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Authors: Judith Flanders

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Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (99 page)

General Enclosure Acts (1836) and (1845)
see
enclosures

General Evening Post
, 130

General Stud Book, The
, 426-7

Gentleman, Francis:
The Stratford Jubilee
, 240

Gentleman’s Magazine
, 353, 469

Gentlewoman
(magazine), 162

George I, King: court, 347

George II, King, 349

George III, King: bathes at Weymouth, 230; awards pension to Handel, 233n; takes waters at Cheltenham, 235; supports Concert of Antient Music, 345; celebrated in music, 351; as art patron, 383, 385, 393

George IV, King (
earlier
Prince of Wales and Regent): death, 145; in Bath, 233

Géricault, Théodore:
The Raft of the Medusa
(painting), 268

Germany: piano manufacture, 364

Gibbon, Edward, xvi, 379

Gilbert, Davies:
Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern
, 473-4

Gilbert, W.S.: 299, 302; ‘Bab Ballads’, 457;
Iolanthe
(with Sullivan), 300, 306n, 312;
The Mikado
(with Sullivan), 116;
Patience
(with Sullivan), 11, 116;
Utopia (Limited)
(with Sullivan), 339

Gilpin, Revd William:
Essay on Prints
, 216-17, 223, 388

Gissing, George: ‘A Daughter of the Lodge’, 458

Gladstone, William Ewart: and National Gallery purchases, 403

Glasgow: clubs, 6; public transport, 99; shops, 106

Glasgow Evening Times
, 155

glass: for shop windows, 100-1

Glovers (Southampton store), 110

Godfrey, Sir Dan, 250

Godwin, William:
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
, 167

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von:
Sorrows of Young Werther
, 220n

Goldberg, Cornelius, 58

Goldsmith, Oliver: death, 135; in Johnson’s club, 379; on Reynolds, 384;
Goody-Two Shoes
(attrib.), 133;
The Vicar of Wakefield
, 184n, 353, 409

Gomersal, Edward, 319

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de, 4

Goodwood racecourse, 435

Goupil (French art dealer), 412

Gower, George Granville-Leveson- Gower, Earl (
later
1st Duke of Sutherland), 392

Graham, Dr James, 135-6

Graham, Mrs (balloonist), 281

Grand Tour: and art appreciation, 380

Gravesend, 242

Gray, Thomas, 203

Great Exhibition (1851): planning and organisation, 3-4, 6-9, 11-12, 21-2; aims and contents (exhibits), 12-21, 23, 27; subscribers, 12; popular appeal, 16-17, 259; souvenirs and mementoes, 17-18; lack of prices, 27; entrance prices, 28-9; working-class visitors, 28-30, 33-7, 40-1; accommodation and lodgings for visitors, 34-5; temperance and, 34 & n; books, guides and associated amusements, 37-40; construction of, 37; attendance figures, 40, 259; advertises travel guides, 223;
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
, 21;
Popular Guide
, 29;
see also
Crystal Palace

Greeley, Horace, 14-15, 25

Greenaway, Kate, 487

Greenburg, C. (tailor), 96-7

Greenwich: as zero meridian, 195n

Greenwood and Batley (engineers), 90

Greiner, George Frederick, 20

Grenada, 54 & n

Grieve family, 310

Grimaldi, Joseph, 305-6, 310

Grimm brothers, 306n

grocers: sell tea, 58; trade, 78-9

Grocers’ Weekly Circular and Price List
, 78

Grosvenor Gallery, London, 116n, 414

guidebooks, 200, 202-4, 223

Gye, Frederick, 60

Halifax, Charles Montague, 3rd Earl of, 381

Hallam, John, Dean of Bristol, 172

Hallé, Sir Charles E., 116n, 369, 372, 471

Hamilton, Emma, Lady, 136

Hamilton, Sir William, 65 & n, 136, 397

Hampstead: tea gardens, 281

Hampton Court, 259

Ham’s Muslin and Linen Warehouse, Strand (London), 85

Handel, George Frederick, 277, 343-6, 352;
Messiah
, 344-5, 347, 358, 365;
Music for the Royal Fireworks
, 350

