Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48568-5 — The Origins of the English Marriage Plot Lisa O'Connell Index More Information Index Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage Entertainments, Austen, Jane, 3, 9, 112, 113, 135, 174, 184, 185, 186, The (Law), 87 190, 208, 218, 229, 231 Account of Marriage, An, 59 and canonicity, 218 Adam Bede (Eliot), 232 and Gretna Green, 204, 219–21 Addison, Joseph, 106, 138, 143, 146, 147–52, and the Patriot marriage plot, 186, 221–2 169, 182 Emma, 213, 218, 221, 222, 223 Adventures of David Simple, The (Sarah Mansfield Park, 186, 204, 213, 221, 222–9 Fielding), 163 Northanger Abbey, 221 Adventures of Eovaai, The (Haywood), 187 Persuasion, 221 Aeschylus, 152 Pride and Prejudice, 186, 213, 218–20, Alleman, Gellert Spencer, 58–9 221, 222 amatory fiction, 5, 55, 90, 93, 187 Sense and Sensibility, 221 ancient constitution, 33, 154 Austin, J. L., 60 Anglican Church, 2, 3, 11, 20, 36, 38, 39, 47, 106, 141–44 banns. See wedding banns ‘Broad’ church, 16, 148, 243n99, 244n104 Barnard, John Sir, 63 diminution of the, 180, 212, 226, 229 Barrington, William Wildman, second Viscount and outreach, 8, 9, 10, 15, 17–18, 89, 91, 112 Barrington, 57 and parliament, 15–16, 24 Barry, Spranger, 75 See also Erastianism; High Church Barthes, Roland, 205 Anglicanism; High Church Toryism Beau’s Duel, The (Centlivre), 58 Anglican clergy, 2, 29, 70, 89, 106, 107, Beckford, William the Elder, 197 173 Bedford, Duke of. See Russell, John, fourth duke and pluralism, 20, 142, 160, 167, 238n39 of Bedford See also parsons; subaltern clergy Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay), 44–5, 64, 65, Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 16, 17 69, 73 anticlericalism, 16, 122 Behn, Aphra, 6, 58, 59 and Fielding, 70–1, 136, 146, 151, 152 Belinda (Edgeworth), 230–2 and the theatre, 46, 58, 73, 136 Bennet and Spencer v. Wade (1742), 29 Apology for the Life of Mrs Shamela Andrews, Berlinische Monatsschrift, 2 An (Fielding), 98, 136, 140, 262n5 Best, G. F. A., 106 Apprentice’s Vade Mecum, The (Richardson), 63, Bickerstaff, Isaac (Irish playwright), 75, 82 86–7, 88, 89, 255 Bickerstaff, Isaac (Tatler pseudonym), 41, Arbuthnot, John, 44 42 Armstrong, Nancy, 95, 256n19, 259n61 Biester, Johann Eric, 2, 233n3 Ashley-Cooper, Anthony, third Earl of bigamy, 23, 60, 96 Shaftesbury, 139 Bildungsroman, 230 Atterbury, Francis, 86 biopower, 7, 26, 61 Aubin, Penelope, 6 Birch, Rev. Thomas, 19 ‘Auction Room’ (New Theatre), 77 Blackburne, Francis, 16 Auerbach, Eric, 268n1 Blasphemy Act (1698), 2 299 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48568-5 — The Origins of the English Marriage Plot Lisa O'Connell Index More Information 300 Index bluestockings, 163, 207, 217 Carrington, Catherine, 79 Blumenberg, Hans, 7 Carte, Thomas, 87 Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas, 109 Carter, Elizabeth, 27, 85 Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount, 17, 139, Catholicism, 17, 19, 20, 24, 30, 119, 142, 146, 263n20 145, 151, 163, 177, 197 and marriage, 39, 123, 244, 245 and Fielding, 70–1, 135, 145, 154–5, 262n7 in Sir Charles Grandison, 112, 117, 121–2, 123, Idea of a