INDEX
Academy (Royal), pictures at, 49
Aconites, “New Year’s Gifts,” 211, 231
Aïdé (H.), 202
Anstey’s ‘Vice Versa,’ 253
Arkwright (Mrs.), 87
Autumn colours, 112
Bagehot’s Essays, 170
Barton (Bernard), 174
Basselin (Olivier), quoted, 23
Beard (Dr.), 48
Belvidere Hat, 163
Béranger, 20-22
Beuve (Sainte), Causeries, 40, 53
Blackbird v. Nightingale, 46
Blakesley (J. W.), Dean of Lincoln, 78, 233
Boccaccio, 117
Brown (Dr. John), 253
Burns, compared with Béranger, 20-22; quoted, 37
Burrows (General), his defeat by Ayoub Khan, 193
Calderon, 63, 185
Candide, 174
Carlyle (T.), 17; forwards Mr. Ruskin’s letter to E. F.G., 19; his Kings of Norway, 61, 65; presented with a Medal and Address on his 80th birthday, 88, 91; vehement against Darwin and the Turk, 110; on Sir Walter Scott, 131; is reading Shakespeare and Boswell’s Hebrides, 170; becomes very feeble, 203; is buried at Ecclefechan, 206, 207; his Reminiscences, 215, 218; his Letters to Emerson, 246, 256
Carlyle (Mrs.), her Letters, 257, 259
Carlyle (Mrs. Alexander), 163, 170, 186, 207, 215, 222
Chateaubriand’s father, 59
Chorley (H. F.), his death, 11; Life of, 38, 53
Clerke Saunders, 164
Coriolanus, 139
Corneille, 73
Country church, Scene in, 46
Cowell (Professor), 155
Crabbe (G.), the Poet, quoted, 39, 43, 55, 59, 118; his portrait by Pickersgill, 39,150; article on him in the Cornhill, 58; his fancy quickened by a fall of snow, 198
Crabbe (George), Vicar of Bredfield, the poet’s son, 43
Crabbe (George), Rector of Merton, the poet’s grandson, 202, 225
De Quincey (T.), on Janus Weathercock, 90
Derby Day, 186
De Soyres (John), E. F.G.’s nephew, 238
De Soyres (Mrs.), E. F.G.’s sister, her death, 168
Devrient, his Theory of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 253
Dickens (Charles), 69; E. F.G.’s admiration for him, 51, 126; his passion for colours, 54
Donne (Blanche), 48, 111, 149, 154
Donne (Charles), 95, 111, 131
Donne (Mrs. Charles), her death, 106
Donne (Mowbray), 10, 29, 39, 62, 86, 95, 111, 140, 181, 185, 193, 196, 199, 206, 207, 212, 223, 227, 242, 259, 260; visits E. F.G., 86
Donne (Valentia), 6, 18, 111, 161, 199; her marriage, 127
Donne (W. B.), mentioned, 3, 4, 6, 8, 18, 48, 60, 64, 78, 98, 102, 111, 121, 181, 207, 212, 223, 227, 229, 241; his Lectures, 10; his illness, 35, 37, 39, 42; retires from his post as Licenser of Plays, 48, 50; his successor, 50; reviews Macready’s Memoirs, 75; his death, 243
Ducis, 219
Dunwich, 138
Eastern Question (the), 117
Eckermann, a German Boswell, 155
Edwards (Edwin), 139, 140, 158; his death, 155; exhibition of his pictures, 166, 168, 169
Elio (F. J.), 120
Elliot (Sir Gilbert), pastoral by, 82
Euphranor, 65
FitzGerald (Edward), parts with his yacht, 3; his reader’s mistakes, 4; his house at Woodbridge, 8; his unwillingness to have visitors, 8, 9; his mother, 11; reads Hawthorne’s Notes of Italian Travel, 12; Memoirs of Harness, 13; cannot read George Eliot, 15, 38, 171; his love for Sir Walter Scott, 15, 229; visits his brother Peter, 16; on the art of being photographed, 24, 25; reads Walpole, Wesley, and Boswell’s Johnson, 28; in Paris in 1830, 31; cannot read Goethe’s Faust, 31, 124; reads Ste. Beuve’s Causeries, 40, and Don Quixote, 41, 45; has a skeleton of his own, bronchitis, 45, 47, 75; goes to Scotland, 49; to the Academy, 49; reads Dickens, 51; Crabbe, 54; condenses the Tales of the Hall, 59, 64, 118; death of his brother Peter, 64; translations from Calderon, 63; tries to read Gil Blas and La Fontaine, 66; admires Corneille, 73; reads Madame de Sévigné, 73; writes to Notes and Queries, 82; begins to ‘smell the ground,’ 83; his recollections of Paris, 85; reads Mrs. Trollope’s ‘A Charming Fellow,’ 95; on framing pictures, 96, 99, 102, 106; translation of the Agamemnon, 97, 103, 107, 111;
