Georgian London: Into the Streets (51 page)

‘
shocking usage … shocking manner
’:
The Gentleman’s Magazine
, October 1760.

‘
whereof she did languish
’: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (
www.oldbaileyonline.org
, accessed 4 February 2012), trial of Willy Sutton (February 1761), tl7610225-18.

‘
soon fell in with a fleet
’: quoted in Annette Hope,
Londoner’s Larder: English Cuisine from Chaucer to the Present
(London, 2005), 120.

‘
besiege(d) with five or six heaps
’: ibid., 189.

‘
not fill my guts
’: Ned Ward,
The London Spy
, first published 1706 (London, 1955 edition), 32.

‘
fine inns
’: François de La Rochefoucauld,
A Frenchman in England, 1784
(Cambridge, 1933 edition), 20.

‘
mostly under the care of
’: diary excerpt from
The Antiquaries Journal
(1958), 334.

‘
such a size
’: John Taylor,
The life, death and dissection of the largest elephant ever known in this country and was destroy’d a few days since at Exeter ’Change
(London, 1826), 5.

‘
through the whole flooring
’: Francis T. Buckland,
Curiosities of Natural History, Volume 1
(London, 1857), 119.

‘
folded his forelegs under him
’: ibid., 120.

‘
a multitude of obscene prints
’: Mary Thale (ed.),
The Autobiography of Francis Place, 1771–1854
(Cambridge, 1972), 51.

‘
infested with vermin … lap of the mother
’: ibid., 52.

Lucina
featured
: Julie Peakman,
Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England
(Basingstoke, 2003), 23.

‘
south of Holborn
’: an abbreviation first recorded in 1641 as So:ho, according to ‘General Introduction’,
Survey of London, Volumes 33 & 34. St Anne’s, Soho
(London, 1966), 1.

‘
is not exactly in anybody
’s way’: Charles Dickens,
Nicholas Nickleby
, first published 1839 (Ware, 1995 edition), 14.

‘
There were few buildings
’: Charles Dickens,
A Tale of Two Cities
, first published 1859 (Cambridge, 2008 edition), 80.

‘
fitted for business … experimental philosophy
’: ‘Soho Square Area: Portland Estate – Nos. 8 and 9 Soho Square: The French Protestant Church’,
Survey of London, 33 & 34
, 62.

‘
he is quite my companion
’: E. Beresford Chancellor,
The Romance of Soho: Being an Account of the District, its Past Distinguished Inhabitants, its Historic Houses, and its Place in the Social Annals of London
(London, 1931), 62.

The theme of scientific learning
: Thomas Martin, ‘Origins of the
Royal Institution’,
The British Journal for the History of Science
, vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1962), 49.

‘
that the most extensive
’: ‘Soho Square Area: Portland Estate – Carlisle House: Soho Square’,
Survey of London, 33 & 34
, 73–9.

‘
On Saturday last
’: Chancellor,
The Romance of Soho
, 70.

‘
I concluded she would open
’:
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, in 6 Volumes
, for 1771 (London, 1840), 13.

‘
some great Jock
’: Rictor Norton, ‘William Beckford: The Fool of Fonthill’,
Gay History and Literature
, 16 November 1999 (
www.rictornorton.co.uk/beckfor1.htm
).

‘
a desert of magnificence
’: William Hazlitt,
Sketches of the Principal Picture Galleries of England
(London, 1824), 284.

Thomas De Quincey fled his school
: all quotes from De Quincey’s life are taken from his autobiography
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
(London, 1822).

‘
the Large House … SHIPWRECK
’:
Public Advertiser
, 12 April 1781.

‘
Many parts of this parish
’: William Maitland,
The History of London from the Romans to the Present Time
(1739), quoted in Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham,
London Past and Present: Its History, Associations and Traditions
, first published 1891 (Cambridge, 2011 edition), 50.

Paul de Lamerie
: details of his life are taken from P. A. S. Phillips,
Paul de Lamerie
(London, 1935).

