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Authors: Judith Flanders
Beard, Mrs (of Brighton), 307–8
Beaumont, Barber, 30
Beaumont, Sir George, 202n
Beetmoor, Jane, 446
Beeton’s Christmas Magazine,
316
Belfast News-Letter,
134, 459
Belgravia
(magazine), 281
Bell, F. (of Thirsk), 287
Bell, Dr Joseph, 398
Bellew, Revd J.C.M., 120
Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle,
36, 38, 97, 214, 316, 326, 330
Benedict, Julius:
The Lily of Killarney,
139
Benjamin, Walter, 387
Bentinck, Lord George, 263
Bentley’s Miscellany,
111
Berg, Alban:
Lulu
(opera), 462n
Bermondsey tragedy
see
Manning, Frederick George and Maria
Bertha Grey, the Pauper Child
(play), 217
Bird, Robert and Sarah, 213–14, 216
Birmingham: police commissioner
appointed, 148
Birmingham Post,
120
Bishop (murderer of Ferrari), 71
Black Bess, or, The Knight of the Road (penny-blood), 109–10
Black Monday riots (February 1886), 429
Blackwood, Helen, 300
Blackwood, John, 284, 286
Blackwood’s
magazine, 69, 284, 289n, 362
Blake, Amina, 357
Blake, Robert, 357–9, 362
Blake, Robert, jr, 357
Blanchard, Laman, 48n
Blanchard, Leman, 32n, 48n, 71
Blanchard, William, 32n
Blantyre, Lady Evelyn, 158
Bloody Sunday (November 1887), 429, 432
Book of Remarkable Trials, The,
130
Boothby, Guy:
The Lust of Hate,
465
Borowitz, Albert, 171n
Borrow, George:
Lavengro,
22–3, 101–2n;
Romany Rye,
40
Boucicault, Dion: acting, 130–32;
The Colleen Bawn,
89–90, 130–33, 136–7;
The Corsican Brothers,
129–30;
The Long Strike,
89–91
Bousfield, William, 207
Bow Street Runners, 13–14, 21, 77
Boy Detective, The
(penny-dreadful),
268, 301, 377–8, 464
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 281, 362, 375;
Aurora Floyd,
273, 370;
Birds of Prey,
273;
The Black Band, or, The Mysteries of Midnight,
180–81;
Charlotte’s Inheritance,
256, 273;
The Doctor’s Wife,
370;
Lady Audley’s Secret,
296–7, 301, 302n;
One Life, One Love,
122–3, 204n;
Thou Art the Man,
453–4;
The Trail of the Serpent,
256, 282, 290,
294n, 378
Bradford, Jonathan, 123–30, 176
Brewer, J.F.:
The Curse upon Mitre
Square,
452–3
Briggs, Thomas, 333–5
Brighton: and Christiana Edmunds poison case, 307–10
Bristol: riots over 1831 Reform Bill, 325n
Bristol Mercury,
30, 212, 239, 361
Britain: riots and disorder, 77, 79, 140, 429
Britannia Theatre, London, 57, 71, 88, 125n, 137, 182, 198, 378, 385
British Critic
(journal), 191
British Mother’s Magazine,
281
British Star
(Greek weekly), 270n
Brixton House of Correction, 96
broadsides and pamphlets: popularity, 4–5, 39–40, 64, 167–8; and false stories (‘cocks’), 231n; proliferation, 327, 349; cease, 355, 367; revived for Mary Ann Cotton, 393
Brodie, Sir Benjamin, 279
Brooks, Louise, 462n
Brown, Clara, 345–7
Brown, Elizabeth Martha, 171, 277–8, 359–62
Brown, Hannah
(née
Gay), 93–7
Brown, Janet, 63
Brown, John Anthony, 359–60
Browne, Hablot Knight
see
‘Phiz’
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 173
Browning, Robert, 44, 173
Buckstone, J.B.:
Vidocq, the French Police Spy
(play), 15
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, Baron: name and career, 43n; criticized and mocked, 112–13;
Eugene Aram,
42, 104–6, 108, 113–15, 117–18, 121–2, 339;
Lucretia,
245, 253–4;
Paul Clifford,
43, 108, 111–12;
Pelham,
42
Burdock, Mary Ann, 324–9
Burgess, Francis, 148
burial societies and clubs, 227–31, 243
Burke, William: kills and sells bodies with Hare, 62–6, 433; execution, 67; anatomized, 68; popular accounts of, 68–75; and policing, 77; in Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors, 173; and Madeleine Smith case, 286–7
Burney, Admiral James, 104, 106
Burns, Robert, 120n
Burton, J.H.: Narratives from Criminal
Trials in Scotland,
290
Bury Herald,
157
Butcher, Susan, 141, 143, 146
Butterfield, Mrs
(earlier
Richardson), 343–6
Butterfield, Revd Mr, 343, 346
Byron, Henry J.:
Miss Eily O’Connor. A New and Original Burlesque,
138
Caigniez, Louis-Charles:
La Pie Voleuse,
196
Calcraft, William, 205, 207, 393
Caledonian Mercury,
5, 30, 35, 67, 287
Cameron, Christina Broun:
Not Proven,
373
capital punishment: campaign for
abolition, 194–5, 330
Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 97, 283
Carlyle, Thomas, 43–4, 97, 120n, 171, 231
Casablanca, Mr (of Penge), 344
Catnach, James, 42
Cato Street conspirators, 173, 205
Cavour, Ch.V.