Hanover Square Concert Rooms, London, 348

Hanway, Jonas, 57

harlequinade: and pantomime, 306-8

harpsicords, 354-6, 360

Harris, Augustus, 312

Harrison, James, 358

Harris’s of Whitechapel, 97n

Harrod’s (London store): Gent’s Club Room, 112n; window displays, 119; opening hours, 210; opening date, 496

Harrop, Sarah, 347

Harvey Nichols (London store): advertising, 97, 496

Hastings, Warren, 130

hats: exhibited at Great Exhibition, 19n; straw, 49n

Haussman, Baron Georges Euge`ne, 109

hawkers and pedlars, 76-7

Hawkesworth, John, 198

Hawkins, John, 379

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 487

Haydn, Joseph, 349

Haydock Park racecourse, 435

Hayman, Francis, 277, 380, 383n

Haymarket Theatre, London, 293

Hayward, Ben:
All Else of No Avail
, 458

Hazlitt, William, 142, 398n

Heal, John Harris, 105n

Heal and Sons (London furniture shop): advertising, 97; furnishings, 115; opening date, 496

Herapath’s Railway and Commercial Journal
, 33-4

Herne Bay, Kent, 247

Herschel, William, 233, 346

Heywood, Benjamin, 479

Highflyer (racehorse), 427

Highways Acts (1555, 1835), 70

Hildyard, John (York bookseller), 54

Hill, John, 133 & n

Hill, Rowland, 9, 134n, 152, 229;
see also
Post Office

Hingston, E.P.:
Amy: or, Love and Madness
, 175

hippodramas, 264, 315-22

Historical Record of all Horse matches Run, An
, 151

‘History of the Gentle Craft’, 164

Hoe printing press, 150

Hoffmann, Professor:
Tips for Tricyclists
, 462

Hogarth, Mary and Ann, 85

Hogarth, William: Soane collects, 265; Tyers commissions paintings for Vauxhall, 277; Cibber dedicates
The Harlot’s Progress
to, 323; exhibits works at home, 379-80; gives portrait of Coram to support Foundling Hospital, 382; social background, 384; prints, 389; exhibition of works at British Institution, 393

Holiday Extension Act (1875), 470

holidays, 140, 208-10, 470, 498-500

Hollar, Wenceslaus, 262

Holley, Ernest Terah, 455

Hollingshead, John, 301

Holt, Mrs: Italian Warehouse (London grocer), 49

Home, Mrs (Warwick Castle housekeeper), 213n

Home Notes
(magazine), 162, 163

Hook, James, 351

Hoppner, John, 390

Horne, Thomas and Susan, 51

horseracing: reported, 151; books on, 204; at Leamington, 236; as betting sport, 421, 432; development, 421-3, 425-6, 429-31, 433; regulated, 424-5, 428; and stud books, 426-7; and breeding, 427; classic races, 429; associated entertainments, 431; newspapers, 432; results telegraphed,
432-3; admission charges, 433; course enclosure and grandstands, 433-4, 436; financial successes, 435-6

Horsley, J.C., 485

hotels: railway, 227-8

Houghton Hall, Norfolk, 214

Houlding, John, 449-51

household possessions, 24, 26

Howe, Elias, Jr, 90

Howell, Charles Augustus, 414-15

Hudson, George (‘the Railway King’), 34

Hughes, Thomas:
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
, 459

Humble, John, 448

Hummel, Johann Nepomuk, 256, 355, 365

Humphry, Ozias, 214

Hunt, Leigh:
A Book for a Corner
, 194

Hunt, Richard, 21

Hunt, William Holman: Stephens writes on, 414;
The Awakening Conscience
(painting), 407;
The Light of the World
(painting), 413

Hunter, John, 135

hunts and hunting, 236

Hutton, William, 395

Ibbetson, Julius Caesar, 390

Ibsen, Henrik:
The Pillars of the Community
, 340n

Illustrated Exhibitor, The
( journal for Great Exhibition), 37

Illustrated London News
: on Great Exhibition, 21; piano advertisement, 26; on working class at Great Exhibition, 29, 40; price, 37n; beginnings, 157; advertisements for holiday clothing, 244; advertises shows, 286; notice for W.H. Smith advertisements, 290; on Christmas trees, 471; illustrates Sir Christmas, 475; on Greenwich workhouse at Christmas, 477