Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (97 page)

Brighton: rail link to London, 229-30; as tourist resort, 243-4

Brighton Co-operative Benevolent Association, 80

Brindley, James, 73

Brinsmead, John, 20

Bristol: shops, 105; library, 172

Bristol Institution, 399

Bristol Journal
, 124

Bristol Library Society, 172

British and Foreign School Society, 139

British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, 212, 393-4, 399

British Museum: opening hours, 211; purpose and collections, 394-7; admission and opening extended, 397-8, 401-2; maintenance costs, 397; and National Gallery, 400; Cole disparages, 404; attendance figures, 405

British Quarterly Review
, 143

Britton, Tom, 343

broadsides, 176-7, 179-81

Broadstairs, Kent, 247

Broadwood, John, 355, 360, 363

Broadwood’s (piano manufacturers), 20, 360-2

Brodsky, Adolph, 372

Brown, Ford Madox, 26

Browne, Hablot Knight
see
Phiz

Buckstone, John Baldwin, 39-40

bull-baiting, 320

Bullock, William, 219, 264-5

Bull’s Library, 185

Burberry (London store), 463, 496

Burgess’s Circulating Library, Ramsgate, 166

Burke, Edmund, 172, 379, 385;
Enquiry into . . . the Sublime and the Beautiful
, 216

Burke and Hare (resurrectionists), 177

Burney, Charles, 351 & n, 379

Burney, Frances (Mme d’Arblay):
Cecilia
, 165, 351;
Evelina
, 253, 269, 280, 351;
The Wanderer
, 107

Burns, Robert, 220

Burslem: roads, 69-70

Burton upon Trent, 74-5

buses
see
omnibuses

Butler, Samuel, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 452

Buxton, Derbyshire, 248

Byng, John
see
Torrington, 5th Viscount

Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron: romantic cult, 220n; copies Napoleon’s coach, 264n; ‘Bride of Abydos’, 199n;
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
, 167, 168;
The Corsair
, 330;
Mazeppa
, 319, 330;
Sardanapalus
, 325-6

Byron, Henry James:
Our Boys
, 303

cabinets of curiosities, 396

Caldecott, Randolph, 487

Calvert, Charles, 326

Cambrian Traveller’s Guide
, 202, 223

Cambridge Chronicle and Journal
, 124-5

Campbell, Hector, 148

Campbell, Thomas, 126

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), 380

canals and waterways: system developed, 72-5

Canning, Stratford (1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe), 199

Cannon, John, 164

Canterbury Music Hall (
earlier
Canterbury Arms tavern), Lambeth, 374-7

Cardiff: shops, 106

Carey, George Saville: performances, 256;
Shakespeare’s Jubilee
, 240

Carlisle, Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of, 392

carols: at Christmas, 473-4

Carr, Joseph Comyns, 116n, 414

Cartlitch, John:
Mazeppa
, 319, 321-2

Caryll, Ivan:
Our Miss Gibbs
, 340

Cassell, John, 35, 37, 157

Cassell’s Illustrated Family Paper
, 159

Castle Society, Paternoster Row, London, 344

Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia, 65, 106

Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II, 231

Catnach, James, 177, 179-80, 474

Cattanach, Charles, 88

Cawthorn’s Library, 187

censorship, 123

chain stores
see
multiple stores

Challinier of New Bond Street (dressmakers), 89

Chamberlain, Joseph, 106

Chambers, William (music publisher), 383, 385

Champion, Joseph:
Practical Arithmetic
, 138

Chandos, James Brydges, 1st Duke of, 248

chapbooks, 165, 176

Chapman and Hall (publishers), 190

Chappell, William (music publisher), 474

Charlecote Park, Warwickshire, 241

Charles II, King, 231

Charles Edward Stuart, Prince (‘Bonny Prince Charlie’), 71n

Charles, Prince of Wales, 11n

Charlotte, Queen of George III, 63, 65-6

Cheap Repository Tract Society, 139

Cheltenham, 235-6

Cheny, John, 424, 426

Chester: shops, 97; newspapers, 132

Chester and Holyhead Railway, 195

children: excursions for, 225-6

China: porcelain imports from, 61-2

china (ceramic), 61-7

Christian Observer
, 275

Christie, James (auctioneer), 383

Christmas: family traditions, 466-9, 472-3; Lord of Misrule, 469, 481; development as popular festival, 469-70, 477-9; Mistletoe, 473; Carols, 473-4; Father Christmas, 475-6, 478-9, 490-1; and charity, 476, 479; plays, 478-9; Nonconformists reject, 479; food and drink, 480-1, 488; crackers, 481-2; commercialization, 482-3, 487-8; decorations, 482; presents, 488-9; grottos, 490-1; internationalism, 491-2

