Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (102 page)

prints and print-sellers, 388-91, 409, 412-13

Professional Concert (orchestra), 348-9

prostitution: and theatre, 298n

Pryde, James Ferrier, 418

Public Advertiser
, 349, 352

public houses and taverns: theatre in, 296-7; purpose-built, 372; and football, 439, 449-50

publishing: in London, 165; popular, 174; ‘libraries’ (series), 188-90, 205; and railway reading, 190-2;
see also
books, booksellers, individual companies

Puückler-Muskau, Prince Hermann, 260, 278, 307-8, 316

Pugin, Auguste, 267n

Pultney, Walter, 248

Punch
(magazine): on standard of living, 26; on workers at Great Exhibition, 28-9; on modern travel, 196-7; advertises shows, 286; on artists, 415; on professional footballers, 447; bicycle cartoons, 455; on ladies in bloomers, 463; on mistletoe and kissing bough, 473; on railway bookstalls, 1912

Purcell, Henry, 344

Purefoy family, Shalstone (Buckinghamshire), 48

Quarterly Review
, 187

Queen Theatre, London, 342

Queen’s
(magazine), 115, 161, 163, 339

Quilter, William, 410

Racing Calendar
, 151, 420, 424-6

Racing Times
, 432

Radcliffe, Ann, 69n

Raikes, Robert, 124, 130, 133, 176

Raikes, Robert, Jr, 124n

Railway Magazine
, 475

railways: excursions to Great Exhibition, 30, 32-6; station bookstalls, 38, 191-2; carry mail, 144-6; effect on reading, 187-8, 190-4; development of, 188; timetables and regularization of time, 194-5; and guidebooks, 203-4; tourist tickets, 204; and development of recreational travel, 225; excursions, 225-6; hotels, 227-8; and seaside trips, 241-3, 247; represented in panoramas, 269; and location of entertainments, 282-3; and theatre attendance, 301; in melodramas, 331-2; and musical concerts, 366-7; and horseracing, 430-2, 435; football excursions, 450; carry bicycles, 455-6; and Christmas travel, 474-5, 487

Rambler
( journal), 168

Ramsay, Alan (songwriter), 353

Ramsay, Allan (painter), 382, 385

Ramsgate, Kent, 247

Ranelagh Pleasure Gardens, London, 236, 280

Rawthmell’s Coffee House, Covent Garden, 6

Rayner, Benjamin, 298

reading
see
books

Reading Mercury
, 130

Read’s Weekly Journal
, 424

recreation: and open space, 436-7;
see also
enclosure; leisure; sport

Red Barn murder, 181n

Reform Bill (1832), 407

Regent Street: building of, 97

Regent Street Polytechnic, 378

religion: and encouragement of literacy, 138; dislike of theatres, 274;
see also
churches, evangelicalism

Religious Tract Society, 184

Retail Trader
, 119

Reynolds, G.W.M., 189

Reynolds, Sir Joshua: on necessities and ornaments, 55; portrait of Omai, 198; in Johnson’s Club, 379; membership of Dilettanti, 380; Richard Payne Knight on lack of classical education, 381; on connoisseurship, 382; as first president of Royal Academy, 383-5; social background, 384; and history painting, 387; exhibition of works, 393;
Discourses
, 55, 384-5

Reynolds’s Miscellany
, 189

Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper
, 140-2, 155, 162

Rich, John, 240

Richardson, Samuel:
Clarissa
, 184n;
Pamela
, 165;
Sir Charles Grandison
, 164-5

Rigaud, John Francis, 390

Rimbault, E.F., 474

roads: eighteenth-century, 69-72; and post, 128; in Scotland, 129; Paterson’s guides to, 200-1;
see also
turnpikes

Roberts, David, 310

Robinson, Peter (London store), 114, 121, 244, 496

Robson, Frederick, 336

Rochdale Pioneers, 80

Rockingham, Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquis of, 380

Rodgers, Joseph and Sons (Sheffield), 17

Rodney Music Hall, Birmingham, 373

Rolfe, William and Sons (piano manufacturers), 362-3

Romantic movement, the, 216-20

Romney, George, 390

Rose, Mr (Norwich bookseller), 58

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 414-15

Roubilliac, Louis François, 277, 380

Routledge, George (publisher), 190, 192

Routledge’s Handbook of Football
, 459

Routledge’s Railway Library, 190-2

Rowe, Nicholas, 241n

Royal Academy: founded (1768), 212, 383-4; exhibitions, 385-6; purpose and management, 385-6; and sale of pictures, 386; and Boydell, 391; and British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts, 393

Royal Academy of Music: established, 347-8

Royal Brunswick Theatre, London, 177

Royal Circus (theatre), London, 314, 329

Royal Manchester Institution, 406-7, 411

Royal Society of Arts: beginnings, 6; and Great Exhibition, 6, 8-9; prizes, 7; membership, 8; Cole and, 10; exhibitions, 10-11

