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Authors: Judith Flanders
Egan, Pierce, 28, 37n, 38, 105n;
Account of the Trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt,
41
Egg, Augustus:
Past and Present
(triptych), 129–30
Eliot, George, 44, 284, 286;
The Lifted Veil,
180;
Middlemarch,
310–11, 327
Eliot, T.S., 374
Eliza Fenning
(ship), 196
Eliza Fenning, The Victim of Circumstances
(play), 199
Eliza Fenning’s Own Narrative,
192
‘Ellis, Edward’ (Charles Henry Ross): Ruth the Betrayer, 298, 300, 375
Ellis, George: The Female Detective, 381
Ellis, Havelock:
The Criminal,
258
Elmore, Alfred, 120
Emms, Mr (shoemaker), 366
Emsley, Mrs, 366–7
Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, 301
Era
(newspaper), 73, 121, 211, 263, 287, 356, 460–61
Evening News,
420–21, 426–7, 441, 443, 451
Evening Standard,
411, 430
Examiner
(newspaper): on Thurtell, 30, 36; on Burke and Hare exhibition, 70; on Aram as ‘beloved’, 104; on Rush, 155; on execution of Mannings, 170; supports Eliza Fenning, 187; on cholera at Drouet’s, 220; Dickens writes in, 222; on Sarah Dazley’s confession, 238; on medical evidence, 347; on wife-murder, 361; crime reporting, 372
executioners, 205–7
executions: public, 54–5, 155, 169–72, 193, 205–8, 212, 236–8, 268, 361; numbers, 166; of women, 166, 328, 393, 409; cease as public events, 341, 362
Experiences of a Lady Detective, The, see Hayward, William Stephen
Family Herald
(magazine), 281
Family Library
(magazine), 281
Fenians, 429
Fenning, Eliza: tried and sentenced for attempted murder, 77, 183–7, 189; trial evidence questioned, 187–92; execution and funeral, 193–4, 234, 368; and political disenfranchisement, 193; posthumous reputation, 195–6; stage and literary representations, 196–200, 269, 290
Fergusson, Sir William, 63, 74n
Ferrari, Carlo, 71
Field, Inspector Charles, 178–9, 386
Fielding, Sir John, 13, 15–16
Figaro in London
(newspaper), 94, 126n, 324
fingerprinting, 464–5
Fitzball, Edward:
Jonathan Bradford, or, The Murder at the Roadside Inn,
125–9, 131
FitzGerald, Edward, 292n, 336n
‘Forrester, Andrew’: identity, 374n; writings, 463; ‘A Child Found Dead’, 374, 377; ‘The Judgment of Conscience’, 87n;
Revelations of a Female Detective,
298, 300, 367, 374
Forrester, Daniel, 2n, 251
Forster, John, 153, 170–71, 252
Fouché, Joseph, 17 & n, 76
Foxall, Eliza, 247
Foxall, Henry, 247
Foxen, John, 205
France: police in, 17 & n, 75–6
Freeman, Sarah, 226, 237
‘Frieake, Teddy’, 339–40
Friendly Societies: and burial society murders, 227–8, 232
Fun
(magazine), 355, 436, 448
funerals: of murder victims, 5–6
Gadsdell, Roger, 184, 186, 191, 197
Gaiety Theatre, London, 115
Gale, Sarah, 92–6
Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, London, 121
Gallop, Mary, 238
Galton, Francis, 465
Gamblers, The
(play), 32 & n, 33–6, 42
garrotting, 332
Garside, William (or James), 84–5, 115
Gaskell, Elizabeth: ‘A Dark Night’s Work’, 128n;
Mary Barton,
86–9;
North and South,
304
Gay, William, 92
Geering, Mary Anne, 234n, 236
Gentleman Jack
(penny-blood), 59
Gentleman’s Magazine,
9, 15, 27
George IV, King
(formerly
Prince Regent), 45
Gilbert, (Sir) William Schwenck, 339n;
Ruddigore
(with Sullivan), 122n
Gillette, William:
Secret Service
(play), 351;
Sherlock Holmes
(play), 350–51, 462
Gill’s Hill, Hertfordshire, 20–21, 25–6, 35–6
Gipsey of Edgware, The
(play), 44
Glasgow Herald
(newspaper), 283, 286,
336, 397
Globe
(newspaper), 435, 441, 451
Godwin, William:
Caleb Williams,
102–103, 299
Good, Daniel, 140–47, 158, 166
Good, Molly, 145
Gough, Elizabeth, 362, 366, 369, 376
Gould, R., 205 & n
Graphic,
399
Gray, Mr and Mrs (of Edinburgh), 64–5, 287
Great Exhibition (London, 1851), 306
