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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2025

Emily Cuming
Emily Cuming
Affiliation:
Liverpool John Moores University

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Maritime Relations
Life, Labour and Literature at the Water's Edge, 1850–1914
 , pp. 270 - 278
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Page number followed by n refers to endnote.

Aberdeen Royal Asylum, 29
Ackroyd, Peter, 128, 227n158
adoption, 28, 56–57, 199n103
adventure stories, 9, 11–12, 16, 30, 40, 43, 45, 48–50, 52, 56–57, 93, 95–99, 136, 143–145, 150, 154, 178, 182–184
representation of girls in, 147–149
Albert, Edward, 203n178, 221n53
Albright, Daniel, 138
alcohol abuse, 25, 28, 34–36, 114, 118, 150, 165, 167, 173, 179
All the Year Round, 117, 128
Allen, Michelle, 135
Allen, Nicholas, 229n196
allotment payments, 10, 25, 28, 76, 85
Altick, Richard, 13
Anderson, Betty, 148, 235n91
Anderson, Drummond, 38
animals, 23, 30, 81, 86, 89, 108, 116, 129, 136, 161
Arata, Stephen, 97
Archer, William, 81
archives
family, 82–83, 88, 95
maritime, 13–14, 16, 63, 65, 72–73, 83, 88, 93, 144, 192n56, 192n58, 206n10, 207n18, 213n120
of working-class autobiography, 4, 12–14, 192n56
Australia, 81, 89, 143, 145, 209n34
autobiography
and agency, 9, 12, 40, 42, 50, 56, 173–176, 178–179, 181, 184–185, 241n12
autobiographical letters, 22, 167
family memoirs, 13–14, 16, 25, 39, 47–48, 157, 164, 184, 201n137
fragmented forms of, 3, 30, 52, 57–59, 64, 68, 158
and Gothic modes, 30–31, 184
hybridity of, 16, 57, 59, 64–66, 184–185
maritime memoirs, 12, 19–21, 33, 39–41, 50, 54, 59, 95, 110, 184–185, 203n178
oral narratives, 2–3, 184, 197n75, 206n10, 221n53
as ‘ordinary writing’, 20, 63–66, 68, 81, 89, 185
as social texts, 63, 81, 99–100, 157
and truthfulness, 57–58, 93–94, 184–185
working-class, 4, 11–15, 19, 21–22, 28, 58–59, 72, 89, 95, 154, 169, 171, 177, 180–181, 184–185, 200n127, 227n155, 232n38
autodidacts, 29–30, 161, 202n158
Ayre, Joe, 204n200
Bachelard, Gaston, 18
Bain, John, 44, 225n132
Ballantyne, R.M., 147
Bamford, Samuel, 225n134
barbers, 35, 126
Barker, William Cecil, 73, 79
Beagle, 79
Beames, Thomas, 118
Beaven, Brad, 107
Beck, Edward, 69–70, 73, 81–82
bedrooms, 104–105, 159, 164, 167
beggars, 47, 120, 125
Begiato, Joanne, 118, 196n65, 211n68
Behenna, Richard, 89, 95, 204n192, 204n196
Behlmer, George, 10
Belchem, John, 111
Bell, Florence, 108
Benjamin, Walter, 176
Benson, Charles, 207n18
Bercaw Edwards, Mary K., 63, 223n91
Bezer, John James, 35
Biblical narratives, 43, 46–47, 57
Bildungsroman, 12, 16, 40, 50–51, 56, 58, 200n120, 205n207
Binny, John, 112
biography, 142–143, 183–184, 234n73
Blackie, Edward, 76–77
blue humanities, 4, 9, 15, 107
Bluecoat School, 38
Blum, Hester, 9, 63, 80, 87
boarding-houses. See lodging-houses
Bolster, W. Jeffrey, 122
Boos, Florence, 14
Booth, Charles, 16, 104, 112
Boy’s Own Paper, 147
boyhood, 51–52, 144–145, 158, 233n49
Brantlinger, Patrick, 40
Bressey, Caroline, 111
Bristow, Joseph, 144
Britten, Barnabas, 48, 70
