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|t Foreword /
|r A. S. Byatt --
|t 'Life: not an index' --
|g I.
|t Indexes in Fact --
|t Pre-19th century --
|g 1.
|t The first printed index: St. Augustine, De arte praedicandi (1427) --
|g 2.
|t Quaintness is all: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) --
|g 3.
|t Severest penalties incurred: William Prynne, Histrio-Mastix (1633) --
|g 4.
|t Questionable: Athenian Gazette (1691-97) --
|g 5.
|t One-man onslaught: Charles Boyle (1698) --
|g 6.
|t Tory history - Whig indexer: Laurence Echard, History of England (1718) --
|g 7.
|t Can it be so? William Hawkins, A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown (1724) --
|g 8.
|t All in the family: Roger North, The Lives of the Norths (1742-44) --
|g 9.
|t For the fair sex: Lady's Magazine (1742/1776) --
|g 10.
|t Nature notes with footnote: Gilbert White, History of Selborne (1789) --
|t 19th century --
|g 11.
|t Blackmail: Harriette Wilson, Memoirs (1831) --
|g 12.
|t Thinking it over: Sir Thomas Browne, The Works of (1835) --
|g 13.
|t Awful fates of authors: Isaac D'Israeli, Calamities of Authors (1840) --
|g 14.
|t Robust pamphleteering: Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850) --
|g 15.
|t Some have greatness thrust upon them: Lawbook --
|g 16.
|t Enhancing the text: John Ruskin, Fors Clavigera (1871-72) --
|g 17.
|t Prominence of inessentials: The Times index (1868) --
|g 18.
|t Erotic pedanty - or pedantic eroticism? Henry Ashbee, Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) --
|g 19.
|t Racy and racist: James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (1886) --
|g 20.
|t Domestic plus moral guidance: Enquire Within Upon Everything (1888) --
|g 21.
|t Index of an opium-eater: Thomas de Quincey, Collected Writings (1896-97) --
|t 20th century --
|g 22.
|t Vainglorious introduction: James Boswell: The Life of Samuel Johnson and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1900) --
|g 23.
|t Blanket pulping: Hilaire Belloc, Caliban's Guide to Letters (1903) --
|g 24.
|t Mythical indexing: Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough (1922) --
|g 25.
|t You are old, Father William ... A. Lapthorn Smith, How to be Useful and Happy from Sixty to Ninety (1922) --
|g 26.
|t Holiday exuberance: Norman Douglas, Together (1923) --
|g 27.
|t The index belligerent: Lloyd George, War Memoirs (1938) --
|g 28.
|t Shavian provocativeness: George Bernard Shaw, Prefaces (1934) --
|g 29.
|t What indexes! Independent indexing principles: A. P. Herbert, What a Word (1935); Independent Member (1952); The Thames (1966); Sundials - Old and New (1967) --
|g 30.
|t A discordant index: Donald Tovey, Essays in Musical Analysis (1935-39) --
|g 31.
|t Indexmanship: Stephen Potter, Gamesmanship (1947) --
|g 32.
|t Tale-telling: James Boswell, London Journal (1950) --
|g 33.
|t With tongue in (both) cheeks: G. V. Carey, Making an Index (1951) --
|g 34.
|t Droit de fille: Textbook of Pediatrics (1959) --
|g 35.
|t Let me help: W. E. Tate, The English Village Community and the Enclosure Movements (1967) --
|g 36.
|t Sequential subheadings: Desmond Ryan, The Fenian Chief: A Biography of James Stephens (1967) --
|g 37.
|t The hit direct: Bernard Levin, The Pendulum Years (1970) --
|g 38.
|t Indigestible index: Magnus Pyke, Man and Food (1970) --
|g 39.
|t The Frank Muir index: The Frank Muir Book: An Irreverent Companion to Social History (1976) --
|g 40.
|t Prejudicial introduction: Peter Schickele, The Definitive Biography of P. D. Q. Bach (1976) --
|g 41.
|t Forbearance: Hugh Vickers, Great Operatic Disasters (1979) --
|g 42.
|t Literally food for thought? Equality by Keith Joseph and Jonathan Sumption (1979) --
|g 43.
|t Egoism rampant: Joseph Bonnano, A Man of Honour (1983) --
|g 44.
|t Kiss and have it told: Pepys's Diary (1983 edition) --
|g 45.
|t It didn't work out that way ... Cerf and Navasky, The Experts Speak (1984) --
|g 46.
