Murder by Candlelight (36 page)

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A

Ablass, William, 195

Adolphus, John, 108–109, 165–166

“Adventure of Reigate Square, The,” 238

Aeschylus, 238

Agamemnon
, 238

Age of Reason, xv, xvii

Ainsworth, W. Harrison, 176

American Psycho
, 225

Anatomy Act, 77

Anderson, Constable, 192

Antiquary, The
, 194

Arabin, Dean, 213

Armstrong, Major, xi

Arnold, Matthew, 80

Ashburnham, Emma, 217

Ashburton, Lady, 134

Austen, Jane, xvi

Avenger, The
, 202

B

Bacon, Francis, 239

Bagehot, Walter, 201

Baldwin, Constable, 151–152, 165

Balfour, Arthur, 157

Balzac, Honoré de, 37–40, 87, 230

Banks, Sir Joseph, 213

Barclay, Mr., 82

Baring, Lady Harriet, 134

Baring-Gould, Sabine, 198–199

Barrett, Michael, 180

Barry, Madame du, 121

Baudelaire, Charles, 183

Beaumont, Barber, 21, 24–25

Beaumont, Sir George, 161

Beckford, William, xvi, xxi

Bentley's
magazine, 80

Bichel, Andreas, 199

Birtwhistle, Dr. John, 77

Blackstone, William, 111

Blake, William, 80

Blanchard, Mrs., 79, 83, 85–86, 90

Blandy, Miss, 119

Blount, Sir Henry, 180

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 135

Bonar, Thomson, 158

Book of Were-Wolves
, 198

Borowitz, Albert, 5

Borrow, George, 7, 38

Bow Street Runners, 36, 64, 78

Brew, Mrs., 24

Bride of Lammermoor, The
, 63

Broderick, Mr., 66

Brosses, Charles de, 38

Brothers Karamazov, The
, 230

Brown, Hannah, 82–89, 96, 101, 104–105, 109, 112, 126–128, 131, 134

Brown, Michael, 97

Brown, Mr., 82, 88

Browne, Sir Thomas, 107, 211

Browning, Robert, 5

Bruton, Clara, 220

Brutus, 205

Buddha, 111

Bundy, Ted, 130

Bunyan, John, 84

Burke, Edmund, xvii, 203, 206

Bush, Sarah, 106

Buswell, Harriet, 220

Byron, Lord George Gordon, xviii–xix, xxi, 9–10, 28, 66, 114, 171, 206

C

Calcraft, Mr., 118, 123–124, 179, 181

Caligula, xvi

Canning, Prime Minister George, 140

Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 180

Capote, Truman, 130

Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 131–135.
See also
Welsh, Jane Baillie

Carlyle, Thomas, xiii, xvii, xxi, 22, 27–28, 40–43, 67, 75, 79–80, 92–93, 99, 123–125, 129–135, 139, 172, 219, 238–239

Carnac, Mrs., 10

Carr, Mr., 142–143, 145

Carver, Rev. Mr., 179

Casanova, Giacomo, xviii

Castle of Otranto, The
, xv

Catnach, James, 75

Cato, 205

Chapman, Annie, 226

Charteris, Colonel Francis, xvi

Chateaubriand, François-René de, xviii

Chislehurst murder, 158

Christabel
, xix, 63

Christie, Agatha, 154, 237

Christie, John, 195, 196

Chudleigh, Miss, 10

classic murders, xi–xii, xv–xvi

Cobbett, William, 5

Coke, Sir Edward, 17, 31

Coldbath Fields Prison, 180, 195

Coleridge, Mr. Justice, 108

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, xvii–xix, 18, 41, 63, 171, 196, 206

