I would also like to say how much I owe to Bea Hemming, who was my editor for so much of this book, to thank Linden Lawson for her copy-editing skills; and to express my gratitude to Alan Samson for his help and kindnesses and to thank Holly Harley and everyone at Weidenfeld & Nicolson who worked on it, and of course, Isobel Dixon, my agent and friend.
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INDEX
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Acton, Dr William, Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs
actresses. See also courtesans; individual names
Adam, Juliette
Adeane, Marie
Adirondack Mountains
adultery
agriculture
Albany, Leopold, Duke of
alcohol: champagne; rum
Alen, James Van
Alexandra House, London
Alexandra, Queen (formerly Princess of Wales)
Alva (Vanderbilt yacht)
American Girl, The (musical)
Articles of Amendment
As We Were (Benson)
Asquith family
Asquith, Margot (née Tennant)
Assembly balls
Astor, Caroline (née Schermerhorn): and Alva Vanderbilt; annual ball; Bradley-Martin Ball; and Carrie (daughter); and Harry Lehr; husband’s infidelities; invitiations from; Knickerbocker society queen; ostentation; snubbed by Vanderbilts; and Ward McAllister; and William Astor
Astor, Carrie. See Wilson, Carrie (née Astor)
Astor family
Astor III, John Jacob
Astor, Jack
Astor, Mary (Mamie) Waldorf (née Paul)
Astor, Nancy
Astor, William Backhouse
Astor, William Waldorf
Aylesford, Lady Edith
Aylesford, Lord ‘Sporting Joe’
Bailey’s Beach, Newport
Bal Macaan, Scotland
‘Balaclava Charlie’ (Charles Bonynge)
Balfour, Arthur
balls, royal
balls, society
Banks, Elizabeth
Baril, Maria de
Baring, Cecil
Bartels, John
Bartels, Tennie. See Cook, Lady Tennie (née Claflin, formerly Bartels)
bathrooms
Batonyi, Count Aurel (Cohen)
Beaulieu House, Newport
Beecham, Sir Thomas
Belgians, King of the
Bellwood, Bessie
Belmont, Alva. See Vanderbilt, Alva (née Erskine Smith, later Belmont)
Belmont, August
Belmont, Oliver
Bennett Jnr, James Gordon
Bennett Snr, James Gordon
Benson, E. F., As We Were
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bertie, Lady Charlotte. See Guest, Lady Charlotte (née Bertie)
Big Bonanza (mining)
Black Friday (1869)
Blandford, George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of. See Marlborough, John, 7th Duke of
Blenheim Palace
Blood, Colonel Edmund
Blood, Gertrude. See Campbell, Gertrude (née Blood), Lady Colin
Blumenfeld, Ralph. D.
‘Bonanza Queen’ (Louise Mackay)
Boni de Castellane. See de Castellane, ‘Boni,’ Comte
Bonynge, Charles William: background; ‘Balaclava Charlie’; broker; and George Deerhurst; Truth magazine; and Virginia
Bonynge family
Bonynge, Rodie (née Stephens, formerly Daniel)
Bonynge, Virginia. See Deerhurst, Lady Virginia (née Bonynge)
Boston Evening Transcript
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
Bowmont, Marquess of
Bradley-Martin Ball
Bradley-Martin, Cornelia. See Craven, Lady Cornelia (née Bradley-Martin)
Bradley-Martin, Cornelia (née Sherman)
Bradley-Martin family
Bradley-Martin, Mr
Bradley-Martin, Sherman
Brady, ‘Diamond Jim’
Brann, William Cowper
Bretagne (ship)
Brett, Sylvia
Bridge (game)
Britannia (yacht)
British Raj
Broadway
Bruce, General Robert
Brunswick Hotel, New York
Bryant, Edmond
Bryant, (Marie-)Louise. See Mackay, Louise (née Hungerford, formerly Bryant)
Buccaneers, The (Wharton)
Buckingham Gate, London
Buckingham Palace
Bulwer-Lytton, Lady, Emily
Burden, Jay
Burdett-Coutts, Angela
Burdett-Coutts, William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett
Burke family
Burke, James
Burke, Maud. See Cunard, Lady Maud (née Burke)
Butler, William Allen
Byron, Lord
Café Royal, London
Cairns, Arthur William, Earl. See Garmoyle, Arthur, Lord
Calvary Church, New York
Cameron, Elizabeth
Campbell, Gertrude (née Blood), Lady Colin
Campbell, Lord Colin
Canterbury, Archbishop of (John Morton)
Capell, George, 7th Earl of Essex. See Essex, George, 7th Earl of
Capell, Lady Iris Mary
Carlile, Richard
Carpentier, Horace
carriages
Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire
Castellane, Anna, (née Gould) Comtesse de
Castellane, ‘Boni,’ Comte de
Castellane, Marquis de
Castlereagh, Lord
Cavendish, Lady Moyra
C
avendish, Richard
Central Park, New York
Chamberlain, Joseph
champagne
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
Charlton Park, Wiltshire
Charteris, Evan
Château de Compiègne, Picardy
Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Chicago Sunday Sun
Chicago Tribune
Childe Harold (Byron)
Christian, Princess
church attendance
Churchill, Jennie, Lady Randolph (née Jerome): background; at Blenheim; and fashion; on society
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Winston
Civil War, American (1861–5)
Claflin family
Claflin, Reuben Buckman (Buck)
Claflin, Roxanna (née Hummel)
Claflin, Tennie. See Cook, Lady Tennie (née Claflin, formerly Bartels)
Claflin, Victoria. See Woodhull, Victoria (née Claflin)
‘Cliff Cottages,’ Newport
Cliveden House, Berkshire
clubs, New York
Coaching Club, New York
coats of arms
Collier, Price
Collier’s (magazine)
coming-out balls
Commercial Cable Company
Commissioners’ Plan (1811)
Connaught, Prince Arthur, Duke of
conversation
Cook, Francis, 1st Viscount of Monserrate
Cook, Lady Tennie (née Claflin, formerly Bartels)
Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire
Corelli, Marie
Cornwallis-West, George
Cornwallis-West, Jennie. See Churchill, Jennie, Lady Randolph (née Jerome)
country house weekends
courtesans
Cowes, Isle of Wight
Cowles, Virginia
Craven, Emily Countess of
Craven, Lady Cornelia (née Bradley-Martin)
Craven, William, 4th Earl of
Crawford, Frank. See Vanderbilt, Frank (née Crawford)
Cruger, Mrs Van Rensselaer
Cunard, Lady Maud (née Burke)
Cunard, Nancy
Cunard, Sir Bache