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Abbott, R. E. autobiography, 9, 69, 103–04, 106, 113–14, 118, Sarah Siddons, the Greatest of the Kembles, 132 122, 133, 161, 188, 193, 195, 203 Abington, Frances autographs, 72, 74 among aristocracy, 219 Axon, William E. A., 244 and fashion-setting, 217 Ayres, Charlotte, 251 abjection, 10, 66, 144–47, 151, 160, 161 Abrams, M. H., 56 Bacall, Lauren, 140 Addison, Joseph Bacon, John, 181 Cato, 210 Bacon-Smith, Camille, 243 Akerby, George, 219 Badcock, John (‘Jon Bee’) Alberoni, Francesco, 3 and sportswriting, 116 Alceste. See Stendhal (Henri Beyle) Baelde, Pascale, 166 Alexander the Great, 3, 6 Baer, Marc, 136, 224 Alger, Horatio, 114 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 156 Allen, King, 160 Balzac, Honoré de, 161 Altick, Richard, 26, 37 and bachelorhood, 162 Amussen, Susan, 168 On Fashion [De La Mode], 161 Anderson, Benedict, 5, 21–22, 34 Treatise of the Elegant Life, 167 Andre, Sam, 118 Bancks, John Andrews, Henry ‘A Description of London’, 202 Trial of Queen Katharine, 130 Barber, J. T., 262 Angelo, Henry, 254 Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules, 157 Aniston, Jennifer Anatomy of Dandyism, 144, 148–49, 157, 160–62 and fashion-setting, 218 Barker, Henry Aston, 37 Antoinette, Marie, 228 Barker-Benﬁeld, G. J., 183 Appadurai, Arjun, 164 Barlow, Frederick Aristoxenus, 81 Complete English Dictionary, The, 213 Asiatic Journal, 83 Barry, Spranger Asleson, Robyn, 1, 137, 139, 262 and physical attraction, 217 Astley’s Equestrian Theatre, 8, 112 Barthes, Roland, 117, 137, 164 audience, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 44–45, 48, 50, 55, 70, Bartlett, David W., 37 71, 115, 121, 153, 169, 172, 176, 178, 179, Bate, Jonathan, 58 181, 188, 190, 191, 193, 196, 218, 221, 223, Baudelaire, Charles 227, 241, 247, 251, 254, 260 and dandyism, 63 cat-calls, 213–14, 216 ‘Painter of Modern Life, The’, 144 operatic, 82, 87, 88, 89, 91, 92 Baudrillard, Jean, 122, 137 theatrical, 122, 125, 126, 186–87, 200, 210–16, Baxter, Ann, 134 217, 220, 223 Beaufort, Duke of Austen, Jane and Mendoza, 115 and fandom, 209, 211, 223 Beauties of Mrs Siddons, The (Anon.), 247 Authentick Memoirs of Ann Oldﬁeld (Anon.), 220 Beckingham, Charles, 184 283

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Bee, Jon. See Badcock, John Bourdieu, Pierre, 158, 175, 178, 180 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 8 boxing, 2, 7, 8, 103–16 and Rossini, 94, 96 Bracegirdle, Anne Bell, George and patronage, 220 and Siddons, 132 and physical attraction, 217 Bellamy, George Anne and reputation, 85–87 and patronage, 210, 220–23 and rivalry, 215 Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, An, Brailsford, Dennis, 116, 117 210, 222–23 Braudy, Leo, 3, 6, 38, 43, 45, 48, 136, 137 Benelli, Giambattista, 100 and lionism, 65–66, 70 Bennett, Andrew, 56, 57 Brewer, John, 99, 136 Bennett, Arnold, 78 Briggs, Henry Perronet Bergman-Carton, Janis, 17 Sarah Siddons and Fanny Kemble, 128–31 Berlanstein, Lenard R., 3, 36 Briggs, Peter, 3–4, 8, 182 Bernhardt, Sarah, 3, 133, 260 British Critic, 31 Berridge, Kate, 37 British Magazine and Review, The, 217 Betham, Mathilda, 22 Britton, John Betterton, Thomas, 126, 136 and commonplace book, 233 and theatrical afterlife, 122–23 Brock, Claire, 3, 57, 136, 137, 138, 200 Beyle, Henri. See Stendhal (Henri Beyle) Brooker, Will, 243 Bhabha, Homi, 151 Brougham, Henry, 51, 53 Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, et al., Brummell, George ‘Beau’, 10–11, 143–63, 181 A (Anon.), 255 and body, 154–56, 158 biography, 22, 54, 64, 87, 88, 106, 118, 122, 127, and Byron, 143, 151 139, 143, 144, 146, 154, 169, 170, 171, 179, and cleanliness, 147–48, 153, 158, 160 187, 211, 212, 214, 217, 221, 247, 258 and dandyism, 143–49 Birkbeck, Anna and Duke of Wellington, 151 and commonplace book, 229, 231, 233 and exile, 143, 149–51 Birtwhistle, John, 58 and ﬁnancial ruin, 143–47, 148–51 Blackwell, Alice Stone and King George IV, 159–60 and Fanny Kemble, 130 and masculine fashion, 147, 160 and Sarah Siddons, 130 and Napoleon, 143 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 30, 34, 39, 53, 95 and sexuality, 162 Blainey, Ann, 139 and syphilis, 145, 162 Blake, William and visual self-representation, 151 and commonplace book, 234 as Broken Beau, 151–53 Blessington, Countess of, 67, 70 as self-made man, 148 Boaden, James, 247 Bucarelli, Mauro, 97 and Siddons, 131–32 Burke, Edmund, 40, 228 body, 11, 12, 61, 121, 125, 127, 146, 155, 157, 158, 161, Reﬂections on the Revolution in France, 45, 47 177, 180, 181, 185, 191, 192, 198, 199, 201, 218 Burney, Charles, 88 Bombet, L. A. C. See