Save
Save chapter to my Bookmarks
Cite
Cite this chapter
Print this chapter
Share
Share a link to this chapter
Free
Index
Lynda Nead
Description: Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London
Index
Author
Lynda Nead
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2000 by Lynda Nead
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23362
View chapters with similar subject tags
Chapter images ()
Loading image navigation...
No image index could be found for this publication.
Close this Panel
Show previous images Show next images
Index
Abbey Mills Pumping Station 24
Acton, William 130–31
advertisements 58
aerial views 21, 22,62, 74–5, 79–80
at night 84–5
Al Fresco Polka 122, 124
Aldwych 201, 202
Anderson, Patricia 154
antiquarianism 34, 174
Archer, J. W., images of Holywell Street 170, 173
Arscott, Caroline 31
art
modernism 143
and obscenity 193–4
photography 152–3
street scenes 47–9, 48, 49,50, 51
As Good and a Great Deal Better 134, 134
Babylon, comparison with London 3, 10
Bachelard, Gaston 103
Bailey, Peter 113
balloon
ascents 79–80, 115–16, 115
night ascents 84–5
Banks, John Henry, A Baloon View of London 21, 22
Baudelaire, Charles 67–9
Baum, John 136–7, 140–41
Bayswater 222n110
Bazalgette, Joseph 23, 56
Benjamin, Walter 6,67, 68
Berman, Marshall 4-5, 67
Blackfriars Bridge 34, 35–6, 35
Blackfriars gasholders 83
Blackmore, John 103–4
Blecketer, Thomas 198–9, 200
blind man, image of 59–62, 60, 61, 98
blindness 61–2
blockages see congestion
Board of Ordnance 19
body, as metaphor for London 15–16, 163
book shops, Holywell Street 174,176, 178–89
Bookseller, on cheap literature 155
Bool, Alfred and John 34
Boucicault, Dion, The Streets of London 99, 100
Bowyer, Sir George 208
Brandon, Alfred 140–41
British Quarterly Review 154–5
Brown, Beverley 192, 195
Builder
Great Victorian Way 28
Holywell Street 166, 167
Busher, Martha 74
Butchers’ stalls, gas lighting of 97–8
Campbell, Colin 188
Campbell, John (Lord Chief Justice) 150–51,158,180, 189–95, 200–01
Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey)189, 190, 195–6, 196, 198
Certeau, Michel de 7, 32–3,62, 74–5, 164
Chadwick, Edwin 18–19, 21
chaperones 62–4, 220n73, 221n93
cholera 19
circulation, metaphor of 15–16, 24–6, 163
City of London
as ‘belly’ of London 17
boundary with Westminster 203–4
City of London Gas Act (1868) 92
class
and obscene publications 180,182, 231n75 see also middle classes; working classes
Cockburn, Sir Alexander 160
colour theory 188
Commissions for Sewers 17, 18
Concanen, Alfred, sheet music covers 123, 125, 133
congestion
Holywell Street 161–4,179, 201–3
streets 16, 46–7, 46
Temple Bar 203–4,206, 207–8
consumers, women 188–9
Corporation of the City of London 17, 206–8
court cases
libel 140–44
obscene publications 196–201
courtroom, order of 195–6, 198
Crace, Frederick 168
Cremorne Galop 121, 123
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 9, 84, 109–46, 111, 112, 129
attractions of 110, 114–17
balloon ascents 85, 115–16, 115
business aspects 113–15
campaigns against 131, 135–40
closure 140, 144, 144
dancing platform 110, 118–21, 119, 120, 126–7, 128
daytime attractions 117–18
Derby night 137–8, 137
fireworks 141, 142
gaslight 85, 118, 121
libel actions 140–44
licences 135–7
masculinity 132–5
night-time 118–21
pagoda 118
prostitution 130–31
respectability 128–30, 140–41
sheet music 121–8, 123, 124, 125
Cremorne Polka 132, 133
crime
and mass culture 156
street theft 71–2, 187–8
Cromwell, Canon 138, 140
cross-sections
sewers 24
Thames Embankment 54, 55
underground railway 38, 39–40
crowds, and modernity 67
culture, mass urban 9, 139, 151–6, 199–200
Cunningham, Peter 164, 178
Daily Telegraph
photography 152–3
Temple Bar 208–9
Daly, Augustin 99
dances 122
darkness, theme of 61–2
daydreaming 188–9