Green Row Rooms, Portsmouth, 144n
Greenacre, James: Huish writes on, 53; murders Hannah Brown, 92–6; popular accounts of, 94–7, 166, 288; executed, 98
Greenhow (lawyer), 390
Griffin, Gerald:
The Collegians,
136–7, 139
Grossmith, George:
The Real Case of
Hyde and Seekyll,
425
Haines, J.T.:
Eily O’Connor, or, The
Foster Brothers
(play), 137
Ham, Thomas, 243–4
Hambrough, Cecil, 395–8, 402–3
Hambrough, Major Dudley, 394–7
Hamilton, Sir William, 68
Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex Chronicle,
29, 106, 127
hangmen
see
executioners
Hanley, Ellen (‘the Colleen Bawn’), 133–6, 139
Hardie, Keir, 462
Hardy, Thomas, 361;
Tess of the D’Urbervilles,
171, 362
Hare, Margaret, 62, 65
Hare, William: kills and sells bodies, 62–7, 433; popular accounts of, 69–75; and policing, 77; and Madeleine Smith case, 286–7
Harkness, Margaret (‘John Law’):
Captain Lobe,
453
Harmsworth, Alfred Charles
(later
Viscount Northcliffe), 425, 456
Harriet Staunton, or, Married and
Starved for Money,
350
Hart, Sarah, 329–30
Harvey, Martin
(later
Sir John Martin-Harvey), 123
Harwood, John:
Miss Jane, or, The Bishop’s Daughter,
373, 375
Hatton, Captain (Staffordshire Constabulary), 271
Hawkins, Henry (Mr Justice), 268n, 347–8
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 283
Hayes, Catherine, 44 & n
Hayes, Mr (Bradford’s murder victim), 123, 128
Haynes, M.J. & Co, Peckham, 460
Hayward, Jonathan, 419–20
Hayward, William Stephen (attrib.):
The Experiences of a Lady Detective,
299;
Revelations of a Lady Detective,
378
Hazlewood, C.H.: as house author at Britannia Theatre, 125n; adapts
Oliver Twist
for stage, 385;
The Detective,
380;
Eily O’Connor,
137;
The Mother’s Dying Child,
380
Hazlitt, William, 248
Henderson, Col. Edmund, 429
Henry, Edward, 465
Herapath, William, 265–6, 326–7
Herschel, Sir William, 464–5
Hidden Guilt
(play), 182
High Rip gangs, 425–6
highwaymen, 59, 108–9
Hinchcliff, Elizabeth, 187n
Hindley, Myra, 459n
Hogg, Clara, 403–5
Hogg, Frank, 403–5, 408–9, 412, 414
Hogg, Phoebe: murdered, 403–10, 412–13, 464
Holmes, Sherlock (fictional figure): and rewards, 204; on doctors’ fallibility, 267; and Moriarty, 293; as scientific machine, 316, 439; in Gillette’s drama, 350, 462; knowledge of sensation-literature, 370–71; name, 371; solves mysteries, 371; on beauty of rose, 376n; employs boy detectives, 378; disguises, 387; based on Joseph Bell, 398; domestic suspects, 414; character, 438–9; uses dog to follow scent, 444n; on ears sent by post, 448n; motives, 463; on fingerprints, 465;
see also
Doyle, (Sir) Arthur Conan
Holroyd, Matthew, 234–5
Holroyd, Susannah, 234–5
Hone, William (publisher), 187;
La Pie Voleuse,
196–7
Honeyman, William Crawford (‘James McGovan’):
Brought to Bay,
300; ‘The Missing Bookbinder’, 74–5
Hood, Thomas, 248; ‘The Dream of Eugene Aram’, 103–4, 117, 119–22
Hook, Thomas:
Killing No Murder,
124
Horsemonger Lane Gaol, 169–70, 172, 205
Hotten, John Camden, 252, 256
Household Words
(magazine), 129, 176, 199, 222, 271, 296n, 306
Houseman, Richard, 99–100, 101, 106–8, 123
Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte:
Such Things Are,
371
Howell (railway superintendent, Slough), 329
Hue and Cry
(police publication), 84 &
n, 115, 145
Hughes, Revd George, 53
Huish, Robert [and William Maginn?]:
The Progress of Crime, or, The Authentic Memoirs of Maria Manning,
176;
The Red Barn, A Tale, Founded on Fact,
53 & n
Humble, Revd Henry, 226
Hunt, Joseph, 21, 23–7, 29, 37, 40, 44
Hunt, Leigh, 36, 106
Hyatt, Revd Charles, 52
Illustrated Life and Career of William Palmer of Rugeley, The,
264
Illustrated London News,
147, 161, 234,
447
Illustrated Police News,
341–2, 384,
390–91, 435
Illustrated Times,
262 & n, 263
