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Ada Moore’s Story, 193 n13 Bathe, Anthony Adam, Robert, 52 Not Drowned, 71 Adams, James Eli, 214 n33 Beer, Gillian, 204 n25 adultery, bigamy compared to, 7 Belgravia (journal), 189 n24 Ainsworth, William Harrison Benjamin, Walter, 44, 45 Myddleton Pomfret, 3, 133, 205 n3 Bentham, Jeremy Anderson, Benedict, 131 Panopticon; or, the Inspection House, 139 Archer, Thomas Bickersteth, Edward Henry A Fool’s Paradise, 207 n3 “Yesterday, To-day, and Forever”, 73 Aristotle, 13, 190 n25 Bickersteth, Robert, ed. Armstrong, Nancy, 15, 55 The Recognition of Friends in Heaven, 72, 73, 90 Austen, Jane bigamy Northanger Abbey, 55 adultery compared to, 7 Austin, Alfred, 1, 9, 16, 18, 39, 69 class dynamics and, 8–9 Austin, J. L., 161, 162 detective fiction and, 17 Australia. See also New South Wales divorce compared to, 6, 8 Botany Bay penal colony proposal and, 139 domestic architecture reconfigured by, 49, 51, British print culture and, 131 53–54, 61–62, 212 n16 Fahnestock on bigamy fiction’s use of, 116 legal punishments for, 5 Great Expectations and, 116 “modern” subject emerging from, 16 John Caldigate and, 129 Bilby, Thomas Jude the Obscure and, 145, 158, 162, 165 “Heaven Anticipated”, 198 n8 Lady Audley’s Secret and, 2, 26, 129–131, 132 “Billy Taylor” (ballad), 41 A Righted Wrong and, 130–131 The Bitter Cry of Outcast London, 9 Said on Victorian fiction’s treatment of, 116, “Bluebeard” (fairy tale recorded by Charles 211 n54 Perrault), 50, 52–53 To the Bitter End and, 131 “Bonnie Barbara Allen” (ballad), 36 Book of Common Prayer, 76, 109, 159 47 Boucicault, Dion Bachelard, Gaston, 99 Bagehot, Walter, 24, 30–31 The Colleen Bawn, Bakhtin, Mikhail, 64, 207 n14 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth ballads. See also individual ballads Aurora Floyd “ ” 33 bigamous courtship plot in, 2, 19, 37, 99, broken token ballads, 145–157 165 conceived of as a pure relic of a national past, , 34–35 blotted plot in, 154 146 Mary Barton’s use of, 35–36 James on, ’“ ” 37 Lady Audley’s Secret compared to, 145–146 as novels unrecognized ancestors , 212 16 plot of bigamous return and, 2, 24, 29, 31–34, Mellish Park in, n 42–43 page metaphor in, 154–155 ’ ’ 37–45 Pendennis compared to, 149 Sylvia s Lovers use of, 145 Ballantyne, Tony, 206 n10 reviews of, 231

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bigamy plot as signature narrative strategy of, as sensation fiction, 54–55 3, 4 spouse-in-the-house plot in, 3, 18, 31, 47, 49, Birds of Prey, 17, 158, 204 n20 50, 54–61, 143, 144 The Cloven Foot, 206 n5 Thornfield’s architectural details in, 50, Cut by the County, 206 n5 55–61 Eliot and, 98, 100 “Mina Laury”, 51–52 Hardy and, 157–158 personal experience as a governess John Marchmont’s Legacy, 3, 48, 152, 160–161, of, 57 201 n42 Brontë, Emily Lady Audley’s Secret Wuthering Heights, 111 attempted murder in, 102, 115, 132 Brooks, Peter, 12, 13, 25, 61, 143, 146 Aurora Floyd compared to, 145–146 Broughton, Rhoda Australia in the plot of, 2, 26, 129–131, 132, Not Wisely, But Too Well, 