meets Macready, 103; his Lugger Captain, 104, 115, 117; prefers the Second Part of Don Quixote, 108; scissors and paste his ‘Harp and Lute,’ 126; reads Dickens’ Great Expectations, 126; on nightingales, 128, 136, 184; wished to dedicate Agamemnon to Mrs. Kemble, 129; reads The Heart of Mid-Lothian, 130; Catullus, 135; Guy Mannering, 137; at Dunwich, 138; reads Coriolanus, 139; Kenilworth, 145; David Copperfield, 145; his Readings in Crabbe, 147, 150; reads Hawthorne’s Journals, 153; at Lowestoft, 155; reads Forster’s Life of Dickens, 155; and Trollope’s Novels, 155, 171; Eckermann’s Goethe, 155; works on Crabbe’s Posthumous Tales, 164; his Quarter-deck, 167; Dombey and Son, 172, 187; Comus and Lycidas, 178; Mrs. Kemble’s Records, 186; Madame de Sévigné, 186, 188; visits George Crabbe at Merton, 188, 243; his ducks and chickens, 189; his Irish cousins, 190; at Aldeburgh, 190; with his nieces at Lowestoft, 195; sends Charles Tennyson’s Sonnets to Mrs. Kemble, 198; his eyes out of ‘Keller,’ 202, 206; reads Winter’s Tale, 204; his translations of the two Œdipus plays, 205, 208; his affection for the stage, 210; his collection of actors’ portraits, 210; his love for Spedding, 212; his reminiscences of a visit with Tennyson at Mirehouse, 214; reads Wordsworth, 217; sends his reader to see Macbeth, 231; feels as if some of the internal timbers were shaken, 240; reads Froude’s Carlyle, 243, 245, 248; at Aldeburgh, 245, 247; meets Professor Fawcett, 247; consults Mrs. Kemble on two passages of Shakespeare, 257; goes to look at Carlyle’s statue and his old house, 262
FitzGerald (Jane), afterwards Mrs. Wilkinson, E. F.G.’s sister, 112, 122
FitzGerald (J. P.), E. F.G.’s eldest brother, 95, 100; his illness, 141, 144; and death, 149
FitzGerald (Mrs.), E. F.G.’s mother, 11, 61, 96; her portrait by Sir T. Lawrence, 177
FitzGerald (Percy), his Lives of the Kembles, 5, 6
FitzGerald (Peter), E. F.G.’s brother, 16; his death, 64
Frere (Mrs.), 83, 87, 181
Froude (J. A.), constantly with Carlyle, 203; is charged with his biography, 208; his Life of Carlyle, 243; writes to E. F.G., 243
Fualdès, murder of, 85; play founded on, 89
Furness (H. H.), 60, 64, 66, 101, 203
Gil Blas, 66
Glyn (Miss), 97
Goethe, 31, 123, 124; his conversations by Eckermann, 155
Goethe and Schiller, correspondence of, 231
Goodwin (Professor), proposes to visit E. F.G., 192
Gordon (Mrs.), 132, 203
Gout, 7
Groome (Archdeacon), 4, 45, 199, 223
Half Hours with the Worst Authors, 31, 34
Hamlet, theory of Gervinus on, 32; the Quarto and Folio Texts of, 221
Harlowe’s picture of the Trial Scene in Henry VIII., 87
Harness (Rev. W.), Memoirs of, 6, 13
Hatherley (Lord), letter from, 132
Hawthorne (Nathaniel), his Notes of Italian Travel, 12, 153
Haydn, 83
Haydon (B. R.), verses by his wife, 34
Haymarket Opera (The), 200
Hayward (A.), his translation of Faust, 124; his Select Essays, 170
Helen of Kirkconnel, 164
Helps (Sir Arthur), his death, 68
Hertford (Lord), 48, 50
Hood (T.), verses by, 87, 95
Houghton (Lord), 164, 236, 239, 257
Hugo (F. Victor), his translation of Shakespeare, 114
Hunt (Holman), The Shadow of Death, 40
Intellectual Peat, 69
Irving (Henry), in Hamlet, 74, 75; his portrait, 86; in Queen Mary, 107, 109; his reading of Eugene Aram, 124; in Much Ado about Nothing, 251, 255