Christmas cards, 483-6

Christmas Letter Mission, 486

Christmas Tree, The: A Book of Instruction and Amusement for All Young People
, 489

Christmas trees, 470-2, 479, 487 chromolithography, 485

Chunee (elephant), 275 churches: and early football teams, 439-40

Churton’s (circulating library), 185

Cibber, Theophilus:
The Harlot’s Progress
, 323

cinema: beginnings, 378

circuses, 282-3, 313

cities: size and population, 98

Civil Service Co-operative Society, 82

Civil Service Supply Association, 81, 497

Clark, C. and J. (shoemakers), 93

Clark’s Weekly Dispatch
, 142

class (social): and Great Exhibition visitors, 28-30; and admission to museums and galleries, 398 & n; and sports, 420-1, 423; and horseracing attendance, 430-1;
see also
middle classes; working classes

Classical Exhibition, Pall Mall, 258

Claude glass, 222-3

Claude Lorraine, 222;
St Ursula
, 380

Clementi, Muzio, 359-60, 365 clothes: ready-made, 85-9, 94-7; waterproof, 91-2; for travellers and holidaymakers, 221, 244; for sport, 459-62;
see also
fashion

Clowes (printers), 182

clubs (benefit): friendly societies, 30-1, 81-2; food, 79-80; and co-ops, 80-83; goose 481

clubs (social): formed, 4-6; cultural and educational, 31, 74n; books and reading in, 169-71; music, 343-5, 348-9, 366, 372, 474; sporting, 425, 428, 430-1, 440-51, 454, 456-7, 462;
see also
under individual towns and cities

coal: prices, 73

Cobb, Thomas, 133

Coburg Theatre, London (later Old Vic), 300, 319, 329-30

cocoa: consumption, 56n

Cochrane Stores (Scotland), 84n

cock-throwing, 420

cockfighting, 420

Cocks, James, 382

coffee: consumption, 56n

coffee houses, 5n, 56, 126-7; books and reading in, 169, 171

Colburn’s Modern Novelists series, 188

Cole, Sir Henry: and planning of Great Exhibition, 8-9, 11-12, 15, 28; founds South Kensington Museum, 403-4; and Christmas cards, 484-6;
Home Treasury
, 9; as designer ‘Felix Summerly’, 9; as campaigning journalist, 10-11

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 172

Collard (piano manufacturer), 361

Colman, George, 238-9, 379;
The Clandestine Marriage
(with David Garrick), 25-6

Colman, George, the younger:
Blue Beard; or, Female Curiosity
, 315-16;
The Quadrupeds of Quedlingburgh
, 316

Colosseum, Regent’s Park, 270, 272

Combe, William:
Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque
, 198n

comfort: concept of, 23, 26

common land
see
enclosures

Compton Comedy Company (theatrical), 302

Concert of Antient Music, 345, 348-9, 366

concerts: in Bath, 233; public, 343-4, 346, 348-54, 367; and virtuoso players, 365-6; ticket prices, 366; promenade, 367-8; parlour, 374

Constable’s Miscellany (publisher’s series), 188

consumerism: development, xv-xvi, 26

Contour Road Books
, 456

Cook, Captain James: accounts of voyages, 197-8

Cook, John, 36

Cook, Thomas: excursions to Great Exhibition, 33-6, 41; on railways and regulation of time, 194-5; Monday tours, 208, 225; organizes excursion travel, 225-9; organizes trips to Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, 408

Cooper, James Fenimore, 190, 259

Co-operative movement, 80-3

Co-operative Trading Association, 80

Co-operative Wholesale Society, 81-2

Co-operator, The
( journal), 80

Copley, John Singleton, 387-90

Coram, Thomas, 382

Corder, William (murderer), 181

Cornelys, Teresa, 348

Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, 344

Cosway, Richard, 7n, 383 country-houses: visiting, 201-2, 212-15, 392

Courier
(newspaper), 130

Court Magazine
, 221

Covent Garden (theatre), 238-9, 293, 295-6, 304, 315-16, 319, 327-8

Cowper, William:
Poems
, 223

Cox, David:
The Hayfield
(painting), 410

Cox’s Museum, 253, 269

Cramer, J.B., 359-60

Cramer, Wilhelm, 348

Crane, Walter, 487

credit: at shops, 45; Wedgwood offers, 68

Cremorne Gardens, London, 280

cricket: guides and books on, 204-5; and football playing, 440

Crim.-Con. Gazette
, 142 crime: reported in popular newspapers, 141

Crimean War: newspaper coverage, 141 crinolines, 19

Crosthwaite, Peter, 217

Cruikshank, George (illustrator), 159;
Life in London
, 178;
The Bottle
, 324;
Fairy Library
, 306n

Cruikshank, Robert (illustrator),
Life in London
, 179