Patriot King, The, 154 131, 261n78 Book of Common Prayer, the, 38, 47, 111, 113 Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress (Burney), 186, book trade, 86, 91 204, 205, 208, 209, 210, 211–12, 213–14 Boswell, James, 12–14, 25, 99 Census Bill. See National Registration Bill Bottle Conjuror, the, 74 Centlivre, Susanna, 58 Boulton, Jeremy, 37, 244n4 Cervantes, Miguel de, 139 Bowers, Toni, 113, 257n43, 257n45, 259n63, 269n9 Champion, The, 135, 136, 138, 141, 146, 151–2, boy Patriots, 135, 136, 139, 141 153, 165 Bradshaigh, Dorothy, Lady, 164, 166 Chapone, Hester Mulso. See Mulso, Hester Bray, Thomas, 89 ‘Character of a Good Parson, The’ (Dryden), British empire, 40, 42, 51, 179, 200, 202 146–7, 150 and female patriotism, 199–201 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times Bronte, Charlotte, 213 (Shaftesbury), 138 Brooke, Frances, 75, 273n55 charity, 126, 141, 147, 150, 151, 153–4, 155, 163, 168, Brown, John, 21, 177 176, 182 Brown, Marshall, 174, 183 ‘Charlotte Bateman, A Tale’ (Lady’s Magazine), Brown, Peter, 19 194, 200, 205 Burke, Edmund, 202 Charlotte Temple (Rowson), 202 and the Marriage Act, 201–2 Charlotte’s Daughter (Rowson), 202 Thoughts on the Cause of the Present chastity, 78, 97, 105, 117, 141, 153 Discontents, 201 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 146 Burn, John Southerden, 52, 247n58, 248n62 Chesterfield. See Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Burney, Frances, 9, 11, 81, 112, 135, 184, 185–6, 187, fourth Earl of Chesterfield 190, 204–18, 230, 231, 253n144 Cheyne, George, 87 and ‘female difficulties’, 204, 205, 206, Child, Sarah, 191 209, 218 ‘Choice Collection of Pictures, A’ (Foote), 77 and clandestine marriage, 204, 211–12, 217–18 Christianity, 1, 20, 26, 89 and conservatism, 203, 205, 207, 211 freedom of worship, 15 and critical reception, 204–5 practical, 116–18, 151 and literary innovation, 185, 186, 204, 207–13 primitive, 88, 150, 155, 173 and literary subjectivity, 207, 210–11, 217–18 Church of England. See Anglican Church and radicalism, 206, 207, 209, 210, 215, 216, Churchill, Charles, 239n47 218, 273n56 church-state relations, 16, 18, 94, 141, 159–60 and secularism, 212, 214, 217 and marriage, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14, 25–6, 28, 34, 93, Camilla, Or A Picture of Youth, 186, 204, 205, 105, 109, 134, 146, 151, 186, 197, 232 209, 210, 214–18 Cibber, Colley, 64 Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress, 186, 204, 205, Cibber, Susannah, 75 208, 210, 211–12 circulating libraries, 186, 195 Evelina, Or the History of a Young Lady’s Citizen of the World, The (Goldsmith), 173 Entrance into the World, 204, 205–6, 207, clandestine marriage, 10, 23, 24, 36–7 210, 211, 273n68 amongst Catholics and Dissenters, 245n16 and elite fashionability, 52–3, 54–5, 56, 130 Camilla, Or A Picture of Youth (Burney), 186, and itinerancy, 40, 44 204, 205, 209, 210, 214–18 and polite consumption, 55 and the Gretna Green romance, 217–18 and Restoration comedy, 58–61 and the vicar-squire plot, 213–17 and the English marriage plot, 37, 94 Campbell, Mary, Duchess of Argyll (neé Ker), 55 and the licensed/unlicensed stage, 74–8 canon law. See