A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain (47 page)

Forth Bridge
120

Francatelli, Charles
58–9

France

Napoleonic Wars
53
,
229
,
307
,
309
,
311
,
336

as old enemy
336–8
,
340

Paris Exhibition (1867)
304

Franklin, Sir John
57

French Riviera
258–9

Frith, William Powell
248–9
,
250

frock coats
225
,
226

Froude, James Anthony
304

Fulton, Robert
124

furnishings
71
,
72
,
79
,
87
,
88–9
,
100

coil springs
90

lacquered (‘japanning’)
103

manufacturing
90–1

papier mâché
89–90

Galsworthy, John (
Forsyth Saga
)
xi
,
xxiii
,
76
,
109
,
324
,
341

gambling
259

games
see
sports;
specific sports

garrotting (suburban mugging)
49–50

gas cookers
58

gas heating
95–6

gas lighting
93

George III
2
,
15
,
28
,
111

George IV (Prince Regent)
2
,
3
,
194
,
247–8

George V
226

Georgian style
70–1
,
74
,
86
,
95

Germany
298
,
303
,
334

Royal Family connections
2
,
9
,
15
,
24
,
25
,
30

Gissing, George xvi

Gladstone, William
25–6
,
160
,
330

Glasgow School of Art
108

‘golden age’
xiii–xiv

golf
272–3

Gordon, General Charles
25
,
165
,
261
,
284
,
288
,
330

Gothic/medieval revival
77–80
,
81–2
,
88–9
,
92

Grace, W. G.
268

grain imports
56
,
254

Great Britain
(ship)
127

Great Eastern
(ship)
127–8

Great Exhibition (1851)
xix
,
82
,
83
,
87
,
134
,
281

Medieval Court
79

Prince Albert’s contributions to
11
,
18–19
,
35–6
,
77

Great Western Railway (GWR)
116–17
,
126
,
127

Great Western
(ship)
126–7

Greville, Charles
27

Grossmith, George and Weedon (
Diary of a Nobody
)
98–9
,
239
,
250

‘gunboat diplomacy’
306

hair styles

men
232–3

women
220–1

Hall, Sir Benjamin
136

ham sandwiches
67

Harmsworth, Alfred
284–5
,
294

hats

men
229–32
,
250
,
251

seaside
249
,
250
,
251

women
218–20
,
249
,
251

Haweis, Mrs Mary
72

Heal’s, Tottenham Court Road
90

health

resorts
252–3
,
258–9

see also
diseases

Helena, Princess
9–10

Henley Regatta
271–2

Henty, G. A.
294–5

Herbert, G.
143–4

Hetherington, John
230

Hibberd, Shirley
72

‘High Victorian’ taste
80

Highland troops
314
,
315
,
318–19

Hilliard, George Stillman
296–7

Hogg, Quentin
48

Holt, Sir Edward
106–7

homelessness
36

Hoover, Herbert, US President
240

hostesses
202–3

‘hourglass figure’
217–18

housing

improvements
35–6

and living conditions of the masses
32–5

Prince Albert’s ‘model dwellings’
11
,
35–6
,
77

tenements
77

workhouses
33
,
36–8

see also
architecture/interior design

Housman, Laurence
12
,
28
,
31

Hudson, George
119

Hughes, Molly
174
,
176–7
,
181–2
,
185

hymns
185–6

ice-cream
69

Illustrated London News
(ILN)
xii-xiii
,
110
,
231
,
280–1
,
283

Illustrated Police News
283

India
29
,
191
,
310

Cook’s tours
263

herbs and spices
63–4

India Act (1858)
321

Indian Army
274–5
,
311
,
320
,
321
,
322
,
329

Indian Mutiny
311
,
320–1
,
324
,
330–1

commemoration
162

Queen Victoria as symbolic war leader
19

Industrial Revolution
247
,
303

Inge, W. R. xvi

Ingram, Herbert
280

interior design
71–3

interior design
see
architecture/interior design

Italianate style
see
Classical/Italianate style

James, Henry
324

Jerome, Jerome K.
xxiv
,
257

Jones, Owen
92

Kaiser Wilhelm II
31
,
150–1
,
199
,
288

Keble, John
158–9

Kelmscott Press, Oxfordshire
105–6

Kensington Palace Gardens
83

Kent, Duchess of (Victoria, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld)
2–3
,
4
,
20

