Sayers, Frank, 212, 558

  Schweizer, Madeleine: and Wollstonecraft, 474, 491n15

  Scott, Edward John Long: ed. Letter-Book of Gabriel Harvey, 346n6

  Scott, Mrs, J.P., Guildswoman: ‘A Felt Hat Worker’, 188, 194n18–19, n21, n23, 238

  Scott, Sir Walter: romantic, 49–55; and Lockhart, 243, 245&n1, 246n7; his perspective, 377, 575; analyst of the human heart, 457; Hazlitt’s criticism of, 502; unconscious writer, 563; and country humour, 565; difficult style to analyse, 570; The Antiquary, 332n1; The Bride of Lammermoor, 49–52, 86n14; Guy Mannering, 219, 221; ed. The Works of Jonathan Swift, 400n21–6, n31, 401n35–7, n39–40, 320n1; 59, 68, 74, 146–8, 166n30, 186, 194n20, 235, 456, 583n4

  Scovell, E. J.: on CR2, xii, xixn22

  Second Common Reader, The, see Common Reader: Second Series, The

  Seneca (the younger), 426, 430n8

  Seton, Mary, VW’s character, 128–31, 134n13; her mother, 130–2

  Sévigné, Marie de, 307

  Shakespeare, William: ordinary woman in his time?, 29; and censorship, 40n1; in Scott, 86n14; a matter of mathematics, 143; ed. by Bowdler, 158; ladies desire, 182; and working men and women, 183, 232, 532, 565; and love, 196; reading when ill, 202; and Ben Jonson, 301, 305n2; and grammar and syntax, 317; and fame, 318; and ordinary life, 335–6; strolling down Strand, 336; his coat-tails, 341; and Donne, 351; bold, erratic horseman, 446; and Hazlitt, 501; and class distinctions, 532; and Meredith, 552; and country humour, 565; his actors, 607, 609, 612; Antony and Cleopatra, 202; Hamlet, 150n9, 202, 573; Henry IV, 222, 225n21; King Lear, 202, 573, 580–1; Macbeth, 202; Sonnets, 40n1, 501; The Tempest, 287n2; 35n2, 45, 79, 188, 237, 298, 308–10, 637, 642

  Sharp, Becky, Thackeray’s character, 81, 265, 567

  Shaw, George Bernard: drafts letter on obscenity signed by VW and LW, 39–40n1

  Shelburne, Lord: and Sterne, 405

  Shorter, Clement: on Gosse, 249

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe: and Arnold, 145, 150n6; and Lockhart, 242, 244–5; ‘One word is too often profaned …’, 287n4; Prometheus Unbound, 201, 207n17; 4, 45, 186, 188, 194n20, 235, 237, 313–15, 318

  Siculus, Diodorus, 426, 430n8

  Sidney, Sir Henry, 339, 346n2

  Sidney, Lady Mary (née Dudley): cold at nights, 335; bad writer, 339

  Sidney, Sir Philip: and Fulke Greville, 93, 99, 101, 104n21, 442–3, 434; and Harvey, 336, 342–3, 345; and Donne, 351; no model for Donne, 352; Arcadia and escapism, 366–8; delights in words, 368–9; like any other novelist, 369–70; his use of verse, 371; too careless, 373; seeds of English fiction, 373; his legacy, 374, 376; and biography, 575, 578; Arcadia, 357, 575; 346n2, 364n30; The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, essay, 366–74&n1–2

  Sitwell, Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell, 221, 225n20

  Skeys, Fanny, 473

  Skinner, Rev. John: at the parting of the ways, 423–5; and Camalodunum, 426; his diary, his confidante, 426–7; at fault?, his sons, and suicide, 427–8, 430n10, n14; 221, 225n20, 290–1; Journal of a Somerset Rector, ed. Howard Coombs and Rev. Arthur N. Bax, essay, 423–8, 429n1

  Skionar, Mr, Peacock’s character, 72–3, 546

  Sloman, Judith: and Dryden’s ‘Ode’, 584n31

  Slope, Mr, Trollope’s character, 46, 86n13, 617

  Smedley, Mr, VW’s character, 595

  Smiles, Samuel, 318, 323n18

  Smith, Alexander: below-stairs, 258, 269n8, 520

  Smith, G. C. Moore, see Moore Smith, G. C.

