The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (88 page)

dolly shops,
240

Dolly’s (chophouse),
300

Dombey, Edith (character,
Dombey and Son
),
408

Dombey, Florence (character,
Dombey and Son
),
129
,
171

Dombey, Mr (character,
Dombey and Son
),
64

Dombey and Son
(CD),
10
,
61
,
101
,
152
,
171
,
242

door-knocks,
86

Dorcas societies,
197
& n

Doré, Gustave,
420

Dorrit, Amy (character,
Little Dorrit
),
28
,
169
,
379
,
421
,
423

Dorrit, William (character,
Little Dorrit
),
175
,
177

d’Orsay, Alfred, Count,
98

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor,
59

Downing Street,
61

drains
see
sewers and drains

dress: Billingsgate workers,
126–7
; charity-school uniforms,
10
; Covent Garden traders,
124–6
; milkmen and milkmaids,
145
; prostitutes,
398
,
401–3
; street sellers,
145–6
; working-class,
146
& n

drinks: attitude to,
350
; facilities,
350–4
; seasonal,
287

drunkenness,
352

Drury Lane: character,
11
; churchyard,
219

duelling,
370–1

Duncannon Street,
270

dustmen,
50–1
& n,
145

Eagle pub, City Road,
274
,
405

Earl’s Sluice,
201

earthquake: predicted (1842),
307

East London Water Company,
210

Edinburgh: prostitutes in,
396

Edward, Prince of Wales (
later
King Edward VII): birth,
312
,
365
; eighteenth birthday celebrations,
365
; marriage,
308
; opens Crossness pumping station,
225
; visits Carrington,
371
; visits sites of fires,
331

Edwin Drood
(CD)
see Mystery of Edwin Drood, The

eels: as food,
282

Effra, river,
201

Egan, Pierce:
Life in London
,
98
n,
171–2
,
244
,
293
,
348
,
403

Egg, Augustus:
Past and Present
(triptych),
244

Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I,
268
n

Ellis and Blackmore (firm),
31
n,
32

Ely Place, Clerkenwell,
270
n

Embankment, the,
226–8
,
227

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
12

English Opera House, Covent Garden: fire (1830),
330

Enon Chapel scandal,
221

entertainers, popular,
252–9

epidemics,
215–16

Epping,
274

Esther (character)
see
Summerson, Esther

Euston railway station,
61
,
106–7

Evans, W.C.,
359

Evans’s (supper-singing room),
357–9
,
412

Exchange, The, Houndsditch,
137

Exchequer Coffee-House, Palace Yard, Westminster,
294

executions: crowd behaviour,
388–9
; last public,
391–2
; numbers,
386–8
; as punishment,
383–6
,
384

Fagin (character,
Oliver Twist
),
30
,
42
,
176
,
183
,
194
,
385

fairs,
278–80

Falconbrook (river),
201

Fang (character,
Oliver Twist
),
378

Farrell, William,
406

Farringdon: Ragged School Dormitory,
164

Farringdon Road,
76–7
,
189
,
202

Faucit, Elizabeth,
406

Fenchurch Street railway station,
106

Fenians,
390–1

Fenning, Eliza,
389

Field Lane
see
Saffron Hill

Finish coffee house, James Street,
407

Finsbury Park,
267

fire brigades: development and operation,
112
,
326–9
,
328

fires: attract crowds,
330–2
; domestic and institutional,
325
,
329–30
; Houses of Parliament (1834),
104
n,
330–1
; Tooley Street (1861),
111–18
,
112

fish: fried,
286
; marketing,
126–7

fish dinners,
276

Flash Chaunter, The
(songbook),
359

Flash Songster, The
(songbook),
359

flash-houses (for stolen goods),
378

Fleet Ditch: ruptures,
77

Fleet market,
47
; relocated,
76

Fleet prison,
172
,
173
,
175–6
,
178

Fleet, river and valley,
200–2

fog,
203–5

Follit’s Old Established Cigar Stores, near Portman Square,
295

food and cooking: eating houses,
290
,
296–303
; and eating outdoors,
23–4
,
280
,
281–4
; prices and payment,
299
& n,
302
; seasonal,
287
;
see also
coffee stalls

footmen,
86

Fordyce, John,
39
,
264

Forster, John: and CD in Switzerland,
8
; and CD’s unfinished autobiography,
4
; home address,
187
n; membership of Shakespeare club,
355
; portrayed as Podsnap,
190

Foster, Mr (of Chapel-court, Long Acre),
220

Fowler, Jane,
413

Fox, George,
220
n

free-and-easies
see
harmonic meetings

Frying-pan Alley, Field Lane,
186

Fulwood’s Rents, Holborn,
186

Furley, Mary,
419

Gallery of Illustrations,
337

gambling dens,
349

gangs,
372

Garibaldi, Giuseppe,
317
,
345
n

Garraway’s Coffee-House, Exchange Alley,
295

Garrick, the (pub),
357
,
363

gas: companies,
56
; explosions,
159
,
325
; street lighting,
53–6
,
88
;
see also
illuminations