Imperial Insurance Company, 249
infanticide, 223–32;
see also
burial societies; children
Ipswich Journal,
36, 124, 154–5
Ireland: constables in, 15n
Irving, (Sir) Henry, 99, 121–2, 257, 351, 385, 413, 454
Jack the Ripper: press coverage, 339, 427–8, 430–32, 435–7, 440–52; notoriety, 415; unknown identity and suspects, 424–5, 441–2, 446–7, 451, 465–6; victims, 425–6, 431, 439, 450; police handling, 429, 437–8, 442–4, 448–50; bodies mutilated, 430–33, 436, 440, 448, 450–51; in foreign languages, 442n; in theatre, 442, 460–62; bloodhounds employed, 443–5; Vigilance Committees established, 447–8; fiction based on, 452–6, 463; waxworks of victims, 452 ballads and songs on, 456–9; dogs and racehorses named for, 459; mementoes, 460; legacy, 462, 464–6; and later knife-crimes, 464
Jack the Ripper at Work Again
(ballad compilation), 458
Jackson, Harry, 465
Jackson’s Oxford Journal,
239
James, Henry, 283
Jefferies, Elizabeth, 209–11
Jermy, Isaac
(formerly
Preston), 149–51
Jermy, Thomas, 150–51
Jerningham (in Monson case), 395, 397
Jerome, Jerome K., 198n, 380n
Jerrold, Blanchard, 48n
Jerrold, Douglas, 48n, 125;
Vidocq! the French Police Spy
(play), 15;
Wives by Advertisement,
48
Jewell, Margaret, 2–3
Jews: suspected of Jack the Ripper murders, 441–2;
see also
anti-Semitism
John Bull
(journal), 97, 118, 222, 239, 316, 330
Jones, Hannah Maria:
The Gamblers; or, The Treacherous Friends,
42, 43n
Jones, Jane (of Daniel Good case), 141–3, 145–6
Jones, Jane (of Robert Blake case), 357–8
Joseph, Samuel, 68
Journal of Medical Science,
268
Joy, Revd F.W., 120n
Joyce, Eliza, 244–5
Kaleidoscope
(magazine), 56
Kean, Charles, 130
Kean, Edward, 205
Kelly, Mary Jane (or Mary Anne), 450–52, 460, 462
Kent, Constance: and killing of half-brother Francis, 44, 258n, 306, 364–71, 377, 425; confesses, 371–2, 374n; fiction based on, 373–6, 378
Kent, Francis Savile, 362–3, 370
Kent, Mary
(née
Pratt), 363–4, 366n, 367–8
Kent, Samuel Savile, 306, 363–5, 367–9, 372
King, Jessie, 398
King, Mrs Percy
see
Lane, Harriet
Kippis, Andrew, 102
Kirby’s Wonderful Magazine,
124
Kirk, Wilkison, 332
Knaresborough, Yorkshire, 99–101, 117
Knight, Bernard, 184n
Knox, Dr Robert, 62–5, 69, 71, 287
Lac du Glenaston, Le
(play), 137
Lacenaire, Pierre-François, 255 & n
Ladies’ Monthly Magazine,
322
Lady’s Newspaper,
166, 368
Lafarge, Marie-Fortunée, 253
Lamb, Charles, 248
Lambeth Street Police Office, 8
Lancet
(medical journal), 195, 267, 277, 316–17, 347, 420, 431
Landseer, Sir Edwin, 204 & n
Lane, Harriet (‘Mrs Percy King’), 338–40
L’Angelier, Emile, 281–6
Lankester, Edwin, 226 & n
Larner, John, 150
Law, John
see
Harkness, Margaret
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 11
Laycock, Thomas, 227
Leader
(journal), 276
Lee, James, 51, 61
Leech, John, 170
Leeds: police in, 148
Leeds Mercury,
105, 107, 114–15
Le Fanu, Sheridan: adapts Jonathan Bradford story, 127–8;
A Lost Name,
176n, 296, 371; ‘The Murdered Cousin’, 294;
Uncle Silas,
293–4
Le Gallienne, Richard, 355
Leigh, Percival, 164
Leighton, Alexander:
The Courts of Cacus,
71–2
Lemon, Mark, 179
Letheby, Henry, 265–7, 334
Leverson, Rachel (Madame Rachel), 304n
Levy, Mrs (lodger at Lipski’s), 415–16
Lewes, George Henry, 286
Lewes, Sussex, 236–7
Lewis, Clunn, 588
Licensing Act (theatres, 1737), 30
Life and Death of Eliza Fenning, The
(play), 199
Life of the Reverend George Dyson and his Strange Adventures with Mrs. Bartlett,
317–18
Lincoln, Abraham, 138n, 372
Lincolnshire Chronicle,
170n
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine,
455
Lipski, Israel: convicted of murder, 415–21; confession, 421; execution, 422; fictionalized in detective story, 422–3; and Jack the Ripper, 441
Liston, Robert, 68