  Smith, Philippa, Lady: and Mercy Harvey, 338, 347n14

  Smith (or Smythe), Robert: 385, 389n13

  Smith, Sir Thomas: Harvey on, 336, 346n4

  Smith, Elder, publisher: and Gissing, 535

  Smyth, Dame Ethel: her and VW’s speeches, 635–7, 646–7; ‘Women in Music’, 328n1; Mass in D, 640, 648n6

  Somer, Mrs, 425

  Somerset, Dukes, of, 284, 288n5

  Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus, 449, 451n20

  Souhami, Diana: The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, 39n1

  South, Marty, Hardy’s character, 567

  Southey, Robert: on Wollstonecraft, 474, 491n14

  Sparrow, John: on CR2, xiii, xixn28

  Spender, Stephen: on CR2, xiii, xixn27; ‘At the Edge of Being’, 313, 323n14; 320n1

  Spenser, Edmund: and Harvey, 336, 340–2, 345; sonnet on Harvey, 343, 348n30; and Donne, 351; no model for Donne, 352; in Westminster Abbey, 303, 306n8, 357; and biography, 576; The Faery Queene, 159, 357; 84

  Squire, J. C., 292n1

  Stanhope (family), Trollope’s characters, 617–18

  Stanhope, Lady Hester: on Beau Brummell, 110, 113n19, 469

  Stanhope, Lord, 160

  Stanhope, Philip: Lord Chesterfield’s little boy, 411; and the Graces, 411–12; did his best, died untimely, 414, 417n13

  Stavrogin, Dostoevsky’s character, 68–9, 72

  Steele, Sir Richard, 505n8

  ‘Stella’ see Johnson, Esther

  Stendhal: his characters, 549, 553n18; 113n23

  Stephen, Barbara, Lady: Emily Davies and Girton College, 134n16; 239n1

  Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames: and his brother Leslie, 588, 592n12

  Stephen, Laura, 268n1

  Stephen, Leslie: and Carlyle’s House, 299n1; and Meredith, 553n9, n15; VW on, 585–9&n1; Percy Lubbock on, 590n1; ed. Cornhill Magazine, 416n1, 553n9, 572n8, 591n2, 592n14, 621n5; DNB entries, 399n9 (Swift), 592n8 (Robert Owen); History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, 585, 591n1; Hours in a Library, 149n1, 504n6, 505n20; Life and Letters, ed. F. W. Maitland, 591n5, 592n7–9, 593n17; The Science of Ethics, 585, 591n1; The Playground of Europe, 585, 591n2; his Mausoleum Book, 591–2n2, n6–7, n15; The English Utilitarians, 151n19; Studies of a Biographer, 151n19, 362n1; Swift, 399n9, 400n28, 401n38, n41; 206n6, 346n1, 620n1

  Sterndale Bennett, J. B.: ‘Bloomsbury Village’, 214n1

  Sterne, Laurence: a ‘fantastic’, 74–6; and sensibility, 402, 405; his style – is he responsible?, 402; always personal, 403; his shorthand, and modernity, 404; pure poetry of, 405; blunts sharpness, 406; Thackeray’s coward – a very great writer, 145, 150n6, 406–7; Tristram Shandy, 74–6, 148, 401–2, 405–6; 80; A Sentimental Journey …, essay, 402–7

  Stevenson, Robert Louis: learnt from Meredith, 547; The Master of Ballantrae, 51–2; Treasure Island, 146, 150n11; 142n9, 257

  Steyne, Lord, Thackeray’s character, 264

  Stirling, A. M. W.: Life’s Little Day, 216n16–17

  Stoddart, Sarah: and Hazlitt, 170–1, 175n17, n19, 497

  Stokes, Francis Griffin: ed. The Blecheley Diary of the Rev. William Cole, 292n1; ed. A Journal of My Journey to Paris …, by Cole, 223n1

  Stone, Nicholas, 306n5

  Stonehewer, Mr, 291

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 82

  Strachey, Lytton, 7n1, 23n1, 221, 224n6, 225n20, 292n1

  Strachey, Pernel, 270n15

  Strachey, Philippa, 648n1

  Strachey, Ray: review of Marriage and Morals, by Bertrand Russell, 122n1; The Cause, 122–3n4, 129, 135n17; ‘Monogamy’, 490n1

  Stuart, Sir Charles, Baron Stuart of Rothesay, 203, 207n24

  Stuart, Dorothy Margaret: ‘Milton and Prynne …’, 223n1; Christina Rossetti, VW’s attempted review of, 560–1n1

