Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (98 page)

Crystal Palace: houses Great Exhibition, 3, 17, 26, 37; moved to Sydenham, 282-3; concerts at, 368

Cubitt, Thomas, 11 & n

Cullwick, Hannah, 475

Cumberland, Richard, 295

Cumberland, William Augustus, Duke of, 278

Cushman, James, 25

cycling: as sport, 453, 455-6; popularization, 455-9; journals, 458; dress, 462-3

Cyclists Touring Club (CTC), 456-7, 462

Czerny, Karl, 360;
see also
music, pianos

Dadd, Richard, 306n

Daguerre, Louis, 266, 270;
see also
photography

Daily Advertiser
, 7

Daily Chronicle
, 119, 147

Daily News
, 147

Daily Telegraph
: price and sales, 147; sports reporting, 154; advertisements, 162

Dam, H.J.W.:
The Shop Girl
, 340

Dance, George, the younger, 390

Dance, Nathaniel, 383n

Darley, Thomas, 426

Darwen News
, 444-6

Darwin, Erasmus, 74 & n

Darwin, Susannah (
née
Wedgwood), 69n

Davenport, John & Co. (store): low prices, 54

Davies, John, 448, 452

Davy, Sir Humphry, 172, 474n

Day’s Library, 187

Defoe, Daniel, 51;
Complete Tradesman
, 106

department stores: beginnings and development, 85; display, 101; middle-class appeal, 110; quality and range of goods, 111; service departments, 112-13; purpose-built, 113; annual sales, 118; in plays, 340; sell theatre tickets, 340; Christmas grottos, 490-1; opening dates, 496-7;
see also
shops

Derby: size, 45-6; football match, 438

Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith, 14th Earl of (
earlier
Lord Stanley), 11

Derby Philosophical Society, 74n

Derry and Toms (London store), 113, 496

Destouches, Philippe Néricault:
La Fausse Agnes
, 238

de Vere, Pauline (lion-tamer), 283

Devonshire, William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of, 226

Dibdin, Charles:
The Blackamoor
, 357

Dibdin, Charles, the younger, 179

Dibdin, Thomas, 240n, 329

Dicey, William, 124, 130, 133, 176

Dickens, Charles: and Sala, 88n; cheap editions, 190; promotes panorama of Mississippi, 273; on bill-sticker, 287; on Christmas, 468-9, 572;
Bleak House
, 215;
A Christmas Carol
, 183, 208n, 473-5, 481, 490; ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’, 330;
David Copperfield
, 309-10; ‘The Haunted Man’, 272;
Martin Chuzzlewit
, 190;
Oliver Twist
, 190;
Our Mutual Friend
, 143n;
The Pickwick Papers
, 188-9, 483

Dilettanti, Society of, 380-2

Dilke, Charles W., 8

dioramas, 266-8

Dissenters: rise of, 6

Dodson, James:
Antilogarithmic Canon
, 138

dogfighting, 420

Doncaster: horseracing, 424, 430, 436

Douglas, Canon John, 197

D’Oyly Carte Company, 299, 302

Drake, Francis, 423

Dramatic and Musical Directory
, 367

Draper’s Record
, 117, 491

dressmaking, 88-9

Dressmaking at Home
(magazine), 162

drug companies, 134-5

Drury Lane Journal
, 255

Drury Lane theatre
see
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Dryden, John, 344

Ducrow, Andrew, 317-19, 321, 324

Dulwich Gallery, London, 398

Dumas, Alexandre, pe`re, 322n

du Maurier, George, 26

Dundee Evening Telegraph
, 155

Dunlop rubber company, 455

Dussek, Jan Ladislav, 355, 365

Dyche, Thomas:
A Guide to the English Tongue
, 138

dyes and dyestuffs, 7-8

Eagleton, Edward, 59-60

Early Closing Association, 211

Early English Text Society, 31

East India Company: imports tea, 57

Easthope, Sir John, 430

Eastlake, Charles, 403

Eclipse (racehorse), 427

Edgeworth, Maria:
The Absentee
, 298, 300;
Belinda
, 323;
Ennui
, 107, 218n

Edgeworth, Richard, 172

Edinburgh: clubs, 6; public transport, 99

education: of masses, 139; magazines, 156

Edwards, Annie:
Leah: A Woman of Fashion
, 186

Edwinstowe’s Artisans’ Library, 184

Egan, Pierce, 153, 232;
Life in London
, 178, 179-80

Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 219, 252, 264, 270, 272, 274-5, 285

