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9780521839921 - English Literature in Context - by Paul Poplawski
Index
Note: page numbers in bold denote detailed readings; those in italic denote topics of boxed insets.
A Taste of Honey (1961) 627
Abernethy, John 390
abolitionism 326
Abrams, M. H. 372
Ackroyd, Peter 622, 642
Adam of Murimuth 86
Adams, James Eli, Dandies and Desert Saints 485
Adams, John 297
Addison, Joseph 244, 246, 260, 268, 270
essay in The Spectator, No. 69 272–4, 280
A. E. (George Russell) 559
‘affective individualism’ 239
Aikin, John 342
Akenside, Mark, The Pleasures of the Imagination 251, 260
Albert, Prince 409, 419
Alcuin of York 16, 50
Aldington, Richard 557
Death of a Hero 564
Aldini, Giovanni 319, 390
Alfred the Great 16–17, 18, 19
Proverbs 36
translations from Latin 17
Ali, Monica, Brick Lane 641
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 563
allegory 165
alliterative verse 35
Altholz, Josef 471, 475
Altick, Richard 417, 424, 426, 432, 433, 503
Amadis de Gaul 256
Amis, Kingsley 621
‘Against Romanticism’ 621
Lucky Jim 633–4
Amis, Martin 622, 625
London Fields 623, 629
Ancrene Wisse (Guide for Anchoresses) 78–84
Anger, Jane, Her protection for women 174
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 13, 17–18, 26, 35–6, 73
Anne, Queen 221–3, 294
Annotation to the Book of Revelations from the Rheims–Douai Bible 142
Apollonius of Tyre 45–6
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, The Ethics of Identity 293
Apuleius, The Golden Ass 257
The Arabian Nights see Galland, Antoine
Arden, John 626
Ariosto, Ludovico 166
Orlando Furioso 195
Aristotle 144, 166, 174, 175–6
On the Generation of Animals 174
Nicomachaean Ethics 78
Arkwright, Richard 312
Arminius, Jacob/Arminianism 121
Armitage, Simon 632
Armstrong, Isobel 446, 450–1
Arnold, Matthew 403, 450–1, 491–2
Culture and Anarchy 451, 455
‘Dover Beach’ 474
‘The Function of Criticism at the Present Time’ 430, 457
‘To Marguerite – Continued’ 451
Arnold, Thomas 503
Arthur, Prince of Wales (brother of Henry VIII) 119
Arundel, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury 33
Ascham, Roger 148
Asquith, Herbert 540
Auchinleck manuscript 83
Auden, W. H. 557, 558
(with Christopher Isherwood), The Dog Beneath the Skin 559
Auerbach, Nina 452
Augustine of Hippo, St 13, 156
Confessions 296
Soliloquies 17
Austen, Jane 347, 361–2, 364–5, 439, 632
Emma 347
Mansfield Park 347, 348, 354–5
Northanger Abbey 346, 347
Persuasion 347
Pride and Prejudice 237, 347, 355
Sense and Sensibility 347, 377–82
Ælfric, Ealdorman 78
Ælfric Bata 69–70
Ælfric of Eynsham 69
Colloquy 25, 28
Grammar 37–8
Homily on the Maccabees 18
Lives of the Saints 52
Æthelbert, King of Kent 14–16
Æthelflad 59
Æthelræd II ‘the Unready’ 18, 74–5, 77, 78
Æthelstan the Ætheling 16, 57
Æthelwold of Winchester, Regularis Concordia 47
Babbage, Charles 419
Bacon, Francis 146, 150, 152, 157, 160, 185, 211, 263, 295, 470
Discourse touching the Happy Union 138
Essays 156;
‘Of Counsel’ 135;
‘On Followers and Friends’ 150;
‘Of Nobility’ 172–3
letter regarding publication of his works 161
letter to George Villiers 138
speech in the House of Commons, 157
Bagehot, Walter 429
The English Constitution 455
Baillie, Joanna, Plays for the Passions 348
Bakhtin, Mikhail 95, 255, 257, 258, 258
Baldwin, Stanley 540
Baldwin, William, and George Ferrers, The Mirror for Magistrates 166
Ball, John 23
Letter to the Essex Commons 71–2
Ball, Sir Alexander 364
Ballantyne, John 334
Ballantyne, Robert, The Coral Island 479
Ballard, J. G.
Concrete Island 630
Crash 630
Balzac, Honoré de 465
Bamford, Samuel 345
Banks, Lynne Reid 637
Banks, Sir Joseph 318
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia 342–3, 358
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven 362, 366
‘Washing-Day’ 362
Barbusse, Henri, Le Feu (Under Fire) 563
Barker, Pat 625, 628
Union Street 636, 651–3, 652
Barnes, Barnabe, Parthenophil and Parthenope 178
Barnes, Julian 622, 625
England, England 629
Flaubert’s Parrot 630
Barnes, William, ‘Rustic Childhood’ 466–7
Barnfield, Richard, The Affectionate Shepherd 178–9
Barons’ Revolt (1264–7) 21
Barrie, J. M. 558
Barry, James 316
Barstow, Stan 622
The Battle of Brunanburgh 42
The Battle of Maldon 40, 42, 72–4
manuscript 78–4
Beardsley, Aubrey 451, 453
Beaufort see Somerset
Beaumont, Francis 158
The Knight of the Burning Pestle 152
Becket, Thomas 20, 30
Beckett, Samuel 551, 629, 654, 655
Endgame 567
Waiting for Godot 629
Beckford, William 331
Vathek 345
Becon, Thomas, The Book of Matrimony 175
Beddoes, Thomas 358
Bede, St (the Venerable) 13–14, 34, 42
Ecclesiastical History of the English People 17
Beer, Gillian 475
Beer, Samuel H., Britain Against Itself 610
Behan, Brendan, The Hostage 627, 638
Behn, Aphra 163, 231, 244, 259, 299
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave 185, 257–8, 275, 279, 281–5, 286, 287, 288–9, 291
The Rover, or, The Banished Cavaliers 253, 254
Bell, Michael 569
Benbow, William 334
Bennett, Arnold 549, 558, 572, 575–6
Bentham, Jeremy 409, 412
Beowulf 18, 40–1, 42, 42, 43, 44, 56–9, 72, 77–8
Bergson, Henri 584
Betjeman, John 648
Beveridge, William 608
Bevin, Ernest 607
Bible 174, 267
Authorised (King James) Version 144, 169
Tyndale/Coverdale translation 168
Big Brother (TV) 645
Bill of Rights (1689) 221
bin Laden, Osama 636
Bishop, Elizabeth 632
Black, Clementina 415
Blair, Robert, The Grave 332
Blair, Tony 601, 612–13
Blake, William 266, 268, 316, 321, 328, 329, 333, 337, 358–9, 361, 460
America 337
Europe 337
The Four Zoas 337
The French Revolution 337
Jerusalem 337, 358–9
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 321
Milton 337
The Song of Los 358
Songs of Innocence and Experience 337, 351–2, 368–70
Visions of the Daughters of Albion 370
Blind, Mathilde, ‘Manchester By Night’ 464
Bloomfield, Robert 344
Blunden, Edmund 558, 563
Undertones of War 563
Boccaccio, Giovanni
De casibus illustrium virorum 166
Decameron 257
Bodel, Jean 43
Bodin, Jean, Les six livres de la République 172
Boer War 424, 429, 480, 531, 531, 547
Boethius 156
The Consolation of Philosophy 17
Bokenham, Osbern 38–9
Boleyn, Anne, Queen 140–1
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, 1st Viscount 222
Bond, Edward 550, 631, 654
Saved 627, 654
Booth, William, In Darkest England 464
Bosworth Field see Wars of the Roses
Bothwell, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of 125
Boucicault, Dion 453
Boulton, Matthew 312, 314, 321
Bowdler, Thomas 430
Bowen, Elizabeth 557, 620
Bowles, William Lisle, Fourteen Sonnets 330
Boydell, John 316
Boyle, Robert 264
Boyne, Battle of the (1690) 222
Boys from the Blackstuff (TV) 627
Bradbury, Malcolm 622
(with James McFarlane), Modernism 548
Braddon, Mary, Lady Audley’s Secret 442, 452, 464
Braine, John 622, 635
Room at the Top 634, 635
Braithwaite, E. R., To Sir, with Love 641
Brantlinger, Patrick 478, 501
Braque, Georges 567
Brecht, Bertolt 550
Brenton, Howard 631, 654
The Romans in Britain 654
Brewer, John 234
A Bridge Too Far (1977) 602
Bridges, Robert 558
Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of 471
Brihtric Grim 58
Brontë, Anne 255, 441
Agnes Grey 441, 464
Brontë, Charlotte 255, 438, 440, 441, 457, 481
Jane Eyre 403, 441, 452, 464, 468–9, 477, 481, 482, 488–92, 506
Shirley 439, 462–3
Villette 441, 488, 491
Brontë, Emily 255, 441, 451
Wuthering Heights 441, 469, 501
Brooke, Rupert 538, 561
‘Peace’ 536
Brooke-Rose, Christine 622
Brooks, Peter 440
Brothers, Richard 315, 321
Brown, Ford Madox 448
Brown, Hablot (‘Phiz’) 431
Brown, Lancelot ‘Capability’ 354
Browne, Sir Thomas, The Garden of Cyrus 156
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 451, 457
Aurora Leigh 449–50, 482
‘The Cry of the Children’ 461
Sonnets from the Portuguese 448, 488
Browning, Robert 450
‘Andrea del Sarto’ 450
‘Childe Roland’ 450
‘Fra Lippo Lippi’ 450
‘My Last Duchess’ 450
The Pied Piper of Hamelin 434
