The Invention of Murder (92 page)

Very Latest Edition of the Colleen Drawn,
The
(play), 138

Victoria, Queen: assassination attempts on, 12n, 147, 165, 204; accession, 98; sees
The Colleen Bawn,
137

Victoria,
SS, 160, 176

Victoria (theatre)
see
Coburg Theatre

Vidocq, Eugène: career, 14; opens ‘curious museum’, 173; Wilkie Collins uses as source, 290, 292;
Memoirs,
14–15, 290

Vincent, Howard, 444

Wagner, Revd Arthur, 371

Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths: background, 248–50; accused of murders, 251–3; arrest, transportation and death, 251; in literature and theatre, 252–7, 273; posthumous reputation, 257–8, 336n

Wainwright, Henry, 287, 336–43

Wainwright, Thomas, 337, 339, 341

Wainwright, William, 338 & n

Wakley, Thomas, 194–5, 219–21, 226, 269

Waldie, Jean, 66

Walford, H.L.:
Impeached,
121

Walker, Annie, 313–15

Walsh, Ellen, 133–4

Wansborough, T.W.:
An Authentic Narrative of the Conduct of Eliza Fenning,
195

Ward, George, 388–9

Ward, Leslie (‘Spy’), 407

Warden, Florence
see
Price, Florence Alice

Wardle, George, 287n

Ware, J. Redding:
The Road Murder.

Analysis of this Persistent Mystery,
374n

Warren, Sir Charles, 429, 442–5, 450

Warren, Ernest: possibly collaborates with Edward Ellis, 298n watchmen, 13–14, 16

Waterloo, Battle of (1815), 193

Waterloo Carpet-Bag Mystery (1857), 181n

Waters, Thomas
see
Russell, William Watkins, John:
The Important Results of an Elaborate Investigation into the Mysterious Case of Elizabeth Fenning,
187–8, 190–91, 195

Watson, Dr Heron, 398

Watson, Dr John (fictional figure), 316–17

Watts, ‘Spratty’, 242

Weare, William, 23–8, 34–5, 37, 39–41, 45

Wedekind, Frank:
Die Büchse der Pandora,
461–2;
Erdgeist,
461–2

Weekly Herald,
398

Weekly Times,
441

Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 140, 231n, 323

West London Union (workhouse), 216

Westall, William:
Back to Africa,
454

Western Daily Press,
368

Western Mail,
409

Weston, Mary, 225

Wetherell, Sir Charles, 325 & n

Whicher, Inspector Jonathan, 365–6, 371, 377

Whistler, James McNeill, 43

Whitechapel
see
Jack the Ripper

Whitechapel Murders, The, or, The Mysteries of the East End
(penny-dreadful), 445

‘Whitechapel Tragedy, The’ (ballad
sheet), 422

Whitechapel Tragedy, The
(play), 341 Whitty, M.J.:
Tales of Irish Life,
135

Who Committed the Road Murder?
(by
‘A Disciple of Edgar Poe’), 369

Who Did It?
(play), 257

Wilbred, Jane, 215–17

Wild Boys of London, The
(penny- dreadful), 378

Wilde, Oscar, 118, 257;
Ballad of Reading Gaol,
120;
The Picture of Dorian Gray,
455

Wilks, Thomas Egerton:
Eily O’Connor, or, The Banks of Killarney
(play), 137

Williams, John, 8–12, 18, 38n, 55n

Williams, Thomas (killer of Ferrari), 71

Williamson, Chief Superintendent Frederick Adolphus (‘Dolly’), 371, 376, 428–9

Williamson, John and Elizabeth, 7–9

Wills, Freeman C.:
After All,
123

Wills, W.G., 121–2n

Wilmore, Miss (milliner), 338

Wilson, James (‘Daft Jamie’), 63–6

Wodehouse, (Sir) P.G., 463n

Wolfe Tone, Theobald, 73

Woman
(magazine), 397

women: executed, 166, 328, 361, 393; as poisoners, 234–44, 253–4; as fictional detectives, 298–9, 380–81; and husband-murder, 315, 357, 359, 361, 413; as spectators at trials, 317, 411; murdered by husbands, 360–61, 413; tried at Old Bailey, 409

