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Aaron, Jane, 3, 40, 83, 84 in, 1830s, 45
Ackroyd, Peter, 136 ‘King of Cockaigne’, 35
Addison, Joseph, 123–4 launched, 34–5
aestheticism, 4–5, 8, 11, 16–17, 35–6, 58, Blake, William, 4, 122
61, 67, 128 ‘The Chimney Sweeper’, 129, 130, 131
Albion, 46, 48, 50, 51 ‘The Human Abstract’, 141
Alcock, Mary, 132 ‘London’, 183
Anti-Jacobin, 29, 46 Blakesware, Hertfordshire, 88, 108, 109–10,
anxiety, 3, 6, 12, 19–20, 21–6, 24, 30, 52, 119
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105, 179–81 Bloom, Harold, 180
Arnold, Matthew, 73 books, 13–14, 15–16, 43–4
Arundel Castle, 135 London book market, 29, 45
Athenaeum, 175 see also readers and reading
Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey, 111 Boswell, James, 60, 183
Persuasion, 109 Bourne, Vincent, 140
authorship, 8–9, 15–17, 18, 20, 21–3, 25, Brake, Laurel, 3
78, 177, 180–1 British Critic, 34
anonymity, 38 Browne, Sir Thomas, 13–14, 36, 43, 100
identity, 21 Religio Medici, 41
see also periodicals, writing for Burke, Sean, 181
Butler, Marilyn, 30
Baer, Marc, 150 Byng, John, 87, 88, 109
Bannister, John, 170, 172
Bartholomew Fair, 135–6, 137, 141, 151, Caroline, Queen, 13, 65–6, 67, 68, 73, 74
183 Champion, 33
Baudelaire, Charles, 55, 59, 83, 84, 85 charity, 98, 99, 121, 123–4, 132–3, 136,
Bauer, Josephine, 2 144–8
beggars, 58, 84, 121, 123–5, 137–44, 146–7 Chatman, Seymour, 163
Bensley, Robert, 162, 167–8 children and childhood, 68, 69, 70–3, 74,
Bentham, Jeremy, 138 75, 98, 122, 133, 136, 153, 154
Bible, 75 chimney-sweeps, 123, 125, 127, 128,
Blackwood’s, 6 129–32
‘Chaldee Manuscript’, 35 ‘Dream-Children’, 84, 88, 97, 105, 107,
dispute with London Magazine, 20, 21, 108, 111, 112–14, 115, 118–19
29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34–9, 41–2, 44, education, 98, 99–100
45–6, 104 of the poor, 99, 125
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children’s literature, 13, 97–8, 132 criticism, 16, 43, 44, 186
chimney-sweeps, 121–2, 126–8, 129–37 of Lamb, 17
feast at St Bartholomew’s Fair, 135–6, periodical, 3, 28–34, 45–7
137, 155 Romantic, 165
Christie, John, 20, 34 Cronin, Richard, 14, 127
Christ’s Hospital, 13, 42, 73, 91, 96–7, crowds, 22–3, 28, 55, 63, 85–6, 139, 141,
98–103, 116, 156 151, 167, 182
cities, 1–2, 9, 12, 16, 86, 101, 181–6 Cunningham, Allan, 111, 129–30
and country, 55–63, 100–1
and theatre, 5, 144–7, 149–51, 169–70 Dart, Gregory, 21–2, 36, 39–40
see also London; metropolis; metropoli- De Obaldia, Claire, 82
tanism De Quincey, Thomas, 17, 31
Clare, John, 26 ‘Confessions of an English Opium-Eater’,
‘Farewell to Mary’, 69 4, 7, 12, 16, 17, 23, 31, 35, 55, 56, 76,
‘Sonnet to Elia’, 2 77, 79–80, 179, 183
Cobbett, William, Rural Rides, 87, 88, 123 ‘On Murder’, 4–5
Cockney School and Cockneyism, 17, de Staël, Madame, 74–5, 76
19–22, 34–40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 52–3, 75 Dickens, Charles
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 8, 28, 30, 35, 55, ‘Astleys’, 149
61–2, 84, 114, 146–7, 180 Oliver Twist, 183
Biographia Literaria, 30
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Dodd, James, 167, 168–9
at Christ’s Hospital, 98–9, 101, 102
Doyle, Conan, Beyond the City, 87
home at Keswick, 60
Drury Lane, 163, 166