Stendhal (Henri Beyle) Burney, Frances, 136 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 6, 35, 125, 138, 148 Burnim, Kalman A., 226, 260 and Brummell, 143 Burns, Robert and Byron, 29, 32, 33 and lionism, 6, 64–65, 74–75 and Duke of Wellington, 25–26 Busby, Thomas, 5, 53 and Rossini, 81, 82–84 Age of Genius, The, 41–43 and Wordsworth, 45–46 Butler, Judith, 204 as waxwork, 5 Byrne, Paula, 200, 202 Boorstin, Daniel, 3, 21, 122, 137, 194, 246 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 3, 5, 6, 7, 22, 25, 42, Bordoni, Faustina 48, 49, 50, 63, 118, 201, 234–41, 247, 251 and rivalry, 215 and Brummell, 143 Boswell, James and commonplace book, 14, 227–29, 231 and Johnson, 11 and dandyism, 151 Life of Samuel Johnson, The, 170, 178–82 and fame, 246

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and lionism, 68 Carter, Philip, 183, 184 and Montgomery, 50–53 Cashmore, Ellis, 3 and Napoleon, 29, 32, 33 Castle, Terry, 199 and national identity, 30–34 Catalani, Angelica and public persona, 55 and Rossini, 91–92 and reviews, 28–29 Catley, Anne and Rossini, 82, 92 and fashion-setting, 217 and waxworks, 26 Cavendish, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 253 and Wordsworth, 44 and Ann Hatton, 250–51 posthumous reception of, 49–50 Sylph, The, 204 Beppo, 30, 151 Cavicchi, Daniel, 242 Bride of Abydos, The, 236 celebrity ‘Bright be the Place of Thy Soul’, 235 and abjection, 10, 145, 146, 155, 156 ‘Byron to his Sister’. See ‘Stanzas to Augusta’ and adoration, 217 Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 29, 235, 236 and advertising, 43 Complete Poetical Works, 237 and ageing, 259 Corsair, The, 235 and audience, 13, 169, 179, 184, 209, 210, 211–16, Don Juan, 29, 31, 235 251, 252 and literary lionism, 61 and autobiography, 8, 103–04, 106, 110, 113–14 ‘Fare Thee Well’, 235, 236 and body, the, 10, 11, 12, 61, 121, 155, 156, 157, ‘Farewell if Ever Fondest Prayer’, 235 181, 245 Fugitive Pieces, 235 and boxing, 8–9, 103–19 Giaour, The, 235 and class, 41–42, 66–67, 104, 108, 113, 115, Hebrew Melodies, 235 214, 222–23 Hours of Idleness, 235 and common fame, 49 ‘I Saw Thee Weep’, 235 and community, 21, 22, 29, 34 Lara, 198 and cosmopolitanism, 32, 33 Parisina, 235 and coteries, 66, 67, 68, 73 Sardanapalus, 235 and cross-dressing 204 ‘Stanzas to Augusta’, 235, 236 and dandyism, 11, 143–67 ‘To Jessy’, 235 and death, 48–49 ‘Verses, Written in Compliance with a Lady’s and debt, 11, 113, 143, 148 Request to Contribute to her Album’, 239 and dynasty, 127–31, 248 ‘Windsor Poetics’, 237 and exile, 143, 145 ‘Woman! Experience Might Have Told Me’, 235 and fans, 104–05, 109, 112, 209–23, 224–26, Byron, Lady. See Milbanke, Annabella 227–44 and community, 230–31, 235 Campbell, Augusta, Lady, 188 and fan-ﬁction, 227, 228, 234 Campbell, Thomas, 236, 256, 257 and self-promotion, 230–31 and commonplace book, 234 and fashion, 10, 147–48, 160, 186, 187–88, as Siddons’s biographer, 127, 247 217–18 capital punishment, 156–57 and femininity, 3, 10, 11–12, 71, 120, Carey, Edward 187, 213 ‘M. S. Book’, 236 and gaze, the, 28, 64, 66, 131, 186, 191, 193 Carlson, Marvin, 9, 121, 131, 133, 136, 138 and gender, 4, 10, 12, 69–72, 121, 175, 187, Carlyle, Thomas 194, 198 and Johnson, 181 and genius, 5–6, 41–56, 83, 85, 95–96 and lionism, 64–65, 68, 74–75 and glamour, 147–49 ‘Hero as Man of Letters, The’, 64 and historical consciousness, 26, 34 Sartor Resartus and hostility, 211–16 and dandiacal body, 155 and humiliation, 145, 160 Caroline, Queen, 25 and idolization, 7, 13, 28–29, 246–47 Carpani, Giuseppe, 98 and imitation, 217–20, 258 Carroll, Sydney and immortality, 49, 67 and Siddons, 133 and Jewishness, 103, 117

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celebrity (cont.) Charles I, King, 237 and lionism, 6, 12, 60–78 Charlotte, Queen, 138, 139, 247 etymology, 65 Chatterton, Thomas, 51 lion-hunter, 61, 64, 66, 71, 72, 73, 74 Chesterfield, Lord, 210, 222 lion-soirée, 64, 65, 66, 69 Chetwood, William, 214, 215 and masculinity, 10, 47, 69, 70, 146, 147–48, Cholmondeley, Marchioness of, 98 155, 168–85 Chorley, Henry Fothergill and memorabilia, 108 Lion: A Tale of the Coteries, The and memory, 5, 34, 126 and literary lionism, 67–68 and modest origins, 10, 103, 106, 114 Christensen, Jerome, 38 and monuments, 122, 123, 181 Chua, Daniel K. L., 101 and morality, 28, 31, 81 Cibber, Colley and mourning, 52 Provoked Husband, The, 214–15 and national identity, 5, 21–22, 26, 29, 180, 213 Cibber, Susanna and newspapers, 105, 108 and audience, 212 and nobility, 171, 172, 219–20, 222–23, 251, 253 and rivalry, 215 and parental neglect, 171, 172, 248, 257 Cimarosa, Domenico and patronage, 13, 