see
Xenos, Stephanos
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal,
177, 254, 284, 295, 299
Champion and Weekly Herald,
94
Chaplin, W., 49–50
Chapman, Annie, 426–7, 429–33
Chard, Lucy, 210
Chesham, Richard, 241
Chesham, Sarah, 239–42, 244–5
Chestney, Eliza, 151, 153–4, 287
Child (Bungay artist), 55
children: and burial money, 227–31; murdered, 357–8, 362–3; popular fiction for, 378;
see also
infanticide
cholera: epidemic (1848–9), 157–8, 217; in Drouet’s asylum (Tooting), 219–20; source identified, 226n
Clare, John, 70
Clark, Daniel, 99–101, 104–7, 113, 120n
Clarke, Edward, 313–15, 317, 345–6, 349
Clarke, John, 15]
class (social): and public interest in
crime, 357;
see also
middle classes; working classes
Clements (Alton attorney), 381
Clive, Caroline:
Paul Ferroll,
118, 255, 289, 319n
Cobbett, Richard, 43
Cobbett, William, 43
Coburg Theatre, London
(later
the Royal Victoria,
then
the Old Vic), 30 & n, 31–2, 42, 115, 137, 199, 322–3
Cold Bath Field riot (1833), 79–81, 140
Cole, Mrs (of Brighton), 307
Colleen Bawn, The, or, The Collegian’s Wife
(anon. play), 137;
see also
Boucicault, Dion
Collins, C.J., 269
Collins, Wilkie, 366n, 375, 438;
Armadale,
291, 298, 302–4, 367, 375; ‘The Diary of Anne Rodway’, 298;
The Haunted Hotel,
256;
The Law and the Lady,
290, 297;
The Moonstone,
256, 289, 294n, 304–5, 374–9, 385;
My Lady’s Money,
438; ‘The Poisoned Meal’, 199–200;
Poor Miss Finch,
291; ‘A Terribly Strange Bed’, 295;
The Woman in White,
132, 181, 200, 232, 289–93, 296–7
Colquhoun, Patrick, 13–14, 42;
The Police of London,
14–15
Combe, George, 68
confessions, 237–8
Cook, John, 259–60, 262–3, 265–6, 269, 271
copyright: on novels, 108n
Corder, William: and murder of Maria Marten, 45–54; body displayed and anatomized, 55–6; popular literature and melodramas on, 60–61, 166; and policing, 77; in Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors, 173; newspaper reaction to, 187
Corn Laws, 192
Cornhill
(magazine), 281
coroners: qualifications, 195
Coroners’ Society, 234 corpses: stolen from cemeteries, 62;
see also
resurrection men
Cotton, Charles Edward, 388–9
Cotton, Frederick, 388–9
Cotton, Mary Ann, 315, 387–94, 415
Country Life Illustrated,
355
Courtney, Sir William
see
Thom, John
Courvoisier, Benjamin-François: execution, 172n, 205, 207–9; murders Lord William Russell, 200–202; trial and conviction, 202–3; mementoes, 350
Creighton (or Crighton), Mr, 405
crime-writing
see
detective fiction; sensation-fiction
Cruikshank, Robert, 79, 111
Culley, Police Constable Robert, 79
Cushla Ma Chree
(anon. play), 137
Daily Chronicle, 441
Daily News:
on cholera at Drouet’s, 107; on renaming London streets, 107; on execution of Sarah Thomas, 213; on Palmer and insurance transactions, 269n; on trips to Rugeley, 271; on Smethurst verdict, 276–8, 289; Le Gallienne writes on Richard Price in, 355; on wife-murders, 361; crime reporting, 391; on Hambrough, 397; on Monson, 399; ignores Lipski case, 419; on Jack the Ripper, 425, 458
Daily Telegraph:
price and circulation, 262, 426; questions Smethurst verdict, 276; on Christiana Edmunds, 310; on Wainwright, 339; campaign against Mrs Staunton verdict, 348; campaign against Lipski sentence, 420; euphemism on rape, 430; on Jack the Ripper, 440–41, 451; opposes stage horrors, 446
Dalton, S., 55
D’Arc’s Waxworks, Cardiff, 452
Davies, Mary, 359
Davis, Mr (cabinetmaker), 92
Day, Alice, 337, 341
Dazley (or Dazeley), Sarah, 235–7, 315
Dazley (or Dazeley), William, 235