on Jacobins, 46
Old Drury theatre, 153, 154–5
Kubla Khan, 76, 77
Dyer, George, 9, 89, 93–6, 99
Lamb’s letters to, 58–9
on theatre, 166–7 East India House, 57, 61
‘This Lime Tree Bower my Prison’, 12, 55, Edinburgh Review, 21, 24, 30, 35, 121
57–9, 97 education, 98, 99–100
Colman, George, John Bull, 172
Egan, Pierce, Life in London, 5, 145–6, 147,
comedy, 155–7, 160–1, 167–75
179
see also fools; pantomime
stage adaptation, 150
Congreve, William, 173
Elgin Marbles, 142–3
Love for Love, 170
‘Elia’ (pseudonym of Lamb)
The Way of the World, 172
consumerism, 4–5, 17, 20, 26, 61, 86, 90, 93, ‘A Character of the Late Elia’, 41
134, 156 ‘death’, 114–15
copyright, 28 identity, 4, 8–9, 11–12, 15, 24, 55,
Cornwall, Barry 89–91, 96–7, 103–5, 163
‘The Cider Cellar’, 2 name, 61–2
‘A Dream’, 77 Elia, F. Augustus, 12
‘The Memoir of a Hypochondriac’, 2 Elliston, Robert, 170
Correggio, 81, 83 Elwin, Malcolm, 6
country houses, 86, 105–11 Empedocles, 158
Covent Garden, 152, 166 Englishman’s Magazine, 47, 170
Coventry, Thomas, 168 Epstein Nord, Deborah, 121–2, 146
Cox, Jeffrey, 19, 31 essay form, 9–11, 14, 15–16, 61,
62, 105
Index 213
Examiner, 22, 31, 33, 39, 92, 155, 161, 166, Higgins, David, 22, 24, 28
175 Hogarth, William, 135, 175, 176–7
‘March to Finchley’, 133, 134, 183
Fenwick, John, 46, 50, 51, 136 Hogg, James, 35, 111
fiction, 3, 43 Hood, Thomas, 13, 57
Field, Mary, 108, 112, 113 ‘The Lion’s Head’, 26, 126
Fielde, Francis, 153 ‘Moral Reflections’, 126
fools, 12, 155–62, 163, 168–9, 174, 175 Houghton, Bedfordshire, 109
Fox, Charles James, 125 Huguenots, 67
Frank, Robert, 3, 27 Hunt, Leigh, 9, 17, 19, 22, 31, 32, 34, 36–7,
French Revolution, 46, 50 53, 80, 99, 161, 179
‘Account of a Familiar Spirit’, 4
Garrick, David, 164, 167, 168 on Edmund Kean, 166
Gatrell, Vic, 135, 137, 170 in ‘King of Cockaigne’, 35, 36–7
Gentleman’s Magazine, 98 on Munden, 175
George IV, King, 69 ‘On Getting Up on Cold Mornings’, 4,
Gifford, William, 29 36
Gillray, James, 46, 183 on pantomime, 161
Gilston Park, 108, 109 review of Lamb’s Works, 33, 104
Godwin, William, 51, 66, 125, 138–9, 175 ‘Success of Periodicals’, 45, 47
Antonio, 174–5
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Goldsmith, Oliver, The Citizen of the World, imperialism, 103
144–5 Indicator, 33, 36, 104, 154
Gothic, 88, 105, 107–8, 109–10, 111–14, Industrial Revolution, 99, 123
115, 117–19, 183 Inner Temple, London, 60, 68–73, 117, 132,
Grimaldi, 156 154, 173–4
irony, 17–18, 44, 78, 111, 122, 156, 162,
Hazlitt, William, 3, 5, 19, 21, 25, 52–3, 63, 179–80, 184
158, 161 Iser, Wolfgang, 163
on Elgin Marbles, 142–3
‘The Fight’, 4 Jacobinism, 46, 47, 50
on Edmund Kean, 166, 167 Jacobus, Mary, 177
Lectures on the English Comic Writers, Jarvis, Robin, 80
157, 173 Jeffrey, Francis, 30, 31
on Munden, 175 Jews, 42
‘My First Acquaintance with Poets’, 4, 17 Johnson, Matthew, 118–19
‘On the Conversation of Authors’, 89 Johnson, Samuel, 10
‘On Going a Journey’, 105–6 Kean, Edmund, 149, 166, 167
‘On Londoners and Country People’, Keats, John, 8, 31, 34, 66, 129
16–17, 35, 38–40, 41, 53, 102 Kemble, Charles, 164, 166, 174
‘On the New School of Reform’, 124 Keswick, 60
‘The Periodical Press’, 30 Klancher, Jon, 5, 23
Reply to Malthus, 124
Spirit of the Age, 1, 2, 23, 34, 179 Lake District, 60–1, 62, 76