  Stuart, Lady Elizabeth Margaret (née Yorke), 203, 207n24

  Stuart, Hon. Louisa, Lady, 203

  Stukeley (or Stucley), Thomas, 345

  Sully, James: on Leslie Stephen, 592n9

  Sunderland, Lady (née Dorothy Sidney), 385, 389n13

  Surrey, Philip Howard, Earl of: and Mercy Harvey, 336–9, 346n6

  Surtees, Robert Smith, 446, 451n3

  Suydam, E. H., 35n1

  Swann, Proust’s character, 67

  Swift, Dean Jonathan: gratifies our sense of belief, 42, 45, 48; on Dorothy Osborne, 388, 389n26; his need for a refuge, 391; what the world saw, 392; what Stella knew, 392–4; and Vanessa, 396–8; ‘Cadenus and Vanessa’, 401n33; ‘On the Death of Mrs Johnson’, 394–6, 400n22, n24–6, 401n40; Gulliver’s Travels, 46–7; ‘A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet’, 320n1; ‘Stella at Wood Park …’, 394, 400n23; Works, ed. Sir Walter Scott, 320n1, 394–8, 400n21–6, n31, 401n35–7, n39–40; 576; Journal to Stella, essay, 391–8&n2. See also Presto

  Swinburne, Algernon: on Christina Rossetti, 211, 216n19–20, 557; 257

  Sykes, Gerald: on CR2, xiv, xxn39

  Tacitus, 426, 430n6, n8

  Tait, Robert: A Chelsea Interior, 300n10

  Tanner, Robin, 280n1

  Tansley, Thomas, 289

  Tardiff, Monsieur, 487n25

  Taylor, Sir Henry: his plays still and cold, 267, 271n34, 527

  Taylor, Jeremy: and De Quincey, 454

  Tebbs, Mrs Virtue (née Seddon), 211, 213–14, 556, 559–60

  Temple, Sir William: and Dorothy Osborne, 385; his character, 386–7; his career, 388, 390n27; and Swift, 392, 399n10; Memoirs … of Sir William Temple, Bart., ed. T. P. Courtenay, 390n24; 576; The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple, ed. G. C. Moore Smith, essay, 382–8&n1

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord: and Lockhart, 242, 244, 246n13; and country life, 262, 523; and De Quincey, 454; Idylls of the King, 358; ‘Maud’, 125–6, 133n7; ‘The Princess’, 639, 648n4; 8n2, 257, 308–9, 336, 551, 638

  Terry, Ellen, 596

  Thackeray, W. M.: on Sterne, 145, 150n6, 406–7, 410n14, n19; challenged by Mrs Browning, 264, 525; no working men in, 531–2; his range, 567; ‘The Ballad of Eliza Davis’, 142n9; Pendennis, 135n21; The Rose and the Ring, 451n2; ‘Swift’, 390n26; Vanity Fair, 264, 525; 41, 140, 146, 576, 583n14, 617, 644

  Thomas, Mrs, 179, 229

  Thompson, Anthony, 207

  Thompson, Denys: on CR1–2, xiii, xixn3

  Thornell, Jonathan, hair merchant, 607–8, 610–11

  Thornycroft, Sir (William) Hamo, 252, 256n25, 306n9

  Thrale, Miss Henrietta: Dr Burney’s pupil, 95, 437

  Thrale, Mrs Hester Lynch (née Salusbury, later Piozzi): great hostess, 95, 436–7; full of sport, 437; Johnson’s friend, 96, 438; and why?, 97, 439–40; says nothing, 99, 441; mocks Piozzi, 99–100, 441–2; 152

  Three Guineas, x, 247n13, 255n7, 268n1, 648n9

  Throckmorton, Mrs, 462

  Thucydides: read by Gissing, 538

  Thynne, Sir James and Lady Isabella, 387, 390n22

  Thynne, Katherine [K. T.?], 197, 206n8

  Time and Tide, weekly, 667

  Times, The, newspaper: on CR2, xii, xixn21; on Vanessa Bell, 141n1, 142n4, n9; ‘Port of London Number’, 281–2n5–7; 199, 249, 269n3, 299n3, 329n5, n9, 445, 642, 667

  Times Literary Supplement, weekly, 667

  Titian, 204, 208n29

  Toby, Uncle, Sterne’s character, 74–5

  Tolstoy, Leo: living a free life, 30–1; greatest of novelists, 58; poet, 77; his impersonal gift, 403; amazing intellectual power, 567; Anna Karenina, 273; ‘Talks with Tolstoi’, xvii, xxn55; War and Peace, 30, 76–7; 79, 84, 569

