The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (89 page)

Hughes, Thomas:
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
,
99

hulks (prison),
179
,
218

Hummums, The, Russell Street,
212

Humphrey, Revd Heman,
97

Hungerford Bridge,
65

Hungerford market,
131–2
,
131

Hungerford Stairs,
66–7

Hungry Forties,
161
,
195–6
,
286

Hunt, Leigh,
9

hurdy-gurdy players,
255

Huysmans, J.-K.:
A Rebours
,
12

Hyde Park: grazing rights,
208
; rally forbidden (1866),
48
n; riots (1855),
376–7

hygiene, public,
213–15

ice sellers,
143–4

ice-cream,
287

illness and disease: causes,
213
,
215–16

illuminations and lights,
363–9
,
367

Illustrated London News
: advertises using sandwich-board men,
245
; approves of ‘improvements’,
195
; on celebrations for end of siege of Sebastopol,
368
; on charity-school uniforms,
1
; on crowd at house of dying Peel,
306
; on deaths in barracks,
213
; on falling cab horses,
81
; on lack of plan for London,
57
,
174
; on political rally in Hyde Park,
48
n; on Victoria’s withdrawal,
315
; and Wellington’s funeral,
336
; on widening of Park Lane,
47
,
48
n

Indian Mutiny (1857–8),
322

influenza: epidemics (1813–1833),
215

inns, coaching,
95
,
95

Inns of Chancery,
31

Inns of Court,
31
,
318

insurance companies: and fire brigades,
326

introducing houses,
412
,
414

Irish: believe in forthcoming earthquake,
307
; work as labourers,
193

Iron Boat Company (steam boats),
68

Izant’s (slap-bang), Bucklersbury,
300

Jack-in-the-Green,
319

Jacob’s Island, Bermondsey,
183
,
190–1
,
191
,
208

James, Henry,
12

Jennings’ Buildings, Kensington,
193
& n

Jerdan, William,
277

Jermyn Street Baths,
211

Jerusalem Coffee-House, Cornhill,
295

Jews: as old clothes-sellers,
137
,
147

Jo the crossing-sweeper (character,
Bleak House
),
49–50
,
189
,
195
,
199
,
222
,
248

John’s Coffee-House,
295

Johnson, Joseph,
255
,
256

Johnson, Samuel,
46

Jones, Adrian:
The Angel of Peace Descending on the Chariot of War
(sculpture),
308
n

Jones, Inigo,
187
n,
261

Keane, Edmund,
278

Kemble, Adelaide,
362
& n

Kemble, John Philip,
371–2

Kennington Common,
267
; Chartist meeting,
375–6

Kennington turnpike gate,
43

Kensal Green cemetery,
222

Kensington,
182
; slum,
193

Kensington Common,
267

Kew: wooden bridge,
64

King’s Bench prison,
175
,
178

King’s Cross railway station,
106
n,
107

King’s Mews (Trafalgar Square),
268
,
271

kiss in the ring (game),
279

Krook (character,
Bleak House
),
239–40

La Creevy, Miss (character,
Nicholas Nickleby
),
75

Laing, Allan Stewart,
378

Lamb, Charles,
9
,
422

Lambeth Bridge,
65

lamplighters,
54

Lancaster, Duchy of,
270

Lancet, The
(journal),
216

Landseer, Sir Edwin,
273

Laurie, Sir Peter,
190–1

lavatories (flush),
208–9

Lea, river,
200

Leadenhall market,
130

leaving shops,
241

Leeves, Edward,
415

Leicester Square,
262–3

Leigh’s New Picture of London
,
261
,
278

leisure: and days out,
274–5

Lever’s Museum, Leicester Square,
263

licensing laws (alcoholic drinks),
350–1

life expectancy,
212

Lincoln, Abraham,
322

linkmen,
53

Linwood, Miss: Gallery of Needlework Pictures,
263

Little Dorrit
(CD): coach route,
39
; cookshop in,
291
; on hardships,
4
; on Marshalsea prison,
177–8
,
356
; on Southwark Bridge,
44
; stagecoach accident,
92
; on Thames,
223
; tobacco shop Highlander,
242
; on workhouses,
170

Liverpool Street railway station,
106

loan societies,
163

lodging houses,
166
,
184–6
,
186

London: CD moves to as child,
2
; CD’s homes in,
6
; CD’s interest in,
7–10
,
422–3
; as alienating city,
59–60
; as city of lights,
363–4
; first official map,
59
; improvements and rebuilding,
56
; improvements (rebuilding) and displacement,
189
,
196
; levelling of hills,
61–2
; main access roads,
40
; noise,
30–3
; portrayed by CD,
12–13
; rich and poor districts,
181–2
,
187–8
; size and population,
10–11
,
39
,
59
,
393
; streets and layout,
10
,
47–8
; traffic problems,
39–40
,
44–9
; transport and navigating,
64–70
; travel into and from,
90–1
; walking and walkers in,
25–8

London Bridge: as crossing point,
64
; hazards of navigating,
65–6
; replaced and relocated (1831),
6
,
65–6
; road surface,
35