marriage law and the novel genre, 93, 94 Canongate (Edinburgh), 190 and the plebeian public sphere, 9, 36, 48 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-48568-5 — The Origins of the English Marriage Plot Lisa O'Connell Index More Information Index 301 and the theatre, 57, 84 Colman, George, the elder, 10, 81, 83, 84, 200, as ‘improper’ marriage, 4, 36, 37, 57, 93–4, 253n144 139–40, 181 colonialism, 24, 89, 105, 168, 197, 202, 223, 230–1, at common law, 38–9, 245n14 270n24 at ecclesiastical law, 38, 39 internal, 20, 192, 196 censure of, 29, 34, 39, 47–8 See also British empire; slavery demography of, 37, 41 comedy, laughing, 174, 181, 196 historiography of, 39 comedy, sentimental, 74, 75, 81–4, 174, in Joseph Andrews, 139–40 194–6, 200 in Marriage Act, A Novel, 167–8 comic epic fiction, 136, 137, 139, 161, 189 in Pamela, 95, 105, 106, 109, 110 and marriage as closure, 140, 163, 178 in Sir Charles Grandison, 47, 113–15, 125, comic marriage plot, the, 9, 73, 174 128–9, 130 See also comedy, laughing; comedy, in The Vicar of Wakefield, 178–80 sentimental post-Marriage Act, 78–83, 84, 185, 190–2 commerce, 42, 43–4, 55–6, 97, 137, 150 pre-Marriage Act, 57–61, 64–74 and fiction, 90, 186, 187, 190, 192–4, 205, See also clandestine marriage market, the; 207, 211 Fleet marriage market, the; Fleet and marriage, 3–4, 7, 34, 42, 43–6, 52, 54, 173, weddings; lawless churches; 192–6 clandestine marriage market, the, 3, 10, 37, 40, commercial fiction. See commerce, and fiction 45, 84 common law, 19, 20, 28, 38–39 See also and Pamela, 105 marriage law and representation, 40–2, 45 Common Sense, 135 and Sir Charles Grandison, 128 companionate marriage, 89, 98, 102, 233 and theatrical mock marriage, 58, 61, 73 Comus (Milton), 75, 77 the Fleet as a metonymy for, 48, 51 Congreve, William, 40–2, 57 Clandestine Marriage, Act for the Better Conjugal Lewdness or, Matrimonial Whoredom Preventing of (1753). See Marriage Act (Defoe), 44 (1753) consent, 25, 30, 36, 38–9, 58, 83, 190 Clandestine Marriage, The (Garrick and age of, 199, 200 Colman), 81–4 parental, 25, 26, 27, 31, 79, 162, 166, and proper marriage, 83 169, 190 and sentimental comedy, 82–3 conservatism, 2, 183, 185, 202, 203, 205, 207, and the Lord Ogleby character, 81–2 211, 218 Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady Considerations on the Causes of the Present (Richardson), 18, 27, 53, 59–60, 87, 112, Stagnation of Matrimony, 201 172, 194, 256n21 constitutional settlement (1688), 9, 15, 33, 86, 143, Clark, J. C. D., 165 146, 154 Claydon, Tony, 15, 237n28 constitutionalism, 15, 20, 28, 34, 122, 197 clergy. See Anglican clergy; parsons consumerism, 45, 176, 189, 195, 272n53 Clergyman’s Vade-Mecum, The (John Johnson), and commodity fiction, 8, 86, 185–6, 192, 194, 157, 158 203, 205, 207 clerical marriage, 2, 36, 38–9, 42, 43, 245n8 and women, 55, 56, 186, 190, 192–4, clerical monogamy, 173, 179 195, 199 clerical subplot, the, 94, 106–12, 113, 133, 214 Contrast, The (Hoadly brothers), 69 and Patriot fiction, 134, 136, 140, 141 Convocation, Lower House of, 86, 89 See also vicar-squire plot, the Conway, Alison, 125, 260n68 Coates, William, 1–2 copyright, 185 Cobham, Lord.