Jenny (Mr.), the owner of Bredfield House, 10
Jessica, 179
Kean (Edmund), in Othello, 53
Keats (John), his Letters, 134; his Life and Letters, by Lord Houghton, 164
Keene (Charles), 225, 249, 261; at Little Grange, 242, 263
Kelly (Michael), his Reminiscences, 146
Kemble (Charles), in Othello, 53; as Falconbridge and Petruchio, 58; in As You Like It, 58; as Charles Surface, 58; as Cromwell, 87; in King John, 182
Kemble (Mrs. Charles), 61, 62; her ‘Smiles and Tears,’ 14; contributes to Kitchener’s Cook’s Oracle, 89; miniature of her as Urania, 96, 99, 100, 101, 106, 146
Kemble (Fanny), her laws of correspondence, 2; her daughter’s marriage, 3; her Memoirs, 29; in America, 36, 46; her article ‘On the Stage’ in the Cornhill Magazine, 53, 78, 227; her letter about Macready, 57; her photograph, 61; as Louisa of Savoy, 73; writes her ‘Old Woman’s Gossip’ in the Atlantic Monthly, 84, 92; letter from her to the Editor, 93; omitted passage from her ‘Gossip,’ 93-94; uses a type-writer, 94; her opinion of Portia, 95, 124; on Goethe and Portia, 123; end of her ‘Gossip,’ 125, 129; her Records of a Girlhood, 186; her favourite Colours, 197; her portrait by Sir T. Lawrence,
210; her Records of Later Life, 227, 228
Kemble (Henry), Mrs. Kemble’s brother, 58, 109
Kemble (Henry), Mrs. Kemble’s nephew, 225
Kemble (John Mitchell), 120, 153, 159
Kemble (J. P.), 179, 183; portrait of him as Œdipus, 183, 210; Plays revised by him, 220
Kerrich (Edmund), E. F.G.’s nephew, 129, 172
La Fontaine, 66
Laurence (S.), copies Pickersgill’s portrait of Crabbe, 39; letter from, 90
Leigh (the Hon. Mrs.), Mrs. Kemble’s daughter, 161; her marriage, 3
L’Hôpital (Chancellor), quoted, 191
Little Grange, first named, 42
Lowell (J. R.), ‘Among my Books,’ 97, 119, 135; his Odes, 120, 122; letter from, 136; his coming to England as Minister of the United States, 174; illness of his wife, 174, 184, 186, 192
Lynn (Mary), 191, 252, 253
Macbeth quoted, 43, 68; French opera by Chélard, acted at Dublin, 81
Macready (W. C,), 27; his Memoirs edited by Sir W. F. Pollock, 38, 44, 50, 52, 68, 70, 98, 102; his Macbeth, 44, 57, 68; plays Henry IV., 58; reads Mrs. Kemble’s English Tragedy, 72
Malkin (Arthur), 110, 132, 213
Malkin (Dr. B. H.), Master of Bury School, 94; Crabbe a favourite with him, 213
Marjorie Fleming, 252
Marot (Clément), quoted, 23
Matthews (Charles), his Memoir, 173
Merivale (Charles), Dean of Ely, 195, 218
Montaigne, 103, 104, 105, 117
Musset (Alfred de), Memoir of, 138; loves to read Clarissa Harlowe, 138
Napoleon, saying of, 218
Naseby, proposed monument at, 17, 27
Norton (C. E), 19, 97, 119, 123, 135, 151, 180, 183, 205, 209, 246, 256
Œdipus, by Dryden and Lee, 229
Oleander, 251
Oliphant (Mrs.), on Carlyle, 218, 220; on Mrs. Carlyle, 259
Oriole, 46
Pasta, saying of, 53
Pasta, in Medea, 181, 200
Pasteur (Le Bon), 30, 33
Peacock (E.), Headlong Hall quoted, 40
Piccolomini, 11
Pigott (E. F. S.), succeeds W. B. Donne, 50
Piozzi (Mrs.), Memoirs of, 46
Pollock (Sir W. F ), visits E. F.G., 15; edits Macready’s Memoirs, 38, 44; letter from, 55; visits Carlyle, 110
Portia, 95, 124
Quixote (Don), 41, 108, 155, 182; must be read in Spanish, 114, 117
Ritchie (Mrs.), Miss Thackeray, 135
Rossi in Hamlet, 107
Rousseau on stage decoration, 110
Santley (Mrs.), 111
Sartoris (Edward), 192, 203
Sartoris (Greville), death of, 38
Sartoris (Mrs.), Mrs. Kemble’s sister, 38; her illness, 140, 149; and death, 154; her Medusa and other Tales, 203