Eidophusikon, 253 & n, 254-6

electricity: for jewellery and clothing, 312n; for theatre 299-300

Eliot, George:
Adam Bede
, 185, 206

Eliot, T.S.:
The Waste Land
, 143n

Elliot, Obadiah, 72

Ellis, Sir Henry, 402

Ellis, John, 34

Elliston, Robert, 236

Elssler, Fanny, 298n

Ely: shops and retailers, 43n

Ely Pamphlet Club, 170

Empire Music Hall, Leicester Square, 378

enclosures: Select Committee on Public Walks (1883), 436; common land reduced, 436-7; General Enclosure Acts (1836), 437; (1845), 437; recreation and open space, 436-7; opening of Epping Forest to the public, 437; public parks, 437

Engels, Friedrich, 105n;
see also
Marx, Karl

Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine
, 161-2

engravings
see
prints and print-sellers

Entr’acte
( journal), 376

Epsom racecourse, 435

Era
(weekly), 154, 376

Erard, Pierre (piano manufacturer), 20

Evangelical Magazine
, 274

evangelicalism: rise of, 6, 138-9; and education, 156; on theatre, 274; and decline of concerts, 354

Evans, D.H. (London store), 121, 497

Everett-Green, Constance, 457

Evill, John (of Bath), 85

Ewart, William, 401

Exchange Coffee House, Manchester, 126

Exchange and Mart
(magazine), 161

excursions and excursion travel, 225-9

Exeter Change, Strand (London), 107-8, 255-6, 275

extravaganzas (theatrical), 308-9, 312

Factory Act (1833), 138, 208

Factory and Workshops Act (1867), 210

Fairbairn, Thomas, 407

Fairbairn, William, 408

fairies: in the arts, 306n

fairs, 76, 207-9, 282-4, 294

Farington, Joseph:
Views of the Lakes
, 221

Farmer and Rogers (London shawl warehouse), 115

fashion: and supply and demand, 26; affordability, 87; magazines, 159-62; for holiday wear, 244-5;
see also
clothes

Father Christmas, 475-6, 478-9, 490-1

Felkin, William:
The Exhibition in 1851
, 14

Fenwick (Newcastle store), 106, 497

Festival of the Golden Rump, The
(play), 292n

festivals, 208, 470

Field, Henry Ibbot, 365

Field
(magazine), 152

Fielding, Copley:
The Mull of Galloway
(painting), 410

Fielding, Henry, 293;
Amelia
, 184n

Fieschi, Joseph, 257 & n

fireworks displays, 279, 350, 368

Fitzgerald, Percy, 323, 377

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 399

Flatow, Louis, 413

Flaxman, John, 265, 383

Flying Post
(newspaper), 128

Folkard (grocer and tea-dealer), 17

food: for lower classes, 79; riots, 79;
see also
clubs (benefit), grocers, multiple stores

football: books on, 205; origins, 438-41; clubs, 440-51; rules, 441-2; organization, 443-4; professionalization, 444-6; attendance, 449-50; club financing, 450-2; clothes, 458; improved equipment, 463-4; outfitting, 465;
see also
individual clubs Football Association: formed, 442-3, 446-7

Football Field and Sports Telegram
, 155

Football League: formed, 448

Foote, Samuel, 293;
The Quadrupeds
, 316

footwear
see
shoes and boots

Forget Me Not
(annual), 489

Fougt, Henry, 356-7

Foundling Hospital, London, 344, 382, 398

Fourdrinier machines (paper-making), 148

Fox, Charles James, 379

France: daily newspapers, 124; paper manufacture in, 148; excursions to, 227

Franklin, Benjamin, 156

Franklin, Sir John, 261n

Fraser’s Magazine
, 140

Frederick, Prince of Wales: death, 351

Free Society of Artists, 383

Freeling, Francis, 144

French Revolution: and demand for necessities, 55-6; and atheism, 138-9

friendly societies
see
clubs (benefit)

Friendly Societies Act (1793), 31

Frith, William Powell:
Derby Day
(painting), 324, 413;
Life at the Seaside
(
Ramsgate Sands
(painting)), 413;
The Railway Station
(painting), 324, 413

Fuller, Francis, 8

furniture: wooden, 23

Furnivall, Frederick, 31n

Fuseli, Henry, 390

Gaiety Theatre, London, 340

Gainsborough, Thomas, 382, 384, 390, 393

Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, London, 275

Gamage’s department store, 488, 491

Gambart, Ernest, 411-13

gambling
see
betting

Garraway’s Coffee House, London, 56

Garrick, David, 237-40, 302, 327, 379

gas lighting, 301

Gaskell, Peter:
Artisans and Machinery
, 419

Gastineau, Benjamin, 251

Gastrell, Revd Francis, 236-7

Gay, John:
The Beggar’s Opera
, 348