Brontë, Charlotte
Jane Eyre, 146
Brooks, Peter, 59, 205n207
brothels, 109, 127
Brown, John, 70
Brown, Robert, 95
Bryant, John, 70
Bullen, Frank, 41–42, 54, 70, 106, 111, 184
Burke, Thomas, 222n69
Limehouse Nights, 122
Burkin, Henrietta, 218n14
Burn, Dawson, 40
Burnett, John, 13, 19, 67, 167
Burroughs, Robert, 11, 196n65
Burton, Valerie, 6
cabin boys, 29, 42, 47, 56, 70, 149, 203n181, 204n200
Campling, Liam, 5, 10
Canada, 125, 140, 204n200
Cape Finisterre, 83–85, 87–88
captains, 24, 26, 28, 40, 45–46, 74, 76, 86, 89–92, 142–143, 157, 160, 162–165
in fiction, 60–62, 96–98, 126, 148, 152–154, 239n195
captains’ wives, 23, 45, 144, 158, 165
Cardiff, 39, 83, 95, 103, 112
cargo, 5, 103, 111, 186, 242n19
carpenters, 28, 34, 36, 39, 45, 67–68, 74–75, 78–79, 82, 88, 90, 92, 209n34
Carroll, Siobhan, 51, 202n169
Cartwright, Charles, 92–94
Casarino, Cesare, 199n109
Chapman, Charles, 204n200
Chartists, 26, 35
Cheadle, Brian, 132
Childer, Erskine, 216n172
The Riddle of the Sands, 184
children’s literature, 4, 44, 50, 96, 184. See also adventure stories; fairy tales; waif stories
China, 96, 161
Citrine, Walter, 22, 34–35
Clan Ranald, 76
Clare, Horatio, 87, 186
clothing. See sailor suits; sailors, clothing of; sailors, and disguise
coastal history. See blue humanities
Cohen, Margaret, 9, 20, 51, 71, 95, 102, 183
Colás, Alejandro, 5, 10
Collins, Wilkie
‘A Message from the Sea’, 117
Collyer, Robert, 25
Commonwealth, The, 25
Connery, Christopher, 9
Conrad, Joseph, 11, 15–16, 41, 54, 62, 182
‘The End of the Tether’, 239n195
Heart of Darkness, 137, 145, 228n173
Lord Jim, 118
The Shadow-Line, 96
Typhoon, 60–62, 66, 70
container ships, 87, 186
Cook, Captain James, 30, 48, 79
Cook, Hartley Kemball, 202n161, 206n9
cooks, 41, 57, 70, 89, 92–93, 204n197, 207n18, 225n134
Cookson, Catherine, 166, 218n14, 237n129
Cooper, James Fenimore, 51
Cooper, Thomas, 44–45
cosmopolitanism, 8, 102, 105, 107, 110–112, 115, 118, 124–125, 162, 235n83
Cotsell, Michael, 135
cotton, 56, 61, 158
Cowper, Agnes, 46, 157–166, 172
Cowper, Daisy, 157–158, 160–167, 172
Craigmullen, 92–94
Creighton, Margaret S., 187, 189n28
Crimean War, 5, 28
crimps, 24, 109, 112
Crofton Hall, 76
Crooks, Will, 33, 217n14
Crowley, Tony, 119
Culley, Margo, 213n109
Cullwick, Hannah, 70, 209n34
Cumings, Eli, 209n43
Custom Houses, 1–2, 136
dame schools, 30, 202n158
Dand, John, 74–76, 79, 82, 94
Darwin, Charles, 79
Davidoff, Leonore, 157, 235n86, 235n93
Davin, Anna, 3, 199n111
de Beauvoir, Simone, 180
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe, 16, 30, 48–49, 51, 72–74, 97, 148, 152, 183–184
Dening, Greg, 71, 119
detectives, 93, 98, 120
Diaper, Tom, 22
diaries, 14, 16, 57, 63–70, 73, 83, 85, 88–90, 94, 97, 99–100, 158, 165, 241n12
Dickens, Charles, 15, 98, 128, 179
Bleak House, 51, 130
David Copperfield, 26, 130, 226n151
Dombey and Son, 32, 97, 130, 226n151
Great Expectations, 130, 239n195
‘A Message from the Sea’, 117
Oliver Twist, 130
Our Mutual Friend, 16, 103, 122, 130–137
‘Poor Mercantile Jack’, 107
The Uncommercial Traveller, 128–130
