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Authors: Judith Flanders
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The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (87 page)
Casino de Venise (the Holborn Casino),
406
Casual Wards,
197–8
Catholicism: hierarchy re-established in England,
321
n
Cato Street conspiracy (1820),
387
,
388
cattle-drovers,
25
cemeteries
see
graveyards
ceremonies and celebrations (public),
308–12
,
315–17
cesspools,
206–7
Chadwick, Edwin,
218
;
Report into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain
(1842),
214
chaises,
91
n
Chamberlain’s Wharf,
111
Chancery Lane,
57
Chapter Coffee-House, Paternoster Row,
294
Charing Cross,
267–8
& n; railway station,
62
,
106
Charles I, King: statue,
268
Charley (character,
Bleak House
),
187
Charlotte, Princess,
310
n
Charlotte, Queen of George III,
266
Chartist Convention (1848),
375
Chaucer, Geoffrey,
268
Chelsea,
182
; domestic water supply,
209
; Embankment,
227
Chelsea Bridge,
65
Chesterfield, George Stanhope, 6th Earl of,
98
chickens and fowl,
208
children: and crime,
379
& n; deaths in City of London,
216
; malnutrition,
198–9
; stolen for clothes,
171–2
; street-selling and services,
154–6
;
see also
boys
chimney sweeps,
144–5
; May day parade,
318–19
cholera: epidemics, (1831),
213
,
217
,
373–5
; (1846),
215
; (1849),
59
,
218
; (1853–4),
218
,
223
; and ice suppliers,
144
n; ignorance of cause,
213
; mortality rate,
217
& n; occurrence at Millbank,
179
; Snow diagnoses waterborne cause,
218
Christmas Carol, A
(CD),
170
,
203
Church Lane, near Pye Street,
189
churchyards
se
graveyards
Chuzzlewit, Jonas (character,
Martin Chuzzlewit
),
272
Chuzzlewit, Martin (character,
Martin Chuzzlewit
),
239
,
288
Cider (or Cyder) Cellars, Maiden Lane,
357
,
359
,
412
cigars and cigar divans,
295–6
,
302
Circle line (underground),
78
,
226
Citizen Company (steam boats),
68
City of London: beating the bounds,
318
; definition,
2
n; and house drainage,
216
; Lord Mayor’s Show,
310
; noise,
30
; office workers,
25–6
; responsibilities,
57
; Sewers Act (1848),
214
; squares,
262
Clark’s Equestrian Show,
278
Claypole, Noah (character,
Oliver Twist
),
42
Clennam, Arthur (character,
Little Dorrit
),
294
,
324
,
422–3
Clerkenwell Improvement Commission,
76
Clerkenwell prison,
383
; Fenian attack on,
390–1
clocks,
22
clothes: selling of old,
137
,
147
,
240–1
coaches: discomfort and danger,
98–101
; drivers,
97–8
; fares and seating,
96
; glamour of,
97
; mailcoaches parade for monarchs’ birthdays,
318
; types and operation,
90–6
,
95
;
see also
carriages; stagecoaches
Coal Hole (supper and singing club),
357
,
358
,
362–3
Cochrane, Charles,
195
n
Cock, the (chophouse),
300
Cockchafer, The
(songbook),
362
cockfighting and cockpits,
348–9
cockneys: speech,
248–9
coffee houses,
293–5
coffee stalls,
23–5
Coldbath Fields prison,
218
,
383
Coleraine, George Hanger, 4th Baron:
The Life and Adventures of Col. George Hanger
,
397
,
398
n
Collier, John Payne,
357
& n
Collins, Wilkie:
Basil
,
35
Commercial Street,
189
Commissioner for Woods and Forests,
57
Constable, John,
98
Cook, James,
414
cookshops (or bakeshops),
290–2
,
292
Cooper, Jane,
421
Copenhagen Fields, Islington,
130
,
267
Copperfield, David (character,
David Copperfield
): childhood,
3
; coach travel,
94
; fear of homelessness,
180
; follows Martha,
420
; food and eating,
281
,
290
,
292
,
296
; on porters,
158
; uses Roman bath,
271
; walking,
28
,
51
Corn Laws,
285–6
& n
costermongers: barrows on Guy Fawkes night given battle names,
322
; dress,
145–6
; purchase equipment and ponies at Smithfield,
130
; sell goods from barrows,
123
n,
142
,
145
; slang,
249–50
Cotton’s Warehouse,
111
Counters Creek,
200
‘courts’
see
‘rents’
Courvoisier, Benjamin-François,
384
,
388
Covent Garden: character,
11
; Floral Hall,
124
; market,
123–6
; morning activities,
21
; Piazza,
261–2
; porters,
125–6
Covent Garden theatre: fire (1856),
331
; Old Price Riots (1809),
371–2
cows,
207–8
Cranbourne Alley,
241
Cricket
(river steam boat): boiler explodes,
68–9
crime: attitudes to,
378
; low-level,
379–80
; and poverty,
180
Crimean War (1853–6): ends,
367
,
368
