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MARVELS: The Life of Clarence Bicknell, Botanist, Archaeologist, Artist
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INDEX
- C.B. = Clarence Bicknell.
- Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations; those followed by M indicate maps.
- C.B.’s lengthy correspondence with Emile Burnat has been one of our major resources, and some of the many references
- to it are noted below. For further information about the letters, go to “Documents” in the Clarence Bicknell website and see
- G. Avery, ‘Clarence Bicknell – Correspondence with Emile Burnat (1886–1917) 2016’.
- acanthus, 75
- Acropolis of Athens, C.B.’s sketch of, 103
- Adenia, 184
- Adonis (crowfoot), 134
- Adoru, C.B.’s hymns for, 179
- Agnetti, Dr, 70, 198, 199
- Agricultural Penal Colony, Capraia, 147
- Alassio, 1907 Esperanto concert at, 138
- Albert, Prince Consort, 17
- All Saints Chapel, Bordighera, 37, 39, 43–44, 46, 57
- All Saints Library (English Lending Library), Bordighera,
- 77. See also International Civic Library
- Alpine Plants of Europe (Mummery), 159
- Altamira, cave paintings at, 135
- Ammirani, Father, 53–54
- Among the Hills: A Book of Joy in High Places (Farrer), 212
- Ampeglio (gardener), 73, 155, 154
- Ampelio, Saint, 33, 34, 37, 38, 48, 193
- relic exhibited, 48
- Angst, Adolph, 193, 203
- Antaŭen Esperanto group, 179, 180
- Anthragene alpina L. (Bicknell), 163
- L’Antijuif (newspaper), 130
- ant, Bicknell’s. See Iridomyrmex bicknelli 153–154
- Aquilegia alpina, 170
- in Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book, 172
- C.B’s miniature sketch, 166
- Arduino, Honore, 67
- Aristolochoia, an insect-catcher (Bicknell), 66
- The Art Crafts for Beginners (Sanford), 158
- Arts and Crafts Movement, 157
- The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt (Petrie), 158
- Asilo Evangelico, 77
- Autobiography (A.S. Bicknell), 215n.2
- ‘Aŭtuno’ (Bicknell), 179
- Avery, Graham, 211–212, 227
- Bacchialoni, Prof., 119
- Baden Powell, Rev. James, 22
- Baily, Edward Hodges, 4, 7–8
- bust of Lucinda Browne Bicknell, 12, 13
- ballon captif, Giffard’s, 35, 35
- Barcelona, Esperanto congress at, 181
- Bases of Design (Crane), 158
- Basilica de la Santa Casa, Loreto, 87–88
- Bastille, C.B.’s visit to, 35
- Beale, Thomas, 6, 10
- Beghelli, Simona, 213
- Belli, Saverio, 114, 120
- Benigni, Ezio, 120, 121
- Bordighera under snow, 76
- The English Church in Bordighera, 40
- Interior of the Museo Bicknell, 77
- photos of C.B., 109, 144, 177
- Rock engravings ‘near the upper margheria’ (attr.), 119
- The SIRT tennis racquet makers at Bordighera, 42
- Train arriving at Bordighera, 87
- The Wisteria on the face of the Museo Bicknell, 75
- Benson, Richard Meux, 23, 24
- Berceto, C.B. stays with Dr Agnetti at, 70
- Bern, Esperanto congress at, 197
- Bernardini, Enzo, 143, 207
- Bernhardt, Friedrich von, 201
- Berry, Ada Bicknell, 14–16, 17, 83, 105, 139–140, 183. See
- also Bicknell, Ada
- Berry, Arthur, 105, 114, 161
- Berry, Clara, 105
- Berry, Dr Frances May Dickinson, 114, 115, 116
- Berry, Edward, 14, 17, 105
- Berry, Edward Elhanan, 52, 70, 72
- letter to Burnat on C.B.’s death, 207
- at Casa Fontanalba, 125, 161, 209
- cares for C.B. during 1910 illness, 149
- C.B. describes wartime conditions at Bordighera to, 203
- and C.B.’s failing eyesight, 195
- and the construction of Villa Monte Verde, 140, 140, 141
- hiking near Casterino, 120, 123, 124
- marries Margaret Serocold, 105–7, 106
- and the vellum-bound albums, 165
- Berry, Grosvenor, 105, 169
- Berry, James, 105, 109, 114, 114, 115, 161, 197, 202
- Berry, Margaret, 53, 84, 106, 139
- cares for C.B. during his 1910 illness, 149
- at Casa Fontanalba, 125, 209
- C.B. writes to, about his failing eyesight, 195
- and the construction of Villa Monte Verde, 140, 140, 141
- Farrer’s uncharitable assessment of, 151, 160
- inherits C.B.’s Maori jade pendants, 186
- marries Edward, 106
- summer at Pellegrino’s house, Casterino, 1901, 123–125
- and the vellum-bound albums, 107, 160, 165, 169
- Berry, Maud, 189
- Bessone, Giuseppe, 34, 42, 213
- Bianca (Villa Rosa maid), 41, 43
- Biancheri, Ampeglio, 73
- Bible Christians, 23
- Biblioteca Internazionale, Bordighera, 77. See also International Civic Library
- Bicknell, Ada, 1, 2, 8, 139, 145
- death of, 190–191
- has stroke, 188
- husband dies, 139
- marries Edward Berry, 14
- mother’s death and father’s remarriage, 12–13
- Bicknell, Algernon Sidney, 1, 2, 4, 107–9, 108, 191, 191
- on Ada’s stroke, 188
- attends University College London, 13
- Autobiography, 215n.2
- climbs Pic d’Adam, 184
- at Dr Laing’s school, 4, 8
- on his father’s death, 15
- on Landseer’s sketch of Turner, 9
- mother’s death and father’s remarriage, 12–13
- on Percy’s financial indiscretion, 188–189
- Preface to Herman Bicknell’s Hafiz translation, 28
- survives intestinal tumor, 133
- as unsuccessful vegetarian, 13
- Bicknell, Clarence, 120
- Acropolis sketch, Athens, 103
- afflicted with sciatica, 81, 82, 189
- and Alberto Pelloux, 134
- and All Saints Chapel, 44, 57
- Anthragene alpina L., 163
- Aristolochoia, an insect-catcher, 66, 67
- at Athens, 102–103
- attends Rev. Edwards’ school, 13
- attitude to female suffrage, 200
- at Berceto, 70
- and the bicycle, 108, 109, 116
- birth of, 1, ix
- On Board P&O’s Hydaspes, Brindisi to Alexandria, 88
- A Book of Berries, 165
- The Book of Guests in Esperanto, 146, 161, 195, 198, 198, 219n.259
- as botanical illustrator and author (see individual works by title)
- botanical specimen-gathering trips (see botanical
- expeditions)
- Breil-sur-Roya, February 1882, 112
- Bridge (watercolour), vi
- butterfly collection, 76, 77
- buys Villa Rosa, 51, 57
- Caltha palustris, 164
- camels at Assouan, diary sketch, 96
- Casa Fontanalba map, 156M
- The Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book, 160–161,160–162, 170, 211, 219n.259.
