The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (92 page)

suicide,
418–22

Summerson, Esther (character,
Bleak House
),
95
,
157
,
204

Sun Fire-Office,
174

Sundays: legislation on,
376
; markets,
135–6

Surbiton,
105

Sutherland, George Granville William Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of,
121
,
343

sweeps
see
chimney sweeps

Swell’s Night Guides, The
,
404–6
,
412

Swills, Little (character,
Bleak House
),
356

Swiveller, Dick (character,
The Old Curiosity Shop
),
288
,
303
,
357

Syon House, Chiswick: lion from Northumberland House relocated to,
268

Taglioni, Marie,
98
n

Tait, William:
Magdalenism
,
396
,
418

Tale of Two Cities, A
(CD),
381
,
393

tallymen,
163

Tartar, Mr (character,
Edwin Drood
),
423

taverns,
242

Tayler, William,
51
,
215
,
365

tea gardens,
274–5

Temple Bar: heads of traitors displayed,
381
,
390
; marks entrance to City,
7
; narrowness,
46–7
; relocated,
7
n

Temple gardens,
226
& n

Ternan, Ellen (Nelly),
6–7
,
406

Thackeray, William Makepeace: attends public execution,
385
,
389
; on coach and rail travel,
101
; and Great Stink (1858),
223–4
; on lounging at the Pantheon,
237
;
The Newcomes
,
362–3
;
Pendennis
,
359
;
Vanity Fair
,
174

Thames, river: Dickens’s preoccupation with,
423
; embankment,
225–8
,
227
; excursions and leisure trips,
276–7
; fishing,
126
; as highway,
64–5
,
67
; regattas and rowing competitions,
275–6
; and sewage control legislation (1858),
225
; sewage disposal,
206
,
209
,
223
; stairs and landing places,
65–6
; steamers,
65–9
,
276–7
; suicides,
421–2
; tea gardens,
275
; water quality,
206
; watermen and ferries,
65
;
see also
bridges

Thames watermen: Royal Regatta,
275

theatres: entrance charges,
352
& n; fires,
326
,
330–1
; popular,
278
; as sites for food selling,
288
; women attend,
347
,
401
,
403–5

Tigg, Montague (character,
Martin Chuzzlewit
),
286

Times, The
(newspaper): on Braidwood’s funeral,
119
; on demolishing poor housing,
188
; on importuning women in street,
402–3
; letter from slum-dwellers,
194–5
; on pillory,
383
; price,
154
; reports indecent assaults on sentries,
414
; supports Hyde Park protestors,
377
; on treatment of the poor,
170

tinderboxes,
158–9

tinkers,
148

Tipu Sultan,
254
& n

Todd, Sweeney,
285

toll gates
see
turnpikes

Tom-all-Alone’s (slum area,
Bleak House
),
49
,
187
,
195

Tom’s Coffee-House,
359
n

Tooley Street: fire (1861),
111–17
,
112
,
327

Tothill Fields prison,
172
,
383

Tottenham, Mrs (of Berners Street),
17
,
19

Tower Bridge,
65

Town Improvements Clauses Act (1847),
191

Tox, Miss (character,
Dombey and Son
),
85
,
288

toys,
152–3

Tozer, Fire Engineer,
117

Traddles, Tommy (character,
David Copperfield
),
31
n,
295

traditions and celebrations,
320

Trafalgar Square: constructed,
56
,
267–71
,
273–4
; statues,
272
& n

Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich,
276–7

traffic lights,
45

trampers,
164–6

transportation (penal),
179
,
386
n

Traveller’s Oracle, The
,
86
n

Tristan, Flora,
192
& n,
408
& n,
418

Trollope, Anthony:
Castle Richmond
,
38
;
Phineas Redux
,
85
;
The Warden
,
260
,
295
;
The Way We Live Now
,
78

Trollope, Thomas,
95
,
184

Tuckniss, Revd William,
397

Tulkinghorn, Mr (character,
Bleak House
),
187

turnpikes and toll gates,
40–4
,
43

Twist, Oliver (character,
Oliver Twist
),
30
,
180
,
183
,
194
,
198
,
386

Tyburn (place),
202

Tyburn (river),
200
,
202

typhus and typhoid,
215
& n

umbrellas: selling,
140–1

Underground railway (the tube): beginnings,
76–9
; station names,
73
n

undertakers,
215
,
221–2

Vaccination Act (1840),
213

Vagrancy Acts: (1822),
414
; (1824),
168

Vauxhall Bridge,
64

Vauxhall pleasure gardens,
43

Veck, Trotty (character,
The Chimes
),
157–8

Veneering, Mr (character,
Our Mutual Friend
),
85

venereal diseases,
400

Vestris, Mme (Lucia Elizabeth Mathews),
405

Victoria Park,
267

Victoria, Queen: accession (1837),
6
; assassination attempts on,
313
; birthday celebrations,
365–6
; celebrates end of Crimean War,
309
; changing public attitude to,
311–15
,
316
; coronation,
311–12
; criticises Greville’s diary,
311
n; inherits money from Neild,
312–13
n; reaches majority,
365
; visits burntout Covent Garden theatre,
331
; at Wellington’s funeral,
343
; withdraws after Albert’s death,
314
,
316
,
365

