Reform Act, here
Reynolds, Joshua, here
Richardson, Captain George, here
Richter, Jean Paul, here, here, here
Richter, John Frederick, here
roads, improvement of, here
Robert of Gloucester, here
Robinson, Henry Crabb, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and Catherine Wordsworth’s death, here
Robinson, Thomas, here
Romantic movement, beginnings of, here
Roscoe, William, here, here, here
Rosse, Lord, here
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, here, here
Roxburgh Castle mutiny, here, here
Royal College of Surgeons, here
Royal Institution, here, here, here
Ruscombe, Mrs, here
Rydal Mount, here, here, here, here, here
Rydal Water, here, here, here
St George in the East, here, here, here
St Paul, here, here
St Paul’s Cathedral, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
St Peter, here
St Thomas Aquinas, here
Salamanca, Battle of, here
Samuel, Richard, here
Saragossa, Battle of, here
Sartre, Jean-Paul, here
Savage, Richard, here, here, here, here
Savary, Jean Baptiste, here
scaffold speeches, here
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm, here, here
Schiller, Friedrich, here
Scotsman, The, here
Scott, John, here, here, here
Scott, Sir Walter, here, here, here, here, here, here
Scott, William Bell, here
Scottish Enlightenment, here
Shakespeare, William, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Hamlet, here, here, here
Henry IV, Part I, here
King Lear, here
Macbeth, here, here, here
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, here, here, here
Othello, here, here, here
Romeo and Juliet, here, here
Shelley, Fanny, here
Shelley, Mary, here
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, here, here, here, here
Shepherd, William, here, here, here
Sheridan, Elizabeth Linley, here
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, here, here
Siddons, Mrs, here
Simpson, John, here, here
Simpson, Margaret, see De Quincey, Margaret
Sinclair, Iain, here
Slane Castle, here
slavery, here, here, here
Smith, Adam, here
Smith, Madeline, here
Smith, Sydney, here
Smollett, Tobias, here, here
Socrates, here
Soho, here, here, here, here
Somerset, Duchess of, here
Sotheby, William, here
Southey, Robert, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and Coleridge’s marriage, here, here
De Quincey meets, here
and De Quincey’s diminutive stature, here
De Quincey’s early enthusiasm for, here
and De Quincey’s essays on Coleridge, here
and De Quincey’s gossip, here
The Fall of Robespierre, here
‘Ode to Horror’, here
Thalaba the Destroyer, here, here
Spenser, Edmund, here, here
spiders, here
Spinoza, Baruch, here
Star, here
Stark, Miss, here
Steele (murder victim), here
Stephen, Leslie, here, here
Stevenson, Robert Louis, here, here
Stewart, Dugald, here
Stillwell, Kitty, here, here
Strachey, Lytton, here
Stuart, Daniel, here, here
sublime, the, here, here, here, here, here, here
London and, here
Suetonius, here
Swift, Jonathan, here
Sym, Robert, here
Tait, William, here, here, here, here, here
Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and ‘Lake Reminiscences’, here, here, here
Tasso, here
Taylor, John, here, here, here, here
Tennyson, Alfred, here
Tennyson, Cecilia, here
Thackeray, William, here, here
thaumatology, here
theatres, Hannah More and, here
Theroux, Paul, here
Thomson, James, here
Thrale, Hester, here
Thurtell, John, here, here, here
Ticknor and Fields publishers, here
Times, The, here, here, here, here
Tintern Abbey, here, here
Tobin, James, here
Tosh, Mrs, here
Trafalgar, Battle of, here
Travels of Sir John Mandeville, The, here
Turner, John, here, here, here, here, here
Tyrwhitt, Thomas, here
Ullswater, here, here
United States Literary Gazette, here
vagrants, here
Vallon, Annette, here
Vertue, George, here
Victoria, Queen, here
Vittoria, Battle of, here
Wainewright, Thomas Griffiths, here, here, here, here
Wales, De Quincey’s walking tour, here
Walking Stewart, here, here, here, here
Walpole, Horace, here, here, here, here
The Castle of Otranto, here, here
Wapping Old Stairs, here
Warning from the Tomb, A, here
Warton, Thomas, here
Waterloo, Battle of, here, here, here
Weare, William, here, here
Wedgwood, Josiah and Thomas, here, here
Wellesley, Lord, here, here
Westhay, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Westminster Cathedral, here
Westmorland Gazette, here, here, here, here, here
Westport, Lord, here, here, here
White House brothel, here
White, Dr Charles, here, here, here
Whitehall Evening Post, here
Wilberforce, William, here, here
Wilde, Oscar, here
Wilkinson, Rev. Joseph, here
William the Conqueror, here
Williams, John, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Williams, William K., here
Williamson, John and Elizabeth, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Wilson, Frances, here, here, here
Wilson, John (‘Christopher North’), here, here, here, here, here, here
and Blackwood’s, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and De Quincey’s Autobiographic Sketches, here
and De Quincey’s ‘Lake Reminiscences’, here
and De Quincey’s murder essays, here, here
and De Quincey’s ‘Postscript’, here
and De Quincey’s Suspiria de Profundis, here
death, here
friendship with De Quincey, here, here, here, here
and ‘Letter to Mathetes’, here
and London Magazine, here
and parodies, here, here
philosophical credentials, here, here
his statue in Edinburgh, here
supports De Quincey in Edinburgh, here, here, here, here
his wife’s death, here
Wilson, Mary, here
Winkfield school, here, here, here
Wood, John, here
Woodhouse, Richard, here, here
Woolf, Virginia, here, here, here, here, here
Worcester College, Oxford, here, here, here
Wordsworth,
Catherine, here, here, here, here, here
her death, here, here, here, here
Wordsworth, Christopher, here
Wordsworth, Dora, here, here, here
Wordsworth, Dorothy