- See also Casa Fontanalba
- at Casterino, 114, 123–125, 195, 197, 201. See also Casa
- Fontanalba
- Casterino Looking North 6.7.97, 114
- celebrates Christmas of 1878, 47
- charitable works, 193
- Children’s Picture Book of Wild Plants, 165, 166, 169
- Cliffs at Finalmarina, 54
- collects botanical specimens from Vallee des Merveilles, 113
- conducts English lady’s funeral, 82
- and Corsica, 43, 51
- curacy at St Paul’s Church, Lorrimore Square, 21–23
- Cytisus Sessilifolius, 204
- D. Giovanni’s photo portrait of, 50
- dandelion discourse and symmetrical composition
- depicting, 200, 200. See also Triumph of the
- Dandelion
- dental problems, 47
- diary of first season at Bordighera, 216n.61
- dies, 205
- donates bell to Castellana di Montenero, 193
- donkey sketch, Egypt diary, 96
- early childhood of, 1–7
- and the earthquake of 1887, 79–82
- Egypt diary, 86, 88–104, 217–218n.146
- England trip of 1880, 52
- England trip of 1887, 81–82
- England trip of 1900, 131–132
- enters holy orders, 21
- Esneh architectural sketches, 98
- and Esperanto, 8, 157, 174–182
- establishes Museo Bicknell, 76
- explores cave paintings in France, 136–138
- family tree, x–xi
- Farm and hay stooks in Val Casterino, 118
- felucca sketches, Egypt diary, 93, 94, 97, 99, 100
- at Finalmarina, 53
- first stay at Bordighera, 36, 38–49
- Flora of Bordighera and San Remo, 67, 68
- Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Riviera and
- Neighbouring Mountains, 65, 66, 67
- fondness for Wagner and visit to Bayreuth, 113
- and the Fontanalba petroglyphs, 118–121, 120, 126–127, 127
- at foundation-stone laying of Villa Monte Verde, 140
- fundraising by, 131, 193
- Further Explorations in the Regions of the Prehistoric
- Rock Engravings in the Italian Maritime Alps, 128
- generosity of, 77–78
- Great Sphinx of Giza, 90
- Guide to the Prehistoric Rock Engravings of the Italian
- Maritime Alps, 111, 122, 128
- and the Guild of the Holy Redeemer, 27, 28
- has gout, 35, 109, 197
- Holy Land trip, 132
- kaleidoscopic floral patterns, in the vellum-bound
- albums, 170, 171
- Lago Verde, August 11, 1897, 119
- leaves active Anglican ministry, 48–49
- letters from (see letters, C. B.’s)
- Luigi Pollini’s farewell, in Casa Fontanalba Visitors’
- Book, 205, 206, 207
- Luxor by moonlight, Egypt diary sketch, 100
- Majorca trip, 70, 72
- makes petroglyph rubbings for Cartailhac, 155
- map of places associated with, 32M
- meets Ruffini, 46
- mentions failing eyesight, 195
- Monte Cristallo, 133
- Montserrat, visit to, 72
- Mosque outside Cairo, 89
- mother dies, 11–12
- and the Oxford Movement, 20
- at Paris Esperanto congress of 1914, 181
- at 1878 Paris Exposition Universelle, 34–35
- at 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, 131
- photos of, ii, 8, 42, 50, 74, 84, 108, 125, 142, 144, 175,
- 177, 208
- The Posy, 165, 167
- Prehistoric Rock Engravings in the Italian Maritime
- Alps, 126, 127, 128
- Psalliota xanthoderma, 196
- Pylon of the Temple of Horus at Edfou, 98
- pyramid sketches, 90
- religious explorations and practices, 29–31, 46, 57–58, 95, 103, 108, 138, 146, 191, 199
- reputation as archaeologist, 210
- returns to Casa Fontanalba, 1907, 170
- revisits Egypt, 132
- robbed, 83
- Rocks near St Ampelio’s Church, 38
- ‘Sainte-Lucie,’ song, 177
- at San Bartolomeo di Pesio, 82, 83
- Saxifraga florulenta, 116
- sees Monte Carlo, 44
- sends petroglyph to British Museum, 121
- and the Societas Sancti Spiritus, 24, 26
- specimen donations by, 148–149
- spread from The Children’s Picture Book, 167–168
- St Peter’s Church, Stoke-Upon-Tern, under construction, 1873, 24
- suffers from herpes, shingles, or erysipelas, 145
- swimming, 37, 39, 41, 47
- takes Italian lessons, 43
- Taraxacum vulgaris, 167
- Temple of Dendera, 95
- 37th birthday festa, 43
- 68th birthday celebration, 146
- 74th birthday party, 197
- tours Sardinia’s nuraghi, 133
- at Trinity College, Cambridge, 17, 19–21
- Triumph of the Dandelion, 165, 168, 169
- troubled by haemorrhoids, 116
- Val Casterino sketch, 195
- and the Vallee des Merveilles petroglyphs, 111–116, 117–128
- and vegetarianism, 13
- the vellum-bound albums, 107, 160–172, 161–172, 210
- visited by Cartailhac, 187
- visits Burnat, 83, 130, 179
- visits Florence, 198–199
- visits Lourdes and Madrid, 194
- visits Rome, 196
- visits Sydney B. in 1891, 107
- volunteer work for Red Cross, 202–203
- on wall painting, 153
- Weapons and implements (petroglyph plate), 127
- Bicknell, Edgar, 1, 2
- at Dr Laing’s school, 4, 8
- marries Elizabeth Hill, 14–15
- mother’s death, 12
- Bicknell, Elhanan, 1, 2, ix
- art collection auctioned, 18, 18
- as art connoisseur and collector, 4–5
- final years and death, 14–15
- marries Hannah Wootton Langton, 6, 7
- marries Louisa Holland Jones, 12–13
- marries Lucinda Browne, 7
- marries Mary Jones, 7
- obituaries and epitaph, 15–16
- portrait by Samuel Drummond, 6
- wardenship of Worshipful Company of Vintners, 2, 4
- and the whaling trade, 6–7, 12
- Bicknell, Hannah, 6–7
- Bicknell, Henry Sanford, 4, 7, 19, 89
- Bicknell, Herman, 1, 2, 27–28, 89
- attends University College London, 13
- at Dr Laing’s school, 4, 8
- at father’s funeral, 17
- and the grand ball at Herne Hill, 14
- mother’s death, 11, 12
- Bicknell, Herman Kentigern, 188
- Bicknell, Linda (niece), 132, 132–133, 139, 141, 179–180
- Bicknell, Louisa Holland Jones, 12–13
- Bicknell, Lucinda Browne (mother), 1, 5, 7, 8, 11–13, 27
- Baily’s bust of, 12, 13
- Bicknell, Lucinda (‘Linda’) (sister), 1, 8, 12, 15, 85, 139–140, 191, 196
- Bicknell, Marcus, 209, 211, 214
- Bicknell, Mark, 6, 13, 212