16 133, 137 Brown, Julia Prewitt, 193 n9 blackmail in, 203 n14 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett blotted plot in, 153–154 Sonnets from the Portuguese, 77 class dynamics in, 8, 9, 30 Browning, Robert commercial success of, 145 “By the Fire-Side,” v India in the plot of, 137 The Ring and the Book, 76 loss of identity plot in, 136, 138, 210 n46 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Oliphant on, 31 Eugene Aram, 55 on name changes, 17 Burton, Richard plot of bigamous return in, 9, 26, 29, 30, 31, The City of the Saints, 185 n25 48–49, 99, 143–144, 145, 168, 206 n5 plot of colonial return in, 2, 18, 115, 117–118, 131 129–139 Carter, Paul, Chariton reviews of, 4, 28, 132, 145 24 “ fi ” 26 62 Chaereas and Callirhoe, as sensation ction , , Chase, Karen, 6, 63, 200 n37 system of clues in, 135–136, 137–138 32 134–135 Child, Francis, well at Audley Court in, Clifford, Lucy Yelverton bigamy trial and, 11 “ ” 85 4 Lost, Oliphant on, Clive, Caroline penny dreadfuls and, 11, 30 102 111 ’ 27–28 Paul Ferroll, , reviewers discussion of the oeuvre of, Why Paul Ferroll Killed His Wife, 192 n48 Sir Jasper’s Tenant, 205 n3 184 14 206 5 Cohen, Daniel, n Strangers and Pilgrims, n Cohen, Deborah, 193 n9 Taken at the Flood, 193 n13 186 44 189 8 115 Cohen, Margaret, n , n Thackeray on, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 75 To the Bitter End, 131 ’ 206 5 Collins, Wilkie Wyllard s Weird, n Man and Wife, 2, 170 Branks, William 203 16 73–74 79–81 86 The Moonstone, n Heaven Our Home, , , No Name, 37, 99 Brantlinger, Patrick, 121, 189 n24, 208 n28, 211 n54 11 116 on rise in literacy among lower classes, Bridge, Carl, The Two Destinies, 81 Brontë, Anne The Woman in White The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 3, 61–62, 71, 11 198 9 class dynamics in, n loss of identity plot in, 210 n46 Brontë, Charlotte as “sensation fiction”, 26, 62 Jane Eyre Conrad, Joseph “Bluebeard” fairy tale and, 50 209 38 56–58 65 Heart of Darkness, n class and status distinctions in, , on missing ships, 24 India and, 116 ’ 31 Conybeare, William Lewes s review of, Perversion, or, the Causes and Consequences of married name in, 210 n46 fi 205 3 54 In delity: A Tale for the Times, n Oliphant on, Corbett, Mary Jean, 204 n59

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Coventry Island (fictional setting in Thackeray’s Felix Holt, 98, 99 novels), 120, 121 Middlemarch Crabbe, George afterlife concerns in, 102–106 “The Parting Hour,” 188 n6 Casaubon’s codicil in, 106, 108, 109–110 “Ruth,” 188 n6 dead marriage plots in, 3, 18, 100–102, 112 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock honeymoon in, 3, 94–97 Hannah, 92–93, 201 n42 James’s review of, 108 Crawford, Iain, 89 magic lantern in, 96–97 Culler, Jonathan, 186 n41 plot of murderous remarriage and, 101–102 Cunningham, Allan remarriage in, 101–102, 106–109 The Songs of Scotland, Ancient and Modern, reviews of, 102, 108 141–142 shadowed bigamy plot in, 71 Cvetkovich, Ann, 100, 187 n45 simultaneous remarriage plot and, 94 suttee reference in, 