Here, treatises on fireworks
: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (
www.oldbaileyonline.org
, accessed 5 February 2012), trial of Robert Jones (July 1772), tl7720715-22.

‘
All Englishmen … the latest news
’: César de Saussure,
A Foreign View of England in 1725–1729: The Letters of Monsieur César de Saussure to his Family
, translated and edited by Madame Van Muyden (London, 1902), 64.

‘
a mass of cork
’: Ronald Paulson,
Hogarth: His Life and Times, Volume I
(London, 1971), 340.

‘
Gentlemen may have
’:
British Medical Journal
, vol. 1, no. 1799 (June 1895), 1388.

‘
an attitude … a mold from him
’: John Hunter, quoted in Martin
Postle, ‘Flayed for Art: The Écorché Figure in the English Art Academy’,
British Art Journal
, vol. V, no. 1 (2004), 57.

‘
He who endeavours
’: Joshua Reynolds,
Seven Discourses on Art
(London, 1769), Discourse 1.

‘
fell into the position
’: Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace,
Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now
(Berkeley, California, 2001), 87.

‘
These kind of figures
’: quoted in Postle, ‘Flayed for Art’, 60.

‘
a black, a native
’: Alexander Penrose,
Benjamin Robert Haydon 1786–1846
(London, 1927), 93.

Thomas Lawrence was particularly impressed
: Wilson’s story is taken from Clarke Olney,
Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter
(Athens, Georgia, 1952).

‘
full tide of human existence
’: James Boswell,
Life of Samuel Johnson
, recorded for 1775 (London, 1833 edition), 266.

‘
a young woman
’: ‘Trafalgar Square and neighbourhood’,
Survey of London, Volume 20. St Martin-in-the-Fields, Part III
(London, 1940), 7–14.

‘
genteelly bred … another
erratum
’:
Memoirs of the Life and Writing of Benjamin Franklin, written by Himself
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1818), 45.

‘
were 13 houses
’: Mary Thale (ed.),
Autobiography of Francis Place
,
1771–1854
(Cambridge, 1972), 227.

‘
covered with ballads
’: ibid., 229.

‘
crazy, tumbledown old house
’: John Forster,
The Life of Charles Dickens: Volume I
(New York, 1966), 21–2.

‘
mean street
’:
Johnsoniana; Or, Supplement to Boswell
(London, 1842), 53.

‘
Immediately in front of the Horse Guards
’: Thale,
Autobiography of Francis Place,
229.

‘
cross the eastern entrance
’:
Reports from Committees
(London, 1828), 74.

Mayfair takes its name
: Ben Weinreb, Christopher Hibbert, Julia
Keay and John Keay,
The London Encyclopedia
, third edition (London, 2008).

‘
All the Way through
’: Daniel Defoe, writing in
Applebee’s Weekly Journal
, 17 July 1725.

‘
Man of Taste
’: the title of William Hogarth’s engraving satirizing Lord Burlington and his friends.

‘
one of those edifices
’:
The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume III
(London, 1798), 487.

‘
half the land
’: Alexander Pope, ‘Summary’,
Epistle IV: An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington
(London, 1731), v. 65.

‘
heiress of a scrivener
’: ‘The Acquisition of the Estate’,
Survey of London, Volume 39. The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part I
(London, 1977), 1.

What took place there
: details of The Tragedy are taken from Charles Gatty,
Mary Davies and the Manor of Ebury
(London, 1921), 54–81.

‘
a wretched attempt
’: James Ralph,
A Critical Review of the Publick Buildings, Statues and Ornaments of London and Westminster
(London, 1763), 108.

The nine-year-old Mozart
: Emily Anderson (ed.),
The Letters of Mozart and his Family
(London, 1966), 50–51.

At the same time
: ‘The Social Character of the Estate: A Survey of Householders in
c
.1790’,
Survey of London, 39
, 83–6.