  Tom, Cole’s servant, 290, 293n9

  Tomalin, Claire: ‘Never Ending Stories’, 248n1

  Tomkins: and Fanny Burney, 90, 103n6, 431

  To the Lighthouse, ix

  Totila, 538, 544n21

  Trevelyan, George Macaulay: History of England, 29, 35n4

  Trollope, Anthony: gratifies our sense of belief, 42, 45; sober reality, 546; his lapses, 551; and perspective, 575; Barchester Towers, 46–8, 617–18; The Small House at Allington, perfect novel, 551, 553n23; The Warden, 264, 528nk; 59, 73–4, 266, 272, 527, 617, 619

  Troy, Sergeant, Hardy’s character, 564–6

  Tulkinghorn, Mr, Dickens’s character, 56

  Turner, Thomas, 290, 293n10

  Turveydrop, Mr, Dickens’s character, 56

  Umphelby, Lady, VW’s character, 594

  Unwin, Mary: and Cowper, 460, 486n3; his terror, 460; her love, 463; at play, 464; no simpleton, 464

  Unwin, Morley: and Cowper, 461, 486n3

  Valéry, Paul: ‘Art and Progress’, 149n1; 35

  Van Dyck, Anthony, 125, 128, 133n5

  Vanhomrigh, Esther (Swift’s Vanessa): 397–8, 401n33, n35, n38

  Vanhomrigh, Mrs, 396–7

  Vaughan, Henry and Thomas, 360, 365n43

  Venn, Diggory, Hardy’s character, 565

  Vholes, Mr, Dickens’s character, 56

  Vicars, Hedley, 203, 207n27

  Victoria, Queen: honest charwoman, 186, 235; and Leslie Stephen, 588; 4, 137, 187, 236, 264, 525, 538, 638–9

  Vines, Sherard: in Scrutinies, 221, 225n20

  Virgil: ‘mirabile dictu’, 206n9; and Cowper, 462

  Voltaire, 72, 251, 576

  Vye, Eustacia, Hardy’s character, 565

  Waddell, Helen: intro. A Journal of My Journey to Paris …, by Cole, 219–20, 223n1; intro. &c. The Blecheley Diary of the Rev. William Cole, 289, 291–2&n1

  Walden Bookshop, Chicago: and ‘The Love of Reading’, 274n1

  Wales, George, Prince of, and Prince Regent, see George IV, King

  Walker, Robert George, 418, 422, 428n2

  Walker, Sarah: and Hazlitt, 498, 505n8

  Walpole, Horace: and Rev. William Cole, 219–20, 289–90; and Mme du Deffand, 220; 307, 383, 576

  Walpole, Hugh: Cakes and Ale, 322n8; ‘Spanish Dusk’, 192n1

  Ward, Mrs Humphry: Robert Elsmere, 82, 616; 617, 637–8, 648n2

  Waring, Miss (Swift’s Varina), 395, 400n28

  Warner, Sylvia Townsend: ‘The Absence’, 134n10

  Warre-Cornish, Blanche, 133n6

  Warren, Richard: so handsome, 152

  Waterford, Henry, 3rd Marquis of, 202–4, 207n23

  Waterford, Louisa (née Stuart), Marchioness of, 203–4, 207n24

  Watts, George Frederic: and Lady Waterford, 204, 208n29

  Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 213, 217n28, 560nq

  Waves, The, ix–x, xxn39, 23n1, 103n1, 174n1, 206n10, 274n1, 320n1, 323n16, 375n16, 398n2, 584n26

  Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 328n1, 635

  Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington, 577, 588, 592n12

  West, Rebecca: on CR2, xiii, xixn31; ‘A Commentary’, 85n1

  Westerns, the, 158–60

  Whibley, Charles: ed. The Characters of Lord Chesterfield, 415na, n1, 416n9, 417n10; intro. The Life … of Robinson Crusoe …, essay, 376–81&n1

  Whistler, James Abbott McNeil, 257

  White, Betsy, 418–19

  Whitford, Vernon, Meredith’s character: and Leslie Stephen, 592n16; 548

  Whitman, Walt, 8n2

  Wick, Miss, see Kidd, Harriet A.

