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Valentine’s Day cards, 483-4

Vauxhall Bridge, 300

Vauxhall Gardens, London, 278-80, 296, 350-2

Vestris, Armand, 298

Vestris, Auguste, 298

Vestris, Lucia, 298, 308-10, 333, 475n

Victoria & Albert Museum (
formerly
South Kensington Museum): founded, 403-4; attendance, 404-5; and loan exhibitions, 405

Victoria, Queen: lends to RSA exhibition, 11; on opening of Great
Exhibition, 28; in Scotland, 221; theatre-going, 304-5, 317; buys Frith painting, 413; opens Epping Forest to the public, 438; promotes Christmas trees, 471

Visit to the Bazaar, A
(book, 1818), 86

Vizetelly, Henry, 143

Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 402

Wagner, Richard:
The Flying Dutchman
(opera), 310;
Ring
cycle (operas), 299

wakes (celebrations), 207-9

Wales: guide to, 202-3; visitors to, 217

Walpole, Horace, 197, 212-15, 380, 394;
see also
Strawberry Hill

Walpole, Sir Robert, 23n, 292n

Wampen, Dr Henry:
The Mathematical Art of Cutting Garments According to the Different Formation of Men’s Bodies
, 88

Ward, Marcus, 487

Ward, William and Ann, 69n

Warehousemen and Drapers’ Trade Journal
, 102

Waring and Gillow (London furniture store), 115, 121

Warwick Castle, 213n

Waterloo, Battle of: as panorama and show, 264-5, 278-9, 318-19

Waterloo Bridge, 300

Waterloo Exhibition, St James’s Street, 265

waterproof fabrics, 91-2;
see also
Aquascutum; Bax & Co.; Macintosh, Charles & Co.

Waterston & Brogden (company), 17

Watt, James, 30, 61, 74n

Watts, Alaric, 489

waxworks, 256-7, 285;
see also
Salmon, Mrs; Tussaud, Mme Marie

Weare, William, 180, 181n, 285

Weatherby family, 428

Weatherby, James, 426

Weatherby, James (nephew), 426

Weatherley, James, 168

Weber, Carl Maria von:
Oberon
(opera), 306n, 308

Weddell, William, 380

Wedgwood, Josiah: catalogues, 48-9; showrooms, 53, 69; slavery abolition medallions, 58n; tea services (‘Queensware’), 61, 63, 65; develops pottery business, 62-4; marketing and advertising, 64-9, 190; Portland Vase and, 67; and road

improvements, 71; promotes canal building, 73-4; in Lunar Society, 74n; and workers’ wake celebrations, 207

Weekly Dispatch
, 140, 153

Weekly Times
, 140-1

Weicker (music publisher), 357

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of: on keeping order at Great Exhibition, 29; as patron of Society for the Suppression of Vice, 125; on effect of railway travel, 194; visits Waterloo panorama, 263-4, 278-9; approves Amherst’s
Battle of Waterloo
, 318

Wentworth Woodhouse, 380

Wesley, Charles, 473

Wesley, John:
A Letter to a Friend concerning TEA
, 57

West, Benjamin, 382, 383n, 384-5, 390, 406;
Death of General Wolfe
(painting), 388

West Indies: sugar imports from, 58-9

West, Thomas, 203, 218, 222

Westminster Abbey, 258-9

Westminster Review
: on Great Exhibition, 27

wheat: prices, 79

Wheatley, Francis:
Street Cries of London
(paintings), 389

Wheler, George:
Description of a Journey into Greece
, 198

Whishaw, Francis, 8

Whistler, James Abbot McNeill, 303n, 415

Whiteley, William: offers low prices, 54; hairdressing and shaving, 112n; as ‘Universal Provider’, 114; window displays, 119

Whiteley’s (London store), 114, 496

wholesalers: development of, 47

Whymper, Edward:
Scrambles amongst the Alps
, 200

Wickham, Messrs, Mile End Road, London, 114n

Wigan, Horace, 301

Wilberforce, William, 138

Wilde, Oscar:
Lady Windermere’s Fan
, 339

Wilkes, Joseph, 74

Wilkie, Sir David, 324, 410

Wilkins, William, 401

William IV, King: death, 130

Williams family (of Craig-y-Don), 195n

Williams of Manchester (multiple store), 83

Williams, Thomas Peers, 195n

Wilson, John (dyer), 8

Wilson, Richard, 383n, 393

Wilton, Joseph, 383n, 384

Winckelmann, Johann, 385

Windus, Benjamin Godfrey, 410

Winsor, Friedrich Albert, 270, 301

Winter’s Wreath, The
(annual), 489

Wisden, John, 204

Wölfl, Joseph, 365

Wombwell’s Circus, 283-4

women: magazines for, 159-63; theatre-going, 340, 342; cycling, 457; sports wear, 462; wear bloomers, 463

