Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (101 page)

Mother Goose
(pantomime), 307

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 346

Mudie, Charles Edward, 184, 191

Mudie’s Circulating Library, 184-7

multiple stores: beginnings 83-4

Munday, Messrs, 11-12

Murray, John (publisher), 192, 199-200

Murray’s Family Library (publisher’s series), 188

museums: purpose, 399, 404;
see also
individual museums and galleries

music: at seaside resorts, 249-50; clubs, 344-5; festivals, 344, 347; sheet (printed), 344-5, 354, 356-9, 365; amateur performers, 346-7, 356, 358; professionalization, 346-7, 365, 372, 376; publication, 353; popular and working class, 372-4;
see also
concerts; music halls opera; pianos

Music Hall Provident Society, 376

music halls, 297, 372-8;
see also
individual cities

Musical Antiquity Society, 474

musical instruments, 354

Musical Society, 343

Musical Times
(magazine), 365

Myra’s Journal
, 163

Napier, Jo., milliner and tea dealer, Thirsk, 58

Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: represented in shows and exhibitions, 263-6, 278, 319; and Auguste Vestris, 298n

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 415

National Cyclists Union, 456-7

National Gallery: opening hours, 211; founded, 400-1; management, 402-3; attendance, 403

National Gallery of Practical Science (Adelaide Gallery), 270-1

National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church of England, 139

nature: appreciation of, 216

navvies, 29 & n

Nelson, Admiral Horatio, Viscount, 136; burial in St Paul’s, 258

Nesbit, E.:
Five Children and It
, 458

Netherlands (Holland): coffee consumption, 56n

New Bath Guide
, 133

New Brighton, Cheshire, 250

New Musical Magazine
, 358

New Place, Stratford on Avon, 236

New Prose Bath Guide
, 234

New Satirist
(newspaper), 142

New Strand Subscription Theatre, London, 298

New York Tribune
, 14

Newberry, John, 133, 135

Newbury racecourse, 434

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: shops, 105-6, 110

Newcastle Daily Chronicle
, 154

Newcastle Journal
, 106

Newmarket: horseracing, 421, 424, 430-1, 435

Newport, Shropshire: general store, 47

News of the World
, 140, 142, 155

Newspaper Press Directory
, 163

newspapers: readership, 85n, 126; beginnings, 123-5; prices, 125, 142-3; taxed, 125; distribution and delivery, 127-9, 144-6; advertisements, 130, 132-8, 150; contents, 130-2, 141, 150-1; parliamentary reporting in, 130; circulations, 137, 140, 147; popular, 140-2; fictional contributions, 143-4; tax abolished, 146, 150; and paper manufacture, 147-8; mechanized typecasting, 148-9; proliferation, 150; sports reporting, 151-5;
see also
individual titles

Nicholson, William, 418

Noble, Francis, 173

Nollekens, Joseph:
The Conversation Piece
(painting), 354

Norfolk, Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of, 437

Northampton: Masonic lodge, 6

Northampton Mercury
, 124, 130

Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount, 121

Norwich: clubs and societies, 5; theatre in, 294

Norwich Post
(newspaper), 123

Novello, Alfred (music publisher), 365

novels: multi-volume, 184 & n; partpublication and serialization, 188-9;
see also
books

Nuneham, Simon Harcourt, Viscount (
later
1st Earl Harcourt), 380

Oban: hotels and accommodation, 228

Observer
(newspaper), 140

O’Connell, Daniel, 257n

Offer, George, 436

Ogilby, John:
The Traveller’s Guide
, 70

Okell, Benjamin, 133

Old Vic Theatre
see
Coburg Theatre

Oldham, Lancashire: friendly societies, 31

Olympic Theatre, London, 208, 298

Omai (Tahitian), 198

omnibuses: running costs and fares, 98-9;
see also
individual towns and cities

open spaces: reduced, 436-7

opera: in London, 347-9; touring companies, 367

Opie, John, 390

Orange Blossoms
(magazine), 163

orchestras (and bands): in seaside resorts, 249-50; formed, 348; at Crystal Palace, 368;
see also
concerts