Women’s Penny Paper,
411

Wood, Mrs Henry, 281, 373–4;
East Lynne,
281;
Mrs Halliburton’s Troubles,
181, 306; ‘St Martin’s Eve’, 374

Wood, James, 29

Wood, John Peacock, 75, 80–3, 425

Work Girls of London, The
(penny- dreadful), 378

workhouses, 216–18

working classes: in London, 31; literary taste, 115; as murderers, 212; read detective fiction, 300–301; and Jack the Ripper, 432;
see also
middle classes

Wyvill, Alfred, 403

Xenos, Stephanos (‘Ch.V. Cavour’):
The Cursed Doctor: The Notorious Trial of William Palmer from Contemporary English Journalism,
270 & n

Yonge, Charlotte M.:
The Trial,
370

Yorkshire Post,
390

Young, Revd Mr, 49

Zangwill, Israel: ‘The Big Bow Mystery’, 422

A book of this nature is virtually a collaborative exercise, and my debts are correspondingly large. I would like to thank, for information or advice (and often both): Emily Alder, Zoë Anderson, Cathie Arrington, Peter E. Blau, Karen Amy Bourrier, Dagni Bredesen, Jen Cadwallader, Evangelos Calotychos, Honor Clerk, Natalie Cole, Julia Collins of Madame Tussaud’s archive, Betty Cortus, David Crane, Matt Demakos, Barbara Dunlap, Anna Dzirkalis, Tony Fincham, Marguerite Finnigan, Sunie Fletcher, Elizabeth Foxwell, Ginger Frost, Tony Gee, the late Robin Gibson, Sheldon Goldfarb, Jonathan Green, Jill Grey, Philip Hoare, Tobias Hoheisel, Stephen Holcombe, Kellie Holzer, Jonathan Horne of Sampson & Horne Antiques, Nico Howson, Audrey Jaffe, Kathryn Johnson, Melisa Klimaszewski, Bernard Knight, Sarah LaDow, John Langbein, Bob Lapides, David Latané, Peter Lennon, John Lewis, Paul Lloyd, Michael McCaffery, Fiona MacCarthy, Carolyn McGrath, Kate Mattacks, Douglas Matthews, Chris Michaelides at the British Library, Liz Miller, Joanna S. Mink, Rosemarie Morgan, Richard Nemesvari, Gerry Newby, Katherine Newey, Robert Newsom, Lee O’Brien, Denis Paz, Caroline Radcliffe, Sharon Ragaz, Rama Rahimi, Alan Rauch, Chris Redmond, Paul Reis of Tattersall’s, Malcolm Rigby, Gail L. Savage, Clemence Schultze, Patrick Scott, Malcolm Shifrin, Gary Simons, Brian Simpson, Robin Surtees, Fergal Tobin, Norman Vance, John Walker, Stephen White, Nick Wilson and Penny Parry-Williams at Weatherby’s, Michael Wolff, Christian Wolmar and Frank Wynne.

Some of the above are ‘virtual colleagues’, members of the Victoria 19th-Century British Culture & Society mailbase, and I would once again like to record my thanks both to the listmembers and to Patrick Leary, who as listmaster creates and maintains both the content and the atmosphere of this haven of scholarly collegiality.

A great debt of gratitude is owed, as always, to Bill Hamilton: I fear this debt is not only growing, but may never be adequately repaid. Colin McDowell and Ravi Mirchandani frequently permitted me to spill gory details, and they hardly ever winced. At HarperCollins I am grateful to Graham Cook, Helen Ellis, Minna Fry, Sophie Goulden, Graham Holmes, Robert Lacey and Arabella Pike.

The Bodleian Library, the British Library (especially the staff of the Rare Books Room), Cambridge University Library, the Guildhall Library, the London Library (especially Amanda Corp, and Gosia Lawick of the inter-library loan department), the National Library of Scotland (especially Rebecca Parry and Veronica Denholm), the Victoria and Albert Theatre Museum, and their helpful staffs have provided much-needed assistance. I would like to record a particular debt of gratitude to Julie Ann Lambert, curator of the John Johnson Collection at the Bodleian Library, who ensured that I saw all the material I needed (and much that I didn’t know I needed until she supplied it) while her collection was at the same time undergoing digitization.

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