The Ring and the Book 449–50
‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister’ 450
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 421
Bucer, Martin 140
Buchan, John 558
Buchanan, Robert 451
Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of 121
Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of 252
Buckley, Arabella 420
Bull, John 631
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 1st Baron Lytton 485–6
Bunting, Basil, Briggflatts 622
Bunyan, John, The Pilgrim’s Progress 441, 490
Burbage, James 151
Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange 629
Burke, Edmund 280–1, 318, 334, 365, 379
Enquiry Concerning the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime 331, 354
Reflections on the French Revolution 349–50
Burney, Fanny 346–7, 361–2
Burns, Robert 330, 344
Burton, Richard (explorer) 385
Butler, Josephine 484
Butler, Marilyn 390
Butler, Samuel 475
Erewhon 549
Erewhon Revisited 549
The Way of All Flesh 429, 549
Buzard, James 480
Byrhtnoth, ealdorman of Essex 72–8
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 328, 335, 340, 340–1, 347, 348, 367–8, 386, 430–1
Beppo 340
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 340, 340, 356–7
The Corsair 340, 368
Don Juan 339, 340, 385
The Giaour 340, 368, 382–6
The Island 340
Manfred 340, 356–7
Marino Faliero 349
Sardanapalus 385
‘Turkish Tales’ 367, 382
The Vision of Judgment 340
Cabot, John 181
Cabot, Sebastian 181
Cædmon 34
Hymn 34
Caird, Mona, The Morality of Marriage 446
Calvin, John 141–3
Camden, William 147
Campion, Thomas, Observations in the Art of English Poesy 156
Canning, George 335
Carew, Thomas 150
Carlile, Richard 335
Carlyle, Thomas 317, 430, 438, 455, 456, 474
Past and Present 459
Sartor Resartus 421, 430–1, 440, 457
‘Signs of the Times’ 459–60
Carretta, Vincent 371
Carroll, Lewis
Alice in Wonderland 403, 433, 434, 445, 503
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There 445
Carter, Angela 622, 640
Nights at the Circus 630, 639
Cartwright, Thomas 143
Cary, Elizabeth, Lady Falkland 159, 175
Tragedy of Mariam 160, 176, 189–93
Casley, David 74
Castiglione, Baldassare, Il Cortegiano 150
Cathy Come Home (TV) 627, 635
Catullus, G. Valerius 164, 200–1
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle 168, 175
Cavendish, William see Newcastle
Ceadel, Martin 563
Cecil, Sir Robert 120
Centlivre, Susanna 253
Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote 256, 257
Chadwick, Edwin 414
Chamberlain, Joseph 478–9
Chamberlain, Neville 540
Chambers, Ephraim, Cyclopedia 277
Chambers, Robert, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 418, 472
Chambers, Sir William 316
Chaplin, Charlie 567
Chapman, George (trans.), Iliad/Odyssey 165
character, representation of 583
Charlemagne 16, 17, 18, 43
Charles I 121–3, 125, 127, 132, 135, 137, 138, 139, 144, 150–1, 218, 220, 222, 248, 283–4
Charles II 124, 125, 216–19, 219, 225, 231, 248, 249, 249, 252, 253
Chatterton, Thomas 332
Chaucer, Geoffrey 38, 39, 46, 72, 86, 177
The Canterbury Tales 68–9, 139, 433
The Clerk’s Tale 66
The Cook’s Tale 66
The Franklin’s Tale 46
The Friar’s Tale 66, 69
General Prologue 29
The Knight’s Tale 44
The Merchant’s Tale 66, 69
The Miller’s Tale 47, 65–7
The Parson’s Tale 83, 84
The Prioress’ Tale 22, 52
The Reeve’s Tale 66, 69
Retraction 55
The Shipman’s Tale 66
The Summoner’s Tale 66, 69, 95
The Tale of Sir Thopas 66, 84
The Wife of Bath’s Tale 46, 63–5
‘Complaint of Venus’ 84
The Legend of Good Women 64
The Ploughman’s Tale 22
Troilus and Criseyde 42, 64, 177
(trans.) The Romance of the Rose 64
Chester mystery cycle, Playe of the Shepherds 93–4
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of 277–8
Letters to his Son 245
Chesterton, G. K. 501
Chichester, Sir Arthur 126–7
Christian IV of Denmark, visit to James I’s court 135, 136
Christie, Agatha 558
Christina the Astonishing, St 52
Christine de Pisan 64, 65
‘The God of Love’s Letter’ 64
Churchill, Caryl 631
Cloud Nine 638–9
Top Girls 635–6
Churchill, Winston 607
Cibber, Colley 255
Cicero, M. Tullius 155–6, 164
Civil War (1642–9) 122–3, 216
Clare, John 315, 344, 353–4
‘The Mores’ 354
‘Remembrances’ 353–4
‘The Village Minstrel’ 353
Clarke, Charlotte 253
Clarkson, Thomas 326
Cleanness 84
Cleave, Chris, Incendiary 636–7
Clever, Richard see Dod, John
A Clockwork Orange (1971) 635
Clutterbuck, Richard, Britain In Agony 610
Cnut 18–19, 28, 36, 60
Cnut’s Song 36
Cobbett, William 335, 409
Rural Rides 355
Cobbing, Bob 632
Cocker, Edward, English Dictionary 277
Cockeram, Henry, The English Dictionarie 277
Coe, Jonathan, What a Carve-Up! 636
Cold War 604–6
Cole, Henry 419
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 317, 318, 319, 322, 328, 329, 330, 335, 336, 337–9, 347, 349, 351, 352–3, 358, 359–60, 361, 364–5, 366, 368, 372
Christabel 337, 363–4
‘Conversation Poems’ 337
The Eolian Harp 360
‘Kubla Khan’ 337, 366
Lyrical Ballads see Wordsworth
Osorio 348
Poems on Various Subjects 343
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ 329, 337, 363
‘This Lime-tree Bower My Prison’ 356
(with Southey), The Fall of Robespierre 348
Colet, John 147
Colley, Linda 365
Collier, Jeremy, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage 253, 261
Collier, Mary 248
Collins, Wilkie 503
The Frozen Deep 452
Heart and Science 475
The Moonstone 479
The Woman in White 442
Collinson, James 448
Colman, George, the Younger
The Iron Chest 348
Love Laughs at Locksmiths 348
Columbus, Christopher 181, 274
combat, knightly rules of 89
Compton-Burnett, Ivy 558
Congreve, William 244
The Way of the World 253–4
Connolly, Cyril 620
Conquest, Robert, New Lines 621
Conrad, Joseph 486, 557, 643
Heart of Darkness 424, 479, 532, 571–2
The Secret Agent 571
Constable, Henry, Diana 178
Constable, John 316
English Landscape Scenery 467
Constantia Munda, The Worming of a Mad Dog 175
Constantine, Stephen 544
consumer society 314
Cook, Eliza, ‘Song of the City Artisan’ 461
Cook, James, Captain 241, 279
A Voyage Toward the South Pole and Round the World 280–1
Cook, Thomas 421–2
Cooper, Elizabeth 253
The Muses’ Library 259
Cooper, Thomas 460
copyright 334
Corneille, Pierre 252
Cornwallis, Sir William, Essayes: Of Love 179
Coronation Street (TV) 627
Cosway, Maria 316
Cotton, Sir Robert 74–8
Coverdale, Miles 168
Coward, Noel 559
Cowley, Hannah 330
A Bold Stroke for a Husband 348
Cowper, William 326, 380
The Task 329–30, 365
Crabbe, George 315, 339, 361
The Borough 339
‘The Parish Register’ 339
The Village 339, 352
Craik, Dinah, John Halifax, Gentleman 464, 485
Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop
‘Answer to the articles of the rebels’ 130, 141
Croker, John Wilson 362
Crompton, Samuel 312
Cromwell, Henry 127
Cromwell, Oliver 110, 123–4, 125, 127, 135, 217, 249, 251, 266, 269
Cromwell, Richard 124
Cromwell, Thomas 119, 124, 134, 248
Crowley, Robert, An Information and Petition Against the Oppressors of the Poor Commons of this Realm 129
Cruikshank, George 317, 431
Cruikshank, Isaac 317
cubism 567
Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah 275, 276, 371
Culloden, Battle of see Jacobite Rebellion (1745)
Curran, Stuart 362
Cynegisl, King of the West Saxons 29
Cynewulf, King 41, 42
Dabydeen, David 623, 624
Dacre, Charlotte 331, 363
Confessions of the Nun of St Omer 346
Zofloya, or The Moor 346
Daguerre, Louis 419
D‘Aguiar, Fred 623, 624
D‘Alembert, Jean le Rond 277
Dalton, John 318–19
The Dam Busters (1954) 601
Dame Sirith 48, 66, 67–9
Danegeld 75
Daniel, Samuel 150, 159, 160
Delia 160, 178
The Tragedy of Cleopatra 161
Dante (Alighieri), The Divine Comedy 267, 465
D‘Arcy, Ella, ‘White Magic’ 445
Darnley, Henry Stuart, Lord 125
Darwin, Charles 471, 485–6, 501, 527, 549
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex 418, 478
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 418, 471–2, 472
Voyage of the Beagle 418
Darwin, Erasmus 320–1, 322, 343, 350, 360–1