- Bicknell, Mary Ann, 7
- Bicknell, Mary Jones, 7
- Bicknell, Matilda, 1, 2, 8, 12, 14
- Bicknell, Nora, 132, 132–133, 139, 141, 195, 196
- Bicknell, Percy, 1, 2, 83, 85, 107
- dies, 190
- at Dr Laing’s school, 4, 8
- financial mismanagement, 148, 188–189
- mother’s death, 12
- Bicknell, Peter, 48, 186, 209
- Bicknell, Susie, 211, 214
- Bicknell, William, 5, 5–6
- Bicknell-to-Burnat letters, 67–68, 118
- on arrival in Casterino, 1906, 153
- on attack of sciatica, 82
- on 1909 Barcelona Esperanto congress, 181
- on Basilica de la Santa Casa at Loreto, 89
- on Briquet’s writeup of Pimpinella bicknellii, 72
- on Burnat’s 80th birthday, 187
- on C.B.’s planned visit to Alagna, 137–138
- on Corsica trip, 134–135
- on death of Lucinda’s husband, 140
- on the demands of Esperanto promotion, 176
- on Egyptian ‘herbarium’ sculpture at Karnak, 101
- Esperanto postcard, 176
- on excursions near Casterino, 115–116, 125–126
- extends invitation to Villa Rosa, 105
- on gout and the bicycle, 109
- on Jean Burnat’s first communion, 83
- on Kew Gardens, 132
- on lantern slide collection, 201
- on naming of Cima Bicknell, 186–187
- on the petroglyph sculptors, 122–123
- on Pietro Zeni’s musical debut, 78
- on projected Alagna trip, 148
- on Sardinia trip, 133–34
- on search for Hiercium, 113–114
- on shortcomings of Thompson’s Flowering Plants of the Riviera, 159
- on sister Lucinda’s husband’s death, 137–138
- on social demands of Bordighera, 70
- on 1907 summer at Casa Fontanalba, 159, 170
- on trip to Ceylon, 183, 184, 186
- on World War I, 200–201
- bicycle
- C.B. masters riding of, 108, 109, 116
- women on, in London, 134
- Biesbroeck, Jules Pierre van, 195
- Bischoffsheim, Raphael, 45, 76
- Black Pussy (cat), 41
- Blanc, Edmond, 112
- Blanc-Francard, Helen, 211, 212
- The Blue Rigi, Sunrise (Turner), 19, ix
- Boccanegra Gardens, 141
- Boer War, 131, 154
- Boks kaj Koks (Box and Cox), Esperanto farce, 180
- Bone, Henry, 19
- A Book of Berries (Bicknell), 165
- The Book of Guests in Esperanto, 146, 161, 169, 195, 198, 198, 219n.259
- Bordighera, 28
- lose up map of, 61M
- earthquake of Feb. 1887, 79–82, 80
- Esperanto group, 179, 180
- map of, close up, 61
- to Mont Bego, map, 69M
- origins, 33
- St Ampelio’s Church, 34
- at start of World War I, 200
- train station, 87
- undergoes cultural revolution and exploitation, 52
- Bordighera under snow (Benigni), 76
- botanical expeditions, C.B.’s
- to Alagna, 148
- to Algeria, 129–130
- to Capraia, 147
- to Ceylon, 183–286
- to Corsica, in 1905, 134–135
- to Elche, 131
- to Majorca, 130
- to Malta and Tunis, 144
- to Sicily and the Egadi Islands, 129
- to Val Pesio, 130
- Botanical Garden of Hamma, 129
- botany, 63–64. See also botanical expeditions of the Vallee des Merveilles, 113
- Boulogne, Esperanto congress at, 177
- Breil-sur-Roya, February, 1882 (Bicknell), 112
- Breuil, Abbe Henri, 136, 137
- Briano, G. B., 8
- Briquet, John, 72, 187, 191
- British Museum, 121
- Broadlands, 29, 30
- Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit, 24, 57. See also Societas Sancti Spiritus
- Brown, Capability, 29
- Browne, Edgar, 4, 8, 9
- Brown(e), Eleanor, 5
- Browne, Hablot Knight (‘Phiz’), see Phiz
- Brown(e), Michael, 5
- Browne, William Loder, 5
- Bruneau
- Michel, 5. See also Brown(e) as surname, 107
- Brunel, Isambard, ix
- Bucknall, Cedric, 149, 176
- Buddicom, Harry, 135
- Budhism, Farrer converts to, 184–185
- Burn, Robert, 20
- Burnat, Emile, 68, 70, 187, 212
- anticipated visit to C.B. in Casterino, 123
- collects botanical specimens in Val Pesio, 130
- Flore des Alpes Maritimes, 157
- herbarium conserved by Geneva Botanical Garden, 212
- recommends Casterino house to C.B., 114
- visited by C.B., 83, 130, 179
- Burnat, Jean, 83, 105, 187
- Burnat/Bicknell Nature Reserve, 130
- Bursera graveolens, 73–74
- butterflies, C.B.’s collection of, 76, 77
- Callcott, Augustus Wall, 4, 19
- Calori, Domenico, 73
- Caltha palustris (Bicknell), 164
- Cambridge
- C.B. at Trinity College, 17, 19–21
- Esperanto congress, 179–181, 180
- camels at Assouan, C.B. Egypt diary sketch, 96
- Cameriere, Luigi, 115, 116
- Campbell, Alice, 53, 54, 120, 139, 142, 142–143, 207, 219n.229
- Capi (dog), 125, 146, 161, 195, 208
- Capitan, Louis, 137
- Capponi, Domenico, 79
- Capraia, Agricultural Penal Colony at, 147
- Carestia, Abbot Antonio, 148, 148
- Carroll, Lewis, 57, 59
- Cartailhac, Emile, 128, 135, 135–138, 155, 181
- Image of a bison at the Niaux cave, 137
- lampooned in La Guêpe, 136
- page in Book of Guests in Esperanto, 161, 165, 169
- visits C.B. in 1908, 187
- warned by C.B. about Steigelman, 189
- Casa Coraggio, 58–59, 59
- Casa di Provvidenza, Bordighera, 193
- Casa di Salute, Bordighera, 139
- Casa Fanshawe, Bordighera, 51, 139
- Casa Fontanalba, 125, 149–152
- Berrys allowed to continue using after C.B.’s death, 209
- furnishings, 154
- Luigi Pollini’s landscaping improvements to, 154
- map (Bicknell), 156M
- work begun on, 153
- The Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book (Bicknell), 151, 155,160–161, 160–162, 187, 219n.259
- reproduction published, 211
- casinos
- Monte Carlo, 44, 203
- Palais de Neptune, Boulogne, 177
- La Castellana di Montenero, 193
- Casterino, C.B. at, 114, 123–124, 170, 195, 197, 201. See also
- Casa Fontanalba
- Casterino Looking North 6.7.97 (Bicknell), 114
- cave paintings, 135–138, 137
- and the Casa Fontanalba wall images, 157
- Cavillier, Francois, 187
- Celesia, Emanuele, 119
- Centaurea montana L., 166
- Ceylon, C.B. and Luigi Pollini visit, 183–186
- Chef de Tribu (Head of the Tribe), petroglyph logged by Bicknell, 127
