Ashton Rosemary - One hot summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

ONE HOT SUMMER

Copyright 2017 Rosemary Ashton

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Contents

Illustrations

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1. Augustus Egg, third part of the triptych of adultery and destitution, Past and Present, exhibited at the Royal Academy exhibition in summer 1858.

2. W.P. Frith, The Derby Day, the most popular painting at that exhibition.

3. Group photograph of the cast of actors in Dickenss amateur production of Wilkie Collinss play The Frozen Deep, 1857.

4. Tavistock House, where Dickens and his family lived from 1851 to 1858, when the household split up following Dickenss separation from Catherine.

5. Dickens photographed by Herbert Watkins, 17 June 1858.

6. Catherine Dickens photographed by J.J.E. Mayall, c. 1863.

7. Undated photograph of Ellen Ternan.

8. Sir Edward Bulwer Lyttons carte de visite, J.J.E. Mayall, 1857.

9. Charles Darwin photographed by Maull & Fox, 1860.

10. Down House and garden illustrated by Alfred Parsons, 1883.

11. Male greater bird of paradise, from Charles dOrbignys Dictionnaire Universel dHistoire Naturelle, 1849.

12. Alfred Russel Wallace photographed in Singapore, 1862.

13. Interior of the Court of Queens Bench, 1858, in G.A. Sala, Twice Round the Clock, 1859.

14. Isambard Kingdom Brunel standing beside the launching chains of the Great Eastern, photographed by Robert Howlett, 18578.

15. A Wholesome Conclusion, Punch, 6 February 1858.

16. Notice of the burial of Charles Waring Darwin, aged eighteen months, in the parish of Downe, Kent, 1 July 1858.

17. Title page of the pamphlet printed to publicise the incarceration of Lady Bulwer Lytton in a lunatic asylum, July 1858.

18. A photograph of Benjamin Disraeli by W&D Downey.

19. Father Thames Introducing his Offspring to the City of London, Punch, 3 July 1858.

20. The Members Entrance, House of Commons, in the 1850s.

21. Sir John Gilberts pen and ink drawing of the Smoking Room of the Garrick Club at the time.

22. Dickens reading Little Dombey, Illustrated London News, 31 July 1858.

23. The Smiler with the Knife: William Makepeace Thackerays drawing of Edmund Yates preparing to stab him at the Garrick Club, 1858.

24. Thackeray photographed by Ernest Edwards, c. 1863.

25. Sir Richard Owen photographed by Maull & Polyblank, c. 1855.

26. Thomas Henry Huxley photographed by Maull & Polyblank, 1857.