disability, 33–34, 36, 48, 172, 196n69, 221n53
dockers, 2, 43, 52, 112, 139, 204n200
docks, 39, 43, 46, 55, 102–103, 124–125, 150, 204n205
Dolling, Robert, 38, 116
dolls, 155, 171–172
domestic chores, 162, 170, 238n146
domestic ideology, 10, 75, 112, 143. See also separate spheres
domestic interiors, 38, 104–105, 140–143, 146–148, 151–152, 163, 170–171, 173, 175, 179. See also bedrooms
domestic service. See servants
domesticity, 68, 70, 81, 88–89, 104, 115, 145, 147, 151, 154, 169, 179, 201n143, 208n32
Don Guillermo, 91
Doolittle, Megan, 199n102, 204n190
Douglass, Frederick, 122
Dowell, Nellie, 234n73, 235n83
dreams, 30, 130, 163
dredgers, 2, 130, 133, 135, 226n153
drownings, 50, 96, 129–132, 163, 226n150. See also sea, death at
Eakin, John Paul, 205n207
East India Company, 5, 127, 187, 187n3
Egan, Pierce, 95, 107
Eliot, George
The Mill on the Floss, 134, 232n38
Silas Marner, 239n195
Eliot, T.S., 128
The Waste Land, 137, 228n182
Ellis, Sarah Stickney, 143
Ely Industrial Schools, 39
emotions, 4, 15, 17, 27, 29, 33, 40, 59, 63, 67, 75, 82, 84, 88, 99, 138, 144, 156, 160, 164, 168, 171, 178–180, 204n196
Engels, Friedrich, 190n39
Enright, Anthony, 46
Evans, Edith, 166–167
factories, 10, 43, 67, 185
Fair, Thomas, 151, 233n62
fairy tales, 16, 20, 30, 32, 41–45, 49, 55, 159
Falke, Cassandra, 191n53
family. See also fathers; foster parenting; mothers; sailors’ daughters; sailors’ wives
common-law marriages, 113–114
dispersal, 16, 18, 25–26, 39–40, 43, 58, 164, 172
fictive kin (families of choice), 10–11, 16, 20, 51, 53–54
sibling relationships, 11, 47, 143, 147, 150, 157–158, 161–165, 168–169, 235n86
surrogate, 41–42, 50, 148
family myths, 13, 16–17, 22, 24, 28–30, 58, 169, 174, 185
family sagas, 138, 164, 166
family secrets, 22, 28, 31, 36, 45, 50, 61, 162
family trees, 16, 18, 25
Farningham, Marianne, 148
fathers
affectionate, 24, 36, 84–87, 155, 177–178, 239n195, 239n196
desertion by, 26, 39, 41
disciplinarian, 34, 159–160, 162, 164, 166–171, 173, 230n10, 240n207
and downward mobility, 165, 168–169
as strangers, 33–34, 156, 159, 166, 172, 179
surrogate, 2, 53, 148, 205n207, 239n195
and unemployment, 33, 39, 168–170
violent, 24, 34–36, 47, 173, 179
Felski, Rita, 80
femininity, 44–45, 68, 115, 127, 141, 143–144, 149, 154, 233n62
Fielding, John, 107
Finch, Jason, 122
Fink, Leon, 138, 191n44
First World War, 36, 167, 180
fishermen, 22, 33
fishing trade, 27, 29, 47–48, 85, 215n160
Flint, Kate, 232n30, 237n124
food, 71, 76, 79, 92, 160–161, 173
Forest Flower, 81
Forrester, Helen, 166, 237n129
foster parenting, 35–36, 38–39, 149
Fothergill, Robert A., 66
Franklin, Benjamin, 85
friendship, 11, 25, 31, 40, 42, 53–54, 61–62, 71, 75–76, 84, 96, 116
Frost, Ginger, 221n62, 222n64
Furneaux, Holly, 223n82, 226n151
Gagnier, Regenia, 19, 210n55
Gamble, Rose, 169–172
Garrett, George, 138, 176
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Mary Barton, 151, 189n31, 239n195
Sylvia’s Lovers, 32, 146
Gateshead, 156, 172
gender roles, 4, 6, 8, 70, 112–113, 145, 154–155, 162–163, 178, 185, 194n21