Death, Mr (witness), 333–4
death penalty: for murder, 166
Delf, Thomas
see
Martel, Charles
Derby Mercury,
29, 115
detection and detectives: Vidocq introduces, 14–15; by police, 91–2, 429; Dickens on, 176–8; women and, 298–9, 380–81; and social class, 305–6; boys as, 377–8; and disguise, 386–7, 438; effectiveness, 466
detective fiction, 87n, 176–9, 289, 294–306, 369, 373, 375–81;
see also
Holmes, Sherlock; sensation-fiction
Dickens, Charles: and Ratcliffe Highway murders, 10; sees
La Rentrée à Paris
(play), 90; murder in, 112n; and Moncrieff’s stage adaptations, 125n; visits Rush’s Potash Farm, 153; as source for melodramas, 156; attends execution of Mannings, 170, 172; attends Courvoisier execution, 172n, 205, 209; eulogizes new detective force, 176–8; writes on Mannings, 176–80; on hanging of Eliza Fenning, 190n; on Courvoisier, 203; and
Drouet asylum deaths, 221–2; interest in Wainewright, 252–3, 255–6; on Smethurst, 279–80; on Palmer, 280; on Constance Kent case, 366n; depicts professional policemen, 375; public readings, 384–5;
Bleak House,
87n, 176, 178–9, 204n, 215, 222, 295, 298;
David Copperfield,
222; ‘A Detective Police Party’, 176, 178;
Dombey and Son,
10;
Edwin Drood,
278, 374, 385, 423;
Great Expectations,
203, 289n, 386n; ‘The Holly Tree Inn’, 128; ‘Hunted Down’, 252, 255–6, 297, 311n;
Little Dorrit,
201n, 255, 290;
Martin Chuzzlewit,
156, 177, 252, 299;
Nicholas Nickleby,
125n, 222, 385;
Oliver Twist
(book and
dramatization), 111–15, 117, 156, 177, 305; reading from, 385;
Our Mutual Friend,
25n, 118–19, 304;
The Pickwick Papers,
69, 125n; ‘A Recorder’s Charge’, 221;
A Tale of Two Cities,
281
disguise: by detectives, 386–7, 438
Disraeli, Benjamin:
Sybil,
231
Dixon, A., 120
Docherty, Mrs (Burke and Hare victim), 64–5, 287
Dog Detective, The: A Dramatic Sketch, 381
Dogs of the Plantation, The (marionette show), 180
Doings of William Palmer, The (pamphlet), 263
Dolly and the Rat
(burlesque), 197
Donizetti, Gaetano:
Gemma di Vergy,
271;
Lucrezia Borgia,
282, 293
Douglas, Lord Alfred, 120
Douhault, Marquise de, 290–91
Dowling, Richard:
Tempest-Driven,
318
Doyle, (Sir) Arthur Conan, 267, 300n, 351, 371; ‘The Adventure of the Cardboard Box’, 448n; ‘The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb’, 295n; The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter’, 464; ‘The Adventure of the Norwood Builder’, 465; ‘The Adventure of the Red-Headed League’, 438; ‘The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax’, 351;
The Hound of the Baskervilles,
221; ‘My Friend the Murderer’, 73; ‘The Naval Treaty’, 376n;
The Return of Sherlock Holmes,
387;
The Sign of Four,
267, 439, 455;
A Study in Scarlet,
343, 438–9, 441;
see also
Holmes, Sherlock
Doyle, Richard, 164, 165
Drouet, Bartholomew Peter: keeps children’s asylum, 218–22
Drury Lane Theatre, London, 124, 138
Dublin: Fitzball’s
Jonathan Bradford
staged in, 127
Dudley, John William Ward, 1st Earl of, 17
Duff, Andrew Halliday:
The Colleen Bawn Settled at Last,
138
Duke of York’s Theatre, London, 350
Duval, Claude, 59
Dyson, Revd George, 312–14, 317–18
Eagle Insurance Company, 253, 255–6
East London Advertiser,
454
East London Observer,
441
Eayres (forger), 354
Echo,
425–6
Eddowes, Catherine, 426, 439–41, 448, 452–3, 458
Eden, Emily:
The Semi-Detached House,
280
Edinburgh Annual Register, 7, 9
Edinburgh Evening Courant (newspaper), 67–8
Edinburgh Review,
112
Edmunds, Christiana, 307–11
Effingham Theatre, London, 378