107 187 46 203 10 Physical Theory of Another Life (Taylor), 79 Dames, Nicholas, n , n ’ 99 Daniels, Stephen, 116 Reade s accusations of plagiarism against, Davidoff, Leonore, 194 n22 Romola 83 plot of the shammed marriage in, 2, 71, 98, De Quincey, Thomas, 99–100 Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill, 74–75, 92, 111 154 reviews of, 99–100 Derrida, Jacques, 47 Dickens, Charles Scenes of Clerical Life, “ ” 193 15 sensation fiction and, 97–100 Bluebeard story and, n 204 25 David Copperfield Williams on, n 103 104 Erickson, Arvel B., 186 n34 afterlife in, , 73 angelic bigamy plot in, 3, 18, 71–72, 81–87, evangelical millenarianism, 88–92, 93, 96, 101, 105 critics’ responses to Agnes character in, 89 Fahnestock, Jeanne, 6, 7, 116 graveyards in, 84, 85–86 Fanon, Frantz, 128 heavenly reunion and, 18, 86–87 Farrar, Dean remarriage in, 18, 74, 81–82, 84, 107, Eternal Hope, 73, 201 n53 205 n28 Fedorowich, Kent, 116 Great Expectations, 116, 211 n54 Fitzgerald, Percy Hogarth and, 200 n41 The Dear Girl, 54 Little Dorrit, 150–151, 166 Flint, Kate, 204 n24 The Old Curiosity Shop, 210 n50 Ford, Rowland Dingley, Robert, 212 n15 Lord Austin’s Bride, 193 n13 divorce Forster, E. M. bigamy compared to, 6–7, 8 on marriage as a finale, 170 bigamy plot following non-binding forms of, 3 A Passage to India, 209 n38 Gladstone on, 8 Foster, Shirley, 192 n48 in East Lynne, 63 Foucault, Michel Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 and, 6 Discipline and Punish, 139, 187 n47 Milton and, 8 Franklin, Jill, 52, 195 n36 semi-legal and informal means of, 5 Frazer, James, 110 Doheny, John, 215 n45 Freud, Sigmund, 110, 205 n29 Doyle, Arthur Conan Frost, Ginger, 183 n10, 184 n13, 185 n29 The Lost World, 117 Frye, Northrop, 190 n25 “The Musgrave Ritual,” 61 Garcha, Amanpal, 187 n46 Edwards, Amelia Gaskell, Elizabeth Barbara’s History, 94–95, 153, 193 n13 The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 38 Eliot, George “The Manchester Marriage”, 192 n47 Braddon and, 98, 100 Mary Barton, 35–36 Daniel Deronda, 98, 100 Sylvia’s Lovers

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ballads’ influence on, 37–45 sensation fiction and, 113, 157 ocean in, 40–41, 124 Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 92, plot of bigamous return in, 3, 17, 21, 23, 24, 158, 200 n8 26, 29, 37–45, 99 Two on a Tower, 48, 158, 205 n3 reviews of, 23, 24, 26, 28, 39 Under the Greenwood Tree, 158 Gaskell, William, 192 n48 The Woodlanders, 53 genre Harrison, Frederic, 73 dualistic conception of, 28 Harwood, John literary-critical tradition of defining, 30, 32 Lord Lynn’s Wife, 3 novel as, 45 heaven plot compared to, 12–13, 17, 28–29, 170 “The Blessed Damozel” on, 76–77 sensation fiction as, 12, 26–27 David Copperfield on, 18, 86–87 Gibbs, Frederick, 184 n14 East Lynne on, 75 Gifford, George evangelical millenarian notions of, 73 King’s Baynard, 4, 193 n13, 200 n40 Heaven Our Home on, 79–81, 86 Gilbert, Sandra, 55–56, 155 Kingsley on, 72, 79 Gillis, John, 5, 185 n29 Paradise Lost on, 77–79 Gilmartin, Sophie, 204 n26 Physical Theory