Egypt: British intervention in, ref1, ref3
elections: conduct of, ref1, ref2, ref3; see also general elections
electoral reform: Cobbett advocates, ref1, ref2; movement for, ref1, ref2; and 1830 election, ref1; Grey advocates, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Wellington opposes, ref1; William IV and, ref1, ref2, ref3; Tory attitude to, ref1, ref2; Bright on, ref1, ref2; Russell supports, ref1, ref2; and inadequacy of franchise, ref1; Gladstone promotes, ref1, ref2, ref3; Disraeli opposes, ref1, ref2; Palmerston attacks Gladstone over, ref1; Conservative party’s proposals for, ref1; Derby and demand for, ref1, ref3; and Victoria, ref1; Salisbury on, ref1; see also Parliament; Reform Acts and Bills
electric light, ref1
electricity: development, ref1
electro-magnetic theory, ref1
Elementary Education Act (1870), ref1
Elgin, James Bruce, 8th earl of, ref1
Eliot, George: on Evangelicalism, ref1; on early Victorians, ref1; ideas and beliefs, ref1, ref2; prose style, ref1; moral content, ref1; Felix Holt, ref1
Ely, Jane, Lady, ref1
Emancipation Bill (1825), ref1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: English Traits, ref1, ref2
empire: and treatment of black population, ref1; attitude to, ref1, ref2; administrative difficulties, ref1; expansion, ref1; Primrose League supports, ref1
energy: sources and development, ref1
Engels, Friedrich: on history of trade unions, ref1; on workingclass conditions, ref1; condemns industrial system, ref1; on working class becoming bourgeois, ref1; on popular demonstrations, ref1; on collapse of Britain’s imperial power, ref1
Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, The, ref1
entertainment (popular), ref1; see also music hall
Escott, T. H., ref1
Ethiopia: Napier invades, ref1
Eugenie, empress of Napoleon III, ref1, ref2
Europe: revolutions (1820), ref1; (1848), ref1; nineteenth-century wars, ref1
Evangelicals: and utilitarians, ref1; on social and political issues, ref1; religious earnestness, ref1; influence, ref1
Evening Standard, ref1
evolution, theory of, ref1
exhibition halls, ref1
Exmouth, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount, ref1
Eyre, Edward John, governor of Jamaica, ref1
Fabian Society, ref1
factories: labour conditions, ref1, ref2; reforms, ref1
Factory Acts (1819; Cotton Factory Act), ref1; (1833), ref1; (1847), ref1
Factory Education Bill (1843), ref1
family: size, ref1; idealized, ref1
Faraday, Michael, ref1, ref2
Fashoda incident (1898), ref1
Fenian brotherhood, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ferdinand I, emperor of Austria, ref1
Ferdinand II, king of Naples, ref1
Ferdinand VII, king of Spain, ref1
Feynman, Richard, ref1
fiction: popularity, ref1
Fielden, John, ref1
financial crises (1825), ref1
Fitzgerald, Vesey, ref1
food prices, ref1
food riots, ref1
Forster, William Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Fortnightly Review, ref1, ref2
fossils, ref1, ref3
France: and July monarchy (1830), ref1; opposed by quadrilateral alliance, ref1; Napoleon III forms Second Empire, ref1, ref2; universal male suffrage, ref1; alliance with Britain in Crimean War, ref1; supposed invasion threat to Britain, ref1, ref2; war with Austria (1860), ref1; defeated by Prussia (1870), ref1
franchise: demands for expanding, ref1, ref2; extended under legislation (1832), ref1; (1867), ref1, ref2, ref3; (1884), ref1; (1885), ref1; see also electoral reform
Fraser, William, ref1
Fraser’s Magazine, ref1, ref2
free trade: Lord Liverpool embraces, ref1; utilitarians and, ref1; Huskisson advocates, ref1; and Corn Laws, ref1; Peel advocates, ref1, ref2, ref3; and public well-being, ref1; and Irish famine, ref1; under Russell, ref1; see also protectionism
Friends, Society of (Quakers), ref1, ref2
Frith, William Powelclass="underline" Ramsgate Sands (or Life at the Seaside; painting), ref1
Froude, J. A., ref1, ref2
Fruits of Philosophy, The (pamphlet), ref1
gas lighting, ref1, ref2
Gaskell, Elizabeth: Mary Barton, ref1, ref2; North and South, ref1