Collins, Wilkie, 235

Coltman, Mr. Justice, 108

Commentaries on the Laws of England
, 111

Confessions of a Murderer
, 19

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
, 18, 43, 202, 210

Confidential Agent, The
, 195

Coningsby
, 171

Conrad, Joseph, 231

Cooney, Mary, 115

Cope, Mr., 178

Corney, Mrs., 87–88

Cotton, Rev. Dr. Horace, 116, 124, 131–132

Courvoisier, François Benjamin, 141–166, 168–181

Cox, James, 214

Creevey, Thomas, 9

Crime and Punishment
, 230

Crippen, Dr. Hawley Harvey, xi–xii

Critchley, T. A., 195

Crockford, Bill, 8

Croft, Sir John-Frederick, 213

Cromwell, Oliver, 130–131

Cruikshank, George, xi

Curley, Martha, 209

D

Dahmer, Jeffrey, 130

Dante, 219, 227, 238

Dashwood, Sir Francis, xviii

Davis, Evan, 83, 88–89, 127

Davis, Hannah, 83, 88–89, 127

De Quincey, Thomas, xiii, xxi, 18–19, 27, 30, 43–44, 48–51, 54–55, 75, 86–87, 91–93, 172, 185–189, 191–207, 211, 214, 221, 223, 230, 233–239