London Bridge railway station,
63
,
106–7

London Bridge Steam Wharf,
65

London by Night
(by ‘Anonyma’),
85
,
406–7
,
418

London Cemetery Company,
223

London, Chatham and Dover Railway,
175
n

London Fire Engine Establishment,
112
,
326–7
,
330–1

London Gasworks company,
56
,
325

London Gazette
,
247–8

London General Omnibus Company,
72

London and Westminster Steam Boat Company,
67–8

Lord Mayor’s Show,
310

Louis Philippe, King of France,
314

Lovett, William,
165
,
177

Lowther Arcade,
11

Lumber Court market,
132

macadam (road surface),
33–6
,
38

MacKenzie, Alexander,
92

Macready, Charles,
355

Maggie (character,
Little Dorrit
),
421

magistrates: corrupt,
377–8

Magwitch (character,
Great Expectations
),
179
,
247

Maiden Lane (now York Way),
107

Manby, Charles,
75

Manners, Lord John,
273

Manning, Maria and Frederick,
385–6
,
389

Mansion House: illuminated,
366

Margery
(river steamer),
65

marine stores,
239–40

markets: clothes,
137–8
; food,
123–36

Marochetti, Carlo, Baron,
273

Marryat, Captain Frederick,
277

Marshalsea prison: conditions,
177–8
; Dickens portrays,
175
,
177
; John Dickens in,
3
; social gatherings,
356

Martha (character,
David Copperfield
),
420

Martin Chuzzlewit
(CD),
100
,
242
,
273
,
302
,
393

Marylebone: housing,
182
; land ownership,
264

Marylebone Gardens,
265

Marylebone Lane,
202

Marylebone railway station,
106
n

matches: manufacture and selling,
158–60
,
160

Mathews, Nancy,
19

Matileau, Mme: introducing house,
413

May day,
318–19

Mayfair: as prostitutes’ venue,
408

Mayhew, Augustus:
Paved with Gold
(novel),
352

Mayhew, Henry: on child prostitutes,
379
; on Guy Fawkes day,
321
; on hot-potato man,
284
; on low-level crime,
379–80
; on oyster seller,
283
n; on the poor,
168
; on prostitutes,
394–6
; on Punch and Judy show,
257
; on second-hand boot sales,
138
; on slaughtered horses,
138
; on sound of City,
30
; on speech and pronunciation,
249–10
; on street musicians,
252
; on street sellers,
140
,
142–3
,
162
; visits Jacob’s Island,
191
; visits Night Refuge,
197
; on working hours,
28
;
London Labour and the London Poor
,
10
,
28
n,
168
,
394–6
; vol. 4 by other hands,
396–7

medical schools: and dissection,
374–5

Melbourne, William Lamb,
2
nd Viscount,
331

Mendoza, Daniel,
371

menus: introduced,
300–1

Metropolis Land Management Act (1854),
223

Metropolis Local Management Act for the Purification of the Thames and the Main Drainage of the Metropolis (1858),
224

Metropolitan Board of Works: approves new streets,
60
; authorized to undertake sewage building,
224–5
; builds Holborn Viaduct,
62
; controls fire brigades,
327
; created,
57
,
223
; and naming of streets,
58

Metropolitan Buildings Act (1844),
208

Metropolitan Commission of Sewers Act (1848),
214

Metropolitan Fire Brigade,
327

Metropolitan Improvements
,
188

Metropolitan Interments Act (1850),
222

Metropolitan Police force: formed,
373

Metropolitan Railway: opens,
77–8

miasma: as cause of disease,
216
,
218

Micawber, Wilkins (character,
David Copperfield
),
3
,
13

Middle Row, Holborn,
46–7

Midland Railway,
275

milkmen and milkmaids,
145

Millbank prison,
179
,
383

Minns, Mr (character, ‘A Dinner at Poplar Walk’),
70

Mint, the (district), Southwark,
270
n

Mirror of Parliament
,
357

mobs,
371–4

money: lending,
163

Monthly Magazine
,
4

Monument, the: suicides,
421

Morning Chronicle
,
5
,
100
,
191
,
357

Morning Post
,
307
,
338

Morning Star
,
26

mortality rates: adult,
213
; infant and child,
212
;
see also
death

Mortimer market,
131

Moses and Son (men’s clothing supplier),
338

Mother H.
see
H., Mother

Mould, Mr (character,
Martin Chuzzlewit
),
324

mourning,
322–3

Mowcher, Miss (character,
David Copperfield
),
252
,
286

muffin men,
185

Munby, Arthur: on building of Embankment,
226–8
; on building Holborn Viaduct,
62
; diary,
63
n; on girl crossing-sweeper,
50
n; on May day chimney sweeps,
319
; on milkmen,
145
; and prostitute,
400–1
,
411
n; sees cross-dressers,
416
; sees Landseer’s Trafalgar Square lions,
273
; sees Tooley Street fire,
113
,
115
; travels by train,
62
,
113
; visits Thieves’ Kitchen,
186
; watches Ethiopian singers,
255
; on wedding preparations for Princess Alexandra,
308

music hall: and popular phrases,
251