Crockford’s (gambling establishment),
349
crossing-sweepers,
49–50
; girls as,
50
n
Crown Estate: responsibilities,
57
Cruikshank, Robert,
98
n
Crummles family (characters,
Nicholas Nickleby
),
356
Crystal Palace: relocated in Sydenham,
102
,
103
Cubitt, Thomas,
262
Cubitt, William,
341
Cuttle, Captain (character,
Dombey and Son
),
130
‘dancing establishments’,
406–7
David Copperfield
(CD): child labour episode,
4
; on Hungerford Stairs,
67
; on Pimlico,
179
; on short-stagecoach,
69
dead: disposal of,
219–22
death: causes,
213
,
324–6
; from epidemics,
215–17
; from starvation,
199
,
200
; from water,
200
; sentences,
386–7
; symbols and ceremonies of,
322–3
;
see also
mortality rates
Dedlock, Sir Leicester and Lady (characters,
Bleak House
),
187
Defoe, Daniel,
220
n
Derby Day,
319–20
Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of,
336
Devil’s Acre, Tothill Fields,
182
,
188
,
196
Diamond Funnel Company (steam boats),
68
Dickens, Catherine (
née
Hogarth; CD’s wife): and burial of Mary Hogarth,
222
; marriage,
5
Dickens, Charles: adopts pseudonym Boz,
5
; appearance and dress,
8
; attempts autobiography,
3
; on bill-stickers,
243
; birth and upbringing,
1–2
,
5–6
; on cabs and cabstands,
81–2
,
84–5
; on calling for muffins,
288
; on chimney sweeps’ May day celebrations,
319
; on clerks eating out,
299
; on coach travel,
100
; on coaching inns,
96
; on coachmen’s greetings,
97
; on coffee houses,
294
; conviviality,
1
; on death penalty,
388
; on debtors’ prisons,
174–7
; describes walk,
58
; disparages Prince of Wales,
365
n; on disposal of dead,
219–20
; distaste for funeral ceremonies,
324
; early writings,
4–5
; earnings,
5
& n; on effect of ‘improvements’ on poor housing,
189–90
; on embankment of Thames,
228
; enjoys street crowds,
304
; on entering hackney coach,
79
; and fatal disasters,
324–5
; feeds cherries to child,
132
; fictional characters,
11–12
; on fog and effects,
203–4
; on food at Britannia theatre,
288
; on food and eating places,
290
; on gin palaces,
353–4
; given dinner at Trafalgar Tavern, Greenwich,
277
; on Great Stink (1858),
224
; hatred of petty authority,
326
; on hats and caps,
273
; on homeless and destitute,
180–1
; joins Shakespeare club,
355
; knowledge of London,
7–10
; life expectancy,
212
; lives in Furnival’s Inn,
32
; on living conditions of poor,
195
; on lost child at Great Exhibition,
27
; marriage,
5
; on men keeping possessions in hats,
294
n; on mobs,
377
; on noise of London,
31–2
; on office workers,
26
; on oyster house in Holborn,
289
; as parliamentary reporter,
4
,
32
; on pavements,
39
; on pawnshops,
240
; pictured in advertisement,
245
; on police regulation of traffic,
48
; preoccupation with London,
422–3
; and public executions,
384
,
386
,
388
,
392
; on Punch and Judy,
257
; on railway development,
61
; on recognising prostitutes,
399
; relations with Nelly Ternan,
406
; revisits site of blacking factory,
131
; and rhyming slang,
250
; on sandwich-boards,
244–5
; sculling,
275
; sees Louis Philippe in Paris,
314
; on shops and shopping,
238–9
; on Simpson’s eating house,
301–2
; sings for John Barrow,
357
; on Smithfield market,
127
,
129
,
133
; and speech and pronunciation,
248–9
,
251–2
; on street musicians,
255–6
; on suicides,
419–22
; supports police,
377
,
380
; on tea gardens,
274
; travels north by coach,
90
,
94
; on turnstiles,
41
; on unknowability of London,
60
; view of railways,
101–2
,
108
; visits burnt-out Covent Garden theatre,
331
; walking,
8–9
,
44
,
180
; walks in slum areas,
184
,
192–3
; on workhouses,
170
; works at
Morning Chronicle
,
5
; works in Warren’s Blacking Factory,
4
,
153
n,
185
Dickens, Elizabeth (
née
Barrow; CD’s mother): plans to start school for young ladies,
2
Dickens, John (CD’s father),
1–4
,
175
,
177
Dickensian: as adjective,
1
‘Dinner at Poplar Walk, A’ (CD; story),
4
,
70
disease
see
illness and disease
Diseases Prevention Act (1846),
214
Disraeli, Benjamin,
8
,
117
,
224
,
311–12
;
Henrietta Temple
,
174
District line (underground),
78
,
226
District Railway,
77
dockworkers,
163–4
Doctor’s Commons,
32
& n
dog carts,
275
& n
dog theft,
379
dogfighting,
348–9