Victoria railway station,
106
n

Victoria Street, Westminster: built,
188–9

violence,
370–1

‘Visit to Newgate’ (CD; article),
418

Vittoria, battle of (1813): celebrated,
364

Vizetelly, Henry,
29
,
266
,
382

Volunteer Corps,
251

Waight, William,
133

waiters: earnings,
298
n,
299

Walbeck, Miss (prostitute),
413

Walbrook (river),
200

Walker, Dr George,
219
,
221

Wallis, Henry:
The Death of Chatterton
(painting),
422

Walter (character,
Dombey and Son
),
305

‘Walter’ (pornographer),
55
& n,
401–2
,
408
n,
409–12

Wandle, river,
200

Wandsworth Bridge,
65

Ward, Ned:
The Secret History of London Clubs
,
404

Warren’s Blacking Factory, London,
3–4
,
153
,
185

Warrior
(ship),
218

watchmen: call time and weather,
32
,
33
n; and knocking-up,
22–3
; replaced by police,
377

water: domestic supply,
23
,
209–11
,
210
; drinking dangers,
200
; quality deteriorates,
206
; for road cleaning,
51–2
,
52
;
see also
artesian wells

water pistols,
152

watercress sellers,
141–2
,
145

Waterford, Henry de la Poer Beresford, 3rd Marquess of,
361
& n

Waterloo, battle of (1815): celebrations,
364

Waterloo Bridge,
64
,
226
,
419
,
420

Waterloo railway station,
106

Waterman Company,
68

watermen (cabstand),
80
& n,
81–3

watermen (Thames),
65–6

Waterworks Clauses Act (1846),
209

Watts, Isaac,
220
n

weddings: favours (posies of flowers),
315
n

Weed, Thurlow,
174

Wegg, Silas (character,
Our Mutual Friend
),
144

Weller, Sam (character,
Pickwick Papers
),
10
,
81
,
185
,
231
,
247
,
248
,
282
,
285
,
301

Weller, Tony (character,
Pickwick Papers
),
94
,
101

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of: decline and death,
335–6
; and development of Trafalgar Square,
271
; finances,
336–7
; funeral,
261
n,
310
n,
323
,
336–46
; memorial arch and equestrian statue,
307
& n

Wellington, Kitty, Duchess of (
née
Pakenham),
336

Westbourne (river),
200
,
202

Westminster: housing,
182
; working poor,
188–9

Westminster Bridge,
45
,
64

Westminster Medical Society,
217

Westminster Pit, near Tothill Fields,
348

Westminster Workhouse,
167

Wey, Francis,
108

Wheaton, Revd Nathaniel,
38
,
55

whelks,
282–3

Whitbread’s brewery,
54

White Horse Cellars, Piccadilly,
95–6
,
98

White Swan public house, Vere Street,
381
& n,
414

Whitechapel: slum area,
182
; Workhouse,
180

Whitecross Street: housing,
182
; market,
136
; prison,
75

Whitefriars,
270
n

Wild Boys of London, The
(serial),
225

Wilfer, Bella (character,
Our Mutual Friend
),
28
,
277

Wilfer, Reginald (character,
Our Mutual Friend
),
26
,
296

Wilkins, William,
271

Willesden Fire Brigade,
328

William IV, King: anniversary of death,
311
; coronation,
335
,
364
; reign,
5
; statue,
272
n

window-shopping,
237

Winsor, Frederick (born Winzer),
53–4
& n,
363

Wiseman, Cardinal Nicholas Patrick Stephen, Archbishop of Westminster,
321
& n

Wombwell’s Wild Beast Show,
278

women: entertainments and amusements for,
347
; importuned in street,
402
; in places of public entertainment,
347
,
401
,
403–4
; and pubs,
350
; street musicians,
255
; and suicide,
418–19
; walking,
28
; working,
155
;
see also
prostitutes

wood: as road surface,
36–7

workers: affected by weather,
164
; temporary and seasonal,
162–5
; unskilled and skilled,
163
;
see also
street traders

workhouses,
167
,
169–72
,
180–1
& n,
214
n

working hours,
28–9

working men: lifestyle,
23–4

Worms, Henry,
386
n

Wright, Thomas,
23–4
,
291

Wyatt, M.C.: statue of Wellington,
307

Wyon, Leonard,
27
,
267
,
311
,
368
,
376

Wyon, May,
376–7

Yardley (partner of James Cook),
414

Yates, Edmund,
64
,
97
,
296
,
299

Yokel’s Preceptor
,
402
,
404
,
416