- Chesterton, G.K., 57
- Chiappes de Fontanalba, ii
- chickweed, grandiflora, 196
- Children of God, 23
- The Children’s Picture Book of Wild Plants (Bicknell), 165, 166, 167–168, 169
- Chippindale, Christopher, 117, 120, 121–122, 211, 212
- Christie’s auction, 18–19
- Church of England. See also Gibraltar, Anglican Bishop of
- Anglo-Catholic parishes, 21
- C.B. baptised into, 17
- Temperance Society, 27. See also Guild of the Holy Redeemer
- Cima Bicknell, Ceylon peak, 186, 186
- Cirsium, 148, 196
- Clematis cirrhosa, 129
- Cliffs at Finalmarina (Bicknell), 54
- climate change, C.B.’s awareness of, 133
- Climbing a Pyramid (Abdullah bros.), 91
- Clough, Arthur Hugh, 13
- Cocos nucifera, 184
- Collins, William, 4
- Column Hall of the Temple of Karnak/Egypt in 1838 (Roberts), 97
- Combarelles, cave paintings at, 136, 137
- Compositae, 144
- confession, 23
- Contributions to the flora of Mentone (Moggridge), 64
- Convulsionists, 23
- Convulvulus, 184
- Cook, Thomas, 88, 94, 105
- Cope, Annie Jordan, 154
- Corbet, Rev. Rowland, 23, 24, 24, 26, 28, 44
- and Guild of the Holy Redeemer, 27, 29
- visits Italian Riviera, 28
- visits Villa Rosa, spring 1878, 48
- Corbet, Richard, 24
- Corbet, Sir Reginald and Lady Alice, 25–26
- Corinth, Lovis, 56
- Corsica, C. B. visits, 43, 134-135
- Cowper-Temple, Georgina, 29, 29, 30
- Cowper-Temple, William, 29, 29
- Crane, Walter, 158, 165
- Crowther, Bingham, 153, 154
- Crowther, William, 154
- Croydon High School for Girls, 105
- Cupid (Baily), 7
- Cypripedium calceolus, 130, 130
- Cytisus Sessilifolius (Bicknell), 204
- D’Alberti della Briga, Count Guido, 153, 209
- Damon, Pierre, 76
- dandelion, 200, 200. See also Triumph of the Dandelion
- Darwin, Charles, 20, 28, 64, 82, ix
- De Amicis, Edmondo, 59
- de Burgh Daly, Eileen, 176, 197
- de Burgh Daly, Muriel, 143
- de Laurens, Honore, see Laurenti, Onorato
- de Montfort, Pierre, 111
- Dendera, temple of, 95–96
- Denning, Stephen Poyntz, 2, 4
- Deposition (Biesbroeck), 195
- The Descent of Man (Darwin), 28
- Descharmes, Helene, 5. See also Brown(e), Eleanor
- Desmond, Rev. Henry Maxwell Egan, 140
- Dessaint, Madame, 59
- di Paoli, Bruna, 212
- Dickens, Charles, ix, 1, 7, 45, 53
- Dickinson, Dr Frances May, Lady Berry, 114, 115, 116
- Dieck, Herr (naturalist), 113
- Dissenters, 21. See also non-conformists
- Doctor Antonio (Ruffini), 34, 46
- donkey sketch, from C.B.’s Egypt diary, 96
- Don Pasquale (Donizetti), 46
- Dorfler, Ignaz, 149, 190
- D’Orsay, Count (Alfred Guillaume Gabriel Grimod
- D’Orsay), 9, 10
- dowsing, 30
- Dr Laing’s school, 4, 8
- Drummond, Samuel, 5, 6
- Dufeutrel, Victor, 177
- du Maurier, George, 45
- Durand-Ruel, Monet letter to, 54–55
- Duse, Eleanora, 120
- Dutton, Betty, 25
- Dutton, Tom, 25, 25
- Earthquake Help Committee, 81
- earthquakes
- of December 1908, 187–188
- Liguria, of 1887, 79–82, 80
- Senboku, of 1914, 188
- Ecclesiastical History (Sozomen), 90
- Echium vulgare, 166
- eclipse, solar, of May 1900, 131
- Edison phonograph, 131
- Edwards, Rev. J., C.B. attends school of, 13
- Egadi Islands, C.B.’s 1898 visit to, 129
- Egan, Ethel, 196
- Egan (later Egan Desmond), Rev. Henry Maxwell, 15, 85, 140
- Egypt
- C.B.’s diary of trip to, 86–104, 217–218n.146
- legend of St Ampelio, 33
- Petrie’s Arts and Crafts of Ancient Egypt, 158
- revisited by C.B., 132
- St Peter’s Square obelisk, 33
- Eiffel tower, C.B.’s ascent of, 131
- Elche, C.B.’s trip to, 131
- Elhanan Bicknell (Drummond), 6
- Elliott, Clarence, 149, 150, 151
- Emanuele, Dr Boris, 207
- Emelia Russell Gurney (Watts), 48
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 62
- Empson, Captain, 77
- England to Bordighera, map, 32M
- The English Church and the Tennis Club in about 1905 (Migliarini), 42
- The English Church in Bordighera (Benigni), 40
- English Lending Library, Bordighera, 77. See also International Civic Library
- The English Rock-Garden (Farrer), 151
- Eryngium giganteum, 141–142, 142
- Esneh, C.B.’s architectural sketches of, 98
- The Esperantist, journal, 176
- Esperanto, 8, 173–182
- Barcelona congress, 181
- Bern congress, 197
- Bordighera group, 179, 180
- Boulogne congress, 135, 135, 142, 177
- in Casa Fontanalba decor, 157, 158
- C.B. teaches, 144
- C.B’s hymns, 179
- concert in Alassio, 1907, 138
- Cracow congress, 181
- Geneva conference, 142
- Paris congress, 181, 182
- postcards to Sommier and Burnat, 176
- speakers active on Malta, 144
- translations into, by Rosa Junck and C.B., 142
- in Villa Rosa decor, 159–160
- Zamenhof invents, 173–174
- Essex, whaler, sinking of, 12
- Etty, William, 4, 7
- Euphrasia bicknellii, 132
- Evans, Sir Arthur, 134
- Eve Listening to the Voice (Baily), 7
- evolution, 23, 28. See also Darwin
- Expositions Universelles, Paris
- of 1878, 34–35
- of 1900, 131
- Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, cave paintings at, 136, 157
- The Fallacy of Hope (d’Orsay), 10
- Fanshawe, Rev. Charles, 36
- Fanshawe, Rosa, 28–29, 36, 43, 45, 51
- Farm and hay stooks in Val Casterino (Bicknell), 118
- Farrer, Minna, 151
- Farrer, Reginald, 117, 149, 149–152, 183, 184–185, 211–212
- feluccas, C.B.’s diary sketches of, 93, 94, 97, 99, 100
- Ferguson, Charlotte Haddon, 185, 186
- Ferguson, John, 185
- Ficus macrophylla, 74, 75, 129
- Fielding, Copley, 19
- Fildes, Luke, 45
- Finalmarina, C.B. views petroglyphs near, 53–54
- Flammarion, Camille, 131
- Flaxman, John, 7
- Flora of Bordighera and San Remo (Bicknell), 67, 68
- Flore Analytique du Département des Alpes-Maritimes (Arduino), 67
- Florio, M., 129
- La floro de l’pasinto (De Amicis), 142
- Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Riviera and Neighboring Mountains (Bicknell), 65, 66, 67
- Flowering Plants of the Riviera (Thompson), 159
- Fodere, Francois Emmanuel, 113
- Folli, Gisella Merello, 213
- Fontana, Domenico, 38
- Fontanalba petroglyphs, ii, 118–120, 124–128, 189, 203
- Font-de-Gaume, cave paintings at, 136, 137
- Fratelli Jung, 129
- Fritillary, kaleidoscopic floral pattern (Bicknell), 171
- Fumaria, 144
- Fundamento de Esperanto (Zamenhof ), 177
- Further Explorations in the Regions of the Prehistoric Rock
- Engravings in the Italian Maritime Alps (Bicknell), 128
- Gainsborough, Thomas, 7
- Gandolfi, Daniela, 212
- Garnier, Charles, 41, 45, 45, 56, 193, 195
- Garnier, Christian, 42
- Garulli, Marta, 212
- Gastaldi, Giovenale, 73
- Geneva, Esperanto conference, 142
- Geneva Botanical Garden, 212
- Gentian, kaleidoscopic floral pattern (Bicknell), 170
- George, Grand Duke, 88
- George V, crowned king of England, 165
- Germany and the Next War (Bernhardt), 201
- giant sea holly, 141–142
- Giardini Botanici Hanbury, La Mortola, 74
- Gibelli, Carlotta, 83, 84, 195
- Gibelli, Emma and Ida, 84, 195
- Gibelli, Giuseppe, 120
- Gibelli, Pietro, 67, 127
- Gibraltar
- Anglican Bishop of, 39, 41, 48–49
- C.B. collects specimens at, 138
- Giffard, Henri, 35
- Gioffreddo, Pierre, 112–113
- Giovanelli, Francesco, 73
- Giovanni (Villa Rosa staff ), 41, 43
- Giovanni, Degioanini, 50
- Girling, Mary Ann, 23, 30
- Girlingites, 23
- Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio (Turner), 5, 5, 19
- Glasgow Botanical Gardens, suffragist bombings at, 200
- Globularia, alypum L., 143
- Gloriosa, 186
- Glossostemon bruguieri, 35
- Going, Rev. John, 21, 22, 22, 24–25
- gout, 35, 109, 197
- SS Great Britain, ix
- The Great Sphinx at Giza (Bicknell), 90
- Great War, see World War I
- Great Western Railway, ix
- Groves, Henry, 104
- Gruppo Milanese per l’Esperanto, 178
- Grusardi, Professor (Italian tutor), 43
- La Guêpe, Cartailhac lampooned in, 136
- A Guide to the Prehistoric Rock Carvings of the Italian Maritime Alps (Bicknell), 111
- Guild of the Holy Redeemer (Temperance Society chapter), 27, 28, 29
- Guillaume, Monsieur (tutor), 1
- Gurney, Alfred, 48
- Gurney, Edmund, 48
- Gurney, Emelia Russell, 29–30, 48, 48
- Hamilton, Frederick Fitzroy, 53
- Hamma, Botanical Garden of, 129
- Hammond, James Lempriere, 20
- Hanbury, Carolyn, 213
- Hanbury, Sir Thomas, 73, 74, 138, 141
- Handbook of British Ferns (Moore), 27
- hawkweed, see Hieracium
- Head of the Tribe (Chef de Tribu), petroglyph logged by Bicknell, 127
- heelball, 121
- Helen (Baily), 7
- Hermit of the Thebaid, 48
- Herne Hill, 4, 7
- facade, 3
- garden, 3, 4
- ‘grand dance’of 1853 at, 13–14
- residents as of 1851 census, 12
- Hieracium, 114, 149
- Hill, Elizabeth, 14–15
- Histoire des Alpes Maritimes (Gioffreddo), 112–113
- Hitchcock, Don, 219n.215
- Hogarth, J., 9
- Holme, Charles, 158
- Holy Land, C.B. visits, 132
- Horatio (Baily), 7
- Horus, Edfou temple of, 98
- Hoschede, Alice, 54, 55
- Hotel Angst, 203, 203. See also Angst, Adolph
- Howe, Lord Richard, 74
- How to Understand Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen
- (Kobbe), 113
- Huggins, William John, 6, 10
- Hunter, Katherine, 5
- Hymnody, Esperanto, C. B.’s, 179
- Image of a bison in the Niaux cave (Cartailhac), 137
- Imperiale, Antonio, 36, 41, 43, 46, 59
- In Old Ceylon (Farrer), 183
- The Interior of the Museo Bicknell (Benigni), 77
- International Civic Library, Bordighera, 77, 78
- International Esperanto congresses
- Barcelona, 181
- Bern, 197
- Boulogne, 176–177, 178
- Cambridge, 179–181
- Cracow, 181
- Geneva, 179
- Paris, 182
- In the Track of the Garibaldians Through Italy and Sicily (Bicknell), 108
- Ireland, C.B.’s views on home rule in, 192
- Iridomyrmex bicknelli, 153
- Issel, Arturo, 53–54, 78, 80, 116, 116, 120
- joins C.B.at Fontanalba, 127
- C.B.’s poker-work bowl for, 131
- Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri (IISL), 56
- Italo-Turkish War, 191–192, 201
- Jamtland, Guckusko, 130
- Jannetta (Villa Rosa cook), 41, 43
- Jeffrey, William, 57
- Jekyll, Gertrude, 141–142
- Jenkins, Henrietta, 34
- Jones, Louisa Holland, 12. See also Bicknell, Louisa Holland Jones
- Jones, Maria Pia Luly, 213
- Jones, Mary, 7
- Jopling, Louise Jane, 45, 45, 52–53
- Jopling, Percy, 52–53
- Journal de Bordighera, 125, 176
- Junck, Rosa, 139, 142, 176, 177, 180, 197
- Jung, Leopoldo, 129
- Kalbfussia, 133–134
- kaleidoscope, 170
- Karnak, temple of, 97, 97
- Kaser, Mr. (Zurich botanist), 149
- Keble, John, 21
- Kempe, Charles Eames, 22, 25
- Kew Gardens, 132, 148, 183, 200, 220n.273
- Kimishima, Dr (Esperantist), 181, 188
- Klek, Eugen, 149
- Knossos, C.B. sees artefacts of, at Oxford, 134
- Konig, Herr (cornettist), 14
- Kropotkin, Peter, 28, 199, 199–200
- Kropotkin, Sophia Grigorievna, 199, 199–200
- Lac Long, 112
- Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium calceolus), 130
- Lafayette, James ( James Stack Lauder), photographer, 114
- Lago Verde, August 11, 1897 (Bicknell), 119
- Laing, Dr, 12. See also Dr Laing’s school
- Landseer, Edwin Henry, 4, 8, 9, 10
- Langton, Hannah Wootton, 6. See also Bicknell, Hannah
- Langton, John Bicknell, 6
- Langton, John Walter, 6
- Langton & Bicknell, whaling firm, 6–7
- Language Committee, 1907 Cambridge Esperanto congress, 179
- Lanney, William, 154
- Lanteri, Signor (builder), 153
- lantern slide shows, 77
- Laurenti, Onorato, 113
- Lawless, Emily, 56
- Laying of the Foundation Stone of Monte Verde, 1904, 140
- Leach, Lucy and Fanny, 87, 90, 102