of Another Life on, 79 Girard, René, 7 The Recognition of Friends in Heaven on, 90 Gladstone, William, 8 The Ring and the Book on, 76 Gravatt, Denise, 213 n27 Sadducees riddle and, 74, 76, 82, 85 Gray, George Zabriskie Swedenborg on, 81 Husband and Wife, or The Theory of Marriage, Tess of the D’Urbervilles on, 92 75 The Two Destinies on, 81 Greye, Armar Victorian notions of reunion in, 71–74 One Too Many, 204 n20 Henderson, Edith Gubar, Susan, 55–56, 155 A Human Spider, 203 n15 Guillén, Claudio, 28 Henderson, Ian, 131 Gullette, Margaret Morganroth, 92, 202 n59 Herbert, Christopher, 27, 137, 210 n44 “Hind Horn” (ballad), 33 6 Hodges, Sydney Hager, Kelly, 169 Haggard, H. Rider, When Leaves Were Green, ’ 207 14 Homer King Solomon s Mines, n 24 She, 207 n14 The Odyssey, Hood, Thomas Haines, John Thomas “ ” 133 My Poll and My Partner Joe, 188 n6 The Bridge of Sighs, Hall, Catherine, 194 n22, 206 n8 house as metonym for marital happiness in Victorian Hardy, Thomas 47 55 Braddon and, 157–158 literature, , Darwinism and, 214 n43 attempts to maintain spatial distinctions in, 157 158 204 20 214 33 51–52, 55–56 Desperate Remedies, , , n , n ’ fi 49 51 53–54 Far from the Madding Crowd, 71, 113, 157, 158 bigamy s recon guration of, , , , 165 214 32 61–62, 212 n16 The Hand of Ethelberta, , n “ Jude the Obscure domestic architectural details in the spouse- 145 158 162 165 in-the-house” plot and, 50–51, 52–54, Australia in the plot of, , , , 55–61 66–68 bigamous courtship plot in, 19, 144–145, 158, , 159–166 liminal space of corridors and stairwells in, 159 53–54 divorce in, 47–48 wedding vows and ceremonies in, 159–160, shrines to deceased spouses in, 161 “The House Carpenter” (ballad), 32, 38, 214 32 43, 45 A Laodicean, n 192 47 The Mayor of Casterbridge, 3, 158 A House to Let, n A Pair of Blue Eyes, 112, 158 Howard, Christopher 158 Come Back from the Dead, 71 The Poor Man and the Lady, 7 27 54 The Return of the Native, 71, 158 Hughes, Winifred, , ,

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Iles, E. Langland, Elizabeth, 195 n22 Guy Darrell’s Wives, 205 n3 Le Fanu, Sheridan India “A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Forster’s fiction on the journey to, 211 n38 Family,” 50, 194 n17 Lady Audley’s Secret and, 137 The Wyvern Mystery, 193 n13 Maine on law in, 117 Leckie, Barbara, 6, 12, 185 n23 mutiny (1857) in, 210 n44 Lecourt, Sebastian, 185 n25 Myddleton Pomfret and, 133 Ledger, Sally, 195 n22 The Newcomes and, 118–119, 128, 208 n28 Lefebvre, Henri, 196 n41 Pendennis and, 119–120, 122, 125–126 Léger, J. Michael, 89 plot of colonial return and, 115 Lester, Alan, 208 n10 Said on Victorian fiction’s treatment of, 116, Levenson, Michael, 6, 63, 200 n37 118 Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 191 n44 suttee in, 107 Levine, George, 203 n10, 214 n43 Thackeray’s life in, 121, 208 n29 Lewes, G. H., 31 Victorian fiction’s treatment of interracial Linton, Eliza Lynn marriage in, 129 Grasp Your Nettle, 194 n15 “It is Good to be Merry and Wise” (song), Lobenhoffer, Lillias 141–142, 148 The Wrong of