209–23, 224–26, 250, Il matrimonio segreto, 92, 95 251, 259 Clare, John, 5 and performance, 34, 55, 107–08, 115, 116, 147, and Byron, 5, 49–50 196, 198, 213, 218 and genius, 43 and physiognomy, 12, 63–64, 82, 85, 87, and national identity, 22, 33 190–93, 196–99 and privacy, 27–28 and politeness, 170, 175, 176, 179, 182 and Wordsworth, 49–50 and politics, 29, 33, 41–56 ‘Popularity in Authorship’, 50, 266 and portraiture, 1, 5, 23–26, 61, 122, 126, 128–31, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and 134, 187, 191, 236, 259 Scenery, 27 and posthumous fame, 10, 44, 73, 120–21, Clarke, Ambrose 122–23, 146, 223 and commonplace book, 233–34 and print culture, 188–90, 202 Cleveland, Duchess of, 184 and puffing, 54 Clive, Catherine, 219 and ritual, 63, 105–06, 145, 146, 155–56, 157, 163 and rivalry, 215 and rivalry, 215–16, 245, 248 Clunas, Maggie and royalty, 7, 82, 89, 110, 125, 220, 253 and commonplace book, 236 and ruin, 145, 148, 151–60 cockney school, 53, 55 and scandal, 143–67, 172 Coffey, Barbara, 37 and self-effacement, 186, 194–96, 200–01 Cohen, Michele, 183 and self-promotion, 5, 12, 43, 107–09, 123, Cohen, William, 155 186, 189–90, 193, 194, 196, 200–01, Colbran, Isabella, 81, 91 245–63 Colburn, Henry and self-reinvention, 112–13, 257–58 and puffing, 43 and sexuality, 161–62, 167 Colclough, Stephen, 234, 236 and shame, 152–53, 154, 155, 157, 163 Coleridge, E. H., 237 and simulacra, 22, 27 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 5, 132, 190 and spectacle, 153, 163 and commonplace book, 229, 231, 234 and suicide, 245, 255, 262 and genius, 43 and theatre, 82, 112–13, 120–35, 136–40, 187, and national identity, 22–23, 33 209–23, 224–26 and public reception, 46–48 and tourism, 158 and reading public, 227 and transcience, 9, 68, 124–25 and waxworks, 26–27 and violence, 168–85 Biographia Literaria, 12, 14, 22, 46, 47 and wealth, 93, 104, 107 Friend, The, 46 definitions of, 2 ‘On Poesy’, 26 literary celebrity, 3, 49–50, 60–78, Statesman’s Manual, 47 168, 176 Coleridge, Sarah, 23

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Colley, Linda, 24, 32, 182 Davies, Thomas, 213, 217, 219, 223 Collier, John Payne Davis, Bette and Ann Hatton, 256–57 and Siddons, 10, 134 Colman, George Davis, Leith, 36 Clandestine Marriage, The, 187 de Certeau, Michel, 230 commonplace books, 14, 228–32, de Grazia, Margreta, 7 234–41, 242 de Mareste, Adolphe, 99 and ‘active’ reading, 234 de Montesquiou, Robert, 144 and respectability, 240 Dearnley, Moira, 260 as social-networking tool, 233 Debord, Guy, 22, 122, 137 famous owners, 229, 231 Denham, Reginald history of, 229, 230–32 Wisdom of Eve, The, 140 provenance of extracts in, 236 Deutsch, Helen, 185 Cook, Captain James, 97 di Bello, Patrizia, 232, 242 Cooper, James Fenimore, 257 Dibden, Charles Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, 259 and Mendoza, 112 Covent Garden Theatre. See Theatre Royal, Dickens, Charles Covent Garden and bachelorhood, 162 Cowen, Tyler, 3, 117, 118, 215, 218 Pickwick Papers, The Cowgill, Rachel, 94, 101 and literary lionism, 71 Craciun, Adriana, 202 Dingley, Robert, 58 Craftsman, The, 221 Disraeli, Benjamin Craik, Dinah Mulock, 1–2, 8 Vivian Grey, 167 John Halifax, Gentleman, 1, 9, 13–15 Dobelbower, Nicholas, 155 Ogilvies, The, 2 Donoghue, Frank, 3, 136 Crouch, Kimberly, 217 Drury Lane Theatre. See Theatre Royal, Cruikshank, George, 118 Drury Lane Cruikshank, Isaac Dryden, John, 257 Stroller’s Progress, The, 128 Dyer, Richard, 3, 30, 137 Cullens, Chris, 204 Curll, Edmund Edgeworth, Maria and Pope, 11, 176–78 Patronage, 210 Curtis, Ann. See Hatton, Ann Edinburgh Gymnastic Society, 112 Cuzzoni, Francesca Edinburgh Review, 44, 54, 55 and rivalry, 215 Egan, Pierce, 117, 118 and sportswriting, 107–08, 116 Daily Journal, 214, 216 Eger, Elizabeth, 202 Daily Post, 177 Elfenbein, Andrew, 236 Daily Register, 103 Elias, Norbert, 155 Dallas, Robert Charles, 237 Elizabeth I, Queen, 7, 84 Dames, Nicholas, 65–66 Elliston, Robert William, 37 dandyism, 11, 63, 70, 71, 143–63 Engell, James, 56 ‘broken dandy’, 151 Erickson, Lee, 56 and homosexuality, 162 eroticism, 31, 193, 252 and the ﬂâneur, 144 Ettrick Shepherd. See Hogg, James English, 161 European Magazine, 49 French, 144, 153, 161, 167 Examiner, The, 124 Victorian, 145, 161 Dart, Gregory, 119 Fairer, David, 204 Davenport, Mary fans, 2, 4, 13–14, 28, 71, 104–05, 109, and Siddons, 130 114, 115, 130, 177, 178, 209–23, David, Jacques-Louis 224, 227–28, 230, 235, 241, 242, Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing 243, 247 the Alps, 46 Farren, Elizabeth Davies, James Q., 90 and physical attraction, 217