|t Monstrous entry: Guide to Britain's Nature Reserves (1984) --
|g 47.
|t Conductor's contempt: Hunter Davies, The Good Guide to the Lakes (1986) --
|g 48.
|t The terminology of the shrew: Dale Spender, Scribbling Sisters (1986) --
|g 49.
|t Cramming it onto a page: Patrick Barlow, All the World's a Globe, or from Lemur to Cosmonaut: Desmond Olivier Dingle's Concise History of the Human Race (1987) --
|g 50.
|t Guess who? A. Summers and S. Dorril, Honeytrap: The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward (1987) --
|g 51.
|t Political affiliation no secret: Paul Slansky, The Clothes Have No Emperor: The Reagan Years (1989) --
|g 52.
|t Nudge, nudge: Julian Barnes, Letters from London 1990-1995 (1995) --
|g 53.
|t No fury like it: Margaret Cook, A Slight and Delicate Creature (1999) --
|g 54.
|t Inveighing against the computer: Clifford Stoll, High Tech Heretic (1999) --
|t 21st century --
|g 55.
|t Invecticon: Nicolas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective (2000) --
|g 56.
|t Indexer manque: Bangkok Post Week in Review (2000) --
|g 57.
|t Look, you: Frewin Poffley, Greek Island Hopping (2001) --
|g II.
|t Fiction and Verse with Indexes --
|g 1.
|t 18th-century vindictive: Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1728) --
|g 2.
|t 'The bliss of excessive fondness': Samuel Richardson, Clarissa (1755) --
|g 3.
|t Hymnal half-lines (1873) --
|g 4.
|t Victorian whimsicality: Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno (1889/1893) --
|g 5.
|t Transindexuality: Virginia Woolf, Orlando (1928) --
|g 6.
|t Verse, bad - index, good: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee, The Stuffed Owl (1930) --
|g 7.
|t Misleading indexes: A. P. Herbert, More Misleading Cases et alia (1927-35) --
|g 8.
|t A clerihindex?: The Complete Cleribews of E. Cleribew Bentley (1951/1983) --
|g 9.
|t Editorial usurpation: Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962) --
|g 10.
|t Surreal complexity: Georges Perec, Life: a User's Manual: Fictions (1970) --
|g 11.
|t First and last lines: Ogden Nash, Selected Poems (1975) --
|g 12.
|t The subject elusive: anti-index: Malcolm Bradbury, My Strange Quest for Mensonge (1987) --
|g 13.
|t Para-index: Lucy Ellmann, Sweet Desserts (1988) --
|g 14.
|t Narrative by index: J. G. Ballard, War Fever (1990) --
|g III.
|t Indexes in Fiction --
|g 1.
|t Official strictures: Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington (1862) --
|g 2.
|t Indexer brought down by alcoholism: Anthony Trollope, 'The Spotted Dog' (1870) --
|g 3.
|t Indexing in Baker Street: Conan Doyle, stories of Sherlock Holmes --
|g 4.
|t Absorption and love: Angela Thirkell, Northbridge Rectory (1941); County Chronicle (1950) --
|g 5.
|t Deer-stalkers and data banks: indexers and indexes in crime fiction --
|g 6.
|t Ladies at work: Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952); Jane and Prudence (1953); No Fond Return of Love (1961); An Unsuitable Attachment (1982) --
|g 7.
|t A hundred million entries: Bertrand Russell, 'The Theologian's Nightmare' (1954) --
|g 8.
|t A shameless exhibition: Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle (1963) --
|g 9.
|t If unpublished, burn: Georges Perec, Life: a User's Manual: Fictions (1970) --
|g 10.
|t Infatuation with a swarming index: Jane Langton, The Memorial Hall Murder (1974) --
|g 11.
|t Eccentric, shabby and normally drunk: C. Northcote Parkinson, Jeeves: a Gentleman's Personal Gentleman (1979) --
|g 12.
|t Archives of oblivion: Graham Swift, Shuttlecock (1982) --
|g 13.
|t Lively indexers: Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness (1983) --
|g 14.
|t A life-time's task: Anita Brookner, Lewis Percy (1989) --
|g 15.
|t Lady obstructionist: A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990) --
|g 16.
|t More than one needs to know: Paul Bailey, Kitty and Virgil (1998) --
|g 17.
|t Life is just an index: Deborah Moggach, 'How to Divorce Your Son' (2000).
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