Geographical Magazine, 152
Gifford, William, 33–34
gifts. See sailors, and gifts
Gilje, Paul, 9, 44, 126
Girl’s Own Paper, 147, 151
girls
and cultural representations of the sea, 144–154
and geography, 145–148, 151–154
little mothers, 38, 149, 162, 167
new girls, 151, 153
as readers, 145, 147–148, 154, 174, 232n38
scholarship girls, 174, 239n182
tomboys, 148–149, 153–154, 167, 169
Gissing, George, 136
Glasgow, 42, 103
Great Exhibition, 103, 124
Green, Martin, 151
Greenock, 45, 83–86, 88
Greenwich, 50
Greenwich Hospital, 35
Greenwood, James, 112
Griffin, Emma, 25, 160, 178
H.M.S. Illustrious, 49
H.M.S. Newcastle, 52
H.M.S. Pembroke, 45
Hager, Kelly, 11, 203n189
Haill, Charles, 26
Hammond, Allen, 197n75
Hanley, James, 138–139, 176
Hannan, Dora, 156, 159, 167–169, 236n105
Haram, George, 73, 211n78
Hardy, Thomas
The Mayor of Casterbridge, 33
Harris, Jose, 178
Harrop, Thomas, 80–81, 215n157
Harvey, Henry Ralph, 25
Hassam, Andrew, 209n34
Hawthorne, Jeremy, 97
Hay, Robert, 45–46, 49, 117, 225n134
Hayward, W. Stephens
Tom Holt’s Log, 44, 96, 148–149, 152
Hemyng, Bracebridge, 113
Henderson, Desirée, 211n77, 213n114
Henty, G.A., 147, 152, 232n35
Hewitt, Martin, 66–67, 68
Hill, Emily, 116
Hill, George, 116
Hocking, Silas K.
Her Benny, 148
Hofmeyr, Isabel, 219n23, 225n123
home. See also houses, sailors’ homes; sailors, return of; separate spheres
departure from, 10, 24–25, 42, 49, 51, 53, 55, 67, 75, 81, 85, 186
images of, 10, 75, 145
middle-class, 3, 159
world as, 41, 51, 115
homelessness, 2, 42–43, 51, 111, 114, 130, 229n192
homesickness, 47, 54, 75, 77–82, 84–87, 90
homoeroticism, 31, 54–55, 97, 127, 136
homosociality, 8, 10, 25, 54, 62, 89, 115, 144, 173, 179, 211n68, 226n151
Hopkin, David, 44
Household Words, 108–109
houses, 104–105, 108, 110, 124–125, 131
Howison, Alexander, 40, 45, 52–54
Hugill, Stan, 106, 110, 222n74
Hull, 34, 37, 47, 156
Humphries, Edward, 35–36
Humphries, Jane, 11, 19, 203n181, 204n199
Hyslop, Jonathan, 190n44
illegitimacy, 54, 56
illiteracy, 23, 52, 132, 194n21
Illustrated London News, 155
imperialism, 3–5, 8, 17, 75, 97–99, 103, 123, 125, 141, 144–145, 151, 154, 168, 180, 186, 232n32
Imperieuse, 142
impressment, 126, 225n134
Indian Queen, 90
Ingleby, Matthew, 131
intertextuality, 20, 64, 184, 241n11
islands, 25, 61, 73, 98, 133, 145–146, 151–152, 184
Jacobs, Harriet, 122
Jaffer, Aaron, 207n18
James, Edward, 178
Johnston, David, 47
Jones, Harry, 108, 113, 115
Joshi, Priya, 202n169
journalism, 62, 66, 102–103, 105, 111, 122, 143, 184
journalists, 1–2, 54, 57, 107, 109, 112–113, 147, 185. See also social investigation
Journeyman Baker, 25
Joyce, James
Ulysses, 16, 136–137
Kelly, Henry Warren, 41, 204n196
Kelly, Jessica, 122
Kennerley, Alston, 193n5, 199n117
Kerr, Matthew P.M., 32, 138, 198n94, 202n169
Kestner, Joseph A., 201n143
King, Steven, 58, 185, 210n56
Kingsley, Charles
Westward Ho!, 147
kinship networks, 4, 10–11, 20, 24, 48, 51, 53–54, 63, 75, 116–117, 180. See also family, fictive kin (families of choice)
Klein, Bernhard, 3, 191n50