Days’ Doings
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 137–40, 137, 138, 139
obscene publications 158–60, 159
demolition, for improvement 29–34, 30, 31, 33, 40
Denis, Rafael 188
department stores 69
Derrida, Jacques 61–2
Dickens, Charles 34–5, 102, 107
District Railway, construction 42, 43
Dixon, Henry 34
Doré, Gustave, London: A Pilgrimage 93, 94, 212–14, 213
drainage system 9, 13, 17
see also sewers
drinking fountains 9, 23, 23
Dugdale, William 178, 180–82, 189
Early Closing Movement 85–7
electric lighting 83, 89, 100–01
Elizabethan London 31, 166–8, 167
Elliott, Mary 197
etiquette 72–3, 72
excavations, for underground railway 37, 39–44, 39, 42, 43, 44
flâneur 9, 67–8, 70–71, 86–7
fog 203
footsteps, narrative of 74–9
Foucault, Michel 6–7, 105–6
Freud, Sigmund 104–5, 163–4
Frith, William Powell, The Times of Day 59, 60, 61
Frost, Thomas 180
Gardner, John Edmund 230–31n67
gas companies 9, 83, 90–92
Gas Consumers’ Mutual Protection Association 90
gaslight
aerial views of 84–5
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 85, 118, 121
history of 87–9
illuminations 97–8
and night 9, 83–4, 108
secrets of 101–8
shop lighting 85–7, 88–9
sound of 108
street lights 89
theatres 98–101, 100
gasworks 92–7, 94
explosions 94–6, 95
gas holders 9, 83
gender, and space 67–70, 74–9, 184
ghetto 174–8
Gibbon, Edward 214
glass
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 121
Great Victorian Way 28
government, of London 5, 17–18, 206–8
Great Victorian Way 27–9, 27
Greenwood, James 156
guidebooks 58–9
Half Moon sign 174
Hall, Thomas P., One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin 186, 186
Hamerton, J., sheet music covers 134
Haussmann, Baron 6, 16, 56, 168
Haymarket 65, 98, 107–8
Hayward, William Stephens 130
Haywood, W, Holborn Viaduct from Farringdon Street 53, 53
heterotopic space 7
Holborn 48–9, 51, 51
Holborn Viaduct 29, 49, 51–3, 52, 53
Holker, Attorney General 143
Hollingshead, John 24–6, 42, 44, 93
Holywell Street
booksellers 174, 176, 178–89
congestion of 161–4, 179, 201–3
demolition of 165, 201
history of 161–5
hurricane 165, 166
Jewish traders 174–8
Obscene Publications Act 189–203
and obscenity 9–10, 164–5, 178–89
pictures of 166–8, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 175, 181, 185
shops 174, 176, 179–80, 181, 230n55
women in 182–9
homosexuals 187
Houghton, Arthur Boyd 47–9
Holborn in 1861 48–9, 51
Itinerant Singers 47, 49
London in 1865 48, 50
Recruits 47, 48
House of Lords 189, 192–4
Hull, E., Thames Embankment 54
Hungerford Market, demolition 32, 33
illuminations, gaslight 97–8
Illustrated London News
balloon ascent by night 85
cheap literature 156
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 116, 117
demolitions 29–31, 30, 31, 33, 218n34
gas strike 89, 91
Holborn Viaduct 52, 52
Holywell Street 165, 166, 168
illustrations in 57
London as a body 15–16
metropolitan government demands 17
obscene publications 192, 197
railways 34, 35–6, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39–40, 39, 41, 45–6
sewerage system 19, 24, 24
Temple Bar 206, 208, 209, 211
Thames Embankment 55
traffic congestion 46–7, 46
illustrated newspapers 57
Illustrated Times 29, 90, 92
imperialism 194–5, 197
improvement
gas lighting 89
and modernity 5, 8, 9
and obscenity 149–50
streets 29–31, 46, 59
International Health Exhibition 34
invisibility 61–2
Jacobs, Jane 173
Jerrold, Blanchard, London: A Pilgrimage 93, 94, 212–14, 213
Jews
commercialism of 89, 146
Holywell Street 174–8
Jno., Archimago 214–15
King, Samuel 160
King’s Cross station 44–5, 45
Kingsway 201, 202
Knox, Robert 177
Lambeth Gas Works 93, 94
Law Courts 164, 208
legislation
public order 192, 232n95
see also Obscene Publications Act
leisure industry 109, 112–14
letters 74
Levin, Phoebus
