Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (100 page)

Kean, Edmund, 255

Keepsake
(annual), 489

Kemble, Charles, 310

Kemble, John Philip, 315-16

Kempton Park racecourse, 433

Kendal, Thomas and James Milne, 108, 110, 114, 496

Kilvert, Revd Francis, 229

King, William, 80

King’s Theatre, Haymarket, 295; opera, 347-8

Kingsley, Charles: on workers’ relief from industrialization, 400; on good health, 453;
The Water Babies
, 306n;
Yeast
, 140

Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, 72

Kirwan, Daniel, 87

Kitchiner, Dr William:
The Traveller’s Oracle
, 223-4

Klenze, Baron von, 402

Knight, Richard Payne, 381

Knight’s Excursion Companion
, 203

Koenig and Bauer printing press, 150

Lackington Allen & Co. (booksellers), 51

Lackington, James, 53, 164, 169, 185

Lady
(magazine), 161, 339, 482, 487

Lady’s Magazine
, 159

Lady’s Monthly Museum
(magazine), 159

Lake District: guidebooks to, 203; discovered by visitors, 215, 217-18; books and views of, 220-1

Lamb, Charles, 273

Landon, Letitia E., 398n

Landor, Walter Savage, 172 landscape, 216;
see also
Gilpin, William; picturesque

Landseer, Sir Edwin, 414

Landseer, John, 399

Lane, William, 174

Lang, Andrew: fairy books, 306n

la Roche, Sophie von, 101, 130

Larpent, Anna, 55

Lawrence, Thomas, 393

Layard, Sir Austen Henry, 29, 325;
Nineveh and its Remains
, 198, 325

Leamington, 235-6

lectures: popular, 269-70

Leeds: as centre of men’s clothing industry, 89, 91; shops, 106; theatre, 305; concert-going, 372; art exhibitions, 406

Leeds Mercury
, 48, 59, 134

Legros, Alphonse, 414

Leicester, Sir John, 406

Leighton, Sir Frederic, 386n

leisure: popular development, xvi-xvii, 206;
see also
recreation

Lever, Charles, 181, 193, 229

Lewes, George Henry, 184, 326, 334

Lewis, David, 112-13

Leybourne, George (‘Champagne Charlie’), 377

Liberty, Arthur, 115, 117, 210

Liberty’s (store): franchise in Beale’s of Bournemouth, 111; style and stock, 115-17; opening hours, 210; opening date, 497

libraries: club and proprietory, 169-71; subscription and circulating, 171-4, 184-5; in schools, 183-4;
see also
individual cities and towns

Licensing Acts (1662), 123, 165; (1695), 292; (1737), 292-3, 424

lifts and escalators: in department stores, 111

Lillywhite, Frederick:
Guide to Cricketers
, 204, 442

Lillywhite, James, and store, 204n

Lillywhite, John: and rules of football, 442;
Cricketer’s Companion
, 204

limelight, 310-12

Lincoln: shops, 97

Lindsay, Sir Coutts, 414

Lingfield Park racecourse, 433

Linley, Elizabeth (later Mrs Sheridan), 233

Linley, Thomas, 233

Linotype machine, 149

Lipton, Sir Thomas: multiple store, 83-4

literacy: increase in, 137-9

Literary Souvenir
(annual), 489 lithography, 357

Liverpool: public transport, 99; shops, 105, 112-13; prosperity, 112; theatres, 296; Philharmonic Hall, 368; concerts, 372; Philharmonic Society, 372; art exhibitions, 405n

Liverpool Chronicle
, 67

Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 144-5, 194, 225, 430

Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of, 400

Lloyd, Edward, 174-5

Lloyd, Sampson, 74-5

Lloyd Webber, Andrew, Baron, 377n

Lloyd’s Coffee House, 5n

Lloyd’s Penny Sunday Times and People’s Police Gazette
, 142

Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper
, 140-2, 155, 162, 174

Locke, James, 221

Locke, William, 380

Locomotive Highways Act (1896), 457

Loftie, Revd William:
A Plea for Art in the House
, 26

London: entertainments, 38-9; public transport, 98-100; size and population, 98; shopping districts, 104-5; daily newspapers, 140; tourist attractions, 219, 258-60; spas, 280-1; theatre expansion in, 300-1; musical life, 348-9; saloon theatres, 374; public parks, 437