Table Talk, 10–11, 92 Lake School, 5, 20, 30–1, 34, 52, 55, 61, 88,
on theatre, 169 105
Heller, Janet Ruth, 163 Lamb, Charles
Hertfordshire, 86, 105–11, 153 biography, 56–7, 60, 61, 68, 69, 85, 185
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letters, 57, 58–9, 60, 61, 62, 76, 78, ‘My First Play’, 13, 48, 132, 151, 152–5,
109–10 165, 167
pseudonyms see ‘Elia’; ‘Lepus’; ‘Phil-Elia’ ‘My Relations’, 84
‘All Fool’s Day’, 13, 155–61 ‘New Year’s Eve’, 36, 57, 62, 159
‘Autobiography of Mr. Munden’, 175–6, ‘Newspapers Thirty-Five Years Ago’, 21,
177 45, 47–52, 63, 64–5, 67, 68
‘Blakesmoor, in H—shire’, 86, 107–10, ‘No Man’s Time’, 49–50
111, 114–19, 154, 167 ‘The Old Actors’, 33
‘Captain Jackson’, 137 ‘The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple’,
‘A Chapter on Ears’, 9, 81, 104 48, 56, 69–74, 97, 104–5, 116
‘A Character of the Late Elia’, 8, 41, 114 ‘Old China’, 82, 83
‘Child-angel’, 83–4 ‘The Old and the New Schoolmaster’, 15,
‘Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years 162, 174
Ago’, 48, 96–8 ‘On the Acting of Garrick and the Plays
‘A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars’, of Shakspeare’, 162, 163–5, 167, 168
7–8, 58, 84, 121, 137–144, 146–7, ‘On Christ’s Hospital, and the Character’,
174 98, 99–100
‘Confessions of a Drunkard’, 7, 56, 76, ‘On the Genius and Character of Hoga-
77–9, 147 rth’, 134, 176, 177
‘On Magazine Writers’, 25–6
‘The Convalescent’, 40, 83, 84
‘On Some of the Old Actors’, 167–73
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‘The Death of Munden’, 175, 176
‘On the Total Defect of the Faculty’,
‘Detached Thoughts on Books and Read-
47–51
ing’, 6, 14, 15, 21, 25, 40, 43–4, 47,
‘On the Tragedies of Shakspeare’, 164–5,
84, 156
167, 168
‘A Dissertation upon Roast Pig’, 59, 136,
‘Oxford in the Vacation’, 8, 9, 15, 24, 27,
159, 160
44, 88–9, 91–6, 116, 117
‘Distant Correspondents’, 127–8
‘Play-house Memoranda’, 155
‘Dream-Children’, 84, 88, 97, 105, 107, ‘Poor Relations’, 40, 136–7
108, 111, 112–14, 115, 118–19 ‘The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers’, 7, 13,
‘Edax on Appetite’, 59, 78 16, 84, 121–2, 130–7, 138
‘Essay on Munden’, 34 ‘Readers against the Grain’, 15, 29
Essays, 3 ‘Recollections of Christ’s Hospital’, 96
The Essays of Elia, 34, 94 ‘Recollections of the South-Sea House’, 8,
‘Guy Faux’, 160 12, 15, 48, 56, 62–8, 89–90, 168
‘Imperfect Dramatic Illusion’, 169 ‘Reminiscences of Elliston’, 170
‘Jews, Quakers, Scotchmen, and other ‘Re-prints of ELIA’, 78
Imperfect Sympathies’, 8, 16, 21, 33, review of Table Talk, 10–11
36, 39, 40, 41–3, 44, 83, 100 Rosamund Gray, 12, 109, 111, 118
Last Essays, 3, 47, 52, 86 ‘The Superannuated Man’, 28, 85–6, 141,
‘The Last Peach’, 110–11 159, 162
‘The Lion’s Head’, 97, 104, 114–15 ‘A Sylvan Surprise’, 134
‘Mackery End, in Hertfordshire’, 81, 86, Tales from Shakespeare, 163
106–8 ‘That my Lord Shaftesbury and Sir
‘Mortifications of an Author’, 24–5 William Temple are Models of the
Mr H., 163 Genteel Style’, 27–8, 41, 47
‘Mrs Battle’s Opinions on Whist’, 27, 83, ‘The Two Races of Men’, 14, 44, 50, 84,
132, 154–5, 159 136
Index 215
‘What is Jacobinism’, 46 London Society for the Suppression of
‘Witches and other Night-Fears’, 7, 10, Mendicity, 137–8, 139, 141, 142,
