b
Conservative weekly magazine established in 1828.
c
John Ruskin (1819-1900), English writer, art critic, and social reformer.
d
Walking stick made from an Asian rattan palm.
e
Baron Robert Clive (1725-1774) was governor of Bengal, a province of British India.
f
Tite Street lies to the east and Cadogan Square to the north of the Hilberys’ home in Chelsea.
g
Elegant neighborhood to the north of Chelsea.
h
We later learn (p. 333) that the photographs were taken at Oxford University, which Ralph attended.
i
In London’s Westminster Abbey; the burial place of many renowned English writers, including Chaucer, Tennyson, Dickens, Kipling, and Hardy.
j
Light, two-wheeled covered carriage with an elevated driver’s seat at the rear.
k
County on the eastern coast of England.
l
For more on the Hilbery home in Cheyne Walk, see the Introduction, p. xvii.
m
Street in London’s West End, northeast of Chelsea.
n
Hilly, usually treeless upland of Sussex, a county in southern England.
o
Otherwise known as “Big Ben”; its chimes still sound at every quarter hour.
p
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American poet, essayist, and philosopher who espoused self-reliance and individualism.
q
John Webster (c.1580-c.1625), English dramatist; Ben Jonson (1572-1637), English dramatist and poet.
r
Table (Latin); the ablative case (grammatical form) of a Latin noun generally expresses relations of separation and source, or cause and effect.
s
Street running along the River Thames in London’s West End.
t
Slang for the London Underground; the subway system started operation in 1863 as the world’s first underground railway.
u
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer.
v
The oldest part and financial district of London.
w
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English lexicographer, poet, and critic.
x
Three-volume edition of the works of English dramatist William Congreve (1670-1729), printed by the renowned English typographer John Baskerville (London: J. & R. Tonson, 1761).
y