Fate, 206 n3 Loesberg, Jonathan, 27, 210 n46 “ ” 33–34 40 Logan, William Jack Robinson (ballad), , ’ 33 Jackson, Arlene, 89 A Pedlar s Pack of Ballads and Songs, 214 38 Longworth, Theresa. See Yelverton, Theresa Jaffe, Audrey, n ’ 1753 5 11 James, Henry Lord Hardwicke s Act of , , 146 Lukács, Georg, 207 n14 review of Aurora Floyd by, 63 review of Middlemarch by, 108 Luke, Gospel of, “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” Lupino, Ida 84–85 The Bigamist, 215 n1 90 “James Harris (The Daemon Lover)” (ballad), The Lustful Turk, The, 32–33, 35–36, 37, 38, 44, 45 Jameson, Frederic, 191 n44 Maine, Henry Sumner, 117 Jauss, Hans Robert, 28 Mansel, Henry, 12, 26, 168, 184 n17 Jeaffreson, John Cordy Marcus, Sharon, 195 n22, 196 n40, 202 n54 Not Dead Yet, 4, 71 “Marriage Bells” (dramatic adaptation of Wood’s John, Gospel of, 75 East Lynne), 197 n47 Johnson-Woods, Toni, 206 n5 Marroni, Francesco, 188 n2 Marryat, Florence The Risen Dead, 71 Kanin, Garsin 205 16 My Favorite Wife, 215 n1 Martin, Carol, n 212 7 Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857, 6, 75 Kaye, Richard, n 72 74 86 93 104 202 57 Kenealy, Arabella Matthew, Gospel of, , , , , , n A Semi-Detached Marriage, 16, 50–51, 169, 193 Maturin, Charles 13 Women:or, Pour et Contre, 141 n 197 47 Kerr, Robert Maunder, Andrew, n The Gentleman’s House, 52 Maupassant, Guy de “The Return,” 188 n6 Kingsley, Charles 73 “Ascension of Charles and Fanny,” 80 Maurice, F. D., 72 79 Maurice, Priscilla on heaven, , 73 Kramer, Dale, 215 n43 Prayers for the Sick and Dying, 190 30 191 46 McCarthy, John R., 186 n34 Kreilkamp, Ivan, n , n 66 Krueger, Christine, 188 n2 McKee, Patricia, McLane, Maureen, 35 158 214 33 206 10 Meredith, George, , n Lambert, David, n metropole–periphery model of colonial relations, Langbauer, Laurie, 187 n47 116–117

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Michie, Elsie, 142 The Angel in the House, 87–88 Michie, Helena, 95, 97, 210 n46 Paul, William, 199 n19 Milbank, Alison, 194 n17 Payn, James Millbank Prison, 211 n52 Gwendoline’s Harvest, 204 n20 Miller, D. A., 187 n45, 190 n24 Mirk Abbey, 205 n3 “The Millionaire,” 169 Pelham, Lord, 139 Milton, John Perrault, Charles, 50 on divorce, 8 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart Paradise Lost, 77–79 The Gates Ajar, 199 n19 Montgomery, James, 198 n8 plot Moretti, Franco, 7, 14, 55, 186 n44, 207 n15 angelic bigamy plot, 81–87, 88–92, 93 Mormonism Aristotle on, 13 Gladstone on, 8 as a mode of reading, 29 Wood’s depiction of, 64 as a pattern rather than a line, 25 Myers, Janet, 211 n34 as a process and not a structure, 13 blotted plots and, 152–155 117 courtship plot, 141–152 Nash, Catherine, 12–13 17 28–29 170 Nayder, Lillian, 155, 210 n44 genre compared to, , , , 213 32 plot of bigamous return, 3, 16, 23–45 Neale, Catherine, n 2 18 115–140 Needham, Gwendolyn, 89 plot of colonial return, , , 213 32 215 45 plot of murderous marriage, 101–102 Nemesvari, Richard, n , n 2 99–100 New Hebrides penal colony, 211 n52 plot of the shammed marriage, , reader-response criticism and, 