In Cremorne Gardens 128, 129–30, 129
The Dancing Platform at Cremorne Gardens 126–7, 128–9
licences, public entertainment 135–7
lighting
public 87
see also electric lighting; gaslight
Linton, Eliza Lynn 66–7, 75–8, 187
literature
cheap 130, 149, 154–6, 189–90
night-walks 101–8
Little Wonder 116–17, 116, 199
London
government 5, 17–18, 206–8
statistics 14–15
Lyndhurst, Lord 193–4
Macaulay, T. B. 214
McCalman, Iain 178, 182
maps 13–14, 26
A Baloon View of London 21, 22
Ordnance Survey 9, 13, 19–22, 20
Stanford’s Library Map of London 25, 26, 162
streets 59
underground railway 45–6, 219n48
Whitbread’s New Plan of London 190
Marin, Louis 22
Marriott’s Cremorne Quadrilles 122, 125
Maryann 78, 222n117
masculinity 132–5
mass culture 9, 151–6, 199–200
Mayhew, Augustus 98
Mayhew, Henry
balloon ascent 79–80, 84–5
gaslight 97
obscene publications 157
pickpockets 71–2, 187–8
size of London 15
Temple Bar 206
Merritt, Paul, New Babylon 145, 146
Metropolis Gas Act (1860) 90
Metropolis Local Management Act (1855) 19
Metropolitan Board of Works
creation of 5, 19
gas lighting 89
Holborn Viaduct 29, 49–53
Holywell Street 165
sewer construction 19
street improvements 29, 46
Temple Bar 206–8
Thames Embankment 29, 53–4,54,55, 56
Metropolitan Commission of Sewers 18–19
metropolitan government 17–18
Metropolitan Police Act (1839) 192
Metropolitan Railway, construction of 36–46, 36, 37, 38,39, 41
Meux, Sir Henry 211
middle classes, women 9,67, 69–70
midnight, Haymarket 107–8
missionaries, night-time 103–4
modernisation 5-6
modernism, art 143
modernity
gendering of 67–9
and maps 13–14
nature of 4-8
and the past 8, 32–3,173, 212
moral poison 150–51, 157–8
Moses and Son 89
movement, and modernisation 9, 13–14
Murray, John, Handbook of Modern London 15, 59
music halls 134–6
Napoleon III 6,16, 168
New Zealander 212–15, 213
night
balloon ascents 84–5
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 118–21
and gaslight 9, 83–4, 101–8
shopping 85–7
street-life 107–8
uncanny 104–6
walks 101–4, 107–8
Nine Elms, gasworks explosion 94–6, 95
Obscene Publications Act (1857)154, 157–8
passing of 189–95
prosecutions under 196–201
obscenity
and art 193–4
definition of 160, 193
and Holywell Street 164–5, 178–83
and modernity 8, 9-10, 149–50
moral poison 150–51, 157–8
photographs 160–61, 229n26
pipes 200, 200
publications 9-10, 150–61, 178–84, 189–90, 198–9
O’Connor, John, The Embankment 56, 56, 83, 96
Old Bailey see Central Criminal Court
Olympic Theatre 78, 98
Ordnance Survey 9,13, 19–22, 20
Packer, T., sheet music covers 124
panopticon 7
Paris
flâneur 67–8
modernity of 6, 16–17, 55–6, 168
‘Paterfamilias’ 62–6, 73
Paul Pry 189, 191, 193, 199
Paxton, Joseph 53
Great Victorian Way 27–9, 27
pedestrians 7, 75
penny gaffs 156–7, 228n19
Penny Illustrated Paper 54, 96
photography
mass culture 151–4
obscene 160–61, 229n26
of old buildings 33–4
of underground railway 40, 42, 43,44, 45
Pick, Daniel 61
pickpockets 71–2, 187–8
picturesque 31–2,33, 166–8
pipes, obscene smoking 200, 200
pleasure gardens 109
poison, moral see moral poison
Poitevin, Madame 115,115, 116
Pollock, Griselda 31, 69
pollution, water supply 18, 23–4
population growth 14
Princess’s Theatre 98–9
print-shop windows 149–50, 184–9, 185, 186
property developers 139–40
property rights 16–17
prostitution
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 130–31
locations of 65
publications, obscene 9-10, 150–61, 178–84, 189–90, 198–9
‘Puella’ 63–4
Punch 131
railway, construction of 34–46, 35
razzia 197
Reform Act (1867)155, 156
Regent Street
blind man image 59, 60, 61
prostitution 63, 65
religion, night missionaries 103–4
respectability
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 128–30, 140–41
Holywell Street 182–4, 185
and women 62–7, 68–9,73,78, 128–30
Reynolds, G. W. M.174, 176