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fashion, 2, 6, 10, 13, 48, 49, 50, 53, 63, 67, 88, 89, Geertz, Clifford, 118 103, 124, 134, 144, 146, 147–49, 151, 156, genius, 5, 6, 8, 27, 41–59, 72, 73, 83, 84, 85, 86, 160, 161, 186, 187, 188, 194, 199, 200, 212, 88–91, 93–95, 96, 97, 124, 132, 133, 170, 217, 218, 219, 250, 251 172, 178, 196, 257 Felluga, Dino Franco, 40 Genzinger, Maria Ann von femininity, 10, 120, 187 and Haydn, 87 Fenner, Theodore, 97 George III, King, 7, 247, 253 Fenton, Lavinia, 220–21 and Mendoza, 110 Ferris, Ina, 36 George IV, King, 32 Ferris, Kerry O., 210 and Brummell, 159–60 Fiennes, Ralph, 134 and Rossini, 89, 93 film, 3, 122, 127, 134, 259, 260 and waxworks, 26 Fisher, Judith L., 57 as Prince of Wales, 107, 196, 210, 222, 257 Fiske, John, 218, 235 George, Mary Dorothy, 262 Fitzgerald, Percy, 139 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. See Cavendish, Fitzgerald-Hume, Elizabeth, 224, 225 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Fitzpatrick, Thaddeus, 213 Gerrard, Christine, 204 Flaxman, John, 126 Gibbon, Edward, 167 Fleischer, Nat, 118 and commonplace book, 229 Fletcher, Angus, 27 Gillray, James, 118 Fletcher, Anthony, 183 Gladfelder, Hal, 184 Flugel, J. C., 164 Glass, Loren, 3 Foote, Samuel Gledhill, Christine, 16 and Johnson, 11, 180 Glyn, Isabella Ford, John, 117 and Siddons, 132 Foucault, Michel, 153–54 Goffman, Erving, 145, 152–53, 166 Francis, Emma, 57 Goldsmith, Jason, 4–7, 38, 58 Frow, John, 13 Goldsmith, Oliver, 51, 179 Fuhrmann, Christina, 98 Gomery, Robert, 55 Goodrich, S. G., 97 Gabler, Neil, 3 Gore, Catherine Gagnier, Regenia, 145, 159 Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb, 167 Gainsborough, Thomas, 122, 134 gossip, 5, 22, 27, 46, 49, 111, 193, 199, 200 and Robinson, 187 Graham, James, 14, 245, 253–55 Galindo, Catherine Graves, Henry Mrs Galindo’s Letter to Mrs Siddons, 258 and George Hayter, 35 Gamson, Joshua, 3 Gray, Jonathan, 241 Garfinkel, Harold, 166 Gray, Thomas Garratt, James, 99 and Robert Montgomery, 51 Garrick, David, 7, 14, 115, 124, 126, 257, 258 Griffin, Dustin, 210, 214 among aristocracy, 219 Guerinot, J. V., 184 and Ann Hatton, 250–51 Guide to the Stage, A (Anon.), 214 and audience, 212 Gwyn, Nell, 220 and fashion-setting, 217 and Mary Robinson, 187, 252 habeas corpus, 47 and patronage, 221 Hadley, Elaine, 224 and Shakespeare, 123 Hales, Helen, 140 and Siddons, 246–47 Hallett, Mark, 119 and theatrical afterlife, 122–23 Hammond, Paul, 184 as Richard III, 126 Handel, George Frideric, 100 Gautier, Théophile Hannibal, 44, 45–46 and dandyism, 165 Harlow, George Henry, 130, 139 Gay, John Harmonicon, 96 and patronage, 222 Harrington, C. Lee, 241 Beggar’s Opera, The, 85, 215, 221 Hart, Charles, 220

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Hart, Emma Hills, Matt, 13, 218 and James Graham, 253 Hitchcock, Alfred Harvey, Isabella (‘Zorina Stanley’) Lodger, The, 134 and Byron, 28–29, 33 Hitchcock, Tim, 183 Hatton, Ann, 14, 245–46, 248–60 Hodgson, Francis, 244 and Duchess of Devonshire, 250–51 Hogan, Charles Beecher, 261 and Garrick, 250–51 Hogarth, William, 118, 157–58 and Robinson, 245–46 Calais Gate, or the Roast Beef of Old England, and Siddons, 4 143–45, 157 ‘Elegy on the Death of David Garrick, Rake’s Progress, A, 145 Esq.’, 250 Hogg, James, 5, 22, 39 Fifty-Two Cumaean Leaves, Predicting the and national identity, 34 Destiny of Ladies and Gentlemen, An as ‘Ettrick Shepherd’, 34 Amusement for Winter Evening, 256 Holmes, Richard, 137, 183 ‘Lines Addressed to Mary’, 259 Holmes, Su, 3 Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, 249, 250, 251 Holt, Richard, 117 Raconteur, The, 259 Homer, 174 Havens, Earle, 243 and Pope, 174–76 Hawkins, Laetitia-Matilda, 187, 191 Hook, Theodore Haydn, Joseph, 85 Sayings and Doings, 167 and Rossini, 87–91, 94 Horton, Christiana Hayter, George, 5, 22 and audience, 213, 217 Duke of Wellington visiting the Effigy and and patronage, 223 Personal Relics of Napoleon,The, 23–26, 35 Horton, D., 77, 184 House of Lords, The Trial of Queen Caroline, Housman, Alfred Edward, 111 The, 25 Hudson, Anne, 140 Haywood, Eliza, 183 Humphreys, Richard Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to the and fighting Mendoza, 108–10, Kingdom of Utopia, 171 111, 115 Hazlitt, William, 5, 50, 194 Hunt, Aeron, 77 and genius, 43, 47–49 Hunt, Leigh, 61 and Siddons, 120, 124–25, 132, 259 and genius, 53 on fame, 2, 9, 53, 123, 124–25, 126 reviewing Rossini, 86 ‘Fight, The’, 105 Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries, 53 Life of Napoleon, 125 Huysmans, Joris-Karl, 144 ‘Mrs Siddons’, 120 ‘On Actors and Acting’, 124 internet, 3, 14, 227, 233 ‘On the Living Poets’, 2 interviews, 