The Botanic Garden 360–1
D’Avenant, Sir William 168, 231
David, Jacques-Louis 316
Davie, Donald 621, 628
Purity of Diction in English Verse 621
Davies, Emily 415
Davies, Sir John (poet), ‘Orchestra’ 145
Davies, W. H. 558
Davis, Sir John (explorer) 181
Davis, Paul 465
Davis, Philip 418
Davison, Emily 534–5
Davy, Sir Humphry 319, 358
Day, Thomas 320
Day-Lewis, C. 558
de la Mare, Walter 558
De Quincey, Thomas 317, 335, 336, 364–5
Confessions of an English Opium Eater 368
Recollections on the Lakes and the Lake Poets 336
de Vere see Oxford
Defoe, Benjamin, Compleat English Dictionary 277
Defoe, Daniel 217, 246, 258
A Journal of the Plague Year 258
Moll Flanders 259
Robinson Crusoe 211, 255, 257, 258–9, 270, 275, 279, 285–90, 291, 292, 294
Roxana 259
A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain 229–30
Dekker, Thomas, The Shoemaker’s Holiday 152
Delaney, Shelagh 622, 626, 635
A Taste of Honey 627, 635
Dennis, John 253
Deor 40
deproletarianisation 635
Devereux, Penelope 200
Devereux, Robert see Essex
Diana, Princess of Wales 616
Dickens, Charles 255, 403, 416, 430, 431–2, 436, 438–9, 440, 446, 457, 465–6, 572, 632
Bleak House 440, 465, 466, 477, 483, 492–6
A Christmas Carol 403
David Copperfield 441, 464, 486, 489
Dombey and Son 422–3
Great Expectations 237, 441, 464, 485
Hard Times 462
Little Dorrit 403, 440, 465
Mr Nightingale’s Diary 452
Oliver Twist 459, 483, 506
Our Mutual Friend 486
The Pickwick Papers 425, 429, 430, 431, 433, 438
Sketches by Boz 431
A Tale of Two Cities 430, 464, 465
‘A Walk in a Workhouse’ 412
Diderot, Denis 277, 297
Disraeli, Benjamin 409, 411, 411, 445, 478, 529
Sybil, or The Two Nations 439, 458, 459
Dod, John, and Richard Clever, A Godly Forme of Household Management 176
Dodda (Saxon minister) 12
Domesday Book 19, 26, 59
Donne, John 145, 148, 154, 156, 158, 162, 177, 178, 199, 200, 202–6
‘The Canonization’ 204, 205
‘The Expiration’ 177
‘The Extasie’ 206
‘The First Anniversary’ 204
‘Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward’ 205
‘Holy Sonnet III’ 204
‘Holy Sonnet XI’ 204
‘Holy Sonnet XIV’ 205
‘Holy Sonnet XVIII’ 206
‘The Indifferent’ 206
‘The Relic’ 205
‘Sappho to Philaenis’ 180, 205–6
Sermon on Elizabeth I and James I 120
‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’ 206
‘A Valediction of Weeping’ 177
‘Woman’s Constancy’ 206
Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) 558, 565
Douglas, Keith 619–20
‘Vergissmeinnicht’ 620
Dowling, Linda 486
Dowson, Ernest 451
Doyle, Arthur Conan 438, 445
The Sign of Four 445
Drabble, Margaret 622
Drake, Sir Francis 181–2
Drayton, Michael, Idea 178
The Dream of the Rood 35, 40, 51, 51, 54
Drummond of Hawthornden 158
Dryden, John 39, 204, 248, 249, 260, 268
Absalom and Achitophel 249, 249
All For Love 249
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 252
Annus Mirabilis 249
‘Astraea Redux’ 249
Aureng-Zebe 249
The Conquest of Granada 249
Of Dramatic Poesy 249
The Hind and the Panther 249
MacFlecknoe 249, 249
Marriage à la mode 249
The Medall 249
Religio Laici 249
The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man 248
Duck, Stephen 248
Dudley, John see Northumberland
Dudley, Robert see Leicester
Duffy, Maureen 642
Dunbar, William, ‘The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie’ 70
Dunn, Nell, Up the Junction 635
Dunstan, Archbishop (later St) 18
Dyche, Thomas 277
Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester 12
Edel, Leon 585
Edgar, David 631
Edgar ‘the Peacemaker’ 17–18, 30
Edgeworth, Maria, Castle Rackrent 347
Edgeworth, Richard 320
Edinburgh Review 335
Edmonds, Charles, A Subaltern’s War 564
Edmund, St 52
Edmund Ironside 16
education 147, 148
Edward I 21, 32, 124
Edward II 21
Edward III 21, 24, 86
Edward IV 117, 200
Edward VI 119, 125, 126, 128, 141
Certain Sermons, or Homilies, Appointed by the King’s Majesty 141, 142
Edward the Confessor 19, 43, 52
Egerton, George (Mary Chavelita Dunne) 549
Egg, Augustus 483
Einstein, Albert 571
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 604
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen 20, 46
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) 255, 417, 438, 440, 443–4, 457, 475, 577
Adam Bede 440, 443, 463, 483
Daniel Deronda 440, 452
Middlemarch 420, 440, 443, 463
The Mill on the Floss 441, 443, 489
Scenes of Clerical Life 442–3
Silas Marner 443, 468
‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’ 480–1
(trans.) Essence of Christianity 481
Eliot, T. S. 203, 216, 548, 553, 557, 567, 569, 570, 620, 643
The Family Reunion 559
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 567
Murder in the Cathedral 559
‘Ulysses, Order and Myth’ 553
The Waste Land 465, 560–1, 581–2
Elizabeth I 120, 121, 126, 130, 134, 138, 143, 150, 172, 173, 181–3, 195
speech at Tilbury, 134
Elizabeth of York, Queen 117
Elliot, Ebenezer 345
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits 415, 481
Elphinston, John 74
Elyot, Thomas, The Boke Named the Governour 130, 134–5
Emma (queen of Cnut) 19
enclosure 128, 315
Encyclopedia Britannica 277
Engels, Friedrich 464
The Condition of the Working Class in England 458–9
Englishness 643
immigrants’ view of 642
Ensor, R. C. K. 519
epic (genre) 40–6, 258
epiphany 569
Equiano, Olaudah 275, 371
Erasmus, Desiderius 168, 185
The Education of a Christian Prince 135
Essays and Reviews 471
Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of 126, 134, 150
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 295
Etheredge, George, The Man of Mode 252–3
etiquette, feminine 482
European Union 606
Evangelicalism 321
Evans, Edmund 434
Evans, Mary Ann see Eliot, George
Evelyn, John 229
exclusion crisis 218–19
Exeter, Thomas Beaufort, Duke of 38–9
Exhortation concerning Good Order and Obedience to Rulers and Magistrates 136, 137
Faithfull, Emily 415
Falkland, Lady see Cary, Elizabeth
Falklands War (1982) 605
Faraday, Michael 319
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett 565
Feltes, N. N. 444
Ferrers, George see Baldwin, William
Ferrier, Susan, Marriage 347
Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas von 481
Ficino, Marsilio 155
Fielding, Henry 246, 258, 288, 297
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great 254–5
Tom Jones 235–7, 257
Fisher, Roy 632
Fitzgerald family 126
Fitzralph, Richard, Archbishop 52–3
Flamsteed, John 240
Fletcher, Giles, Licia 179, 179
Fletcher, John 158
see also Shakespeare
Ford, Ford Madox 558, 618
Parade’s End 564
Forster, E. M. 557, 558
Howards End 532, 566
Forster, W. E. 414–15, 533
Fowles, John 622
The French Lieutenant’s Woman 630
Fox, Charles James 317, 323, 330, 352
The Fox and the Wolf 66
Fox Talbot, Henry 419, 493
Foxe, John 168
Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church (Book of Martyrs) 168–9
Francis II of France 125
Franklin, Caroline, ‘Feminism 1890–1940’ 565, 567
Franklin, John 389
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 536
Franz Josef, Emperor 536
Frazer, Sir James, The Golden Bough 553
Frederick V of Bohemia, Elector Palatine 121
French Revolution 322–323, 323, 336–7, 349–51, 378–9, 390–1, 409, 430–1
Freud, Sigmund 268, 391, 571, 583
Frobisher, Sir Martin 181–2
Froissart, Jean 86
Froud, Richard 416
Froude, J. A., Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life 457
Fuseli, Henry 316, 377
Galen 174
Gallagher, Catherine 463
Galland, Antoine (trans.), The Thousand and One Nights 366
Galsworthy, John 558, 572
Galt, John 347
Galvani, Luigi 319, 390
Gardiner, Stephen, Concerning True Obedience 137
Garrick, David 343
Gascoigne, George, A Hundreth Sundrie Flowers 159
Gaskell, Elizabeth 440, 468, 481
Cranford 468, 477
The Life of Charlotte Brontë 457, 468
‘Lizzie Leigh’ 483
Mary Barton 420, 439, 461–2, 468, 483
North and South 439, 462, 466
Ruth 439
Gaskell, Philip, Landmarks of English Literature 643
Gates, Barbara, Kindred Nature 420–1
Gaunt, John of 22
Gay, John 245
The Beggar’s Opera 254