35, 56, 70, 74–7, 82, 110, 135, 140, 146–7
147, 154, 173, 176 London Society of Master Sweeps, 125
Works, 33, 34, 96
‘Written at Cambridge’, 89, 91–2 McFarland, Thomas, 61–2
Lamb, Elizabeth (mother), 56 McGann, Jerome, 3, 184
Lamb, John (father), 71, 75 Mackery End, Hertfordshire, 81, 86, 88, 89,
Lamb, Mary (sister), 12, 56, 58, 118 105, 106–7, 113
‘The Young Mahometan’, 110, 111 Mackintosh, James, 51
Langan, Celeste, 57–8, 80 Macpherson, James, 63–4
Lees, Loretta, 16, 183 ‘Carthon’, 64
‘Lepus’ (pseudonym of Lamb), 24–5, 29, 30 magazines see periodicals; individual titles
Liberal, 4 Malthus, Thomas, 123, 125
Lockhart, J. G., 22, 30–1, 34, 35 Manning, Peter J., 6
London, 2, 55, 59–60, 62–3, 80, 85, 89, 97, Manning, Thomas, 60, 61, 62
Marsh, Nicholas, 130
99–100, 101, 122, 182, 184
Marvell, Andrew, ‘The Garden’, 70,
book market, 29, 45
116–17
Common Council of City of, 98
Maturin, Charles Robert, 111
growth, 87, 123
metropolis, 1, 4, 8, 13, 16–17, 18, 67–8,
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history, 67
69–70, 86, 87–8, 98, 103, 122, 137,
Lambs’ homes, 56–7, 61
144, 147–8, 180–1
in literature, 16, 31
see also cities; London
theatre, 149–56
metropolitanism, 2–14, 17, 20, 55–6, 62,
see also metropolis
79–80, 88, 101–2, 105, 106–7, 122,
London Magazine, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15,
159, 179–81, 186
23, 25, 40, 52, 55–6, 60, 65–6, 73,
Milton, John, 14, 93
74, 76, 79, 88, 89, 93, 96, 97, 104–5,
Paradise Lost, 158
110–11, 119, 158, 175
Monsman, Gerald, 77
dispute with Blackwood’s, 20, 21, 29, 30,
Montgomery, James, 122, 129–30,
31–41, 42, 44, 45–6, 104
131, 132
‘The Lion’s Head’, 26, 96, 97, 104, 112, Monthly Magazine, 29
114–15, 126 Moody, Jane, 150–1, 156
launched, January 1820, 2, 26–7, 169 Moore, Thomas, 84
November 1820, 96, 97 Morning Chronicle, 48
December 1820, 96 Morning Post, 46, 46, 48–50,
September, 1821, 68–9 51–2, 59
December, 1821, 151–2 Moxon, Edward, 47
January 1822, 111–12 Munden, Joseph, 175–6, 177
February 1822, 142
May, 1822, 126, 127 Nabholt, John, 3, 63, 90, 94, 96
August, 1822, 78 Natarajan, Uttara, 11
October 1822, 175 nature, 60, 61
January 1823, 114 New Monthly Magazine, 4, 21, 27,
September 1824, 114–15 38, 105
February 1825, 175 New Times, 24–5
July, 1825, 124 Newlyn, Lucy, 30
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newspapers, 14, 45–6, 47, 48, 49 Quarterly Review, 6, 21, 29, 32, 35, 78
‘Newspapers Thirty-Five Years Ago’, 21,
readers and reading, 14–16, 23, 27, 28–30,
45, 47–52, 63, 64–5, 67, 68
33, 43–4, 89–91, 130, 148, 162, 163,
see also individual titles
179, 185–6
anti-theatrical, 163–7
Old Drury theatre, 153, 154–5
see also books; periodicals
Palmer, John, 153, 167 Redding, Cyrus, 122
Reflector, 4, 33, 134, 162, 163, 176
pantomime, 59, 154, 155–6, 161
Reiman, Donald, 130
Parker, Mark, 5–6, 23, 65–6, 68, 73, 78–9 Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condi-
parody, 10, 39, 44, 76, 79, 127 tion … of the Poor, 171
Gothic, 111 reviews, 29–34, 45
Shelley, 31 Reynolds, G. W. M., The Mysteries of Lon-
Swift, 128–9 don, 183
pastoral, 1, 70, 73, 95, 101, 106, 118 Reynolds, John Hamilton
Patmore, P. G., 21, 25–6 ‘The Literary Police Office’, 114–15
theatre review, 13, 151–2
‘On Magazine Writers’, 40