London and Blackwall Railway, 191

London Conductor
(guide), 242

London Courier
, 126

London Library Society, 172

London Magazine
, 217

London Museum, Piccadilly, 219, 264

Longman and Broderip (music publishers), 355, 357, 359

Longman’s (publishers), 191

Longton Hall pottery, 62

Lord Chamberlain: and licensing of plays and theatres, 292, 296

Lord of Misrule, 469, 481

Louis Philippe, King of the French, 257n

Loutherbourg, Philippe de: Eidophusikon, 253-6; stage spectacles, 310, 322

Lovell, Robert, 172

Lowe, Thomas, 353

Luddenden Library, Yorkshire, 170

Lunar Society, 74n

luxuries: and necessities, 55-6; taxation on, 56

Lyceum theatre, London, 298

Lytton, Edward Bulwer-, Baron: sells copyrights to Routledge, 192;
Pelham
, 189

Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron:
History of England
, 185n, 193

MacGregor, William, 448

Macintosh, Charles & Co., 91

Macklin, Charles, 293-4

Macklin, Thomas, 391

McLean, Charles, 15

Macpherson, James (Ossian), 218-19

Macready, William Charles, 310, 312, 316

Madam de la Nash’s Breakfasting Room
(puppet show), 293

Maelzel, Johann, 265

Magazine of Art
, 416

magazines and periodicals: proliferation, 155; illustrated, 156-7; family, 157, 159; self-improvement, 157; women’s, 159-63; advertisements, 162;
see also
individual titles

magic lanterns: in theatres, 310-12

Magnet
(theatrical journal), 376

mail-order: eighteenth-century, 48

Male, George, 314n

Man, Isle of: music in, 250

Manby Smith, Charles, 101-2, 472, 480, 488

Manchester: shops, 42-3, 76, 105, 110; size, 98; omnibuses in, 99; concertgoing, 368-9, 372; Free Trade Hall, 368; Art Treasures Exhibition (1857), 369, 408-9; cultural and artistic life, 406-7; horseracing, 424

Manchester Athenaeum, 32

Manchester Coffee and Newsroom, 127

Manchester Guardian
newspaper, 146; sports reporting, 154

Manchester Mechanics’ Institute, 32; Christmas celebrations, 478-9

Manchester Post Office Directory
, 92

Manchester United football club, 448, 451-2

Manns, August, 368

Maple’s (London furniture shop), 105n, 121, 496

Mapleson, J.H., 367

Margate, Kent, 242, 245, 247

markets, 75-6

Marshall Field (Chicago store), 117-19

Marshall and Snelgrove (London store), 114; branches, 232; opening date, 496

Marshall, William, 191

Marten, Maria, 181n, 285

Martin, Henri:
Hyder Ali
, 317, 324

Martin, John, 325

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels:
The German Ideology
, 55n

Mary of Modena, Queen of James II, 231

Marylebone Gardens, London, 280, 350-3

Masonic lodges, 5-6

mass market: development, 36, 53-4

Massey stores, 84n

Mathews, Charles, 261

Maybrick, Michael: ‘Holy City’ (song), 365; ‘Nancy Lee’ (song), 365

Mayhew, Henry: on crinoline, 19; on fear of mob, 28; on street sellers, 77; and shows of murders, 285;
1851: or, The Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboy and Family
, 22-3, 36

Mechanics’ Institutes, 30-3, 139, 184

Mechanic’s Magazine
, 156

medicines: advertised, 134-6;
see also
patent medicines

melodrama, 315n, 316, 330-4

menagerie: in Exeter Change (London), 108;
see also
Royal Zoological Society

Mendelssohn, Felix, 242, 473

Menken, Adah Isaacs, 321-2

Merchant Shipping Act (1876), 244n

Mercurius Politicus
( journal), 56

Methodism: rise of, 6; and education, 139; and football playing, 439;
see also
Dissenters

Metropolitan Railway (London), 100

Mexborough, John Savile, 1st Earl of, 293

Michelin, Edouard, 455

middle classes: earnings, 85 & n; patronize department stores, 110; sports, 452-3; and family gatherings, 474

Middlesbrough football club, 447

Middlesex Chronicle
, 150

Midland Sporting News
, 154

Millais, Sir John Everett:
Bubbles
(painting), 418

Milne, James, 108

Milner, Henry, 319;
Lucius Catiline
, 329

Minerva Press, 174

Mississippi River: panorama, 273-4 mistletoe, 473

Mitchell’s Library, 187

Molsom and Son’s Piano-Forte Saloon, Bath, 364

Moncrieff, William Thomas, 179, 268n, 330, 332

Mondays: as unofficial day off (‘St Monday’), 208, 210, 225

Monthly Magazine
, 126, 171

Moore, Thomas, 199n

More, Hannah, 137-8

Morgan’s Coffee House, Bath, 127

Morley, Henry, 339;
The Journal of a London Playgoer
, 338

Morning Post
, 132, 147

Morton, Charles, 375, 412

Moses, Eleazer (
later
Elias), 94

Moses, Isaac, 94

Moses and Son (Moses’s Wholesale Clothing Warehouse), 94-5

Moss, Edward, 377

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