Richardson, C. J., image of Holywell Street 179, 181
Richardson, W., Holywell Street 171
Rifkm, Adrian 182
Ritchie, J. Ewing 104, 131
Roberts, M. J. D. 158
Roper, Amelia 74, 78–9, 98
Ross, Kristin 75
ruins, images of 10, 212–15
Ruskin, John 141–4,152, 187
Ryan, Jenny 69
Ryan, Mary P. 70
Sala, George Augustus
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 132
decaying streets 16–17, 163
gaslight 89,98, 106–8
Jewish traders 89, 177
maps 26
Temple Bar 205, 234n143
Twice Round the Clock 59, 60, 61, 107
Saturday Review
on obscene publications 157
‘The Rape of the Glances’ 65, 73
Savoy Theatre 101
Schlesinger, Max, Saunterings In and About London 58, 78
second-hand clothes shops 174, 177–8
Select Committee on Metropolis Improvements 165
Select Committee on Metropolitan Communications 27–9
Sennett, Richard 16,28, 67
sensation scenes 98–100
separate spheres 69–70
Serres, Michel 8
sewers 9,13, 18–19, 22–6, 24
sexuality 78–9,105, 187–8
sheet music 121–8, 123, 124,125, 133
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer, images of Holywell Street 168, 169, 175
shopping, and middle-class women 69
shops
department stores 69
displays 86–7, 179–80, 186–7
gaslight 85–7, 88–9
Holywell Street 174, 176, 179–80, 181, 230n55
opening hours 85–7
print-shop windows 149–50, 184–9, 185, 186
Shoreditch, gas explosion 95
Simmel, Georg 67
Simpson, T. B.113,117, 131
slang 222n117
Smith, Edward Tyrrell 109,110,114, 136
Society for Photographing Relics of Old London 3
Society for the Suppression of Vice 158–60,180, 192
Southwark Street 89
space
and gender 67–70, 74–9, 184
and modernity 7, 8
street level 74–5
and temporality 8, 9
‘Squalors’ Market’ 97–8
Stanford, Edward
Library Map of London 25, 26, 162
underground railway map 45, 219n48
Stansell, Christine 69
Stedman Jones, Gareth 135
Strand 30, 161, 205
Strange, William 189
streets
advertising 58
congestion of 16, 46–7, 46, 161–3
etiquette 72–3, 72
improvements 29–31, 46
lighting 89, 98
maps 59
night-walks 101–4, 107–8
paintings of 47–9, 48, 49, 50, 51
women and 9, 62–73, 63, 74–9, 221n93
swell 132, 133
Tagg, John 57
Taine, Hippolyte 130
Temple Bar 203–11, 204, 207, 209
campaigns for removal 206–8, 234n143
political connotations 206–11
removal of 209–11, 210, 211
Temple Bar 3,26,61, 66–7, 205
temporality
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens 120
and modernity 8
and space 8, 9
urban life 85–7, 101–8
Thackeray, W. M.,‘Codlingsby’ 176–7, 177
Thames, River
Embankment 29, 53–4, 54, 55, 56
pollution 18, 23–4
theatres, gas lighting 98–101, 100
Theobald’s Park, Temple Bar 211, 211
Threadneedle Street 31
Timbs, John 164
Walks and Talks About London 58
time, concepts of 8
The Times
on Temple Bar 209–11
on women and the streets 62–5
tourism 58–9
Town Police Clauses Act (1847) 192
traffic congestion 46–7, 46, 161–3, 203–4,206, 207–8
travel writing 57–9
Tristan, Flora 88
uncanny 9, 104–6, 164
underground railway
construction of 36–46, 36, 37,38,39,41,42,43,44, 45
maps 45–6, 219n48
Urry, John 58–9
Vagrancy Act (1824) 192
Van Gogh, Vincent 47
Vauxhall Gardens 109,117, 121
Vice Society see Society for the Suppression of Vice
Vickers, George 176, 176, 178,189, 230n55
Vidler, Anthony 105–6
visual exchanges 65–7,68,71, 73
visual representations 57–62
vulnerability, of women 186–8
walking
at night 101–4, 107–8
book-walks 58
women pedestrians 74–9
water supply 18, 23
Westminster, boundary with City of London 203–4
Whistler, James McNeill, Nocturne in Black and Gold 141–4, 142
Wilson, Elizabeth 70–71
Wolff, Janet 68–9
women
dress of 63
and obscene publications 182–9
respectability 62–7, 68–9,73,78, 128–30
and shopping 69, 87
and streets 9, 62–73, 63, 74–9, 221n93
working classes, displacement of 34
Wych Street 78, 98
Yates, Edmund 114
yellow-back fiction 130