Wood, John, 23, 248

Wood, William, of Didsbury, 46

Woodforde, Revd James, 76

Wordsworth, William:
The Prelude
, 261-3, 283-4

workhouses: at Christmas, 477-8

working classes: at Great Exhibition, 28-30, 33-6, 40-1; feared, 28; and benefit clubs, 30; purchasing power, 85; clothes, 86-8; literacy, 137-8; reading habits, 139-40; working hours, 139-40, 210-11; leisure activities, 206-9; visit to country houses, 215; entertainments for, 281-2; excluded from museums and galleries, 398; visit South Kensington Museum, 404, 422; sports, 420; attendance at horseracing, 430-1

working hours, 139-40, 210-11

Working Man’s Friend
( journal), 35

Working Men’s College, London, 31n

World
(newspaper), 151

Worth, Charles Frederick, 312n

Wright, Revd J.F., 440

Wright, Joseph, of Derby, 390

Wyatt, James, 350

Wyatt, Matthew Digby, 15

Wyld, James: and Great Globe, 39

Wylie and Lockhead (Glasgow store), 111n, 112, 114

Wynn, Sir Watkin Williams, 211

York: Mechanics’ Institute, 32; theatre in, 294; horseracing, 422-4, 435

Youdan, Thomas, 373-4

Young, Arthur, 213

Youth’s Miscellany of Knowledge and Entertainment
(annual), 489-90

Youth’s Monthly Visitor
(magazine), 489

Ysayè, Euge`ne, 372

Zanetti, Vittore, 411

Zoffany, Johann, 393

Zola, Emile:
Au bonheur des dames
(
The Ladies’ Paradise
), 109, 115n

Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park
see
Royal Zoological Society

Zumpe, Johannes, 354-5, 360;
see also
harpsichords; pianos

 
Acknowledgements

I have incurred many debts of gratitude in the research and writing of this book.

I have previously thanked the members of the Victoria Mailbase for both information and scholarly collegiality, and I would like to do so again: in particular, for information on bicycles, Cathrine Frank, Sheldon Goldfarb, Lesley Hall, Lee Jackson, Ellen Jordan, Andrew Maunder, Terry Meyers, Christopher Pittard, Angela Richardson, Malcolm Shifrin, Madhu Sinha and Beth Sutton-Ramspeck; for coaches and coach-building, Glen Everett, Dino Franco Felluga and Keith Wilson; for the fall of Melbourne’s government and the
London Saturday Journal
, Mary Miller; for rhodium pens, Eileen Curran, Sheldon Goldfarb, Michael Hargreave Mawson and Keith Ramsey; for information on photography and prices, Jan Marsh, Julia Momolo and Shannon Smith; and for putting me on the trail of the murderer James Blomfield Rush, Sheldon Goldfarb, Jill Grey and Keith Ramsey. Patrick Leary has been helpful and encouraging far beyond the call of duty: I am most grateful to him.

I would also like to thank the following: Bob Davenport is every author’s dream copy-editor, and he also supplied me with information about pneumatic tubes, and Messrs Wickham and Spiegelhalter; Nicholas Dromgoole read the theatre chapter; Hilary Mantel gave me helpful leads on the French Revolution and British art collectors; Jan Morris supplied information about the Craig-y-Don gun. More thanks go to Cathie Arrington, Paul Baggaley, John Bond, Vera Brice, Sarah Christie, Essie Cousins, Helen Ellis, Mally Foster, Robin Gibson, Bill Hamilton, Patrick Hurd, Kate Hyde, Fiona Markham, Alice Massey, Douglas Matthews, David Miller, Arabella Pike, Rama Rahimi, Digby Smith, Fergal Tobin and David Wardle.

As always, the London Library, the Rare Books Room of the British Library, the Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library and the Guildhall Library, and their helpful staffs, have all provided much needed assistance.

And finally my greatest debt is to Ravi Mirchandani, who has displayed the patience of a saint. He has read sections of the book against completely unreasonable deadlines, given me invaluable advice, and—hardly ever—complained. I owe him a great deal.

About the Author

JUDITH FLANDERS
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A Circle of Sisters
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The Victorian House
, nominated for the British Book Awards History Book of the Year. She is a frequent contributor to the
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Praise

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up
a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project
fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.

Adam Smith,
The Wealth of Nations
(1776), II, iv, vii

By the same Author

A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin

The Victorian House:
Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed

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