- Leach, Roberts Valentine, 87
- Lear, Edward, 56, 73
- Le Lievre, Audrey, 141
- Leo (dog), 161
- Lester, Valerie, 211
- letters, C. B.’s
- to Alberto Pelloux, 126, 142, 145, 161, 201, 202, 203
- to Arturo Issel, 53–54, 116, 120
- to Baroness von Taube, 62, 191–192, 193, 194, 196, 197–198, 200
- to Burnat, 68, 70, 72, 78, 81, 82, 83, 85, 89, 101, 104, 105, 106, 109, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 123, 125, 126, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 138, 140, 144, 147, 148, 149, 153, 155, 157, 159, 170, 176, 179, 181, 183, 184, 186, 187, 188, 191, 197, 200, 201, 202. See also Bicknell-to-Burnat letters
- to Cartailhac, 136, 137–138, 181, 189
- to Caterina Pelloux, 201
- to E.H. Berry, about wartime conditions, 203
- to Louisa MacDonald, 57–58
- to Margaret and E.E. Berry, 181, 195
- to Salomon Reinach, 138
- to Stefano Sommier, 144, 198–199, 212
- letters, others’
- Albert Pelloux to his mother, 158
- Baroness von Taube to C.B., 194
- Cartailhac to C.B., 186
- Edward E. Berry to Burnat, 207
- Lilia MacDonald to Jane Unwin, 62
- Margaret Berry, to Rosa Fanshawe Walker, 123–125
- Monet to Alice Hoschede, 54, 55
- Monet to Durand-Ruel, 54–55
- Lewis, C.S., 57
- Libera (domestic), 123, 124
- The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter, 82
- Life & Form (Crane), 158
- Lightfoot, Rev. Joseph Barber, 20, 20
- Liguria earthquake of 1887, 79–82, 80
- Linda di Chamounix (Donizetti), ix
- Linnaeus, Carl, 63
- Lohengrin (Wagner), 113
- Lourdes, C.B.’s visit to, 194
- Lowe, Charles Henry, 45
- Luther, Martin, 20
- Luxor, temple of, 96–97
- Luxor by moonlight, C.B.’s Egypt diary sketch, 100
- MacDonald, George, 30, 56–62, 57, 80
- in Book of Guests in Esperanto, 169. See also Casa Coraggio
- MacDonald, Grace, 60
- MacDonald, Greville, 53, 60, 62, 158
- MacDonald, Lilia, 62, 80
- MacDonald, Louisa Powell, 30, 53, 57, 57–58, 62, 80. See also Casa Coraggio
- MacDonald, Mary, 58
- MacDonald, Maurice, 58
- MacDonald, Robert Falconer, 153, 158
- MacDonald, Ronald, 59
- Maddalena (cook), 114, 123, 124, 126, 161, 197, 207
- Mader, Dr Fritz, 118–120, 186, 186–187, 202
- Madrid, C.B.’s visit to, 194
- Magazzino per Tutti, Bordighera, 84, 84
- magic lanterns, C.B.’s, 201. See also lantern slide shows
- Magrini, Signor (tutor), 11
- Mahdi (dog), 120, 142, 142, 143, 146, 146, 161
- Majorca, C.B. visits, 70, 72, 130, 137
- Malta, C.B.’s and Luigi Pollini’s 1910 visit, 144
- Maori jade pendants, C.B.’s, 186, 186
- Marconi, Guglielmo, 133
- Mariani, Pompeo, 56
- Mariette, Auguste, 101
- Mariotti, Mauro, 213
- Maritime Alps, map of, 69M
- marmots, 118, 125
- Le Marriage forcé (Moliere), 177
- The Marvels of Clarence Bicknell (film), 211
- Mary (English girl at Villa Rosa), 41
- Mattirolo, Oreste, 154
- Medicago poppies, 134
- Melville, Herman, 12
- Mendel, Gregor, 64
- Migliarini, Sandro, 42
- Millais, John Everett, 45, 45
- Mines Act of 1842, ix
- ‘Miss Willmott’s Ghost’ (giant sea holly), 141–142, 142
- Moby-Dick (Melville), 12
- Modern British Domestic Architecture and Decoration (Holme), 158
- Moggridge, John Traherne, 64–65, 65, 113
- Moggridge, Matthew, 65, 113
- Moggridge, Matthew Weston, 65
- Mollard, Amedee Jean, 137
- Monet, Claude, 54–56
- Monet, née Hoschede, Alice, 54, 55
- Mont Bego, 112, 159
- region, map of, 110M
- Mont Clapier, 112
- Monte Carlo, C.B. visits casino, 44, 203
- Monte Cristallo, Cortina d’Ampezzo, 30 July 1904 (Bicknell), 133
- Montfort, Pierre de, 218n.152
- Montserrat, C.B.’s visit to, 70
- Moore, Thomas, 27
- Moreno, Luca, 213
- Moreton Bay fig, see Ficus macrophylla
- Morris, Jane, 53
- Morris, Rev F.O., 30
- Morris, William, 53, 153, 158, 169
- Morse, Herbert George, 21
- Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo, 1838 (Roberts), 89
- A Mosque outside Cairo (Bicknell), 89
- Mouchot, Augustin, 35
- Mount Pedro, Ceylon, 184
- Mount-Temple, William and Georgina, 29. See also
- Cowper-Temple, Georgina; Cowper-Temple, William
- Mummery, Alfred, 159
- Museo Bicknell, 75, 76, 77, 82, 142, 142, 203, 209
- Nabucco (Verdi), ix
- Negrino, Fabio, 131
- Nelson’s Column Horatio (Baily), 7
- Nestel, Hermann, 56, 56
- New Forest Shakers, 23, 30. See also Girling, Mary Ann
- Newman, John Henry, 21
- New Museum, see Museo Bicknell
- New Zealand, 7–8, 51, 77, 186
- Niaux, cave paintings at, 136, 137, 137–138, 157
- Nicholas, Russian heir apparent, 88
- Ninety-five Theses, Luther’s, 20
- non-conformists, religious, 13. See also Dissenters burial of, 11
- Novello, Clara, 14
- nuraghi, 133
- Nuwara Eliya, 184, 185
- Nymphaea, 184
- Observations on the Natural History of the Sperm Whale (Beale), 10, 12
- Odelli, Dr, 199
- Oliphant, Mrs (Margaret), 56
- On Board P&O’s Hydaspes, Brindisi to Alexandria, 8–13 December 1889 (Bicknell), 88
- On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 20, 28
- PS Oonas, 94
- The Orchid Thief (Orlean), 63
- Orlean, Susan, 63
- Ortica, 148
- Our Nest, Biesbroeck’s villa, 195
- Oxalis libyca, 144
- Oxford, C.B.’s 1904 visit to, 134
- Oxford Movement, 20–21
- Palais de Neptune casino, Boulogne, 177
- Palestrina (Turner), 19
- Panza, Franck, 213
- parhelia, 53
- Paris. See also Expositions Universelles
- Esperanto congress of 1914, 181, 182
- Parrett, Frederick, 34–36, 37, 39, 44, 46–47, 139
- Parry, John, 14
- Parsifal (Wagner), 113
- Pasteur, Louis, 76, 80
- Patrick, Misses and Mrs, 41
- Peake, Desiree and Percy, 157
- Peasant Arts Society, 158
- Pellegrino, Arturo, 114, 123–125, 147, 153
- house staff photo with C.B., 115
- Pelloux, Alberto, 126, 134, 134, 145, 158, 161, 193, 201, 202, 161, 203
- Pelloux, Caterina, 201