gender issues 174, 175, 177, 482, 639
see also suffrage
General Strike (1926) 541
George I 138, 223, 225, 294
George II 225
George IV 343
Germanic invasions 14–16
Gervais, David 629
Gifford, William 335
Gikandi, Simon 640
Gilbert, Sandra 489–90
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey 183
Gilbert, W. S. 452
Gilby, Anthony, An Admonition to England and Scotland to call them to repentance 142
Gildas, St 13–14
Giles, Peter 185, 186, 187–8
Gillray, James 317
‘The New Morality’ 330
Gilmour, Robin 403, 429, 474, 476, 480, 499
Gilpin, William 354, 373
Observations on the River Wye 376
Gilroy, Paul, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack 614
Gissing, George 549, 549
New Grub Street 438
Gladstone, William Ewart 411, 445, 478, 529
Glencoe Massacre 222
‘Glorious Revolution’ 220, 289
Gloucester, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of 90
Godric, St 36
Godwin, William 322, 331, 361, 377, 386
Caleb Williams 346, 348
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 334, 350, 390
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 430–1
Gogol, Nikolai 465
Goldsmith, Oliver 315
‘The Deserted Village’ 228, 352
She Stoops to Conquer 255, 348
Gordon, Charles, General 503
Gosse, Edmund 475
Father and Son 474
Gosse, Philip Henry 474
Gothic 331, 456
male vs female 363
Gower, John 83, 86
Confessio amantis 45
Vox clamantis 22, 29
Grand, Sarah 446, 549
The Beth Book 445
The Heavenly Twins 445
Granville-Barker, Harley 558
Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That 564
Gray, Thomas 332
‘Elegy in a Country Churchyard’ 251, 332
Great Exhibition (1851) 419
Green, Henry 622
Greenaway, Kate 434
‘The Little London Girl’ 466
Greene, Graham 558, 620
Greene, Robert, The Third and Last Part of Conny Catching 154
Greenwood, Walter, Love on the Dole 544
Gregory, Isabella Augusta, Lady 453
Gregory, St
Dialogues 17
Pastoral Care 17
Grein, J. T. 556
Grenfell, Julian 561
Greville, Fulke 170
Grey, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl 326, 410, 411
Grey, Lady Jane 119, 148, 154
Grierson, Sir Herbert 203
Griest, Guinevere 438
Griffiths, Trevor 631
Grimald, Nicholas 170
Gubar, Susan 489–90
Guillaume de Lorris see Jean de Meun
Guise, Marie de 125
Gunn, Thom 621
Gunpowder Plot (1605) 144
Gwynn, Nell 231, 252
Habermas, Jürgen 227, 261–2
Hadley, Elaine 452
Hadrian, Emperor 13
Haggard, H. Rider 479
King Solomon’s Mines 479
She 480
Hakluyt, Richard 183
Hali Meiðhad (treatise) 62
Hallam, Arthur Henry 446–7, 486
Hamilton, Elizabeth 346
Hamilton, Richard 609
Hampden, John 251
Hanley, James 622
Hardie, Keir 533
Hardy, Thomas 255, 438, 444, 469, 475, 549, 549, 558, 577
‘Drummer Hodge’ 531
Far from the Madding Crowd 251
Under the Greenwood Tree 444
Jude the Obscure 444
The Return of the Native 444, 469
Tess of the D‘Urbervilles 444, 483
Hare, David 631
Hargreaves, James 312
Harold Godwinson, King 19, 44, 76
Harrington, Sir John
description of a court entertainment 136
(trans.), Orlando Furioso 165, 195
Harris, Wilson 622
Harrison, John 241
Harrison, Tony 631
v. 631
Harvey, William 274
Hastings, Battle of 19, 26, 76
Hastings, Warren 281, 365
Havelock the Dane 45
Hawkins, Sir John 181, 182
Hawksmoor, Nicholas 240
Haydon, B. R. 342
Haywood, Eliza 244, 253
The Anti-Pamela; or, Feign’d Innocence Detected 259
The Femaile Spectator 259
Hazlitt, William 297, 335, 336, 339
Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays 336
Lectures on the English Poets 336
The Plain Speaker 336
The Spirit of the Age 336
Table Talk 336
Headley, Victor, Yardie 641
Heaney, Seamus 631
Hearne, Thomas 74
Heath, Edward 611, 611
Hegley, John 632
Heile van Beersele 67
Helsinger, Elizabeth K. 467
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea 343–4, 362
‘The Factory’ 460–1
Hengest 14
Henry I 19–20, 26, 28, 31
Henry II 20, 30–1, 46
Henry III 21
Henry IV 86
Henry ‘the Navigator,’ Prince, of Portugal 180
Henry V 23, 38
Henry VI 117
Henry VII 24–5, 117, 117–19, 139, 181
Henry VIII 119, 120, 126, 129, 134, 135, 138, 139–41, 148, 168, 177, 181, 185, 186, 376
Assertio septem sacramentorum (A Defence of the Seven Sacraments) 140
Henry of Huntingdon 16
Henty, G. A. 479
Herbert, George 178, 199
Herbert, Mary see Sidney, Mary
Herbert, William see Pembroke
Hereward the Wake 19
Hic Mulier, or the Man-Woman 176
Higden, Ranulph, Polychronicon 92
Hill, Geoffrey 631
Mercian Hymns 631
Hill, Selima 632
Hilliard, Nicholas 150
Hitler, Adolf 539
Hobbes, Thomas
Leviathan 269, 270
Hoby, Sir Thomas (trans.), The Book of the Courtier 150
Hoccleve, Thomas 39
Hockney, David 609
Hogarth, William 234
Hogg, James 344, 347
Confessions of a Justified Sinner 501
Hogg, T. J. 341
Holbein, Hans 150
Holcroft, Thomas
The Road to Ruin 348
A Tale of Mystery 348
Holinshed, Raphael, Chronicles 166
Hollinghurst, Alan, The Swimming-Pool Library 639–40
Holman Hunt, William 448
‘The Awakening Conscience’ 483
Holtby, Winifred, Women in a Changing Civilisation 566
Homer 77
Iliad 284
Odyssey 287, 289, 553
translations of 165, 235, 250, 294
Homily of the State of Matrimony 175, 177
Hood, Thomas, ‘The Song of the Shirt’ 461
Hooke, Della, Worcestershire Anglo-Saxon Charter Bounds 12
Hooke, Robert 229, 240
Micrographia 265
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 451, 474, 486
‘God’s Grandeur’ 474
Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus) 164, 227
Ars poetica 166
Horsa 14
Hotman, François, Francogallia 172
Howard see Norfolk; Surrey
Howitt, William, The Rural Life of England 468
Hugh of Lincoln 22
Hughes, Linda K. 486
Hughes, Ted 631
Birthday Letters 625
Hughes, Thomas, Tom Brown’s Schooldays 465–6, 485
Hulme, T. E. 558
Humanism 145
Hume, David 263–4
‘Of the Standard of Taste’ 260–1
Hundred Years’ War 21, 23–4, 39
Hunt, Henry ‘Orator’ 325
Hunt, John 335, 336
Hunt, Joseph W. see Richards, Denis
Hunt, Leigh 335, 335, 336, 341–2
Hunt, Peter 479
Hurd, Richard 332
Hus, John 242
Hutcheon, Linda 622
Hutton, James 320
Huxley, Aldous 558
Huxley, T. H. 471–2, 472
On the Physical Basis of Life 418
Hymn to Mary 53–4
Ibsen, Henrik 550
A Doll’s House 446
Ghosts 556
Hedda Gabler 446
Imlay, Gilbert 377
Inchbald, Elizabeth
Every One Has His Faults 348
Lovers’ Vows 348
Indian Mutiny 423
Industrial Revolution 312
Interludium de clerico et puella 67–8
Interregnum (1649–60) 123–4, 216
Iraq War (2003) 606
Ireland, political history 222, 313
Isherwood, Christopher 558
(with W. H. Auden), The Dog Beneath the Skin 559
Ishiguro, Kazuo 625
The Remains of the Day 642, 643
‘Jack the Ripper’ 438, 502
Jacobite Rebellion (1715) 223
Jacobite Rebellion (1745) 224–5
James I of England/VI of Scotland 120–1, 124, 125, 131, 134, 135, 137, 138–9, 144, 169, 171, 182, 183
speech to the Star Chamber, 20 June 1616 131, 138
The Trew Law of Free Monarchies 171
James II 218–19, 221, 222, 222, 224, 225, 275, 284, 300
James, Henry 440, 549–50, 551–2, 570, 580
The Ambassadors 551
The Golden Bowl 551
The Turn of the Screw 571
What Maisie Knew 551
The Wings of a Dove 551
James, William 584
Principles of Psychology 552
Jea, John 371
Jean de Meun (and Guillaume de Lorris), Le roman de la rose 62–3, 64
translation see Chaucer
Jefferson, Thomas 270
Jeffrey, Francis 335, 339
Jekyll, Gertrude 420
Jenkins, Alan, The Twenties 543
Jennings, Elizabeth 621, 632
Jews in England 22
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 638
John, Errol 624
John, King 20–1
Johnson, B. S. 622
Johnson, Linton Kwesi 624, 632
Johnson, Lionel 451
Johnson, Paul 530
Johnson, Samuel 235, 245, 260–1, 264, 266, 268, 343
Dictionary 277–9
‘Life of Addison’ 262
‘Preface to the Plays of William Shakespeare’ 261
Jones, David 548, 558
The Anathemata 622
Jones, Ernest 447
‘The Song of the Lower Classes’ 460
Jones, Henry Arthur 558
Jones, Inigo 240
Jones, Lewis, Cwmardy 544
Jones, Sir William 366, 368
Jonson, Ben 132, 149, 150, 151, 154, 156, 158, 199
The Alchemist 143–4, 152, 163, 167
Bartholomew Fair 143–4, 152
