general love in which he was held, 135, 136;
  tendency to caricature in his art, 142;
  essential refinement in his writing and in himself, 147, 148;
  his presence of mind, 149;
  his brave battle against failing strength, 149-155;
  with what thoughts he faced death, 158, 159;
  his death, 159;
  resting-place in Westminster Abbey, 159-161;
  love that clings to his memory, 161;
  future of his fame, 161, 162

Dickens, John, his character, 16, 17;
  his imprisonment, 22, 23, 28;
  his death, 115

Dickens, Miss, biography of her father, quoted, 50, 83, 150

Dickens, Mrs. (Dickens’ mother), 24, 25

Dickens, Mrs., 82;
  separated from her husband, 132-138

Dolby, Mr., manager for the readings, 150, 151, 153

“Dombey and Son,” 63, 103-107, 110

Dombey, Paul, 63, 65-66, 68, 105

E.

Edinburgh, Dickens’ reception there, 71, 72

“Edwin Drood,” 143, 155-157

F.

Fildes, Mr. L., A.R.A., illustrates “Edwin Drood,” 143

Flite, Miss, 108, 109

Forster, John, 19, 38, 99, 116;
  his opinion on the advisability of public readings, 121, 122

G.

Gad’s Hill Place, 13;
  purchase of, 131, 132

Genoa, 54, 55, 95-96, 98, 99

Grant, Mr. James, 42

“Great Expectations,” 63, 143-145

H.

“Hard Times,” 126-129

“Haunted Man,” The, 110-111

Helps, Sir Arthur, on Dickens’ powers of observation, 32;
  on his essential refinement, 148

Hogarth, Mary, her death and character, 52-53

Horne, on description of Little Nell’s death and burial, 64, 66-67

Household Words, 113-115, 134

Humour of Dickens, 32, 33, 45, 46, 142, 161

I.

Italy in 1844, 94-95

J.

Jeffrey, his opinion of Little Nell, 63, 71, 72

L.

Landor, his admiration for Little Nell, 64;
  his likeness to Mr. Boythorn, 119

Lausanne, 103, 104

Leigh Hunt, 118

“Little Dorrit,” 22, 129-131, 142-143

Little Nell, criticism on her character and story, 63-67, 71, 72, 73

London, Dickens’ knowledge of, and walks in, 32, 54-56

M.

Macaulay, 80, 128, 160

Macready, the tragic actor, 73, 76, 82, 83

Marshalsea Prison, Dickens’ father imprisoned there, 16, 20, 21-23;
  made the chief scene of “Little Dorrit,” 130

“Martin Chuzzlewit,” 84, 85, 88-90

Master Humphrey’s Clock, 61, 62, 90, 141