- Peradeniya Garden, 184, 185, 185
- Pere Lachaise Cemetery, C.B.’s visit to, 35
- Perugini, ‘Kitty,’ 45
- Petrie, Flinders, 158
- petroglyphs, 111, 122
- and C.B.’s reputation as archaeologist, 209
- defaced by Stiegelman, 189
- enhanced clarity of, in photographs, 201
- at Finalmarina, 53–54
- at Fontanalba, 118–120, 121, 124–128, 189, 203
- images on walls of Casa Fontanalba, 157
- method of carving, 117, 117–118, 118
- museum’s 1903 display of Luigi Pollini’s and C.B.’s images of, 147
- near Casterino, 197. See also petroglyphs: at
- Fontanalba
- sent by C.B. to British Museum, 121
- Vallee des Merveilles, 89, 111–116, 117–128
- Peyrony, Denis, 137
- Phillips, Thomas, 2
- ‘Phiz’ (Hablot K. Browne), 1, 7, 7, 45, 211, 215n.1, ix
- Phoenix dactylifera, 33
- Piacenza, Ursula Salghetti Drioli, 213
- Piana, Giuseppe, 56
- Pic d’Adam, Ceylon, 184
- Pickwick Papers trial scene, Esperanto performance of, 180
- Pidurutalagala, mountain (Ceylon), 184
- The Pilgrim’s Progress, MacDonalds’ Casa Corragio
- production, 62
- Pimpinella bicknellii, 63, 70, 71, 72, 130, 190, 191
- Pius IX, Pope, 24
- poker work, C. B.’s, 130–131, 131
- Pollini, Celestino, 124
- Pollini, Clarenza, 51
- Pollini, Giacomo, 51, 70, 82, 87, 92, 95, 102, 197, 198
- Pollini, Luigi, 51
- assists C.B. in preparing specimens for shipment, 147
- with C.B. at Casa Fontanalba, 1907, 170
- cares for C.B. during illness, 199–200
- at C.B.’s 68th birthday, 146
- at C.B.’s 74th birthday, 197
- at C.B.’s 74th birthday dinner, 197
- courts and marries Mercede, 126–127, 135
- and death of the Misses Bicknell’s maid, 133
- farewell to C.B. in Casa Fontanalba Visitors’ Book, 205, 206, 207
- inherits C.B.’s magic lanterns, 201
- landscaping improvements to Casa Fontanalba, 154
- learns Esperanto, 176
- at Pellegrino house, 114, 115, 123, 124
- Le Sorcier, petroglyph photo, 123
- travels with C.B., 70, 120, 120, 129–130, 130, 132, 134–135, 138, 144, 153, 177, 179, 181, 194, 195
- Pollini, Marianna, 51
- Pollini, Mercede, 126, 126–127, 146, 153, 161, 176, 179, 181, 195, 197, 207
- Popism, 23
- Porra, Franca, 212
- The Posy (Bicknell), 165, 167
- Potentilla grammopetala, 148
- Prain, Sir David, 183
- The Prehistoric Rock Engravings in the Italian Maritime Alps (Bicknell), 126, 127, 127, 128
- Premble, John, 19
- Primula marginata, 151
- Psalliota xanthoderma (Bicknell), 196
- Psyche (Baily), 7
- Puller, Frederick William, 21
- Punch and Judy show, Esperanto, 180
- Purcell, Henry, 27
- Pusey, Edward, 21
- Pylon of the Temple of Horus at Edfou (Bicknell), 98
- Pyne, Louisa, 14
- pyramids, C.B.’s diary sketches of, 90
- Re, Marco, 132, 213
- Reclus, Elisee, 113
- Red Cross, C.B.’s volunteer work for, 202–203
- Reform Act of 1832, 21
- Reinach, Salomon, 138
- religion, see Bicknell, Clarence: religious practice and speculations; Church of England; Dissenters; nonconformists; Roman Catholicism; Unitarianism
- Renoir, Auguste, 54
- retsina, 102
- revalenta Arabica, 35
- La Revuo, Esperanto literary journal, 179
- The Rhinegold (Wagner), English libretto, 113
- Rhododendron arboretum, 186
- Riscosso, Elena, 212
- Rivers of France panels, Herne Hill (Turner), 5
- Rivington, Luke, 23
- Robber (dog), 123, 125, 140
- Roberts, Christine, 4, 89
- Roberts, David, 4, 7, 12, 15
- Column Hall of the Temple of Karnak, 97
- Mosque of Sultan Hassan, 89
- rock carvings, see petroglyphs
- Rock engravings ‘near the upper margheria’ (attr. Benigni),
- 119
- rock gardening, 150
- Rocks near St Ampelio’s Church (Bicknell), 38
- Roman Catholicism
- Lucinda Holland Bicknell a convert to, 11
- and the Reform Act of 1832, 21
- Rome, visited by C.B. with Nora, 196
- Ross, Thomas, 154
- Rossi, Pier, 213
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 53
- Rowling, J.K., 57
- Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, 132, 183, 200, 220n.273
- Rubus, 148
- Ruffini, Giovanni, 34, 46, 46
- Rumex alpina, 155
- Ruskin, John, 4, 9, ix
- Ruskin, John James, 10
- Ruslan and Ludmilla (Glinka), ix
- Russo, Giovanni, 212, 221
- sacred footprint, Ceylon, 184
- Sadler, Walter Dendy, 26, 26
- Saint Ampelio Chapel, Bordighera, 37, 37
- Saint Ampelio Church on Cape Bordighera, watercolour, 34
- Sainte-Lucie (Bicknell), 178
- Salon Noir, Niaux cave, 137–138
- Salvia pratensis L., 166
- Samuel Enderby, whaling ship, 12
- San Bartolomeo di Pesio, C.B. visits, 82, 83
- San Bartolomeo di Pesio (Bicknell), 83
- Sanford, Frank, 158
- sanguine chalk technique, 195, 195
- San Remo Opera Orchestra, 131
- Santa Maria Maddalena, church of, Bordighera, 40
- Sargent, John Singer, 45
- The Sasso Valley (Nestel), 56
- Sautuola, Marcelino Sanz de, 136
- Sautuola, Maria de, 136
- Saxifraga florulenta, 116, 117
- Scilla nutans, 145
- Seti, temple of, at Abydos, 100–101
- She Stoops to Conquer, Esperanto performance of, 180
- Shropshire Giant (Tom Dutton), 25, 25
- Sicily, C.B.’s 1898 visit to, 129
- Siegfried (Wagner), English libretto, 113
- Sir James Berry (Lafayette), 114
- SIRT tennis racquet factory, 42
- The SIRT tennis racquet makers at Bordighera (Benigni), 42
- Sitwell, Osbert, 150
- Sixtus V, Pope, 38
- Slocombe, Henry, 26, 26
- Snow Storm – Steam−boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (Turner), ix
- Società Botanica Italiana, 133, 147–148
- Società pel Bene Pubblico, 70
- Societas Sancti Spiritus, 24, 26–27, 34, 57, 186
- Society for Psychical Research, 30, 131
- Society for the Protection of Animals, Bordighera, 78
- Society of St John the Evangelist, Oxford, 23, 24
- Soggiorno a Bordighera (Villari), 67
- solar eclipse of May 1900, 131