Volpone 167
Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews 190
Journey’s End (1930) 563
Joyce, James 548, 552, 557, 567, 570, 571, 643
Finnegans Wake 548, 628
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 569, 571
Ulysses 553, 567, 569, 571
Judith 41
Julian of Norwich 54
Julius Caesar 13
Juvenal (D. Junius Juvenalis) 164
Kafka, Franz 567
Kane, Sarah 627
Blasted 653–5, 655
Kant, Immanuel 262, 296, 317–18
Katherine of Aragon, Queen 119, 140–1, 185
Kauffman, Angelica 316
Kay, John 312
Keats, John 262, 328, 335, 342, 344, 348–9
‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ 342
Endymion 341, 342
The Eve of St Agnes 342
‘On a Grecian Urn’ 342
Hyperion 342
Lamia 342, 359, 364
‘To a Nightingale’ 342
‘To Psyche’ 342
Keble, John 416
The Christian Year 473–4
Kegan Paul, Charles 425
Kemble, John Philip 348
Kempe, Margery 54
Kempe, William, The Education of Children 148
Kennedy, John F. 606
Kent, Christopher 455
Kent, Prince Edward, Duke of 409
Keyes, Sidney 619
Killigrew, Thomas 231
King, Andrew 425
King, John, England Away 642
Kingsley, Charles 474
Alton Locke 439, 462
‘Review of Mary Barton’ 461–2
The Water Babies 433, 445, 474
Yeast 439
Kingston, W. H. G. 479
Kinkead-Weekes, Mark 561
Kipling, Rudyard 479–80, 558, 566
‘The Female of the Species’ 566
The Jungle Book 479–80
Just So Stories 445, 479–80
Plain Tales from the Hills 479
‘Recessional: A Victorian Ode’ 427–8
‘The White Man’s Burden’ 423, 476
Knight, Charles 433
Knight, Richard Payne 354, 354
Knighton, Henry 33
Knox, John, The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women 174
Koch, Robert 420
Kops, Bernard, Awake for Mourning 635
Kotzebue, August Friedrich von 346–8
Kramnick, Isaac, Is Britain Dying? 610
Krebs, Paula 480
Kureishi, Hanif 624
Kyd, Thomas 195
The Spanish Tragedy 195
LaȜamon, Brut 43–5, 55–6
Labour Party, founding of 533
‘Lake School’ 339
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 320
Lamb, Charles 335, 364
Essays of Elia 336
(with Mary Lamb) Tales from Shakespeare 336
Lamb, Mary 336
Lambarde, William, Archeion, or a Discourse upon the High Courts of Justice in England 136–7
Lamming, George 624
The Emigrants 641, 642
The Land of Cockaigne 71
Landon, Laetitia Elizabeth (‘L.E.L.’) 344, 362
landscape 354
Lane, Allen 625
Lane, John 433
Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury 30
Langland, William 38, 84
The Vision of Piers Plowman 13, 23, 26, 29, 38, 48, 61, 82, 83
Lanyer, Aemilia 180
Larkin, Philip 621, 631
‘MCMXIV’ 649, 650
‘The Arundel Tomb’ 649
Collected Poems 625
‘Dockery and Son’ 649
‘Going, Going’ 631
High Windows 625
‘Mr Bleaney’ 649
The Whitsun Weddings (collection/poem) 648–51
Latané, David 430
Lateran Council, Fourth (1215) 30, 83
Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury 125
Laurel and Hardy 629
Lawrence, D. H. 557, 559–61, 567, 583, 618
Kangaroo 559–60
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 567
The Rainbow 566, 571, 577–81, 582, 583
Sons and Lovers 571, 579
Women in Love 560–1, 564, 569–70, 578
Lawrence, William 321, 390
Leavis, Q. D., Fiction and the Reading Public 625, 627
Lee, Sophia, The Recess 345
Lehmann, Rosamund 637
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of 149, 150
Leighton, Angela 448
Leo X, Pope 140–1
Leonard, Tom 632
‘Good Style’ 630
Lessing, Doris 622, 624, 637
The Golden Notebook 638
In Pursuit of the English 641
Levine, George 440
Levinson, Marjorie 376–7
Levy, Amy, ‘Ballade of an Omnibus’ 466
Lewes, George Henry 441, 457, 481
Lewis, Alun 619
Lewis, Matthew 331
The Castle Spectre 345, 348
The Monk 345–6, 363, 386
Tales of Wonder 345
Lewis, Percy Wyndham 558, 567
Life of St Guthlac 52
Lily, William 147
Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné) 360
Lipsius, Justus (Joost Lips), Six Bookes of Politics or Civil Doctrine 157
literature, scope of definition 246
Littlewood, Joan 627
Oh! What a Lovely War 627
Litvak, Joseph 453
Liverpool, Lord 326
Livingstone, David 424
Livy (T. Livius) 164
Lloyd George, David 531, 533–4, 540
Locke, John 263, 269–71, 272, 274, 274, 278, 329, 358–9
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 269, 317
(?and others), Fundamental Constitution of the Carolinas 275
First Treatise of Government 219, 269
A Letter Concerning Toleration 263, 269, 270–1, 288
Second Treatise of Government 269, 270, 271, 275, 287
Lodge, David 622
The Modes of Modern Writing 557, 558
Lodge, Thomas 195
Lok, Anne Vaughan 178, 199
Lombroso, Cesare 501
London, Great Fire of (1666) 228–9, 229
The Longest Day (1962) 601
longitude 241
Look Back in Anger (1958) 627
Louis XIV of France 218
Louis XVI of France 322, 323
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de 316
Lucas, J. R. 472
Luther, Martin 140, 141, 168
Lydgate, John 39, 47, 86
Lyell, Charles 471
Principles of Geology 418, 472
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 455, 470–1, 476
Macaulay, Zachary 321
Macaulay, Rose 637
MacDiarmid, Hugh 558
MacDonald, George 445
‘A Manchester Poem’ 465
The Princess and the Goblin 433
MacDonald, Ramsay 540
Machiavelli, Nicolo 157, 157
Mackenzie, Compton 558
Mackenzie, Henry, The Man of Feeling 314, 329
Macmillan, Harold 606
MacNeice, Louis 558
Macpherson, James (‘Ossian’) 332
Magellan, Ferdinand 181
Magna Carta 20–1
Major, John 611, 612–13
Malory, Thomas 46
Morte Darthur 43, 45, 256
Mandeville, Bernard de, Fable of the Bees 234
Mankind (morality play) 48, 95
Manley, Delariviere 244, 253
Manning, Frederic, Her Privates We 564
Manning, Henry Edward, Cardinal 503
Mansel, Henry 442
Mansfield, Katherine 558, 565, 571
Margaret, St 52, 82
Margaret of Anjou, Queen 117
Marlowe, Christopher 148, 149, 156, 177
Doctor Faustus 48, 167
Hero and Leander 164
The Jew of Malta 157
Tamburlaine 48
Marsh, Jan 483
Marston, Una 624
Martial (M. Valerius Martialis) 164
Martin, John 316
Martineau, Harriet 457, 481
Martyn, Edward 453
Marvell, Andrew 177
Marx, Karl 268, 414
Mary, Queen of Scots 125, 134
Mary I (‘Bloody Mary’) 119–20, 126, 142–3, 169
Mary II (of Orange) 138, 220, 221, 240, 270
Mary of Modena, Queen (of James II) 220
Masefield, John 558
Massey, Gerald 460
Massie, Joseph 227
Masson, David 439
Matilda, Empress 20
Matthews, Elklin 433
Maturin, Charles R. 331
Bertram 348
Melmoth the Wanderer 346
Maugham, W. Somerset 558
Mayhew, Henry 464
London Labour and the London Poor 459
McCord, Norman 411, 416
McEwan, Ian 625
McFarlane, James see Bradbury, Malcolm
McGann, Jerome 376
McKeon, Michael, The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740 258
meanings, changes in 39
Mearns, Andrew, The Bitter Cry of Outcast London 464
Medwall, Henry, Fulgens and Lucrece 47
Melanchthon, Philipp 140
Mellor, Anne 358, 362–3, 391
‘mental theatre’ 348
Meredith, George 549
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel 441, 444
Merry, Robert 330
methodism 320
Mew, Charlotte 558
Meynell, Alice 469
‘Winter Trees on the Horizon’ 469
Michaelangelo 390
Mill, Harriet Taylor, The Enfranchisement of Women 484–5
Mill, John Stuart 411–12, 455, 457, 475
Mill, John Stuart, The Subjection of Women 484–5
Millais, John Everett 431, 448
Milton, John 156, 248, 251, 366
Of Education 148
Paradise Lost 164, 174, 248, 250, 260, 266–9, 286, 295–6
Mirk, John, Festial 49–50
Mitchell, Sally 425, 468
Mitford, Mary Russell 344
Our Village 467
Mo, Timothy 624
An Insular Possession 623
modernism 548
Moers, Ellen 345
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) 252
Monboddo, Lord 320
Monck, George, General 124
Moncrieff, W. T., Rochester, or Charles the Second’s Merry Days 348
Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of 219, 249
Montague, C. E., Disenchantment 563
Montaigne, Michel de 156, 157
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de 262
Montfort, Simon de 21
Monty Python’s Flying Circus 610
Moore, George 549, 549
Literature as Nurse, or Circulating Morals 555
The Mummer’s Wife 555
Moore, Thomas 338
Lalla Rookh 367–8