Kent, Duke of (Prince Edward)
2–3
,
19

‘kept women’
41

Khartoum, siege of
330
,
331

Kipling, Rudyard
305
,
333–4

Kitchener, General
331
,
332
,
335

kitchens
58
,
85
,
86–7

Kruger, Paul
335

Landseer, Edwin
27

lavatories
96
,
101

counting houses
242

water closets
97–8

lavatory paper
98

leaving cards
196
,
198
,
200–2
,
205

Leech, John
287

Leon Bollee
152

Leopold, King of Belgium
4
,
7
,
8
,
9

Leopold, Prince
9–10
,
18

Lethaby, Dr
33–4

libraries
290–1

Lincoln, Abraham
230

Linley Sambourne House, Kensington
99–100
,
101

Livingstone, David
165
,
229

locomotives
122

London

railway termini
120–1
,
124

rookeries
34–5

London and Birmingham railway
116

London Library
291

London and Scotland railway
123

Longford, Elizabeth
18

Louis-Philippe, King of France
12
,
337

Louise, Princess
9–10

Lucan, Lord
312

Lucas, Charles Davis
317

Lucknow
321

Lukas, John
xxiii

Macadam, John
112

MacDonald, General Hector
325–6

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
108

Macmillan, Kirkpatrick
143

MacNicol, Bessie
220

magazines
283
,
286
,
294

Maidenhead
257

mail coaches
111–12
,
113–14

Malmesbury, Lord
13

Manning, Henry
160

Maple’s, Tottenham Court Road
90

margarine (‘butterine’)
53

marriage

and sexual behaviour
209
,
210

and spinsterhood
212–14

see also
courting

Marshall, Agnes Bertha
69

May, Phil
250
,
288

Mayhew, Henry
38
,
66–7
,
68

meat
52–3
,
54
,
60
,
67

preservation and transportation
57–8

Medieval Court, Great Exhibition (1851)
79

medieval/Gothic revival
77–80
,
81–2
,
88–9
,
92

Melbourne, Lord
6
,
8
,
159

messengers
239–40

Methodists
see
Nonconformists

Metropolitan Police
41
,
48–9

‘Metropolitan Railway’
139–41

Michaux, Ernest and Pierre
143
,
145

Midland Grand Hotel, St Pancras
81

milk
55
,
56

missionaries/missions
166–7
,
189–92

Monte Carlo
259

Moody, Dwight
189–90
,
191

morning calls
see
social calls

morning coats
227

Morning Star
279–80

Morris, Tom
273

Morris, William
71
,
104–6

Moule, Reverend Mr
97

Mudie’s (library), Oxford Street
290–1

muffin man
68–9

Muir, Augustus
144

Napoleon III
12
,
337

Napoleonic Wars
53
,
229
,
307
,
309
,
311
,
336

Nash, John
75
,
76

National Days of Fasting and Humiliation
161–2

Navigation Act, repeal of (1849)
127

New Art
108

New Journalism
284–5

Newman, John Henry
159

Nicolas I, Tsar of Russia
34
,
313

Nightingale, Florence
316

Nonconformists
163–4
,
165
,
166
,
169–70
,
178

Northumberland, Duke of
117

officers and gentlemen
324–8

Olympic Games
277

Omdurman, battle of (1898)
331

omnibuses
131–5

opium wars
307

Orchard, B. G.
238–9

ornamentation
71–3
,
79
,
87
,
88
,
89–91
,
92–4
,
100–1
,
103
,
105–6
,
108

Orrinsmith, Mrs Lucy
72

Osborne House, Isle of Wight
11
,
12
,
13
,
14
,
21
,
27
,
248

Osri, Joseph
134

Ottoman Empire
306–7
,
313

Oxford and Cambridge

Boat Race
255
,
271
,
272

football match
269

Oxford, Keble College
81
,
170

Oxford Movement
158–9
,
160

oysters
68

paddle-steamers
124–5
,
126

Palace of Westminster
78–9

Pall Mall Gazette
284

Palmerston, Lord
12
,
20
,
24
,
160
,
306–7

‘Palmerston Forts’, Portsmouth
337–8

papers
278–80

comic
286–8

edifying
288–9

entertaining
284–6

pictorial
280–3

war reports
315–16

Parsons, Charles
128

Paxton, Joseph
139

Peabody, George
36

Pearson, Charles
139–40

Peel, Sir Robert
6
,
13

‘penny dreadfuls’
293

‘penny farthings’
145–6

philanthropy/charity
35–6
,
46–8
,
59–60
,
156
,
160
,
165
,
167–8

photography
281
,
283

and Royal Family
16
,
18

pies
68

Pitman, Isaac
241

plate-glass windows
87

polo
274–5
,
324–5

postcards
252

potatoes
68

poverty

diet
53–4
,
65
,
66–9

living conditions
32–5