Scott (Sir Walter), his indifference to fame, 116; the easy movement of his stories, 130; Barry Cornwall’s saying of him, 131; his Kenilworth, 145; the Fortunes of Nigel, 228, 231; Marjorie Fleming, 252; The Pirate, 261
Sévigné (Madame de), 73, 103, 105, 137, 184, 186, 188, 222; her Rochers, 105, 184; not shown to visitors, 188; list of her dramatis personæ, 125; quoted, 190, 217
Shakespeare, edited by Clark and Wright, 68, 69
Shakespeare, 69
Shakespeare’s predecessors, 223
Siddons (Mrs.), 46, 71, 183; her portrait by Sir T. Lawrence, 81; article on her in the Nineteenth Century, 134; in Winter’s Tale, 204
Skeat (Professor), his Inaugural Lecture, 153
Southey’s Correspondence with Caroline Bowles, 261
Spanish Tragedy (The), scene from, 62
Spedding (James), is finishing his Life and Letters of Bacon, 27; has finished them, 42, 51: his note on Antony and Cleopatra, 43, 45; emendation of Shakespeare, 45; paper on Richard III., 74; his opinion of Irving’s Hamlet, 74; and Miss Ellen Terry’s Portia, 74, 77; will not see Salvini in Othello, 74; on The Merchant of Venice, 77, 80, 176, 201; the Latest Theory about Bacon, 111; Shakespeare Notes, 189; his Preface to Charles Tennyson Turner’s Sonnets, 197; his accident, 212; and death, 214; his Evenings with a Reviewer, 233: Mrs. Cameron’s photograph of him, 250
Stephen (Leslie), 58; his ‘Hours in a Library,’ 118
Taylor (Tom), 166, 193; his death, 192; his Memoir of Haydon, 194
Tennyson (A.), in Burns’s country, 22; changes his publisher, 37; his Queen Mary, 77; mentioned, 82, 113, 160, 193, 228, 239; his Mary Tudor, 107, 109; visits E. F.G. at Woodbridge, 113, 114; the attack on him in the Quarterly, 116; his Harold, 122; portrait of him, 134; his saying of Clarissa Harlow, 138; of Crabbe’s portrait by Pickersgill, 151; used to repeat Clerke Saunders and Helen of Kirkconnel, 164; The Falcon, 169; The Cup, 206, 208; his saying of Lycidas, 178; his eyes, 183; Ballads and other Poems, 201; with E. F.G. at Mirehouse,
214; The Promise of May, 251, 253
Tennyson (Frederick), visits E. F.G., 16; his saying of blindness, 183; his poems, 197
Tennyson (Hallam, now Lord), 114, 228, 239, 260
Tennyson (Lionel), 98; his marriage, 135
Terry (Miss Ellen), as Portia, 74, 77; Tom Taylor’s opinion of her, 95
Thackeray (Minnie), death of, 90
Thackeray (Miss), 99; her Old Kensington, 13, 15, 39; meets E. F.G. at the Royal Academy, 16; her Village on the Cliff, 38; on Madame de Sévigné, 227; on Miss Edgeworth, 250
Thackeray (W. M.), 38, 120; not the author of a Tragedy, 51; his Drawings published, ‘The Orphan of Pimlico,’ etc., 91; his pen and ink drawing of Mrs. Kemble as Louisa of Savoy, 73
Thurtell, the murderer, 152
Tichborne trial, 28, 36
Tieck, ‘an Eyewitness of John Kemble’ in The Nineteenth Century, 179, 183
Trench (Archbishop), his Translation of Calderon, 185; E. F.G. sends him his Crabbe, 185
Tunbridge Wells, 57
Turner (Charles Tennyson), his Sonnets, 151, 197
‘Twalmley’ (‘the Great’), 75, 102, 116
Two Noble Kinsmen (The), 221
Urania, 146
Wade (T.), author of the Jew of Aragon, 120
Wainewright (T. G.), 90
Wales (Prince of), Thanksgiving service for his recovery, 10
Ward (John), Vicar of Stratford on Avon, his diary, 263
Wesley (John), his Journal one of E. F.G.’s hobbies, 28, 186
Whalley (Dr.), his reading of a passage in Macbeth, 46
Wilkinson (Mrs.), E. F.G.’s sister, 112, 122, 169, 225
Wilson (H. Schütz), 232, 233, 235
Wister (Mrs.), Mrs. Kemble’s daughter, 6, 36, 252, 254
Woodberry (G. E.), his article on Crabbe, 180
Wylie (W. H.), on Thomas Carlyle, 237