Reynolds, Joshua, 134, 143, 175
Paulin, Tom, 143 Rich, John, 155–6
Peacock, Thomas, Nightmare Abbey, 111 Riehl, Joseph, 17, 179
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penal settlements, 127–8 Romanticism, 1–3, 5, 7–8, 11, 16, 17, 55,
periodicals, 14–16, 28–9 61–2, 122, 179–84
criticism, 3, 28–34, 45–7 Ross, Trevor, 28
magazines, 14–15, 21–6, 28, 29 Rudder, Samuel, 108–9
payment, 24 Russett, Margaret, 23–4, 163
writing for, 3–4, 5–7, 10, 14, 19–26, 27, St Clair, William, 14
30, 52, 78–9, 105, 115, 179 St Paul’s Cathedral, 13, 126
see also newspapers Schoenfield, Mark, 5, 68
Petty, Sir William, 124, 128–9 Scots Magazine, 35
Philanthropist, 78 Scott, John, 2, 12–13, 21, 32, 65–6, 104
‘Phil-Elia’ (pseudonym of Lamb), 8, 41, death, 20, 34
‘The Literature of the Nursery’, 97–8
114
‘On Cockney Writers’, 35, 37–8
pity, 121, 126–35, 137, 140–4 Prospectus for London Magazine, 26–7
Plotz, John, 23 Shaftesbury, Lord, 27–8, 41, 47
Plotz, Judith, 73, 122, 131 Shakespeare, William, 13, 162, 163–5
Plumer, William, 108, 109 As You Like It, 139
Poe, Edgar Allan, 85 Hamlet, 44, 165
‘The Man of the Crowd’, 182, 185 King Lear, 158
Poor Law, 121–6 Macbeth, 131
Richard II, 166
Port, M. H., 108, 109
The Tempest, 166
Porter, Roy, 160 Twelfth Night, 161, 168
Powis Castle, 109 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 34
Praz, Mario, The Romantic Agony, 183 Adonais, 32
Price, Leah, 14 Peter Bell the Third, 16, 31–2
Index 217
Skiddaw, 60, 62 Treadwell, James, 6, 9, 101, 177
Smith, J. T., Vagabondia, 139, 142
Society for Bettering the Condition … of the utilitarianism, 78, 81, 125,
Poor, 138 138, 179
Somerset House, 48, 51–2
Vanbrugh, John, The Relapse, 43
South Sea Bubble, 13, 62, 63–5
South-Sea House, London, 12, 60, 62–8, 69, Wainwright, T. G., 2, 26, 105
73, 85, 91, 184 Waithman, Robert, 98
Southey, Robert, 30, 50, 109 Welsford, Enid, 158, 159, 160
Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets, 171 Westminster Abbey, 164
Spectator, 123–4, 144 Williams, Raymond, 87
Spenser, Edmund, 59–60, 70 Wilson, John, 22, 31–2, 35, 45
Steele, Richard, 144 Wolfreys, Julian, Writing London, 7, 16,
Stevenson, John, 65 85
Suett, Dicky, 172–3 Woodbery, Bonnie, 78–9
suggestion, 7, 9 Woodhouse, Richard, Cause Book, 31–2
Swift, Jonathan, A Modest Proposal, 13, 124, Wordsworth, William, 4, 30, 31, 32, 35, 50,
128–9 57, 59, 114, 180
‘Beggars’, 147
Talfourd, Thomas Noon, 33
‘The Brothers’, 125
Tame, Thomas, 168–9
‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’,
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Tatler, 45
151
Taylor, John, 12, 56, 68, 74
The Excursion, 76
Temple, Sir William, 27–8, 41, 47
‘Extempore Effusion’, 59
Temple, London, 69–73, 85, 154
letter, 124–5
see also Inner Temple, London
Lyrical Ballads, 88
Tester, Keith, 58
‘Michael’, 125
theatre, 44, 149–55
‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’, 58, 124,
city as, 5, 145–6, 151, 169–70
129, 138, 143
and conscience, 144–8
The Prelude, 13, 16, 28, 60, 141–2, 144,
O. P. rioters, 150
151, 182, 183
theatricality, 13, 149–54
‘Yarrow Visited’, 106
anti-theatrical reader, 163–7
Thomson, James ‘B. V.’, The City of Dreadful Young, Edward, Night Thoughts, 185
Night, 184–6 Younge, Iris Marion, 9
Times Literary Supplement, 16