Koven, Seth, 227n168, 234n73, 235n83
Laite, Julia, 192n57, 242n13
Lamb, Charles, 73
Lambeth Ragged School, 47
Land, Isaac, 5
Langley, Amy, 156, 166, 168
lascars, 107, 111, 207n18, 220n53
‘Lascar Sally’, 114
Lawson, Jack, 23–25, 34, 52, 177
Lay, Alfred George Henry, 95, 215n160, 220n46
Ledger, Sally, 228n182
Leed, Eric J., 155
Lejeune, Philippe, 94
Lemire, Beverly, 119, 221n55, 223n88
Leslie, Thomas Knight, 95
Lester, Muriel, 234n73
letters, 60–65, 67, 75, 77–79, 84, 86, 116, 129, 206n10, 209n37
Lever Free Library, 157
Levine, Jennifer, 136
Liebich, Susann, 215n164
life writing. See autobiography; biography; diaries; letters; logbooks
Light, Alison, 21
lightermen, 50–51, 194n14
Linebaugh, Peter, 9, 103, 189n33
literacy, 7, 13–14, 58, 63–65, 69, 84, 151, 176, 181, 199n112, 201n137, 202n158, 207n15, 207n18, 209n34, 210n56. See also sailors, and literacy
Liverpool, 22, 24, 37–38, 55–57, 68, 76–77, 79–81, 83, 90–92, 103, 106–107, 111, 114, 116, 118, 122–127, 138, 158, 162–165, 178, 197n75, 204n200, 221n55, 226n150, 237n129
Liverpool Mercury, 111
Liverpool Sheltering Home for Destitute Children, 204n200
Livingstone, David, 54, 57
Lloyd, George, ‘Georgie Brawd’, 39–40
Loane, M., 156, 159–160
lodging-house keepers, 11, 50, 54, 76, 109, 112, 114, 116, 123
lodging-houses, 2, 21, 109, 113–117, 123–125, 127, 131–133, 220n46
logbooks, 14, 16, 57, 60–63, 65–75, 81–83, 87–90, 140–143, 158, 183–184
categorisation of, 65–66, 208n30
as deceptive, 97–99
in fiction, 72, 95–100, 149
‘logbook truths’, 95, 97, 99
as material objects, 76–77, 81–83, 88, 94–95, 99
London, 1–3, 28, 41–42, 47, 74, 95, 103–106, 112–115, 121–122, 150, 167, 171, 227n168, 228n182, 235n83
London Society, 143
Lovett, William, 26–27
Lowery, Robert, 49
Lukács, Georg, 51
Lyons, Martyn, 63–64, 84, 207n15, 210n55, 210n56
Mackenzie, Kenneth, 200n123
MacRaild, Donald, 111
Mann, Edmund, 93–94
Mansfield, George, 78–79, 90
maps, 115, 124, 140–141, 145–147
Marchant, Bessie, 152
Cicely Frome, 152–154
Marcroft, William, 40
Marcus, Laura, 64
Marcus, Sharon, 64, 82
Marie, 163
Marine Society, 48
marine stores, 50, 55, 162
marine store keepers, 2, 109
maritime novels, 9, 11, 32, 51, 182, 184, 199n109. See also named authors
maritime realism, 1, 66, 68, 94
Marryat, Augusta, 142–143, 152
Marryat, Emilia, 143
Marryat, Florence, 142–143
Marryat, Frederick, 15, 32, 51–53, 142–143, 182
Frank Mildmay, 53, 200n130, 203n182
Jacob Faithful, 50–51
Masterman Ready, 44
Poor Jack, 50–51, 148
Marsden, Joshua, 201n136
Martin, Grace, 176, 239n190
masculinity, 23, 52, 56, 64–65, 68, 75, 88, 103, 112, 127, 138, 141, 144–145, 179–181, 240n207. See also sailors, and masculinity
Mathison, Ymitri, 145
Mauretania, 105
Mayall, David, 12, 19
Mayhew, Henry, 1–3, 16, 103, 112, 115, 120–121, 133, 160, 177, 194n14, 226n153, 228n182, 234n73
Maynes, Mary Jo, 154
McAuley, Kyle, 134
McClintock, Anne, 70, 120, 208n32
Melville, Herman, 11, 15
Billy Budd, Sailor, 118
‘The Encantadas, Or Enchanted Isles’, 241n10
Redburn, 16, 103, 116, 122–128, 139, 224n103, 226n150