3, 73 Spirit of the Age, The, 48 Helsinger, Elizabeth K., 36 Jackson, ‘Gentleman’ John Hemans, Felicia and fighting Mendoza, 111, 115 and commonplace book, 234 Jacob, Giles, 183 and national identity, 33 Poetical Register, 171 and waxworks, 27 Jaffe, Aaron, 3 Henry VIII, King, 237 James, Henry hermeneutic of intimacy, 38, 190, 193, 243 ‘Death of the Lion, The’, 60, 72–75 Hervey, John, Lord, 178, 215 Notebooks, 74 Verses Address’d to the Imitator of the Jameson, Anna First Satire of the Second Book of Diary of an Ennuyée and Rossini, 94 Horace, 177 Janowitz, Anne, 36, 200, 202 Higgins, David, 3–4, 5–6 Jeffrey, Francis Highfill, Jr., Philip H., 226, 260 and Wordsworth, 44 Hill, Aaron Jenkin, H. C. Fleeming, 140 and Savage, 171–73, 174 Jenkins, Henry, 13, 227–28, 230, 235 Hill, Richard, 220 Jenson, Joli, 218

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Jerrold, Douglas Knowles, Sheridan and lionism, 61–63, 66, 70, 71, 72 and Siddons, 132 ‘“Lion” of a Party’, 74 Knox, Vicesimus, 97, 232 Jesse, Captain William Elegant Extracts, 229 Life of George Brummell, 11, 143–63 Kumar, Krishan, 36, 39 as prison narrative, 153–57 as rise-and-fall narrative, 145–47, 159 Labbe, Jacqueline, 187, 204 as scandalous memoir, 145–47 Lacenaire, Pierre-Francois, 153 as Victorian morality tale, 145, 159 Laguna Beach Festival, 134 Joerg, Guido Johannes, 100 Lahr, John, 21 Johnson, James H., 99 Lai, Adrienne, 77 Johnson, Samuel, 2, 10, 51, 124, 168–71, 172–74, Lamb, Charles, 248 213, 216 and commonplace book, 231 and Carlyle, 181 and Siddons, 131 and James Boswell, 178–82 Lamb, Mary, 248 and masculinity, 11, 168–70, 178–82 Landon, Letitia Elizabeth, 10 and patronage, 209–11, 222 and commonplace book, 234 and Samuel Foote, 180 and national identity, 33 Dictionary, 210 Landor, Walter Savage, 39 Life of Savage, 178, 179 Langhans, Edward A., 226, 260 Rambler, The, 2 Lauster, Martina, 61 Jordan, Dorothy, 220 Lavater, Johann Caspar journalism, 3, 8, 61, 68, 106, 114, 116, Essays on Physiognomy, 190 169, 246 Lawrence, Thomas, 130, 255 sports, 116 lecturing, 253–55 Lee, Debbie, 204 Kahrl, George M., 17 Lehmann, Caitlyn, 164 Kamehameha II, King (Liholoho), 97 Leigh-Noel, Madeleine Katharine, Queen, 130 and Siddons, 132 Keats, John, 197, 201 Leuenberger, Derek, 59 and commonplace book, 231, 234 Levitov, Karen, 17 and posthumous reception, 52 Lewes, G. H. ‘On Fame’, 12 Ranthorpe Poems, 52 and literary lionism, 67–68, 73–74 Kelly, Ian, 162, 165 Lewis, Matthew G. Kemble, Charles, 128 Monk, The, 136 Kemble, Fanny, 157 Lintot, Bernard, 176 and dynastic succession, 9, 128–31 lionism, 6, 7, 12, 60–75 and Siddons, 123, 128–31, 248 Lister, Thomas as Juliet, 128 Granby, 167 in portraits, 126, 128–31, 132, 134 Liu, Alan, 46 Kemble, John Philip, 256, 257 Lockhart, John Gibson, 56, 64 and Siddons, 128–31 and anonymity, 30 and theatrical afterlife, 123 and Byron, 31–33 as Macbeth, 132 John Bull’s Letter to Lord Byron, 31 Kemble, Roger, 127 London and Westminster Review, 63, 64 Kennaway, Maria London Magazine, 28, 84, 86–87, and commonplace book, 232–33, 236 91, 92 Kidd, William Louis XV, King, 162 New Guide to the “Lions” of London, 65 Louis-Philippe, King, 167 King’s Theatre, 82–84, 88, 91–92, 94, 95, Loy, Myrna 98, 100 and personality as commodity, 34 Kirby, R. E. Luckhurst, Mary, 3, 122, 137, 138 Kirby’s Wonderful and Scientiﬁc Museum: or, Lynch, Jack, 17 Magazine of Remarkable Characters, 249 Lyon, John B., 203

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Lytton, Edward Bulwer Meadows, Kenny and bachelorhood, 162 Heads of the People: or, Portraits of the English, Ernest Maltravers 61–63, 70 and literary lionism, 67–68, 73–74 Medwin, Thomas Last Days of Pompeii, The, 159 Conversations of Lord Byron, 52 Paul Clifford, 154 Memoirs of Perdita (Anon.), 258 Pelham or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, 65, 167 Mendoza, Daniel, 8–10, 103–16 and Brummell, 154 and Duke of Beaufort, 115 and fighting ‘Gentleman’ John Jackson, 111, 115 macaroni style, 147 and fighting Martin, the Bath butcher, 107 Macaulay, Catharine, 136 and fighting Richard Humphreys, 108–10, Macaulay, Thomas Babington 111, 115 and Robert Montgomery, 50–52, 54–55 and Jewishness, 103 Mack, Maynard, 177, 184 and King George III, 110 Mackie, Erin, 183 and longevity, 104 MacPherson, James, 180 and memorabilia, 107–08 Maginn, William and reputation, 103–04, 219 Whitehall, or the Days of George IV, 167 and risk, 114–15 Mahoney, Charles, 58 and sports journalism, 116 Maingay, Fanny and waning celebrity, 111–13 and commonplace book, 236 as public performer, 106, 107, 115–16 ‘M. S. Book’, 236 as self-publicist, 107–10 Mainvielle-Fodor, Joséphine, 