  Wiggs, Miss, of Hampstead, VW’s character: and Proust, 378

  Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 186, 194n20, 235

  Wilde, Oscar, 252, 256n26, n28, 257

  Wildeve, Damon, Hardy’s character, 565–6

  Wilkes, Joanne: on Geraldine Jewsbury, 24n1

  Wilkinson, Sheila M.: ‘Virginia in Westmoreland’, 120n20; ‘“Who Lived at Alfoxton”’, 119n7

  Wilkinson, Tate, 577, 583n15

  William III, King: and Defoe, 376

  Williamson, George C.: Lady Anne Clifford …, 364n31

  Willis, Mrs, 289

  Wilson, Edmund, 7n2, 85n1, 268n1

  Wilson, Fanny, 112n13

  Wilson, Harriette: and Brummell, 109, 112n12, 468

  Wilson, Jean Moorcroft: Virginia Woolf: Life and London, 597n2

  Wilson, Miss, 16, 518ni

  Wilson, Mona: Sir Philip Sidney, 346n2

  Wimhurst, Mrs, Guildswoman, 193n5

  Winthrop, Mrs, of Spenny Moor, Guildswoman, 180, 192n4, 229

  Winterbourne, Giles, Hardy’s character, 567

  Withers, Maud: ed. A Tardiness in Nature …, 299n5

  Wollstonecraft, Everina: miserably married, 472

  Wollstonecraft, Mary: and Godwin, and independence, 472; and French Revolution, 472–3; and Imlay, 473–6; her physiognomy, her tempestuous life, 474; and Nature, and eros, 474; and attempted suicide, 475; passionately domestic, 476; experiments, 476–7; and Dorothy Wordsworth, 113–14, 118, 119n3, n5–6, 477–8, 483, 493n2, 494n3, n5; A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to … Edmund Burke, 473, 491n9; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 473, 491n9; The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria, 477, 492n28

  Wolzogen, Baron de, 474, 477

  Women: Victorian gentlewomen, 14, 510; Jane Carlyle’s duty to, 19, 514; the George Sand species and Carlyle, 22, 526; little known in history, 28; and fiction, 28–35; extraordinary depends on ordinary, 29; beaten and flung about the room, 29; lack of experience, 30–1, 643; rooms of their own, 35, 646–8; writing slightly ridiculous in a girl, 89, 431; Dorothy Wordsworth and unwomanly behaviour, 115, 478–9; and leisure, 121–2; before the War, 125–6; their poverty, 127–9, 131–2, 636, 638, 641–2, 645; demands of children, 130–1; Barrett Browning and Victorian education, 260, 521; a woman’s art, and life, 261, 522; true Victorian daughter, 266, 527; anonymous authors, 357; a Jacobean bluestocking, 357; and sixteenth-century impediments, 383; writing letters, 384; Wollstonecraft and married life, 472; A Vindication of …, 473; Godwin’s views, 475–6; The Wrongs of …, 477; Meredith’s, 546; Hardy’s, 565–6; VW’s professional experiences, 636–45; Angel in the House, 638–40, 644; professions for, 642, 645, 647; their bodies, 643–4

  Woodeforde, Anna Maria (Nancy), 418–19, 422, 428n2

  Woodforde, Rev. James: mystery of his diary, 417–18; his single poetic phrase, 419; stuffed with food, 419–20; his uncrowded days, 420; magnifies Norfolk, 421; very uneasy, 422; untouched by change, 422–3; 290–1; The Diary of a Country Parson …, ed. John Beresford, essay, 417–23, 428n1; reviewed 149n1

  Woolf, Leonard: letter to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 190n1; letter to Helen McAfee, 103n1; on The Well of Loneliness, 38–9n1; review of Russia: A Social History, by D. S. Mirsky, 223n1; ‘A Democracy of Working Women’, 193n4; ‘Social Types. A Parliament of Women’, 192n4; ‘The Women’s Co-operative Guild’, Appendix IV; ‘The World of Books’ columns, 38n1, 112n1, 119n1, 122n1, 485n1, 490n1; 292n1, 150n2

  Woolner, Thomas, 329n7

  Woodhouse, Emma, Austen’s character: unmistakably a lady, 531

  Wordsworth, Dorothy: and Wollstonecraft, and prosaic precision, 113–14, 477–8; reading Nature, 114, 478; unwomanly behaviour, 115, 478–9; William’s work, 115, 479; her suggestive power, prosaic visionary, 115–16, 479–80; her indefatigable curiosity, 480; and William and Nature – a trinity, 116, 481; and passers-by, 117, 482; her inner visions, observant, happy, 118, 483

 

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