for holiday wear, 244-5; see also clothes
Father Christmas, 475-6, 478-9, 490-1
Felkin, William: The Exhibition in 1851 , 14
Fenwick (Newcastle store), 106, 497
Festival of the Golden Rump, The (play), 292n
festivals, 208, 470
Field, Henry Ibbot, 365
Field (magazine), 152
Fielding, Copley: The Mull of Galloway (painting), 410
Fielding, Henry, 293; Amelia , 184n
Fieschi, Joseph, 257 & n
fireworks displays, 279, 350, 368
Fitzgerald, Percy, 323, 377
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 399
Flatow, Louis, 413
Flaxman, John, 265, 383
Flying Post (newspaper), 128
Folkard (grocer and tea-dealer), 17
food: for lower classes, 79; riots, 79; see also clubs (benefit), grocers, multiple stores
football: books on, 205; origins, 438-41; clubs, 440-51; rules, 441-2; organization, 443-4; professionalization, 444-6; attendance, 449-50; club financing, 450-2; clothes, 458; improved equipment, 463-4; outfitting, 465; see also individual clubs Football Association: formed, 442-3, 446-7
Football Field and Sports Telegram , 155
Football League: formed, 448
Foote, Samuel, 293; The Quadrupeds , 316
footwear see shoes and boots
Forget Me Not (annual), 489
Fougt, Henry, 356-7
Foundling Hospital, London, 344, 382, 398
Fourdrinier machines (paper-making), 148
Fox, Charles James, 379
France: daily newspapers, 124; paper manufacture in, 148; excursions to, 227
Franklin, Benjamin, 156
Franklin, Sir John, 261n
Fraser’s Magazine , 140
Frederick, Prince of Wales: death, 351
Free Society of Artists, 383
Freeling, Francis, 144
French Revolution: and demand for necessities, 55-6; and atheism, 138-9
friendly societies see clubs (benefit)
Friendly Societies Act (1793), 31
Frith, William Powell: Derby Day (painting), 324, 413; Life at the Seaside ( Ramsgate Sands (painting)), 413; The Railway Station (painting), 324, 413
Fuller, Francis, 8
furniture: wooden, 23
Furnivall, Frederick, 31n
Fuseli, Henry, 390
Gaiety Theatre, London, 340
Gainsborough, Thomas, 382, 384, 390, 393
Gallery of Illustration, Regent Street, London, 275
Gamage’s department store, 488, 491
Gambart, Ernest, 411-13
gambling see betting
Garraway’s Coffee House, London, 56
Garrick, David, 237-40, 302, 327, 379
gas lighting, 301
Gaskell, Peter: Artisans and Machinery , 419
Gastineau, Benjamin, 251
Gastrell, Revd Francis, 236-7
Gay, John: The Beggar’s Opera , 348
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
Terra Wolf, Mercy May
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Louise Penny
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Mary Hanson
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Aimee Agresti
Dean Murray
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