84 Memoirs, 103–04, 105, 109, 116 Maison, Margaret, 260 and autobiographical omissions, 113–14 Malone, Edmund, 7, 181 and self-fashioning, 106, 115 Mankiewicz, Joseph Merry, Robert, 190 All About Eve, 134 Milbanke, Annabella, 25 Manvell, Roger, 137, 140 Milton, John, 51, 95, 255, 257 Marchand, Leslie, 238 Paradise Lost, 130 Marcolini, Marietta, 85 Moers, Ellen, 164, 166 Marshall, P. David, 3, 36, 55, 56, 122, 137 Mole, Tom, 17, 38, 52, 169, 243, 251, 262, 263 Martin, the Bath butcher Molesworth, Rev. J., 238 and fighting Mendoza, 107 Monaco, James, 182 Martineau, Harriet Monroe, Marilyn, 3 ‘Literary Lionism’, 63, 66, 68–70 Montagu, Duke of, 210, 223 Mary, Queen Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 176, 184 and William Mountfort, 217 Verses Address’d to the Imitator of the First Satire masculinity, 31, 89, 105, 107, 108, 168, 169, 175, of the Second Book of Horace, 177 176, 177, 179–80, 182, 198 Montgomery, Robert, 5, 50–55 Mason, Jane, 248, 256 and Byron, 50–53 Maynwaring, Arthur, 220 and genius, 43, 44 Mayr, Simon and Gray, Thomas Il fanatico per la musica, 91 ‘Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard’, McCarthy, Lillah 51–52 and Siddons, 10, 123 and Leigh Hunt, 53 as Lady Macbeth, 132–33 Age Reviewed, The, 50–51, 55 Myself and My Friends, 131 Omnipresence of the Deity, The, 50, 54 McClintock, Anne, 151 Puffiad, The, 50, 53, 54 McDayter, Ghislaine, 228 Satan, 54 McGann, Jerome J., 204, 237, 244 Moody, Jane, 4, 122, 137, 138 McGeary, Thomas, 225 Moody, John McKendrick, Neil, 119 and patronage, 213, 222 McPherson, Heather, 4–5, 9, 136, 137, 138, 139, Moore, Thomas 140, 224 and commonplace book, 234, 238 McVeigh, Simon, 99 Moran, Joe, 3, 184, 185

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More, Hannah, 232 Pasta, Giuditta, 82–83, 92 More, Thomas Paston, George, 38 and commonplace book, 231 patronage, 13, 68, 75, 107, 113, 127, 174, 194, Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady 209–23, 250, 259 and Rossini, 94 Peacock, Thomas Love, 94 Morning Chronicle, 250 Melincourt and Coleridge, 47 Morning Post, 189, 190, 195, 200, 201 Pedicord, Harry William, 225 Moss, Ann, 231 Pepys, Samuel Mount Edgcumbe, Earl of and physical attraction, 217 reviewing Rossini, 90–91, 94 periodicals, 3, 42, 43, 50, 86 Mounteney, Barclay, 86 Perry, Gill, 137 and Rossini, 81–82 Peters, John Durham, 252 Mountfort, William Peterson, Linda H., 203 and physical attraction, 217 Petrarch, 69 and Queen Mary, 217 photography, 122, 137, 259 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 85 physiognomy, 6, 12, 53, 60–75, and Rossini, 94–95, 96 190–99, 201 Don Giovanni, 94–95 Pilbeam, Pamela, 37 Mulvey, Laura, 193 Pittock, Murray, 36 Murray, John, 237 Plain Dealer music, 2, 3, 4, 7, 81–97, 233, 253 and Savage, 171–72 Plato, 81 nationalism, 5, 7, 21, 22, 23, 26, 29, 31, 35, 37, 40, Playhouse Pocket-Companion, The, 214 121, 122, 179 Plumb, J. H., 119 Nesbitt, James Plutarch, 81 and commonplace book, 241 Pocock, J. G. A., 167 New Monthly Magazine, 88, 94 Poe, Edgar Allan Newlyn, Lucy, 56, 57, 242 ‘Lionizing’, 63–64, 70–71, 74, 76 Newton, Isaac, 51 and literary lionism, 72 Noctes Ambrosianae, 39 politeness, 168, 170, 176, 179, 180, 182, 214, Nora, Pierre, 5, 34, 126 231, 232 Nussbaum, Felicity, 145, 163, 202, 219, 224 Ponce de Leon, Charles L., 3 Pope, Alexander, 42, 174–78, 195 O. P. riots, 121, 126, 127 and Edmund Curll, 11, 176–78 Oates, Joyce Carol and Homer, 174–76 On Boxing, 110 and literary warfare, 174–76 Ockman, Carol, 17 and masculinity, 11 Odiad, The (Anon.), 103 Dunciad, The, 177 Oldﬁeld, Anne Epistle to Arbuthnot, 177, 178 and audience, 214–15 Full and True Account of a Horrid and and rivalry, 215 Barbarous Revenge by Poison, on the Body as mistress, 220 of Mr Edmund Curll, A, 176 Orr, Mary Further Account, A, 176 Wisdom of Eve, The, 140 Rape of the Lock, The, 176, 195 Osborne, Thomas, 180 Strange but True Relation How Edmund Curll Otway, Thomas, 51 […] Was Converted from the Christian Owen, W. J. B., 57 Religion, A, 176 Works, 175, 176 Page, Francis, 174 Porter, Andrew, 101 parasocial interactions, 68, 69, 72, 73, 77, 173, 184 portraits, 12, 24, 25, 55, 61, 63, 108, 121, 122, Paris Monthly Review, 85 126, 128, 130, 132, 133, 190, 191, 193, Parrinder, Patrick, 36 236, 247 Pascoe, Judith, 1, 4, 14, 189, 200, 203 posthumous fame, 9, 32, 42, 46, 48, 49, Pasquin, Anthony 50, 51, 54, 73, 74, 120, 122, 123–27, Children of Thespis, The, 248 138, 148

