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Name /V2007/V2007_IX 12/19/01 06:05AM Plate # 0-Composite pg 261 # 1 Index adolescence: as metaphor, 242 n. 31 Aikin, Lucy, 54, 56, 64, 205 Altick, Richard D., 231 n. 19 amateurs, 30, 118, 120, 128, 146, 177, 204–9; and class, 210 –11; feminized, 209–10 ambitious desires. See desires, ambitious Andrew, Donna T., 15, 22, 37, 226 n. 4 Anglican sisterhoods. See Protestant sisterhoods aristocratic women, 38, 57, 69–70, 72 Armstrong, Nancy, 8–9, 20 –21, 35, 38, 77, 232 n. 38 Ashley, Lord (Anthony Cooper; later seventh earl of Shaftesbury), 90, 108, 109, 169 Ashworth, Henry, 139 Astell, Mary, 24–25, 34, 79, 161, 266– 67 n. 12 Asylum for Female Orphans, 19 Austen, Jane, 146; Emma, 82 Barker-Benfield, G. J., 21–22 Bayly, Mary, 160 Beaty, Jerome, 245 n. 4 Beer, Gillian, 245 n. 4 Bentham, Jeremy, 28 Besant, Annie, 220 Blau, Peter M., 63 Bodenheimer, Rosemarie, 137, 169, 242– 43 n. 32 Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 133 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Lady Audley’s Secret, 174 Brewer, J. S., 122. See also Lectures to Ladies on Practical Subjects, ‘‘Workhouse Visiting’’ Briggs, Asa, 224 n. 21 Brock, Mrs. Carey, Charity Helstone, 161, 166–70, 171, 177, 179 Brontë, Anne, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 243 n. 2 Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre, 198; Shirley, 161, 166–67 Broughton, Rhoda, Not Wisely But Too Well, 175–78, 179, 180 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Aurora Leigh, 195, 243 n. 2 Name /V2007/V2007_IX 12/19/01 06:05AM Plate # 0-Composite pg 262 # 2 Bull, Rev., of Brierly, 93, 94 Burdett-Coutts, Baroness Angela, 1, 225– 26 n. 64; Woman’s Mission, 1, 4 Burney, Fanny, Evelina, 224 n. 41 Butler, Judith, 223 n. 12 Byron, Lady, 186 Cappe, Catherine, 246 n. 28 Carlyle, Thomas, 179 Carpenter, Mary, 160 Carretta, Vincent, 229 n. 37 Catholicism, 196–99, 200. See also popery, fears of Cazamian, Louis, 136 Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote, 8 Chadwick, Edwin, 90 Challice, Mrs. Annie Emma, The Sister of Charity, 161, 178–82, 244 n. 28 Chalmers, Thomas, 85–88, 107, 235– 36 n. 16; Christian and Civil Economy of Large Towns, 85, 87 charity. See philanthropy Charity Helstone. See Brock, Mrs. Carey Charity Organization Society, 141, 142, 177, 202 Chartism, 107, 139 Chase, Karen, 209–10 Cheal, David, 232 nn. 27, 33 Cheap Repository Tracts (Hannah More), 61–62, 64, 67, 83, 101, 160; ‘‘A Cure for Melancholy,’’ 59–60, 65, 67; publishing history of, 78; ‘‘The Riot,’’ 58– 59; ‘‘The Sunday School,’’ 60 –61, 65, 167; ‘‘Village Politics,’’ 78 Christian Lady’s Magazine, The, 99 Christian socialists, 112, 116, 117, 132 Clapham Sect, 78, 116. See also Evangelicals class relations, 26, 219; hostile, 144, 145; personal contacts as solution to problems of, 140 –41, 144, 151; and sympathy , 153 clergymen, 129, 141–42, 146–49, 170, 181 Clever Woman of the Family, The. See under Yonge, Charlotte M. Cobbe, Frances Power, 160, 238 n. 10 262 Index Coelebs in Search of a Wife (Hannah More), 54, 57, 62–63, 65–66, 68–74, 76–77, 79, 82, 83, 87; genre of, 230 n. 2; sales figures, 230 n. 2 Cohen, Monica F., 238 n. 7 Cole, Lucinda, 224 n. 18, 233 n. 43 College for Working Women, 117. See also Female College for the Help of the Rich and Poor; Working Women’s College Collins, Wilkie, 246 n. 31 ‘‘Communion of Labour, The.’’ See under Jameson, Anna conduct books, 9; conventions of, 55 Craik, Dinah Mulock: Olive, 243 n. 2; ‘‘On Sisterhoods,’’ 244 n. 28; A Woman’s Thoughts about Women, 162 cultural work, 6, 30, 138, 218–21 Daniels, Sarah, The Gut Girls, 216–19 Davidoff, Leonore, 56 David Simple. See under Fielding, Sarah Davies, Emily, 133 Davison, Lee, 225 n. 49 Debenham, Helen, 224 n. 30 Deerbrook. See under Martineau, Harriet Defoe, Daniel, 228 n. 31 desires, ambitious, 6, 7, 10, 12, 26, 27, 29, 34, 52, 56, 80, 159–88, 190 –91, 192, 195, 203, 206, 212, 214, 218; anxieties about, 162; discipline of, 164–78, 182– 84, 188; erotic, 7, 27, 30, 161–65, 167– 88, 190 –91, 198, 199, 200, 206, 212, 214; male, 73; mimetic, 7–8, 173; produced by philanthropy, 11; regulated, 40, 46, 49, 72; religious, 86; sexual, 27, 29, 38, 72–73, 161, 164, 175; theories of, 7–8, 173; vocational, 211–12; working-class, 65 Dickens, Charles, 140; Bleak House, 2, 4–5, 6, 112, 148, 161, 177, 238 n. 5, 242...

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