The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (77 page)

‘author’s preconceptions’:
Yokel’s Preceptor
, pp. 5–7.

‘or anyone else’: Hudson,
Munby
, p. 188; Druid’s Hall dances: Charles Upchurch,
Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain’s Age of Reform
(Berkeley, University of California Press, 2009), p. 75.

‘were rare’: Boulton and Park in this paragraph and the next: Kaplan, ‘“Men in Petticoats”’, pp. 45–68, and Cocks,
Nameless Offences
, pp. 105ff. The fashion information is from
The Times
, 30 April 1870, p. 11; ‘A Visit to Newgate’,
Sketches by Boz
, p. 244.

‘ended her life’: Tristan,
London Journal
, p. 79; Ryan and Tait: Nead,
Myths of Sexuality
, pp. 145ff.; Acton,
Prostitution
, p. 38; ‘Anonyma’,
London by Night
, p. 176.

‘drown themselves’: incidence of suicide and gender, and engraving: L. J. Nicoletti, ‘Morbid Topographies: Placing Suicide in Victorian London’, in Lawrence Phillips, (ed.),
A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke: Victorian and Edwardian Representations of London
(Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2007), pp. 10–12; Sala,
Twice Round the Clock
, p. 70.

‘leap from another’: ‘The man who loves’: ‘The Millennium’,
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
, 153: 25 (June 1829), p. 703; Dickens, ‘The Drunkard’s Death’,
Sketches by Boz
, p. 565; ‘English Bridge of Sighs’: Charles Mackay, ‘Rambles Among the Rivers, no. 1: The Thames and its Tributaries’,
Bentley’s Miscellany
, April 1839, p. 378.

‘over the ground’: Hood: ‘The Bridge of Sighs’,
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
(NY, James Miller, 1867), vol. 1, pp. 151–4; details of Mary Furley:
The Times
, 1 April 1844, p. 7; ‘Some Recollections of Mortality’,
All the Year Round
, 16 May 1863, in
Dickens’ Journalism
, vol. 4, p. 224.

‘the morning mist’:
Oliver Twist
, p. 389;
David Copperfield
, pp. 317, 625ff.;
Little Dorrit
, p. 217.

‘all he cared’: Dickens,
Barnaby Rudge
, ed. Gordon Spence (first published 1841; Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1986), p. 153.

‘of the Monument’: suicides from the Monument: Nicoletti, ‘Morbid Topographies’, pp. 13–14; Bartlett,
What I Saw in London
, pp. 182–3.

‘for an end’: ‘Wapping Workhouse’,
All the Year Round
, 18 February 1860, in
Dickens’ Journalism
, vol. 4, p. 44.

‘he was alive’: Charles Lamb, cited in Baron (ed.),
London 1066–1914
, p. 25;
Little Dorrit
, p. 67; Henry Wallis,
Death of Chatterton
, is in the Tate; ‘Thoughts about People’,
Sketches by Boz
, p. 251.

‘one and the same’: ‘Chambers’,
All the Year Round
, 18 August 1860, in
Dickens’ Journalism
, vol. 4, p. 164.

‘dark with death’:
Our Mutual Friend
, p. 77;
Edwin Drood
, p. 258; ‘The surface’:
Carlton Chronicle
, 40, 8 April 1837, p. 635.

‘their usual uproar:
Little Dorrit
, p. 895.

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