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Postle, Martin, 1, 137 and self-promotion, 200–01 Price, Leah, 242 in print, 188–90 print culture, 1, 5, 8, 10, 42, 49, 60, 66, 68, 73, 173, Ainsi va le Monde, 197 175, 178, 180, 188–90, 200 ‘Fugitive, The’, 191, 197 Pritchard, Hannah ‘January 1795’, 189 as Lady Macbeth, 131 Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice Proust, Marcel, 144 of Mental Subordination, 190 and bachelorhood, 162 ‘London’s Summer Morning’, 195, 201 Puckler-Muskau, Hermann, Prince, 149 ‘Maniac, The’, 197 Punch, 68 Memoirs, 186, 188–89, 191, 193 Purinton, Marjean D., 262 Natural Daughter, The, 192–93, 194, 198 Poems, 188 Quarterly Musical Magazine, 87, 90, 92–93 ‘Poet’s Garret, The’, 195 Quin, James, 187 ‘Present State of the Manners, Society, Etc. among aristocracy, 219 Etc. of the Metropolis of England’, 189 Sappho and Phaon, 190, 196 Ragussis, Michael, 117 ‘Stanzas’, 191, 192, 197 Redmond, Sean, 3 ‘Sylphid’ Essays, 195–96 Rée, Jonathan, 36 Vancenza, 189 Reynolds, Joshua, 1, 115, 122, 124, 132 Walsingham, 194, 196–97 and Robinson, 187 Rocheford, Earl and Countess of, 184 and Siddons, 126, 130, 134 Rogers, Jane Discourses, 27 and rivalry, 215 Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, 126, 134, 247 Rogers, Samuel Ribeiro, Aileen, 217 and commonplace book, 234 Richardson, Samuel Rojek, Chris, 3, 13, 118, 137, 146, 166, 183, 184, Clarissa, 251 218, 243 Ricketts, Charles Romney, George, 132, 133 and Lady Macbeth, 132–33 and Robinson, 187 Rigler, Laurie Viera, 223 Rose, Jacqueline, 145, 157 Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, 209 Ross, Marlon B., 36, 40 riots. See violence Rossini, Gioachino, 7–10, 81–97 ritual, 105, 107, 145 and Angelica Catalani, 91–92 Rivers, Bessy. See Rocheford, Earl and Countess of and foreign celebrity, 81–84 Rivers, Earl, 184 and George IV, 89, 93 Riviere, Pierre and Haydn, 87–91 and Brummell, 153–54 and Lady Morgan, 94 Roach, Joseph, 9, 119, 120–21, 126, 136, 138, 212, 225 and Mozart, 94–95 Roberts, David, 225 and Napoleon, 81, 82–84 Roberts, William and physiognomy, 87 reviewing Byron, 30–31 and reception, 81–85 Robinson, Henry Crabb and reputation, 85–87 and Siddons, 259 and reviews, 86, 95–96 Robinson, Mary, 10, 136, 186–201, 220, 252–53, as performer, 89–92 257, 259, 261 Armida, 86 and Ann Hatton, 245–46 Elisabetta, 84 and femininity, 11–12 Guillaume Tell, 95, 96 and Garrick, 187, 252 Il barbiere di Siviglia, 83–86, 92 and gaze, 186–87 Il Turco in Italia, 84 and national identity, 33 L’inganno felice, 84 and negative publicity, 193–94 L’italiana in Algeri, 84 and oﬀstage performance, 187–88 La Cenerentola, 84 and patronage, 250 La donna del lago, 84 and physiognomy, 190–93, 196–99 La Gazza ladra, 84 and self-eﬀacement, 194–96, 200–01 Maometto II, 100

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Rossini, Gioachino, (cont.) and Siddons as Lady Macbeth, 131–33 Matilde di Shabran, 84 Coriolanus, 47, 134 Mosè in Egitto, 84 Henry VIII, 127 Otello, 84, 90 Macbeth, 127, 132, 133 Pietro l’Eremita, 84 Merchant of Venice, 103, 248 Ricciardo e Zoraide, 84 Richard II, 134 Semiramide, 84 Romeo and Juliet, 128 Tancredi, 82, 83–84, 85, 92 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 9 Ugo, rè d’Italia, 89 and commonplace book, 234 Zelmira, 82, 84, 87, 89 and posthumous reception, 52 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 7 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Rowe, Nicholas Pizarro, 82 Tragedy of Jane Shore, The, 247 Sherville, Francis, Lord, 192 Russell, Adam, 166 Shookman, Ellis, 203 Russell, Gillian, 148, 163, 224 Siddons, George, 138 Rutland, Duke and Duchess of, 184 Siddons, Henry, 139 Siddons, Mary, 138 Salisbury, Marchioness of, 98 Siddons, Sarah, 1–2, 120–21, 123, 127–35, 212, 221, Salmon, Richard, 3–4, 6, 12, 77 245–60 Sanders, Valerie, 57 and ageing, 125–26, 129–30 Sandvoss, Cornell, 241 and Ann Hatton, 4, 14 Sappho, 190, 196 and dynastic succession, 127–31 Savage, John, 184 and Fanny Kemble, 128–31, 248 Savage, Richard, 168–75, 178–79 and Garrick, 246–47 and Aaron Hill, 171–73 and gender, 10 and masculinity, 11 and Hazlitt, 124–25 Fulvia, 174 and legacy, 9–10 Miscellaneous Poems, 173 and modern representations, 134–35 Bastard, The, 173–74 and self-fashioning, 127 Schadenfreude, 157, 162, 163 and theatrical afterlife, 122–24, 126–27 Schickel, Richard, 3, 37, 38, 183 as ‘Gainsborough Lady’, 134 Schnorrenberg, Barbara Brandon, 253 as Lady Macbeth, 13, 15, 125, 126, 131–33 Scott, James, 37 as Queen of Tragedy, 133 Scott, John as Tragic Muse, 1, 120, 126, 131, 134 and Byron, 28, 33 in portraits, 128–31 and Hogg, 33–34 Siggs, Ann, 249 and Walter Scott, 30 and Siddons, 14 Scott, Walter, 7, 40 Silver, Kenneth E., 17 and commonplace book, 234 Simpson, Michael, 224 and lionism, 63, 64–65, 67 Smith, Adam and nationalism, 30–32 Theory of Moral