- solar-powered engine, Mouchot’s, 35
- Sommier, Stefano, 133, 144, 147, 148, 176, 198–199, 212
- Le Sorcier, petroglyph photo (L. Pollini), 123
- A South Sea Whaling Voyage (Beale), 6
- sperm whale fishery, 6–7
- sphagnum moss, 203
- spiritualism, 30
- Sri Lanka, see Ceylon
- Sri Pada, see Pic d’Adam
- Stafford, Charles Egerton, Fiennes, 57
- Stanfield, George Clarkson, 4, 7
- Statue of Liberty, head exhibited in Paris, 1878, 35
- Stiegelman, Adolphe, 189
- Stoke-upon-Tern, 24–29, 34, 44, 49, 52, 57, 103, 107
- St Joseph’s Home for the Aged Poor, 193, 195
- Stone, Marcus, 45
- St Paul’s Church, Lorrimore Square, 21, 21–23, 24–25
- St Peter’s Church, Stoke-upon-Tern, 24, 25, 26–27. See also Societas Sancti Spiritus
- C.B.’s watercolour of, 24
- Street, George Edmund, 37
- Stubberd, Miss, teaches C.B. to crochet, 41
- summitates, 65
- sundogs, see parhelia
- swimming
- C.B.’s, as therapy, 41, 47
- Parrett’s lessons from C.B., 37, 39
- Symonds, John Addington, 19
- Tait, Clarence, 73
- tango, 198
- Tannhäuser (Wagner), 113
- Taraxacum vulgare (Bicknell), 168. See also dandelion
- Tasmania, 153–154
- Tea room, Bordighera, 56, 176
- telephone, Bell’s, at 1878 Exposition Universelle, 35
- Temperance Society, Church of England, 27. See also Guild of the Holy Redeemer
- Temple of Dendera (Bicknell), 95
- tennis, 41–42
- Tennis Club, Bordighera, 41–42, 42
- Tennis net under olive trees (attr. to Trachsel), 42
- Terme d’Acqui, 82
- Terrasanta Church, 193, 195
- Il Terremoto del 1887 in Liguria (Issel), 80
- Terry, Dr (dentist), 47
- Tessitore, Signor (organist), 43
- Test Garden, Algiers, 129
- Thackeray, William Makepeace, 28
- Thomas Cook & Sons, 88
- Nile tour literature, 92
- Thompson, Harold Stuart, 159, 159, 176
- Thunbergia, 184
- Thursday (Monks Fishing) (Slocombe, after Sadler), 26, 26
- Tindall, Joseph, 23
- SS Titanic sinking, 194
- ‘To Autumn’ (Keats), 179
- toilet, Casa Fontanalba, 159
- Tolkien, J.R.R., 57
- Tonkin, Humphrey, 179
- Tooth Relic, Ceylon, 184
- Trachsel, Albert, 42
- Tractarianism, 20–21, 22. See also Oxford Movement
- Train arriving at Bordighera (Benigni), 87
- Trinity College, Cambridge, 17, 19, 19–21
- The Triumph of the Dandelion, 165, 168, 169
- Trot (dog), 41
- Tunis, C.B. and Luigi Pollini visit, 144
- Turner, Cornelia, 34
- Turner, J.M.W., 4–5, 5, 9–10, 12, 18–19, 35
- The Blue Rigi, Sunrise, ix
- Giudecca, 5, 5
- Landseer’s sketch of, 9, 10
- and Melville’s Moby-Dick, 12
- Whalers painting series, 6, 9–10, 10
- Twelfth Night, MacDonalds’ Casa Corragio production, 62
- The Twilight of the Gods (Wagner), English libretto, 113
- Umberto, King, survives assassination attempt, 46
- Unitarianism, 6, 8
- University College London, 11
- Unua Libro (Zamenhof ), 174
- Unwin, Jane, 62
- Vaccari, Lino, 201
- Val Casterino, sketch of (Bickford), 195
- Val d’Inferno, 112
- Val Fontanalba, 126
- petroglyphs of, see Fontanalba petroglyphs
- The Valkyries (Wagner), English libretto, 113
- Vallee des Merveilles (Valle delle Meraviglie), 89
- C.B. collects botanical specimens in, 13
- petroglyphs, 111–116
- Valley of the Kings, 96
- Val Pesio, 130
- Varesi, Mercede, see Pollini, Mercede
- vasculum, 64
- vegetarianism, 13
- vellum-bound albums, C.B.’s, 107, 160–172, 161–172, 210
- Vernham, J.E., 22
- Viale, Padre Giacomo, 40, 40–41, 193, 194
- Biesbroeck’s bust of, 195
- Victoria, Queen, ix
- Vilanova y Piera, Juan, 136
- Villa Bischoffsheim, 76
- Villa Diana, San Remo, 57
- Villa Elena, Bordighera, 51
- Villa Monte Verde, 140, 140, 141
- Villa Patrick, 58
- Villari, Linda, 60, 67
- Villa Rosa, 36–37, 37, 159
- bought by C.B., 51, 57
- C.B.’s initial stay at, 38–49
- Villas at Bordighera (Monet), 55
- Villes d’Hiver (Reclus), 113
- ’La vojo’ (Zamenhof ), 177
- von Jawlensky, Alexej, 56
- von Keyserling, Count Alexander Friedrich, 143
- von Kleudgen, Baron Friedrich, 56, 193, 201
- von Taube, Baroness Helene, 139, 143–146, 182, 189, 190, 191
- C.B. introduces her to his sister Lucinda, 196
- letters from C.B. to, 197–198
- von Taube, Baron Otto, 143, 144, 189, 190
- von Taube, Helene (daughter), 143, 189, 191, 192
- von Taube, Otto (son), 143
- Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin), ix
- Voysey, Charles, 158, 165
- Walker, Dr Sanderson W.M.F., 37
- Walker, Rosa Fanshawe, 36, 37, 131, 139
- acquires Casa Fanshawe, 51
- letters from Margaret Berry, 123–125
- Walworth (London), 21–27, 30, 46, 57, 107
- Watkins & Doncaster, naturalists, 76
- Watts, G.F., 48
- Weapons and implements (Bicknell plate), 127
- The Whale (Melville), 12. See also Moby-Dick
- The Whalers (Huggins), 6, 10
- Whalers painting series (Turner), 9–10, 10
- Whalers (The Whale Ship) (Turner), 10
- whaling, 6, 6–7, 12, 15
- Whistler, James McNeill, 45
- White, James Walter, 149, 176
- Wigan, Alfred, 8
- Williams, Dr (Elhanan Bicknell’s physician), 15
- Williams, Misses (singers), 14
- Willis, J.C., 184, 185
- Willmott, Ellen, 139, 141, 141–142, 142
- Winchester, Elhanan, 6
- The Wisteria on the face of the Museo Bicknell (Benigni), 75
- Wisteria sinensis, 75, 75
- Wodehouse, P.C., 57
- women
- on bicycles, at Oxford, 134
- C.B.’s attitude to suffrage for, 200
- C.B.’s relations with, 139–146. See also individually named female relatives and friends
- wood sorrel, 144
- World War I, C.B.’s distaste for, 200–201
- Worshipful Company of Vintners, Elhanan Bicknell’s
- wardenship of, 2, 4
- Yellow-Stainer, mushroom, 196
- Zamenhof, Clara, 178, 178
- Zamenhof, Ludovik Lazarus (Ludwig), 173–174, 177, 178
- Zeiten, steamship, 186
- Zeni, Pietro, 78, 78, 114
- End
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