breach with De Quincey, here, here, here
as her brother’s amanuensis, here, here, here
and her brother’s marriage, here
and Catherine’s death, here, here
and Cintra pamphlet, here
and Coleridge’s lecture series, here
and Coleridge’s marriage, here, here, here
and Coleridge’s return from Malta, here
and Coleridge’s stay at Allan Bank, here
comments on Fox Ghyll, here
De Quincey meets, here, here
and De Quincey’s diminutive stature, here
and De Quincey’s ‘Lake Reminiscences’, here
and De Quincey’s leaving Oxford, here
and De Quincey’s letters, here, here
and De Quincey’s marriage, here, here, here
and De Quincey’s opium addiction, here
and De Quincey’s return to Grasmere, here, here, here, here, here
death, here
and Dove Cottage, here, here, here, here
end of correspondence with De Quincey, here
and felling of trees, here
illness and confinement, here
and John Wilson, here
leaves Grasmere, here
literary style, here
and Margaret De Quincey, here, here, here, here
opium addiction, here
and Quincey family’s visit, here
relationship with her brother, here, here, here
relationship with De Quincey, here, here, here
resident in Dorset, here
and Richard Quincey’s return from sea, here
and ‘Ruth’, here, here
and Spencer Perceval murder, here
and ‘Tintern Abbey’, here, here, here
Wordsworth, John, here, here
Wordsworth, Johnny, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Wordsworth, Mary, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and breach with De Quincey, here, here
marriage, here, here, here
Wordsworth, Thomas, here, here
Wordsworth, William
appearance, here
appointed Distributor of Stamps, here
and architecture, here
and the Beaumonts, here
becomes ‘a Tory at last’, here
breach with Coleridge, here, here, here, here
breach with De Quincey, here, here, here, here, here, here
business sense, here
and Catherine’s death, here, here, here
and Chatterton, here, here
and Cintra pamphlet, here
and Coleridge’s illness, here
and Coleridge’s marriage, here
De Quincey meets, here, here
De Quincey publishes ‘On Wordsworth’s Poetry’, here
and De Quincey’s Autobiographic Sketches, here
and De Quincey’s abortive visits, here, here, here
and De Quincey’s Confessions, here, here
De Quincey’s early obsession with, here, here, here, here, here, here
and De Quincey’s essays, here, here
and De Quincey’s final letter, here
and De Quincey’s gossip, here
De Quincey’s hatred for, here
and De Quincey’s ‘The Household Wreck’, here
and De Quincey’s journalistic career, here, here
and De Quincey’s ‘Lake Reminiscences’, here
De Quincey’s letters to, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and De Quincey’s list of important poets, here
and De Quincey’s marriage, here, here
and De Quincey’s murder essays, here, here, here
and De Quincey’s ‘Postscript’, here
and De Quincey’s ‘Rhetoric’ essay, here
and De Quincey’s ‘Sketch of Professor Wilson’, here
and De Quincey’s Suspiria de Profundis, here
and doppelgängers, here
and Dove Cottage, here, here, here, here
eschews opium, here
Everton literary circle and, here
and fatherhood, here
and French Revolution, here, here, here
and friendship, here, here
Hazlitt’s portrait of, here
his illegitimate child (Caroline), here, here, here, here
letters to De Quincey, here, here, here
literary style, here, here
marriage, here, here, here
meanness, here
meets Coleridge, here, here, here
penmanship, here, here
and Poe’s ‘William Wilson’, here
and poetry of the sky, here
and Quincey family’s visit, here
relationship with Coleridge, here, here, here, here, here, here
relationship with his sister, here, here, here
Robinson’s portrait of, here
Scottish tour, here, here, here, here
shyness, here
and Southey, here, here
and Spencer Perceval murder, here
and spots of time, here
‘theory of picturesque beauty’, here
his theory of poetry, here, here
and Thomas’s death, here
his vision of the solitary poet, here
and Welsh landscape, here
Wordsworth, William, WORKS
‘The Affliction of Margaret’, here
‘The Convict’, here
The Excursion, here, here, here, here, here
‘Expostulation and Reply’, here
Guide to the Lakes, here, here
‘Home at Grasmere’, here, here
‘The Idiot Boy’, here, here, here
‘Intimations of Immortality’, here
‘Lucy’ poems, here, here, here
‘Nuns Fret Not’, here
‘Nutting’, here, here
Poems, in Two Volumes, here, here, here
The Prelude, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘The Recluse’, here, here, here, here
‘Resolution and Independence’, here
‘Ruth’, here, here, here, here, here
‘Surprised by Joy’, here
‘The Tables Turned’, here, here
‘There is a change – and I am poor’, here
‘The Thorn’, here
‘Tintern Abbey’, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘To a Butterfly’, here
‘To H C, six years old’, here
‘We Are Seven’, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘The White Doe of Rylstone’, here see also Lyrical Ballads
Wordsworth, William (‘Willie’), here, here
Wren, Christopher, here
Wright, James, here, here, here, here
Wrington, here, here, here, here
Wyatt, James, here
Wye, River, here, here
York, Duke of, here
Youille, Thomas, here, here
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Frances Wilson is a critic, journalist and the author of four works of non-fiction, Literary Seductions, The Courtesan’s Revenge, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, which won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2009, and How to Survive the Titanic, or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for historical biography in 2012. She lives in London with her daughter.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Literary Seductions
The Courtesan’s Revenge
The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth
How to Survive the Titanic Or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
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