186 n41 New South Wales. See also Australia 94 as British penal colony, 139 simultaneous remarriage plot and, 119 120 spouse-in-the-house plot, 46–68 Pendennis and, , 143 plot of colonial return and, 115 Plotz, John, Poovey, Mary, 196 n38 Newby, C. J. 190 34 Trodden Down, 200 n40 Powers, Ann, n Newman, Cardinal John Henry, 73 The Present and the Proposed State of the Marriage 35 Law, 8 Newman, Steve, 13 A Night in a Moorish Harem, A, 90 Propp, Vladimir, 195 22 Punch, 9–10, 11 Nord, Deborah Epstein, n 72 Norton, Sandy Morey, 121 Punshon, W. Morley, Pykett, Lyn, 64, 65–66, 184 n17 Oliphant, Margaret on the bigamy plot, 1, 4, 6, 31 Rackham, Arthur 4 “Bluebeard’s Castle,” 52, 54 on Braddon, 121 on Jane Eyre, 54 Ray, Gordon, Janet, 195 n2 Reade, Charles “ ” 1 4 97–98 Eliot accused of plagiarism by, 99 Novels, , , ﬁ 7 The Story of a Governess, 46, 55, 193 n13 Grif th Gaunt, 27 Hard Cash, 99 Trollope reviewed by, 3 151–152 207 3 on the “wedding or grave” storylines of A Simpleton, , , n sensation ﬁction, 97–98, 111 Redding, Cyrus 89 A Wife and Not a Wife, 16 Orwell, George, 1888 183 3 184 13 Ouida Regina v. Tolson ( ), n , n 144 Reid, Mayne Held in Bondage, 193 13 “Th’ Owdham Weaver” (ballad), 36 The Child Wife, n Richards, Thomas, 207 n20 Ricoeur, Paul, 13, 25 Parker, Stephen, 185 n29 195 22 Riddell, J. H. Parsons, Deborah, n George Geith of Fen Court, 153 Parsons, Gertrude 162 205 3 Robles, Mario Ortiz, The Romance of Cleaveside, n Rodolff, Rebecca, 201 n51 Patmore, Coventry Rosdeitcher, Elizabeth, 208 n29

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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel soul-mate, etymology of, 75 “The Blessed Damozel” and, 76–77, 87, 96, Stephen, Sir George 104, 111–112 The Guide to Service, 56 Rowell, Geoffrey, 198 n3 Stewart, Susan, 35 Rowland, Ann, 191 n42 Stocking, George, 207 n13 Rubery, Matthew, 12 Stone, Lawrence, 5 Rubin, Gayle, 142 Stoughton, John, 93 Russell, Dora Strawson, Galen, 187 n53–188 n54 A Hidden Chain, 205 n3 Sumpter, Caroline, 214 n43 Sutherland, John, 12 81 Sadducees’ riddle, 74, 76, 81, 82, 85 Swedenborg, Emanuel, Said, Edward, 116, 118, 120, 138, 211 n54 “The Sailor Laddie” (ballad), 38 Taft, Michael, 215 n31 “The Sailor’s Return, or the Broken Token” Tange, Andrea Kaston, 53, 195 n33, 196 n39 (ballad), 33 Tanner, Tony, 7 Sala, George Augustus Tatar, Maria, 194 n15 The Baddington Peerage, 47 Tautphoeus, Baroness Jemima Montgomery, on the term “sensational,” 189 n24 Cyrilla, 4 Sasaki, Toru, 213 n32 Taylor, Dennis, 159 Schor, Naomi, 142, 143, 148 Taylor, Isaac Scott, P. G., 188 n6, 189 n10 Physical Theory of Another Life, 79 Scott, Walter Taylor, Philip Meadows Waverley, 207 n14 Seeta, 129 Second Reform Act of 1867, 27 Tennyson, Alfred sensation fiction “Enoch Arden” Austin on, 1, 9, 16, 18, 39, 69 Bagehot’s review of, 24, 30–31 bigamy plot as staple in, 2, 3, 12, 15, 26–27, 37, class dynamics in, 30 168, 184 n17 plot of bigamous return in, 2, 24, 26, 29, “dead, yet not dead” phenomenon and, 16, 18, 30–31, 99 39, 69, 71, 101 reviews of, 24, 26, 29, 30–31 Hardy