnell, Rory O’Connell, earl of 127 Wedgwood, Josiah 234, 312, 314 Tyrone, Hugh O’Neill, Earl of 126, 127 welfare state 608 Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke unemployment 543 of 326 Usk, Thomas 65 Wells, H. G. 548, 558 Utrecht, Treaty of see Spanish Succession, Ann Veronica 565 War of Mr Britling Sees It Through 563 Tono-Bungay xvii, 532, 572–7, 582 Vallon, Annette 373 The War That Will End War 538 van Dyck, Anthony 150–1 Werner, Abraham Gottlob 320 Vanbrugh, Sir John 244, 246, 253 Wesker, Arnold 622, 626 Vasco da Gama 181 Wesley, Charles 242, 320 Venn, John 321 Wesley, John 242, 320, 329 Victoria, Queen 408, 409, 409, 411, 423, West, Benjamin, The Death of General 428, 447, 476, 527, 546 Wolfe 316 Viking invasions/battles 17, 18–19, 72–8 West, Jane 346 Villiers see Buckingham West, Rebecca, The Return of the Soldier 564 Virgil (P. Vergilius Maro) 164, 227 Wheatley, Phillis 275, 276–7 Aeneid 165, 170 Wheeler, Michael 440 Eclogues 165 Whewell, William 318 Vizetelly, Henry 555 Bridgewater Treatises 471

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Whitefield, George 320 Three Guineas 566 Whitney, Isabella 170, 175 Woolner, Thomas 448 The Copy of a Letter 170 Wordsworth, Dorothy 372, 375 A Sweet Nosegay 170 ‘The Floating Island’ 363 Whorf, Benjamin Lee 569 Wordsworth, William 262, 313, 315, 328, Wicke, Jennifer 422 330, 335, 337–9, 350, 358, 361, 364–5, Widsith 40–1, 50, 56 366, 460, 632 Wilberforce, Samuel 471, 472 The Borderers 348 Wilberforce, William 321, 326, 343 The Excursion 339, 365–6 Wilde, Oscar 429, 453–4, 486–8, 549, 557 ‘Preface of 1801’ 329, 374 An Ideal Husband 453 The Prelude 337, 349, 355–6, 359–60, 466 De profundis 457, 486 ‘On the Projected Kendal and ‘The Decay of Lying’ 504, 505, 505 Windermere Railway’ 421 The Importance of Being Earnest 429, 453, The Tables Turned 359 458, 503–6 ‘Tintern Abbey’ 337, 343, 372–7 Lady Windermere’s Fan 453 (with Coleridge), Lyrical Ballads 247, 313, The Picture of Dorian Gray 445 329, 337, 348, 351, 352–3, 372–3 Salome´ 453 World War One 536–9, 547, 559–64, A Woman of No Importance 453 581–2, 620–1 William I ‘the Conqueror’ 13, 19, 26–8, 30, World War Two 601–3, 619–21, 629 31, 43, 44–5, 76 ‘the Blitz’ 601 William III (of Orange) 138, 220, 221, 222, Wortley-Montagu, Lady Mary 245 240, 270 Wotton, Mabel, ‘The Hour of Her Life’ 445 William IV 408, 409 Wren, Christopher 229, 240, 246, 264 William of Malmesbury 41 Wroth, Lady Mary 175, 198–9 Williams, Helen Maria 343, 350 Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 178, 201–2 Williams, Linda 552–3 Urania 159, 201, 202 Williams, Nigel, The Wimbledon Poisoner 638 Wulfric of Haselbury 36, 59, 80–1 Williams, Raymond, The City and the Wulfstan, Archbishop of York 18–19, 50 Country 468 Wyatt, Sir Thomas 158, 169–70, 177–8, 179 Wilson, Angus 622 Wycherley, William, The Country Wife 252 Wilson, John 335 Wycliffe, John 33, 38, 48, 95 Winterson, Jeanette 622 Wynter, Andrew 435 Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 640 Wyss, Johann, Swiss Family Robinson 285 Sexing the Cherry 630 Wither, George, Britains Remembrancer 134 Yearsley, Ann 344–5 Wittgenstein, Ludwig 569 Yeats, William Butler 451, 453, 549–50, Wodehouse, P. G. 558 552–3, 553, 557, 559, 567, 570 Wolfenden, John, Baron 637 Cathleen ni Houlihan 552 Wollstonecraft, Mary 268, 350, 370, 377, The Celtic Twilight 552 379, 386 ‘Easter 1916’ 536 Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman 377 ‘Per amica silentia lunae’ 552 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 350, Responsibilities 552 370, 377 The Tower 552 Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal 119, 128, 141 The Wild Swans at Coole 553 Wood, Mrs Henry, East Lynne 442, 452, 464 The Wind Among the Reeds 552 Wooler, T. J. 335 Yonge, Charlotte M., The Heir of Redclyffe 485 Woolf, Virginia 431, 457, 548, 552, 557, York mystery cycle 48, 91–2 565, 570, 576, 618 Young, Arthur 313 To the Lighthouse 571 Young, Edward, Night Thoughts 332 ‘Modern Fiction’ 570–1, 572, 575–6, 583–4 Mrs Dalloway 543, 563, 564, 571, 582–5 Zephaniah, Benjamin 632 A Room of One’s Own 566 Zola, E´ mile 549, 555