More, Hannah 321, 326, 344–5, 371, 380–1
Cheap Repository Tracts 350
Slavery 370–2
More, Thomas 134, 140
Utopia 130, 160, 183–9
Moretti, Franco 244, 258
Morris, William 433, 448
‘The Voice of Toil’ 464
Morte Arthure (alliterative poem) 44
Morton, John, Cardinal 186, 187
Morton, Thomas, Speed the Plow 436
Moser, Mary 316
Mountjoy, Charles Blount, Lord 126
Moxon, Edward 425, 433
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 235
Mudie, Charles Edward 425, 435–6, 438, 444, 554
Muggeridge, Malcolm, ‘England, Whose England?’ 613
Murray, John 421–2, 425
‘mythical method’ 553
N-Town cycle 95
Naipaul, V. S. 624
The Enigma of Arrival 623
The Mimic Men 623
Nairn, Tom, The Break-Up of Britain 610
Napoleon I, Emperor 323, 325
Napoleonic Wars 325
Nashe, Thomas 194–5
Nasser, Gamal Abdel 604
naturalism 549
Nelson, Carolyn 445–6
Nelson, Claudia 479
Nelson, Horatio 325, 371
‘New Woman’ 446
Newcastle, William Cavendish, 1st Duke of 147, 168
Newcomen, Thomas 312
Newman, John Henry, Cardinal 416–17, 457, 486
Newnes, George 437–8
Newton, Isaac 250, 263, 272, 273, 274, 296–7, 358–60
Nietzsche, Friedrich 571
Nightingale, Florence 415, 484, 503
‘Cassandra’ 482
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of 135
Norman occupation 19, 76–7
North, Marianne 420
North, Thomas (trans.), Plutarch’s Lives 166
Northumberland, John Dudley, 1st Duke of 119
novel (genre) 258
evolution 644
history 257
women writers 259
Oates, Titus 218
O‘Casey, Sean
Juno and the Paycock 559
The Plough and the Stars 559
The Shadow of a Gunman 559
The Silver Tassie 559
Odo, Bishop of Bayeux 27
Oersted, Hans Christian 319
Offa, King of Mercia 13, 16
O‘Gorman, Francis 444
Oldcastle, Sir John 33
Oliphant, Margaret 444
Oliver, Isaac 150
Olivier, Laurence 563
O‘Neill family 126
see also Tyrone
Only Fools and Horses (TV) 633
Opie, Amelia 346
Oppenheim, Janet 486
Orientalism 366
Orosius, Paulus, History Against the Pagans 17
Orton, Joe, Loot 638
Orwell, George 558, 603, 620
‘England Your England’ 546
Nineteen Eighty-Four 628–9, 632–3, 643–5, 645
The Road to Wigan Pier 544, 544
Osborne, John 622, 627, 635
Look Back in Anger 626, 627, 628, 629, 630, 634, 654
A Patriot for Me 638
Osbourne, Francis 136
Oswald, St 12, 29, 52
Oswine, King 42
Ovid (P. Ovidius Naso) 164, 227
Owen, Richard 417–18, 472
Owen, Wilfred 558, 561
‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ 538
‘Futility’ 519, 562
Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan 347
Owl and the Nightingale 62, 68
Oxford, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of 158
Pabst, G. W. 563
Paine, Thomas 330, 379
The Age of Reason 322
Agrarian Justice 313–14
The Rights of Man 340, 350
Pankhurst, Emmeline 565
Pardon, William 277
Parry, William Edward 389
Parsons, Eliza 345
Pasteur, Louis 420
Pater, Walter 557
Marius the Epicurean 445
Studies in the History of the Renaissance 429, 457–8
Patience 84
Patmore, Coventry, ‘The Angel in the House’ 482
Paxton, Joseph 419
Peacock, Thomas Love 347, 364
Nightmare Abbey 346, 347
Pearl 38, 60–1, 84
Peasants’ Revolt (1381) 21–3, 32–3, 71–2
Pecham, Henry, The Art of Living in London 133
Peel, Sir Robert 411, 414
Pembroke, Countess of see Sidney, Mary
Pembroke, William Herbert, 3rd Earl of 201
Penda, King of Mercia 29, 52
A Pennyworth of Wit 66
Pepys, Samuel 216
Percy, Thomas, Bishop, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry 332
‘Peterloo Massacre’ 325, 341
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) 145, 155, 178, 205, 206
Canzoniere 177, 199
Petty, John, Five Fags a Day 635
Philip II of Spain 120, 126, 143
Philips, Katherine 180
Phillips, Caryl 624
Crossing the River 623
Strange Fruit 641
Where There Is Darkness 641
Phillips, Edward, The New World of Words 277
Phillips, Tom, The Humument 630
Phipps, Constantine 371, 389
Picasso, Pablo 567
Pinero, Arthur Wing 558
Pinter, Harold 551, 622, 629, 630–1
The Caretaker (programme notes) 654
Pitt, William (the Younger) 323, 334
Pius V, Pope 143
Pix, Mary 253
Place, Francis 315
plague 131, 228–9
Planché, James Robinson, The Vampyre 348
Plath, Sylvia 632
Plato 155
Axiochus 154
Republic 183
Platter, Thomas 183
Plautus, T. Maccius 164
Menaechmi 166–7
Play of the Sacrament 48–9
Pliny the Elder (G. Plinius Secundus) 164
Plotinus 155
Plunkett, John 425
Plutarch (Mestrius Plutarchus) 157, 164
Lives 166
Polidori, J. W., The Vampyre 348
political allegory 249
politics
parties 219, 533
seventeenth-century 217
Polo, Marco 180
Polwhele, Richard 377
Pope, Alexander 217, 235, 245, 247, 248, 339
An Essay on Criticism 249–50, 260
An Essay on Man 249, 250–1, 294–7
Dunciad 249–51
Letters 245
population (of England) 27
Porden, Eleanor, The Veils, or the Triumph of Constancy 344
Porter, Andrew 423–4
Porter, Bernard 476
Porter, Roy 419, 459
Portland, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of 323
post-realism 654
post-modernism 623
Potter, Beatrix 420
Pound, Ezra 548, 557, 567, 569, 570
Powell, Enoch 614
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 448
Price, Richard, Discourse on the Love of Our Country 349
Price, Uvedale 354
Priestley, J. B.
English Journey 544–6
Johnson Over Jordan 559
Time and the Conways 559
Priestley, Joseph 238, 318, 321, 322, 360
Prince, Mary 371
Proust, Marcel, A la recherche du temps perdu 571
Prynne, J. H. 632
Ptolemy, Claudius 144, 156
Pusey, Edward 417
Puttenham, George, The Art of English Poetry 170
Pykett, Lyn 502
Pym, Barbara 637
Pythagoras 156
Qualls, Barry 441
Quarterly Review 335
Queensberry, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of 504
Rabelais, François 95, 185
Radcliffe, Ann 331, 345, 363
The Italian 345
The Mysteries of Udolpho 345
A Sicilian Romance 345
Raining Stones (TV) 627
Ralegh, Sir Walter 131, 177, 181–2, 183
Discovery of Guiana 158
History of the World 158
Ralegh family 150
Rathbone, Eleanor, The Disinherited Family 566
Rattigan, Terence
The Deep Blue Sea 638
Ross 638
Separate Tables 638
Raven, James 332
Ravenhill, Mark 628, 655
Reade, Charles 442
Reading, Peter 632
Redgrave, Richard 461
Reeve, Clara 331
The Old English Baron 345
Reid, Mayne, Captain 479
Remarque, Erich Maria, Nichts Neues im Westen (All Quiet on the Western Front) 563
Renaissance, defined 117
Renan, Ernest, La Vie de Jésus 417
Repton, Humphry 354
Restoration 216–17
Reynolds, G. W. M. 433
Reynolds, John Hamilton 342
Reynolds, Joshua 315, 316
Rhodes, Cecil 476
Rhys, Jean 558
After Leaving Mr Mackenzie 566
Rich, Lord 200
Richard I ‘the Lionheart’ 20
Richard II 21–2, 23, 56, 84–6, 90
Richard III 24–5, 117
Richard the Redeless 84–5
Richards, Denis, and Joseph Hunt, An Illustrated History of Modern Britain 537
Richardson, Dorothy 548, 552, 558, 565, 570, 571
Pilgrimage 571
Richardson, Samuel 246, 258, 288, 329
Clarissa 239, 257, 259, 280, 297–300
Pamela 259, 297
Ritchie, Harry, Success Stories 621
Robert of Gloucester (historian) 36
Robespierre, Maximilien 323, 323, 350
Robins, Elizabeth, Votes for Women 565
Robinson, Mary 330, 343
Robinson, Ralph 185
Roche, Regina Maria 345
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of 299
Rolle, Richard, Meditations on the Passion 54
Roman occupation 13–14
romance, as genre 40–6, 439
Romanticism, defined 328
Room 101 (TV) 645
Rosenberg, Isaac 558, 561
Ross, James Clark 389
Ross, Sir John 389
Rossetti, Christina 448, 448, 451, 457
‘Goblin Market’ 483, 496–9
‘In the Round Tower’ 478
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 448, 448, 499
‘Found’ 483
House of Life 488
Rossetti, William Michael 448
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 84, 297, 329, 358, 379, 389, 390
Rowlandson, Thomas 317
Rubens, Peter Paul 150–1
Rune Poem 51
Rushdie, Salman 622, 624, 625, 628, 630
The Satanic Verses 616, 625
Ruskin, John 451, 456, 457, 475
The Crown of Wild Olives 456
The King of the Golden River 445
‘The Nature of the Gothic’ 456
Praeterita 475
‘Of Queen’s Gardens’ 482
Unto This Last 455, 456
Russell, George see A. E.