on, 157 Thackeray, William Makepeace Jane Eyre considered early example of, 54–55 The Adventures of Philip on His Way Through loss of identity in plots of, 210 n46 the World, 46, 99, 134 sensational novel. See sensation fiction Barry Lyndon, 208 n29 Sergeant, Adeline Braddon and, 115 Esther Denison, 55, 67, 193 n13 Coventry Island fictional setting and, 120 Shamir, Milette, 195 n22 The History of Pendennis Shanley, Mary Lyndon, 184 n15 Aurora Floyd compared to, 149 Sharp, Daniel, 90 class and status issues depicted in, 127–128 Sheridan, Frederick first loves in, 122–124, 138 Cecil Forrester, 204 n20 furniture depicted in, 197 n57 Shklovsky, Viktor, 188 n6 India in the plot of, 119–120, 122, 125–126 Showalter, Elaine, 138 ocean in, 124 Sims, George plot of colonial return in, 2, 18, 115, 117, “In the Harbour” (ballad), 42–43 119–129 “Sir Patrick Spens” (ballad), 40–41 in India, 121, 208 n29 skeletons in the closet The Newcomes, 118–119, 135, 208 n28 Austin on, 1 A Shabby Genteel Story, 203 n15 bedroom shrines and, 48 Vanity Fair, 116, 120, 208 n29 Oliphant and, 46 Thomas, Ronald, 27 Thackeray and, 46, 134 Thurin, Susan, 89, 91, 202 n54 Skene, Felicia Trollope, Anthony The Inheritance of Evil, 202 n59 Can You Forgive Her?, 143 Smythies, Harriet Castle Richmond, 3 Idols of Clay, 200 n40 Dr. Wortle’s School, 16

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The Eustace Diamonds, 141, 148, 197 n57 East Lynne He Knew He Was Right, 194 n15 divorce in, 63 John Caldigate, 129, 205 n3, 209 n34 heavenly reunion discussed in, 75 Oliphant’s review of, 27 house’s role in the plot of, 63, 66–68 Phineas Finn, 209 n16 loss of identity plot in, 210 n46 The Small House at Allington, 75, 88, 202 n57 “Marriage Bells” dramatic adapatation of, Williams on, 206 n25 197 n47 Mormonism discussed in, 64 206 10 remarriage in, 164 Veracini, Lorenzo, n “ ﬁ ” 26 62 Victoria (queen of England), 74 as sensation ction, , spouse-in-the-house plot in, 7, 18, 37, 47, Vince, H. S., 49 62–68 The Two Pardons, 168 , The Haunted Tower, 200 n40 The Shadow of Ashlydyat, 200 n40 Walkowitz, Judith, 195 n22 ’ 64 185 25 161 Verner s Pride, , n Warhol, Robyn, Wood, Mrs. Henry. See Wood, Ellen Warner, Marina, 194 n15 “ ” 32 45 Wraxall, Lascelles A Warning for Married Women (ballad), , Only a Woman: a Story in Neutral Tint, 193 n13, Warren, Austin, 28, 29, 30 205 3 89 n Waters, Catherine, Wynne, Deborah, 197 n51 “Weel May the Keel Row” (song), 40, 41 Wellek, René, 28, 29, 30 Welsh, Alexander, 89, 98, 203 n14 Yates, Edmund Land at Last, 205 n3 Whitty, E. M. 62 130–131 199 21 Friends of Bohemia; or Phases of London Life, Righted Wrong, , , n , 203 15 205 n3 n 142 Who Shall Be Duchess? Or, the New Lord of Yeazell, Ruth, 191 36 193 13 205 3 Yelverton, Theresa, 11, 16, 21, 185 n25 Burleigh, n , n , n 1861 10–11 Whyte, Haine Yelverton bigamy trial of , In Part to Blame, 169 Yonge, Charlotte M. 36 115–116 120 204 25 The Daisy Chain, 204 n24 Williams, Raymond, , , , n 205 3 Wilson, H. B., 73 Lady Hester, n Wood, Ellen The Earl’s Heirs, 61, 204 n20 Zoli, Corri, 121, 208 n23