By the last decade
: ibid., 86–9.

The magnates
: see J. V. Beckett,
The Aristocracy in England, 1660–1924
(London, 1986).

‘
most profligate … turf
’: quoted in ‘Grosvenor, Richard, first Earl Grosvenor (1731–1802)’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford, 2004).

‘
I have wished myself
’: quoted in ‘Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773)’,
ODNB
.

‘
Who they are
’: Philip Dormer Stanhope,
Letters
:
Volume 1
(London, 1847) Letter LXX, London, May the 15th, O. S. 1749.

‘
Mr. Tollot says
’: ibid., Letter CXL, London, May the 2nd, O. S. 1751.

‘
I feel a gradual decay
’: Philip Dormer Stanhope,
Letters: Volume 4
(London, 1847), Letter CCCLXXXVII, London, April 22, 1765.

‘
lively descriptions
’: Charles Knight, ‘Strawberry Hill: Walpole’s London’,
London: Volume 3
(London, 1851), 159.

He began to turn
: noted in ‘Clive, Robert, first Baron Clive of Plassey (1725–1774)’,
ODNB
.

‘
Who is the writer?
’: Edward Walford, ‘Berkeley Square and its neighbourhood’,
Old and New London: Volume 4
(London, 1878), 326–38.

‘
Mr Chairman
’: Percival Spear,
Master of Bengal: Clive of India
(London, 1974), 189.

‘
Primus in India
’: the inscription on Robert Clive’s monument in the Church of St Margaret at Moreton Say.

‘
an excellent carver
’:
The Somerset House Gazette
(London, 1824), vol. i, 38.

‘
a box with colours
’: Helena Hayward and Pat Kirkham,
William and John Linnell, Eighteenth-Century London Furniture Makers
(London, 1980), 52.

‘
the central point … idiots in my house
’: quoted in ‘Montagu, Elizabeth (Robinson) (1720–1800)’,
ODNB
.

‘
infested with
’: ‘Berkeley Square and its neighbourhood’,
Old and New London: 4
, 326–38.

‘
they swarmed
’: William Makepeace Thackeray,
The Virginians
(London, 1859), 296.

‘
If you take a meal
’: César de Saussure,
A Foreign View of England in 1725–1729: The Letters of Monsieur César de Saussure to his Family
, translated and edited by Madame Van Muyden (London, 1902), 194.

‘
He was a genteel
’: details of John Parry’s life are taken from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (
www.oldbaileyonline.org
, accessed 5 February 2012), Ordinary of Newgate’s account (June 1754), OA17540605.

‘
passing out of the world
’: Thackeray,
The Virginians
, 296.

‘
You will do … very well for me
’: Robert Chambers,
Book of Days
(London, 1869), entry for 12 January.

‘
Such abundance of choice
’: Claire Williams,
Sophie in London, 1786
(London, 1933), 87.

‘
silk-bag shop … without a groan
’: ‘Piccadilly: Northern tributaries’,
Old and New London: 4
, 291–314.

‘
six feet two
’: Nikolai Tolstoy,
The Half-mad Lord: Thomas Pitt, 2nd Baron Camelford (1775–1804)
(London, 1978), 90.

‘
over the fire … crest-fallen
’: quoted in ‘Pitt, Thomas, second Baron Camelford (1775–1804)’,
ODNB
.

‘
equally replete
’: Donna T. Andrew (ed.),
London Debating Societies 1776–1799
(London, 1994), 218.

‘
his gaiety
’: Ian Kelly,
Beau Brummell, The Ultimate Dandy
(London, 2005), 98.

‘
principally assumed … Poodle
’: William Jesse,
The Life of George Brummell, Esq., Commonly Called Beau Brummell: Volume I
(London, 1844), 117.

‘
five o
’clock on a fine summer’s morning’: Thomas Raikes, quoted in ‘Berkeley Square and its neighbourhood’,
Old and New London: 4
, 326–38.