“Decay of Murder, The,” 234

Deserted Village, The
, 79

Dickens, Charles, xi, 3, 5, 80, 86–87, 173

Disraeli, Benjamin, 10, 171

Dodson, Miss, 14, 16, 21–23

Donne, John, 178

Doré, Gustave, 80

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 115, 121, 230

Doubleday, Mr., 141

Douro, Lord, 14

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 238

Duchess of Bedford, 140

Duchess of Kent, 103

Duke of Bedford, 139–140, 163

Duke of Cumberland, 158

Duke of Wellington, 14

Dumollard, Martin, 199

Dyce, Alexander, xi

E

Eddowes, Catherine, 226

Either/Or
, 132

Eliot, T. S., 196, 203, 224

Ellenborough, Lord, 110

Elliot, Tom “Squire,” 7–8, 16, 22–23

Ellis, Bret Easton, 225

Ellis, James, 168

Ellison, Ralph, 208

Elsgood, Dr., 151

Elstree murder, 68

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 93

Ensor, Joseph, 20–21

Epipsychidion
, xxi

Evans, Hugh, 198

F

Farr, Sarah, 105

Fatal Effects of Gambling, The
, 26

Fector, John Minet, 141, 161

Feltham, George, 95–97

Féval, Paul, 235

Field, Mr., 35

Fielding, Henry, 36, 78, 160

“Fight, The,” 17

First Love, The
, 132

Flaubert, Gustave, 37, 40

Fox, Charles James, 14

Fox, Henry, 14

Frankenstein
, xx

Fraser's Magazine
, 179

French Revolution, The
, 92–93

Froude, James Anthony, 132–135

G

Gabe, Dr. J. R., 227

Gale, Sarah, 98, 105–110, 123, 126, 135.
See also
Wiston, Sarah

gallows, 34–35, 69, 109–110, 115–124, 135, 178–181

Gay, Maria, 79–81, 87

Gay, William, 79–81, 84–86, 88, 90, 95

George, Prince, xii

George III, King, 158

George IV, King, xii

Gibbon, Edward, 92, 185, 203

Gill's Hill tragedy, 68

Girdwood, Dr. Gilbert Finlay, 74, 78, 97, 109

Gissing, George, 229

Godwin, Mary, xviii, xx.
See also
Shelley, Mary

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 114, 119

Goldsmith, Oliver, 79

Gothic period, xii–xxi, 62–64, 154, 233–239

Gowen, James, 187, 189

Granville, Lord, 8

Greenacre, James, 95–118, 122–135, 165

Greene, Graham, 195

Grenier, Jean, 198

Greville, Charles, 156, 160–161, 163

Grey, Lord, 75

Grimwood, Eliza, 216

Guérin, Eugénie de, 144

Guyon, Madame de, 114

H

Habington, William, 153

Hall, James, 181

Hamann, Johann Georg, xvii

Hamlet
, 196, 234

Hannell, Mary, 141, 145–150, 162

Harrington, Bridget, 192–193

Harrington, John, 57, 64

Hawksworth, Mrs., 88

Hazlitt, William, xviii, 17

Heart of Darkness
, 231

Heath, Mrs., 69

Heward, Mr., 59

Hickman, Tom, 15, 16

Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 133

Hitler, Adolf, 130

Hobbes, Robert, 147

Holloway, Celia, 75

Holloway, John William, 75

Hook, Mr., 68

Howe, Jeffrey, 75, 106

Hunt, Joe, 24–29, 33–37, 43–45, 48, 53, 58–66, 69

Hunt, Leigh, xxi, 132

I

Ibsen, Henrik, 202

Idiot, The
, 115

In Cold Blood
, 130

Inmost Light, The
, 217

Irving, Edward, 41

J

Jack Sheppard
, 176

Jack the Ripper, 216, 226, 230, 233, 238

Jackson, Emma, 209–210

James, Henry, 37, 224, 230

James, P. D., 195

James, William, 230

Jewell, Margaret, 187–189

Jewsbury, Geraldine, 132–134

Johnson, Ben, 76

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, xvi, 86, 203, 216, 237

K

Keats, John, 65, 67, 171

Kelly, Mary Jane, 226, 227

Kierkegaard, Søren, 132

King Lear
, 234

Knox, Dr., 77

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 202, 207, 220–221

L

Lamb, Charles, xiii, 93, 171, 203, 235

Lamb, Lady Caroline, 10, 66

Lamb, William, 65–66

Lamentation and Confession of John William Holloway, The
, 75

Latham, Mr., 151, 162

Laurence, Samuel, 131

Lavengro
, 38

Law, Charles Ewan, 110

Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
, 63

Le Père Goriot
, 87

Le Rouge et le Noir
, 37

Leigh, Anne, 213

Leigh, Augusta, xviii

Leigh, Sir Roger Holt, 213

Lemon, Mr., 14–15

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 197

Lewis, Paul, 120–121

Lives of the Saints
, 37

Llewellyn, Dr., 206

Lloyd, Charles, 54, 206

Lockhart, John Gibson, 68

Lockwood, Lady Julia, 161

London Literary Gazette, The
, 12

London Magazine
, 18, 30, 66

Londonderry, Lady, 9

Lost Illusions
, 39, 40

Louis XV, King, 120–121

Louis XVI, King, 118, 123

Lytton, Edward Bulwer, 5

M

Macaulay, Lord Thomas Babington, 5

Macbeth
, 48–51, 236

Machen, Arthur, 217

Macnaghten, Sir Melville, 225–228

Maid Marian
, 20

Malone, Miss, 32

Mancer, Sarah, 141–147, 149–152, 162

Manfred
, xix

Mansfield, Lord, 168

Manson, Charles, 130

Marr, Celia, 187–189, 196, 202

Marr, Timothy, 187–190, 202

Marshall, Stephen, 106

Masson, David Mather, 67–68

Maul and the Pear Tree, The
, 195

Mayfair murder, 137, 140, 154–156, 159, 171

Melbourne, Lord, 153–155

Merezhkovsky, D. S., 194

Middleton, Thomas, xiii

Milton, John, 52, 73, 229, 238

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
, 63

Mitchell, Harriet, 212–213

Moors murders, 237

“Mr. Fielding's People,” 36, 78

Mulind, Catharine, 209

Murray, William, 168

My Relations with Carlyle
, 133

Mysteries of Udolpho, The
, xvi

N

Neale, Cornelius, 158

Neate, William, 17

Neill, Constable, 206

Nero, 206

New Prison, 107

Newgate Calendar
, 37, 176, 181

Newgate prison, 28, 69, 104, 107–111, 117–120, 135, 160, 163, 173, 178–181

Newman, Cardinal, xvii

Newman, John Henry, 87

Nicholls, Mr., 39, 43, 58–61, 64

Nichols, Mary Ann “Polly,” 206, 225, 226

Nicholson, Philip, 158

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 51, 115

Northanger Abbey
, xvi

“Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater,” 30

Noyes, Miss, 23

O

Old Bailey, 69, 108, 119, 164

Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches
, 130

Oliver Twist
, 80, 173

Olney, Mr., 188–190

“On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” 185, 234

“On the Knocking at the Gate in
Macbeth
,” 30, 48

Orwell, George, xi–xii, 195

Othello
, 234

Ovid, 205

P

Palmer, Dr. William, xi

Palmer, Elizabeth, 198

Paradise Lost
, 238

Park, Sir James Alan, 65–67

Parke, Mr. Baron, 165, 170

Payne, George, 9

Peacock, Mr., 20

Pearse, Inspector, 159

Peel, Sir Robert, 69, 75, 78

Pemberton, Mrs., 215