Ruthwell cross 51
Said, Edward 366, 383, 424
Salkey, Andrew 624
Escape to an Autumn Pavement 641
Sancho, Ignatius 275, 371
Sanders, Andrew 442
Sassoon, Siegfried 558, 561–2
‘Absolution’ 561–2
‘The General’ 562
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer 564
Saussure, Ferdinand de 569
Sayers, Dorothy L. 558
Schreiner, Olive 549
The Story of an African Farm 445, 485, 549
Scotland, political history 222
Scott, Paul
The Raj Quartet 623
Staying On 623
Scott, Walter 334, 338, 339, 347, 349, 361, 365, 380, 439
Ivanhoe 365
The Lay of the Last Minstrel 339
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 339
The Talisman 365
Waverly 347
scribes 82
Scum (1977) 635
Seacole, Mary 415
Selkirk, Alexander 285
Selvon, Sam 624, 635
The Lonely Londoners 628, 645–8, 648
Moses Ascending 648
Moses Migrating 648
Seneca, L. Annaeus 164, 166, 190
sensibility 329
Sermon against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion 137
Seward, Anna 343
Seymour see Somerset
Seymour, Robert 431
Shadwell, Thomas 249
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of 218–19, 219, 244, 249, 270
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of 416
Shakespeare, William 48, 149, 150, 162–3, 170, 176–7, 200, 201, 366, 430
Antony and Cleopatra 166, 179–80, 193
As You Like It 128–9, 129, 176–7
The Comedy of Errors 166–7
Coriolanus 166, 173, 191
Hamlet 139, 146, 156, 191, 193–8
Henry V 173
Julius Caesar 156, 162, 193
King Lear 156, 166, 193
Macbeth 166, 193
Measure for Measure 167
The Merchant of Venice 167, 179
Othello 193
The Rape of Lucrece 202
Richard II 196
Richard III 157
Sonnets 178, 179
The Tempest 173, 182
Titus Andronicus 195
Twelfth Night 144, 177, 179, 180
The Two Gentlemen of Verona 179
Venus and Adonis 164, 176
The Winter’s Tale 152–3, 176, 343
(with John Fletcher), Henry VIII 158, 163
(with John Fletcher), The Two Noble Kinsmen 158, 180
(with unknown collaborator), Pericles 158
Shaw, George Bernard 453–4, 462, 548, 549–51, 556, 558–9
Arms and the Man 454, 550
Major Barbara 550
Man and Superman 454, 550
Mrs Warren’s Profession 454, 464, 550
The Quintessence of Ibsenism 550
Widowers’ Houses 550, 556
Sheets, Heather 423
Shelley, Harriet, née Westbrook 341, 386
Shelley, Mary, née Godwin 266, 268, 331, 341, 358, 363
Frankenstein 346, 360, 386–92, 501
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 328, 335, 341, 343, 347, 349, 352, 357–8, 360, 368, 386, 390
The Cenci 348
‘England in 1819’ 352
The Masque of Anarchy 341
‘Mont Blanc’ 357
The Necessity of Atheism 341
‘Ode to the West Wind’ 341, 352
‘Preface to Frankenstein’ 388
Prometheus Unbound 368
Queen Mab 341
The Revolt of Islam 368
‘The Sensitive Plant’ 341
‘The Skylark’ 341
‘The Witch of Atlas’ 368
Shelley, Sir Timothy 388
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 255
The Rivals 348
The School for Scandal 348
Sherriff, R. C., Journey’s End 563
Showalter, Elaine 583
Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle 500
Siddons, Sarah 348
Sidney, Elizabeth 199
Sidney, Mary (Herbert), Countess of Pembroke 149, 150, 170, 173, 198–9
Sidney, Sir Philip 149, 158, 160, 164, 165–6, 170, 198–201
An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) 161, 165, 170, 199, 259–60
Arcadia 170
Astrophil and Stella 155, 170, 178, 199–201, 202
The Lady of May 150
Sidney, Sir Robert 199
Sidney family 150, 190, 198–9
Sierz, Aleks 655
Sigeric, Archbishop 73
Sillitoe, Alan 635
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 634–5, 635, 636
Simcox, Edith 415
Simnel, Lambert 117
Sinclair, Iain 622, 642
Lights Out for the Territory 630
Sinclair, May 558, 565
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 42, 44, 84–90
Sir Launfal 45
Sir Orfeo 45
Sitwell, Edith 558
Skelton, John 200–1
slavery 274, 326, 371
Slinn, E. Warwick 450
slum conditions 544
Smiles, Samuel, Self-Help 414, 421, 457, 464, 485, 500
Smith, Adam, The Wealth of Nations 274, 280–1
Smith, Alexander, ‘Glasgow’ 466
Smith, Charlotte 346
Beachy Head with other Poems 343
Elegiac Sonnets 330, 343, 361
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle 345
The Old Manor House 345
Smith, George 425
Smith, Sir Thomas, De republica Anglorum (The commonwealth of England, and manner of the government thereof) 130, 137–8, 174
Smith, W. H. 425, 452
Smith, Zadie 624
Snow, C. P. 617
Social Darwinism 478
Somerset, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of 117
Somerset, Edward Seymour, 1st (Seymour) Duke of 119, 125, 128
The Song of Roland 41, 44
Sophia, Duchess of Hanover 221
South Sea Bubble 223–4, 289
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of 150
Southcott, Joanna 315, 321
Southey, Robert 330, 335, 337–9, 340, 341, 368
The Curse of Kehema 339, 367
The Fall of Robespierre see Coleridge
Madoc 339
Thalaba the Destroyer 338–9, 366–7
Sowernam, Ester, Ester Hath Hang’d Haman 175, 176
Spanish Armada 126, 134
Spanish Succession, War of 222, 223
Speght, Rachel, A Muzzle for Melastomus 175
Spence, Thomas 314
Spencer, Herbert 418–19
First Principles of a New System of Philosophy 478
Spender, Stephen 558
Spenser, Edmund 150, 156, 162, 164
Amoretti 155, 178
The Faerie Queene 155, 165, 166, 267
Shepheardes Calendar 165
Spivak, Gayatri 385–6
Sprat, Thomas, History of the Royal Society 265–6, 278, 299
St Clair, William 332
Stanhope, Charles, 3rd Earl 332
Statute of Labourers (1351) 60
Stead, W. T. 436–7
Steele, Richard 244, 260–2, 270
Stephen, James 321
Stephen, King 20
Stephen, Leslie 457
Sterne, Lawrence 263, 329, 430
Stevenson, Robert Louis 438, 444–5, 485–6
Kidnapped 445
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 403, 444–5, 464, 499–503
Treasure Island 445
Stewart, Garrett 489
Stewart, Jack 561
Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury 30
Stoker, Bram, Dracula 403, 446, 480
Stone, Lawrence 239, 239
Storey, David 622
Stow, John, A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster 133, 152
Strachey, Lytton 503
Strachey, Ray (Rachel), The Cause 566
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of 127
Strauss, David Friedrich, Das Leben Jesu 417
Stretton, Hesba, Jessica’s First Prayer 441
Stuart, Charles Edward (The Young Pretender) 224–5
Stuart, James Francis Edward (The Old Pretender) 220, 221–3, 223, 224, 225
Stubbes, Philip, Anatomy of Abuses 177
Sturgeon, William 319
Suckling, Sir John 168
Sudbury, Simon of 23
Suez crisis (1956) 604
Suffolk, Mary, Duchess of (sister of Henry VIII) 119
suffrage movements 565
Sullivan, Arthur 452
Surrey, Henry Howard, 3rd Earl of 169–70, 177–8
Surtees, Robert, Jorrocks’ Jaunts and Jollities 430
Sussman, Herbert, Victorian Masculinities 485
Swedenborg, Emanuel 321
Sweet, Henry 25
Swetnam, Joseph, Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward Women 175
Swift, Graham 622, 625, 629
Last Orders 629
The Sweet Shop Owner 642
Swift, Jonathan 217, 245, 246, 258, 263, 268, 288, 430
Gulliver’s Travels 211, 255, 257, 258, 259, 259, 263, 279, 290–4
A Modest Proposal 291
Swinburne, Algernon Charles 451, 475
Poems and Ballads, Series 1 451
Symonds, John Addington 486
Symons, Arthur 451
Synge, J. M.
