Records of a Girlhood eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,000 pages of information about Records of a Girlhood.

Records of a Girlhood eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,000 pages of information about Records of a Girlhood.

Collins’ “Ode to the Passions,” Liston reciting, 460.

Colnaghi, 243.

Combe, Cecilia, 151.

Combe, George, “the Apostle of Phrenology,” 151;
  author of “Constitution of Man,” ib.

Combe, Andrew, 151;
  works upon physiology, hygiene, and education of children, 154;
  combing, 155;
  his age, 157;
  his anecdote of Scott’s “feudal insanity,” 265, 316, 412;
  on climbing, 420;
  lectures in the Phrenological Museum, 527;
  “Constitution of Man,” 530.

Communion service, 401.

Constance selected for Fanny Kemble’s benefit, 359;
  success of, 361, 417;
  Mrs. Siddons’ sketch of, 517.

“Constitution of Man,” 151, 530.

Contat, Mlle., 258.

Cooper, Fenimore, “The Borderers,” 508, 509;
  compared with Charles Kemble in “Venice Preserved,” 544.

Cornwall, Barry, 124, 345, 353.

Cork, Lady, 254, 289, 372;
  vivacity at an advanced age, 379;
  curious arrangement of her drawing-room, ib.;
  “Ancient Cork,” ib.;
  “Memory,” ib.;
  idea of heaven, ib.;
  propensity for taking that which was not hers, 381, 389;
  little parties of, 391;
  a noisy conversation, 519.

“Corrombona, Vittoria, Duchess of Bracciano,” 353.

Cottin, Madame, 332.

Coutts, Mr., his fortune, 391.

Coutts, Miss Burdett, recipient of all Mr. Coutts’ fortune, 392.

Covent Garden Chambers, 17, 25.

Covent Garden Theatre, Charles Kemble’s partnership in, 35, 36;
  Weber at, 37;
  Charles Kemble’s liabilities in, 107;
  a woman wanted, 123;
  Covent Garden to be sold at auction, 186;
  Theatre patent assailed, 339;
  cutting down salaries, 463;
  ruined at last, 509;
  farewell to, 520;
  turned into an opera house, 521;
  burned down, ib.

Crabbe, as an unpoetical poet, 385.

Cramer, 321.

Craven Hill, 31, 32.

Craven, Lady, 292.

Craven, Mr., in “Hernani,” at Bridgewater House, 376;
  in “Hernani,” 396, 399, 404.

Croly, 390.

Croton water in New York, 537.

Cromwell, marks of his cannon at Edge Hill, 278.

Cumberland, Duke and Duchess of, at Bridgewater House, 422.

Cunard, Samuel, 176.

Cunarosa, 101.

Dacre, Lord, 11, 348, 357.

Dacre, Lady, 341, 344;
  her accomplishments, 345;
  her play of “Isaure,” 382;
  her play “Wednesday Morning,” 390, 393: 
  in trouble about “Wednesday Morning,” 394;
  objections to language in “The Star of Seville,” 423, 498, 504.

Dall, Aunt (see Kemble, Adelaide).

Dance, Miss, 35.

Dante, “The Intellect of Love,” 391;
  “Devils boiled in pitch,” 437;
  Biagio’s Preface to, 448.

“Darnley,” 370.

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