Gavin, Hector,
37

Gay, John,
53
;
The Beggar’s Opera
,
183

General Board of Health,
214

General Steam Navigation Company,
68

George I, King: statue,
263

George II, King,
260

George III, King,
5
,
53
,
261

George IV, King (
earlier
Prince Regent),
6
,
53
,
264–6
,
272
n; unpopularity,
310

George, Mr (character,
Bleak House
),
262

George Reeves’ City Luncheon Rooms,
300
,
303

George’s Coffee-House,
295

gestures,
252

gin,
350

gin palaces,
353–4

Gladstone, William Ewart: blackmail attempt on,
263
; in first underground journey,
78

Glauber, Johann Rudolf,
242
n

Gliddon’s Divan,
295

Goding, Mr (brewer),
307

Godwin, George,
160
,
211

Golden Cross House,
268
n

Golden Lane,
182

Golden Square,
262

‘Gone Astray’ (CD; article),
7

gonoph: defined,
189
n

Goodered’s Flash Saloon,
360
& n

graveyards (cemeteries),
219
; new suburban,
222–3

Great Exhibition (1851),
102
,
366

Great Expectations
(CD): on chophouses,
299
; club in,
357
; describes Thames,
200
; on hardships,
4
; pub services in,
247
; on short-stagecoach,
69

Great Northern Railway,
76
,
107

Great Ormond Street Hospital,
198

Great Stink (1858),
223–5

‘Great Winglebury Duel, The’ (CD; story),
370

Green, Paddy,
359

Green Park: as Crown land,
260

Greenacre, James,
385

Greenwich: excursions to,
276
,
278
; Fair,
278–9

Greenwood, James,
24
& n,
132
,
198

Greville, Charles,
311
& n,
313
,
330

Grewgious, Mr (character,
Edwin Drood
),
205

Grey, Alice,
413

Grosvenor Estate,
264

Grosvenor, Lord Robert,
376

Grosvenor Square,
262

grubbers,
161

Guppy, Mr (character,
Bleak House
),
26
,
243
,
300

Guy Fawkes Night (5 November),
320–2

Gyngell’s theatre,
278

H., Mother (madam),
360
& n,
412

Hackney Brook,
200

hackney coaches,
39
,
79–80

Hackney Downs,
267

ham and beef shops,
289

Hammersmith Bridge,
64

Hammersmith and City line (underground),
78

Hampstead,
182

Hampstead Heath: ponds,
201–2
; walking on,
274

handbills,
244

Handford, Julius (character,
Our Mutual Friend
),
294

hangings
see
executions hansom cabs,
80–5

Hansom, Joseph,
80–1
& n

harmonic meetings (free-and-easies),
355–6
,
362

Harris’s
List of Covent Garden Ladies
,
404

Hastings, Henry Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of,
183

hats and caps: as social markers,
272–3

Havelock, Sir Henry,
272
n

Havisham, Miss (character,
Great Expectations
),
10

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
204
,
279

Haydon, Benjamin Robert,
203
,
331

Haymarket,
408
n,
409

Haynau, General Julius Jacob von,
345
n

Hay’s Wharf,
111
,
112

Heine, Heinrich,
59

Hékékyan, Joseph (Hékékyan Bey),
207
& n,
331
,
404

Hemyng, Bracebridge,
397

Herbert, Sidney,
276

Hexam, Gaffer (character,
Our Mutual Friend
),
10

Hicks, George Elgar:
The General Post Office, One Minute to Six
(painting),
155

Higden, Betty (character,
Our Mutual Friend
),
170

Highgate Cemetery,
223

Hints to Men About Town
,
350

hoaxes: Berners Street,
17–20

Hodges (distillery owner),
112–13

Hogarth, Mary: burial,
222

Hogarth, William,
263
;
Morning
(engraving),
359
n

hokey-pokey men,
287
& n

Holborn: noise,
31–2

Holborn Casino
see
Casino de Venise

Holborn Hill,
75

Holborn Viaduct: built,
62–3
,
62
; and Fleet river,
202
; opening,
315

Holborn Viaduct railway station,
106
n

holidays: and shop closures,
238

Holloway prison,
175
n

homosexuality: female,
414
n; punished,
382
; secrecy,
413–14

Hood, Thomas: ‘The Bridge of Sighs’,
419
,
420

Hook, Theodore,
19–20

Hornsey Wood,
274

Hornsey Wood House,
286

horseback riding,
64

Horsemonger Lane gaol,
383
,
385

horses: boys help with,
156
; and cabs,
82
,
84
; manure,
138
; and road surfaces,
33–5
; slaughtered and used,
138–9
; traffic problems,
45–6
,
48–9
; ubiquity and numbers,
138
,
140
; working hours,
28–9

Household Words
(magazine),
6
,
10
,
184
,
189
,
222
,
223
,
240
,
301

Houses of Parliament
see
Parliament