The Playboy of the Western World 559
Riders to the Sea 559
Syrett, Netta, ‘The Heart’s Desire’ 445
Tacitus, P. (or G.) Cornelius 41, 157, 164
Germania 14
The Tale of Genji 257
Tasso, Torquato 166
Taylor, Elizabeth (novelist) 622, 637
At Mrs Lippincote’s 638
Taylor, Helen 415
Taylor, Jane/Anne 344
Taylor, John 344
Tebbit, Norman 614
Tenniel, John 434
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron 433, 446–8, 451, 457, 467, 475, 485–6
‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ 448, 478
‘The Defence of Lucknow’ 478
Idylls of the King 449–50
In Memoriam, A. H. H. 446, 447, 472–4, 486, 488
‘The Lotos-Eaters’ 447
‘Mariana’ 447
‘Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington’ 447–8
Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 446
The Princess: A Medley 447, 482–3
‘Ulysses’ 470–1
Terence (P. Terentius Afer) 164, 166
Thackeray, William Makepeace 438, 439
The Roundabout Papers 403, 506
Vanity Fair 439–40, 477
Thatcher, Denis 611
Thatcher, Margaret 610, 611, 611–12, 613, 614, 633, 636, 637
theatres 231
Themsecke, Georges de 186
Thirkell, Angela 620
Thirty Years’ War 121, 130, 131
Thomas, Dylan 548, 558, 620
Thomas, Ronald 494
Thomas Aquinas, St 296
Thompson, E. P. 420
Thompson, James, ‘Rule Britannia’ 275
Thomson, James, ‘City of Dreadful Night’ 465
Thorkell the Tall 75
Thornhill, James 240
Thornton, Henry 321
Tighe, Mary Blanchford, Psyche, or the Legend of Love 344
Tindal, Henrietta, ‘The Cry of the Oppressed’ 463
Tone, Wolfe 324
Tottel, Richard, Songs and Sonnettes … and other (Tottel’s Miscellany) 169–70
Towneley plays 91–6
The Killing of Abel 92, 95–6
Second Shepherds’ Play 68, 92–5, 96
Trevisa, John 35, 38, 92
Trollope, Anthony 416, 436, 438
Autobiography 440
Trollope, Frances
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy 439, 462
Tucker, Herbert 498–9
Tunstall, Cuthbert 186
Turner, J. M. W. 316
Tyler, Wat 23
Tynan, Kenneth 627
Tyndale, William 168, 169
Obedience of a Christian Man 163
‘A Prologue into the Second Book of Moses called Exodus’ 164
Tyrconnell, Rory O’Connell, earl of 127
Tyrone, Hugh O’Neill, Earl of 126, 127
unemployment 543
Usk, Thomas 65
Utrecht, Treaty of see Spanish Succession, War of
Vallon, Annette 373
van Dyck, Anthony 150–1
Vanbrugh, Sir John 244, 246, 253
Vasco da Gama 181
Venn, John 321
Victoria, Queen 408, 409, 409, 411, 423, 428, 447, 476, 527, 546
Viking invasions/battles 17, 18–19, 72–8
Villiers see Buckingham
Virgil (P. Vergilius Maro) 164, 227
Aeneid 165, 170
Eclogues 165
Vizetelly, Henry 555
Volta, Alessandro 319
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) 262, 358
Candide 296
Letters on England 263
Vortigern, King 14
Vrettos, Athena 494
Wace, Roman de Brut 46
Wade, John 335
Wain, John 621
Wakefield mystery cycle see Towneley plays
Walpole, Horace 235, 240, 245–6, 345
The Castle of Otranto 331, 345, 386
Walpole, Hugh 558
Walpole, Robert 224, 225, 254
The Wanderer 14, 40
Warbeck, Perkin 117
Ward, A. C.
The Nineteen-Twenties 564, 576
Twentieth-Century Literature 1901–25 547
Ward, Mary Augusta 566
Robert Elsmere 475
Wars of the Roses 23–5, 117, 117
Warton, Thomas 332
Watson, Thomas, Hecatompathia 178
Watt, James 312, 321, 360
Watts, G. F. 461
Waugh, Evelyn 558
Sword of Honour 620, 620
Weber, A. S. 418
Webster, John 149
Wedderburn, Robert 371
Wedgwood, Josiah 234, 312, 314
welfare state 608
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of 326
Wells, H. G. 548, 558
Ann Veronica 565
Mr Britling Sees It Through 563
Tono-Bungay xvii, 532, 572–7, 582
The War That Will End War 538
Werner, Abraham Gottlob 320
Wesker, Arnold 622, 626
Wesley, Charles 242, 320
Wesley, John 242, 320, 329
West, Benjamin, The Death of General Wolfe 316
West, Jane 346
West, Rebecca, The Return of the Soldier 564
Wheatley, Phillis 275, 276–7
Wheeler, Michael 440
Whewell, William 318
Bridgewater Treatises 471
Whitefield, George 320
Whitney, Isabella 170, 175
The Copy of a Letter 170
A Sweet Nosegay 170
Whorf, Benjamin Lee 569
Wicke, Jennifer 422
Widsith 40–1, 50, 56
Wilberforce, Samuel 471, 472
Wilberforce, William 321, 326, 343
Wilde, Oscar 429, 453–4, 486–8, 549, 557
An Ideal Husband 453
De profundis 457, 486
‘The Decay of Lying’ 504, 505, 505
The Importance of Being Earnest 429, 453, 458, 503–6
Lady Windermere’s Fan 453
The Picture of Dorian Gray 445
Salomé 453
A Woman of No Importance 453
William I ‘the Conqueror’ 13, 19, 26–8, 30, 31, 43, 44–5, 76
William III (of Orange) 138, 220, 221, 222, 240, 270
William IV 408, 409
William of Malmesbury 41
Williams, Helen Maria 343, 350
Williams, Linda 552–3
Williams, Nigel, The Wimbledon Poisoner 638
Williams, Raymond, The City and the Country 468
Wilson, Angus 622
Wilson, John 335
Winterson, Jeanette 622
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 640
Sexing the Cherry 630
Wither, George, Britains Remembrancer 134
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 569
Wodehouse, P. G. 558
Wolfenden, John, Baron 637
Wollstonecraft, Mary 268, 350, 370, 377, 379, 386
Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman 377
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 350, 370, 377
Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal 119, 128, 141
Wood, Mrs Henry, East Lynne 442, 452, 464
Wooler, T. J. 335
Woolf, Virginia 431, 457, 548, 552, 557, 565, 570, 576, 618
To the Lighthouse 571
‘Modern Fiction’ 570–1, 572, 575–6, 583–4
Mrs Dalloway 543, 563, 564, 571, 582–5
A Room of One’s Own 566
Three Guineas 566
Woolner, Thomas 448
Wordsworth, Dorothy 372, 375
‘The Floating Island’ 363
Wordsworth, William 262, 313, 315, 328, 330, 335, 337–9, 350, 358, 361, 364–5, 366, 460, 632
The Borderers 348
The Excursion 339, 365–6
‘Preface of 1801’ 329, 374
The Prelude 337, 349, 355–6, 359–60, 466
‘On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway’ 421
The Tables Turned 359
‘Tintern Abbey’ 337, 343, 372–7
(with Coleridge), Lyrical Ballads 247, 313, 329, 337, 348, 351, 352–3, 372–3
World War One 536–9, 547, 559–64, 581–2, 620–1
World War Two 601–3, 619–21, 629
‘the Blitz’ 601
Wortley-Montagu, Lady Mary 245
Wotton, Mabel, ‘The Hour of Her Life’ 445
Wren, Christopher 229, 240, 246, 264
Wroth, Lady Mary 175, 198–9
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 178, 201–2
Urania 159, 201, 202
Wulfric of Haselbury 36, 59, 80–1
Wulfstan, Archbishop of York 18–19, 50
Wyatt, Sir Thomas 158, 169–70, 177–8, 179
Wycherley, William, The Country Wife 252
Wycliffe, John 33, 38, 48, 95
Wynter, Andrew 435
Wyss, Johann, Swiss Family Robinson 285
Yearsley, Ann 344–5
Yeats, William Butler 451, 453, 549–50, 552–3, 553, 557, 559, 567, 570
Cathleen ni Houlihan 552
The Celtic Twilight 552
‘Easter 1916’ 536
‘Per amica silentia lunae’ 552
Responsibilities 552
The Tower 552
The Wild Swans at Coole 553
The Wind Among the Reeds 552
Yonge, Charlotte M., The Heir of Redclyffe 485
York mystery cycle 48, 91–2
Young, Arthur 313
Young, Edward, Night Thoughts 332
Zephaniah, Benjamin 632
Zola, Émile 549, 555
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