Royal Society of Musicians, 346

Royal Zoological Society, Regent’s Park: menagerie, 39, 276-7

rubber: in footwear, 93; in footballs, 463-4

Ruff ’s Guide to the Turf
, 204

Rush, James Blomfield, 285

Ruskin, John: on excursion travel, 228; and Whistler libel trial, 303n; on influence of art, 399; and Howell, 415;
King of the Golden River
, 306n;
Sesame and Lilies
, 228

Russell, John Scott, 10

Ryde, Isle of Wight, 230n

Sadler’s Wells, London: Theatre, 276; spa, 281

St Cecilia’s Day concerts, 344-6

St Ives Mercury
(Cambridgeshire), 124

St Ives Post
(Cambridgeshire), 124

St Ives Post-Boy
, 171

St James’s Gazette
, 147

St James’s Hall, London, 368

St Paul’s Cathedral, 258-9

Sala, George Augustus, 87-8 & n, 92n, 108, 301

Salford, 98

Salisbury: theatre in, 294

Salisbury Journal
, 123

Salisbury Square fiction, 175

Salmon, Mrs (waxworks), 256

Salomon, Johann Peter, 348-9

saloons: music and theatre in, 372-5

Salt, Sir Titus, 408, 437

Saltero, Don, 396

Salvation Army, 374n

Sandown Park racecourse, 433-5

Sandwich, John Montagu, 4th Earl of, 345

Sandys, William, 474

Sanger, ‘Lord’ George: Circus, 282-3

Santa Claus
see
Father Christmas

Satirist
(newspaper), 141-2

Satirist, or Monthly Meteor
, 316

Saturday Afternoon Rambles Round London
, 204

Saturday Night
(newspaper), 155

Saturday Review
, 193n

Saunder and Otley (circulating library), 185

Savile House, Leicester Square (London), 285

Savoy Theatre, London, 299

Scheemakers, Pieter, 258

schools: libraries in, 183-4

Schopenhauer, Johanna, 102

Scotland: friendly societies, 31; road improvements, 129; as tourist country, 215-16, 218-21, 226-7; musical settings, 220; steamboats, 242-3

Scott, Sir Walter: writes words to Scottish melodies, 220; visits Loch Coruisk, 242; stage adaptations, 329;
The Bride of Lammermoor
, 337;
Kenilworth
, 241n;
The Lord of the Isles
, 243

Scott, William Bell, 414

sea-bathing, 230-1, 245

seaside, 230, 241-5, 247-50

Sedgeley, Staffordshire, 25

Seditious Societies Act (1799), 125

Seguier, William, 402

Select Committee on Public Walks (1833), 436;
see also
enclosure

Select Views in the North of England
, 220

self-improvement: magazines for, 157

Selfridge, Gordon, 106, 117-19, 121-2, 491

Selfridge’s (London store), 119, 121-2, 342, 497

sewing machines, 90-1

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of, 381

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of, 34, 138

Shakespeare: and development of Stratford, 236-8; bicentenary celebrations, 238-41; supposed poaching exploit, 241 & n; monument, 258; staging of, 326-7; burlesqued, 328, 335; authorship question, 381n;
Antony and Cleopatra
, 326;
Coriolanus
, 312;
Hamlet
, 299, 327, 335;
Henry V
, 326;
King Lear
, 239, 255, 310;
Macbeth
, 239, 322;
The Merchant of Venice
, 326-7;
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
, 239;
Richard II
, 312;
The Winter’s Tale
, 303

Shakespeare Gallery, 389-91;
see also
Boydell, John

Sharp, Thomas, 237

Shaw, George Bernard, 339

Sheffield Evening Telegraph
, 151

Shelley, Mary:
Frankenstein
and theatrical adaptations, 330

Sheridan, Elizabeth
see
(Elizabeth Linley)

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 233, 379

Shield, William:
The Choleric Fathers
, 357;
The Farmers
, 357

Shields, Frederick, 414

Shillcock, William, 465

Shillito, Charles, 170-1

Shipley, William, 6, 8

Shipton, Mother, 257 & n, 285

shoes and boots: mass produced, 93-4

Shoolbred, Cook and Co. (drapers), 104, 105n, 121, 496

shooting (sport), 420, 464

‘shopping through ’, 109

shops: eighteenth-century household suppliers, 42-8, 75; decoration and fitting, 49-53, 100-2, 104, 112; and prices, 54; in nineteenth century, 78; and mass retailing, 81-5; in London, 104-5; browsing in, 106-7; service in, 109-11;
see also
department stores; individual shops

shows and exhibitions: popularity, 256-8, 261-2, 281; in pleasure gardens, 278-81; travelling, 282; of crime and murder, 285; types, 285-6

Shudi, Burkat (Burkhardt Tschudi), 355, 360

Sibbald’s circulating library, Edinburgh, 173

Siddal, Elizabeth (Mrs D.G. Rossetti), 415

Siddons, Sarah, 240n, 295

sightseeing, 258-61

Simms, McIntyre (publishers), 190

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