general elections: (1818), ref1; (1826), ref1; (1830), ref1; (1831; ‘Dry Election’), ref1; (1832), ref1; (1834), ref1; (1837), ref1; (1841), ref1; (1852), ref1; (1857), ref1; (1865), ref1; (1868), ref1; (1874), ref1; (1880), ref1, ref2; (1885), ref1; (1886), ref1; (1892), ref1; (1895), ref1; (1900; ‘khaki election’), ref1
geology, ref1, ref2
George, Henry: Progress and Poverty, ref1
George III, King: decline and death, ref1, ref2; visits Ireland, ref1
George IV, King (earlier Prince of Wales): as Regent, ref1; approves of Holy Alliance, ref1; criticized, ref1, ref2; petitioned by Hampden clubs, ref1; paranoia and obesity, ref1, ref2; unpopularity, ref1; accession to throne, ref1; opposes Catholic emancipation, ref1; accepts Catholic emancipation, ref1, ref2; decline and death, ref1
Géricault, Théodore: The Raft of the Medusa (painting), ref1
Germany: belligerence, ref1; unification, ref1, ref2
Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck, and Sir Arthur Sullivan, ref1
Girls’ Own Paper, ref1
Gissing, George, ref1, ref2, ref3; In the Year of Jubilee, ref1; The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, ref1
Gladstone, Catherine (W. E.’s wife), ref1
Gladstone, Herbert, ref1, ref2
Gladstone, William Ewart: serves under Peel, ref1, ref2; advocates government purchase of railways, ref1; preoccupation with Ireland and Home Rule, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; as ‘Peelite’, ref1; visits Rome, ref1; financial policies, ref1; attacks Disraeli’s financial measures, ref1; manner and style, ref1; as chancellor of exchequer under Aberdeen, ref1; encounters with prostitutes, ref1, ref2, ref3; praises Aberdeen, ref1; and Russo-Turkish war, ref1; and cost of Crimean War, ref1; isolation in Crimean War, ref1; on intra-party differences, ref1; as chancellor under Palmerston and Russell, ref1, ref3, ref4; on American Civil War, ref1; promotes electoral reform, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; loses parliamentary seat (1865), ref1; and Palmerston’s death, ref1; popularity, ref1, ref2, ref3; advises Salisbury on diplomatic method, ref1; Cranborne’s (Salisbury’s) wariness of, ref1; outmanoeuvred by Disraeli over reform, ref1; on pacification of Ireland, ref1; rivalry with Disraeli, ref1, ref2; Victoria dislikes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; election victory (1868), ref1; convictions and principles, ref1; Emily Eden portrays, ref1; legislation and reforms, ref1, ref2; and educational reform, ref1; anxiety over health, ref1; on European problem, ref1; public speaking tours, ref1, ref2, ref3; loses popular support, ref1; austerity policy, ref1; dissolves Parliament (1874) and loses election, ref1; debates in Commons, ref1; increased amiability, ref1, ref2; on Bulgarian atrocities, ref1; moral impulses, ref1, ref2; in Midlothian campaign (1879), ref1; on Eastern question, ref1; election victory and premiership (1880), ref1, ref2; Lord Derby describes, ref1; accepts Home Rule for Ireland, ref1; ageing, ref1, ref2; intervenes in Egypt, ref1; and Gordon in Sudan, ref1; resigns (1885), ref1; mocks Liberal–Parnellite coalition, ref1; returns to power (1886), ref1; and Salisbury’s government, ref1; holiday in South of France, ref1; refuses retirement, ref1; eyesight diminishes, ref1; forms minority government (1892), ref1; final resignation (1894), ref1; death, ref1; Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East, ref1
Goderich, Frederick John Robinson, Viscount (later 1st earl of Ripon), ref1
Gold Coast: mortality, ref1
Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the, ref1
Goldsmith, Oliver, ref1
Gorchakov, General Michael, ref1
Gordon, General Charles George, ref1, ref2
Gordon, Lord George: riots (1780), ref1
Gothic novel, ref1
Graham, Sir James, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Grand National Consolidated Trade Union, ref1
Granville, Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Great Exhibition (1851), ref1, ref2
‘great stink’ (1858), ref1