Sentiments, The, 110 and Rossini, 82 Smith, Charlotte and waxworks, 26 Emigrants, The, 191 and Wordsworth, 44 Smith, Orrin, 61 Sebastian, St, 153 Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, 248 Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 162, 166 Smollet, Tobias, 257 Sedley, Charles, 220 Southerne, Thomas self-fashioning, 106, 123, 148, 168, 196. See also Isabella, or, The Fatal Marriage, 127 subjectivity Southey, Robert, 23 Sennett, Richard, 164 and Byron, 29 sensibility, 55, 193, 196, 232 and commonplace book, 229 Setzer, Sharon, 190, 195, 196, 204 souvenirs, 108, 116 Shaﬀer, Julie, 205 Spacks, Patricia Meyer, 36 Shakespeare, William, 7, 70, 128, 134, 205, 255, 257 Spectator, The, 213–14 and Garrick, 123 Spector, Sheila A., 117

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Spence, K. G. F., 56 Tuite, Clara, 4, 10–11, 38, 57 Spiller, James Turner, Graeme, 3, 118, 179, 183, 184 among aristocracy, 219 Turner, Joseph Mallord William spouting clubs, 258 Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing St Aubyn, James the Alps, 46 and commonplace book, 238–39 Turner, Stephen, 148 St Clair, William, 56, 228–32, 234–37 Tussaud, John Theodore, 37 Stabile, Susan M., 234 Tussaud, Joseph, 35 Stallybrass, Peter, 167 and Duke of Wellington, 23–26 Star Trek, 218, 243 Tussaud, Marie, 5, 22, 25–26 Steevens, George, 7 Ty, Eleanor, 193 Stendhal (Henri Beyle) Tyrconnel, Lord, 174 and Rossini, 8, 83–86, 88–92, 95 Tytler, Graeme, 203 Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio, 85 ‘Present State of Music in France and Italy, Valentino, Rudolph, 168, 169 The’, 85 Van Lennep, William, 138 Rome, Naples and Florence, 85 Vermoral, Fred and Judy Vie de Rossini, 83, 85–86 and aggressive fandom, 211 Sterne, Laurence, 3, 257 Victoria Kamamalu, Queen, 97 Stewart, James, 225 Victoria, Queen, 24 Stone, George Winchester, 17 violence, 11, 117, 128, 154, 155, 169, 170, 176, 177, Straub, Kristina, 184, 187 178, 180, 182, 211, 220 Stuart, Charles, 220 riots, 13, 209, 212, 213, 214, 216, 224. See also subjectivity, 6, 12, 27, 197. See also self-fashioning O. P. riots subscription publication, 13, 118, 190, visual culture, 2, 60, 64, 109 251, 252 voice, 1, 8, 9, 12, 83, 90, 91, 92, 125, 157, 217, 246, Sunday Times, 133 247, 251, 259, 260 Swift, Jonathan, 195 Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 69

Tatchell, Molly, 237–38 Wales, Prince of. See George IV, King: as Prince Tatler, 214 of Wales television, 3 Walker, Alexander, 3 Terry, Ellen Walpole, Horace, 7 and Siddons, 132 Walton, Benjamin, 4, 7, 102 Thackeray, William, 61 Wanko, Cheryl, 3–4, 13, 118, 137, 202 and bachelorhood, 162 Ward, Jay A., 38 ‘The Lion-Huntress of Belgravia’, 68, 71 Warhol, Andy, 249 theatre, 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 55, 81, 82, 106, 108, Waterloo, Battle of, 23, 33, 35, 45 112, 113, 120–35, 187, 200, 209–23, 246, Webb, Ann Gould 252, 255 and commonplace book, 237 Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 8, 82, 84, 98, 112, Weed, David M., 185 123, 127, 128, 136 Wellbeloved, Henry Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 37, 97, 123, 127, London Lions for Country Cousins and Friends 135, 186, 187, 200, 210, 246, 247, 248, about Town, 65 252, 254 Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of, 5, Theatrical Review, 212 6, 35 Thomson, Peter, 201, 217, 219, 225 and Brummell, 151 Thrale, Hester, 10 and Napoleon, 23–26 Throsby, Corin, 4, 14, 38, 243 Wentworth, Michael, 139 Times, The, 89, 92, 95, 96 West, Shearer, 137, 138, 139, 263 Tolley, Thomas, 99 Westall, Richard Tracy, Clarence, 183 Lady Macbeth in the Letter Scene, 131 Tragic Muse, The (Anon.), 247 Westminster Abbey, 26, 49, 122, 245, 255 Troubridge, Sir St. Vincent, 224 White, Allon, 167 Trumpener, Katie, 36, 39 White, R. J., 58

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Whitty, John C., 224 Wordsworth, William, 5, 7, 22, 23, 54, 115, 248 Wierzbicki, James, 225 and Byron, 29 Wilde, Oscar, 145 and commonplace book, 229, 231, 234 and dandyism, 162 and genius, 43–50 Wilks, Robert and Napoleon, 45–46 and physical attraction, 217 and nationalism, 32 Williams, Raymond, 56 ‘Essay, Supplementary to the Preface’, 44–46 Williams, Rosalind H., 163 Lyrical Ballads, 12 Wilson, Frances, 38 Prelude, The, 46 Wilson, John Wotton, Henry and anonymity, 30 Aphorisms of Education and commonplace and Byron, 29 book, 233 Wit’s Magazine, 213 Wohl, R. R., 77, 184 Yearsley, Ann, 10, 95, 258 Wollstonecraft, Mary, 188 Yellow Book, The, 72 Wood, Gillen D’Arcy, 38 Young, Thomas Woodford, Mary Siddoniad, The, 247 and Garrick, 221 Wordsworth, Dorothy, 248 Zionkowski, Linda, 4, 11