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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 322323, 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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