Orchestrion (
formerly
Panharmonicon), 265

Oriental Repository (London store), 396

Original Bath Guide
, 234-5

Orléans, Philippe, duc d’ (‘Philippe Égalité’), 392

Orsini, Felice, 415

Ossian
see
Macpherson, James

Owen, Robert, 80

Owen, William, 166

Oxford: clubs and societies, 5

Oxford English Dictionary
, 26

Oxford Music Hall, London, 375-6

Paderewski, Ignacy, 372

Paine, T. (popular novelist), 175

Paine, Thomas:
Common Sense
, 139;
The Rights of Man
, 167

painting: history painting, 387-8, 390

Pall Mall Gazette
, 146

Palmer, John, 128, 231, 295n

Palmer, Dr William (the Rugeley Poisoner), 272

panoramas, 252-3, 261-4, 266-71, 273

Pantheon, Oxford Street, London, 107-8, 349-50

pantomime, 305-8, 312;
see also
extravaganzas, theatre

Papendieck, Charlotte Louise Henrietta:
Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte
, 470

paper: manufacture, 148-9, 182

Paris: department stores, 109, 113n, 117; Louvre museum, 391

Park, Mungo:
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
, 197

Parker Bowles, Camilla (Duchess of Cornwall), 11n

parks: public, 437;
see also
enclosure

Parliament, Houses of: burning of (1834), 267

Parry, Captain Sir William Edward, 92

patent medicines, 133-5, 162

Paterson, Daniel: road guides, 200-1

Paul Pry
(newspaper), 141

Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel, 327

Paxton, Joseph, 3, 27, 34, 226

Pears, A. and F. (soap manufacturers), 417

pedlars
see
hawkers and pedlars

Peel, Robert (‘Parsley’), 75

Peel, Sir Robert, 75, 407

peep shows, 285

Pendred’s Directory of the Book Trade
, 389

Pennant, Thomas, 223

Penny Bell’s Life and Sporting News
see
Sporting Life

penny gaffs (theatres), 297

Penny Magazine
, 156-7, 407

Penny Times
, 142

Penny Weekly
, 96

Pepper, John Henry, 272

Pepusch, J.C., 343

Pepys, Samuel, 257n, 277

Peterloo Massacre (1819), 139

Petticoat Lane, London (market), 87

Philharmonia Society, 366

Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), 159

photography: exhibitions, 270; availability, 271; and stage, 336n; early techniques, 412n;
see also
Daguerre, Louis; Gambart, Ernest; Talbotypes

Piano-Forte Magazine
, 358

pianos: at Great Exhibition, 20-1; possession, 26, 359-60, 364-5; manufacture and development, 354-5, 361-4; sheet music for, 357; prices, 360-2, 364; uprights, 361; imported, 363-4; iron-framed, 363-4; on hire, 364; and singing of carols, 474;
see also
under individual manufacturers

Pickwick Adertiser, The
, 189

Pickwick Bicycle Club, 454

Pictorial Times
, 157

picturesque, the, 217

piers (seaside), 230 & n, 247-8

Pigot’s London and Provincial New Commercial Directory
, 42

Pilotelle, Georges, 116n

Piozzi, Gabriel, 356

Piozzi, Hester Lynch (
earlier
Thrale), 356

Pitt, William, the younger, 128-9

Place, Francis (tailor), 100, 102

Planché, James Robinson: produces
Mr Buckstone’s Voyage
, 39; extravaganzas, 200, 252, 308-9; memorializes Mme Tussaud, 257; and Shakespeare, 328-9; Christmas plays, 475;
The Brigand
, 324;
The Discreet Princess
, 335-6;
The Good Woman in the Wood
, 328;
The New Planet
, 272

Playfair, Lyon, 15 & n

pleasure gardens, 232-3, 236, 276-80, 294, 296; and musical concerts, 350;
see also
individual gardens

Plimsoll, Samuel, 244n

Plumptre, Revd James:
The Lakers
, 217, 222-3

Plumptre, Revd Joseph: ‘A Narrative of a Pedstrian Journey . . .’, 222-3

Plymouth: theatre in, 294

Pocock, Isaac:
The Miller and his Men
, 331

Polytechnic Institution: founded, 271-2

Pond, Arthur, 409, 411

Pontings (London store), 113, 497

Poole, John:
Hamlet Travestied
, 328

Poor Law Board, 477

Pope, Alexander, 381-2

population: England and Wales, 26

porcelain, 62;
see also
china Post Office: carries newspapers without charge, 127-8, 144; letter-rate, 134 & n, 151; uses railways, 144-5; telegraphs horseracing results, 432-3; and greetings cards, 483-5; penny post, 483, 485; parcels and packages, 487

Post Office Supply Association, 81

postal service, 9, 128-30

postcards, 485-6

Pound, Ezra, 143n

Powys, Mrs Lybbe, 212-15, 260, 391, 423

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 414

Press Association: and sports reporting, 151n

Priestley, Joseph, 74n

Prime Meridian Conference, Washington (1884), 195n

printing: government control of, 123; technological developments, 148-9, 182;
see also
chromolithography, lithography