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Authors: Judith Flanders
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Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (104 page)
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
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.
JUDITH FLANDERS
is the author of the critically acclaimed biography
A Circle of Sisters
, which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and of the bestselling
The Victorian House
, nominated for the British Book Awards History Book of the Year. She is a frequent contributor to the
Telegraph
, the
Spectator
and the
Times Literary Supplement
.
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The Wealth of Nations
(1776), II, iv, vii
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