Member of Parliament, 23, 28, 43, 48
Mentz, Steve, 3, 66, 134, 190n40, 227n170
Mercantile Marine Act 1850, 66
merchant navy, 4–6, 138–139, 185
merchant sailors. See sailors
mermaids, 110, 115
Middlesex Society, 95
Mill, John Stuart, 175
Millais, John Everett, 140–142
Miller, Hugh, 27, 29–31
Miller, J. Hillis, 135, 227n160
Milne, Graeme, 219n21, 222n74
miners, 23, 39
mines, 10, 23–24, 39, 43, 52, 67, 185
missionaries, 2, 8, 110, 114, 207n18
Mitchell, George H., 106, 110
Mitchell, Sally, 154
modernism, 15, 97–99, 103, 127, 136–139, 182, 185, 217n2, 229n192
Moffat, H.Y., 45
Moran, Joe, 68, 83, 89
Morning Chronicle, 2, 103, 221n55, 224n121
mothers
death of, 26, 39, 43, 77, 150, 153, 160, 172, 200n123, 215n160
desertion by, 36, 41, 54
relationship of daughters to, 158–159, 163–164, 167–168, 172–174, 236n105
relationship of sons to, 28, 44–47, 55, 57, 77, 95, 194n21
surrogate, 54, 150
violent, 194n21
mudlarks, 50
narrative form, 19–20, 30, 40–41, 48–53, 72, 87–92, 94–100, 130, 134–135, 142, 147, 154, 178, 183–185, 217n3
navy. See Royal Navy
needleworkers, 25, 27–28, 30, 33, 43, 112
Nelson, Claudia, 178, 236n110
Nelson, Horatio, 125, 140
New Woman, 151, 234n67
New York, 41, 77–78, 91, 96, 122, 126, 220n46
newspapers, 81, 111, 207n15. See also journalism
Nord, Deborah Epstein, 42
nostalgia. See homesickness
oceanic studies. See blue humanities
O’Mara, Pat, 24, 44, 204n196, 204n197, 218n14
O’Rourke, Rebecca, 176
orphanages, 37–39, 48, 55, 164, 173, 215n160. See also named institutions
orphans, 16, 25, 37–42, 50, 54–55, 120, 160, 172
in fiction, 148, 153
‘ocean waifs’, 37, 39, 41–48, 51
Osbourne, Lloyd, 97–98
Otago, 97
Owen, Ursula, 240n207
Palmer, Sarah, 106, 114
Parrish, William, 28
pawnshops, 77, 131–133
Pearson, Kay, 156
Peck, John, 6, 50, 53, 202n169
Pemberton, Charles Reece, 205n205
Penang, 105
Peters, Laura, 37
petitions, 64, 120, 185, 207n18
Phelan, Jim, 138, 176
Philadelphia, 2, 122
Phillips, Richard, 52, 140, 145, 241n6
Plimsoll, Samuel, 38
Plug, Percival, 202n168
Poe, Edgar Allan
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, 87, 184
policemen, 47, 109, 125, 130
Ponton, D.M., 167
Poplar Training School, 28
Porcupine, 38
Port Sunlight, 157
Portsmouth, 38, 49, 90, 116, 123, 128, 156, 166
poverty, 3, 19, 28, 33, 38, 42, 48, 52, 57, 102, 110, 114, 124–125, 167, 169–170, 172, 194n14, 204n205, 215n160
Pratt, Mary Louise, 107, 182
Propp, Vladimir, 20, 44, 200n129, 201n139
prostitution, 2, 36, 109, 112–114, 225n137
public houses, 104, 110–112, 114, 120–121, 123–124, 131, 139, 222n74
Publicover, Laurence, 209n43, 215n164
Raban, Jonathan, 186
race and ethnicity, 2–3, 8, 63, 111–114, 118, 125, 144, 220n48, 222n69. See also sailors, of colour
Radcliffe, Ann
The Mysteries of Udolpho, 30
Rediker, Marcus, 9, 187, 189n23, 189n33, 190n37
religion, 3, 54, 76–77, 80, 84, 86, 108, 120, 129, 151, 164, 201n136
Rich, Adrienne, 4
Richardson, James, 95
Ritchie, James Ewing, 109, 112
Roberts, David, 28
Robinson, Charles Napier, 6
Robson, John M., 135
Rogers, Frederick, 52, 217n14
Rogers, Helen, 144, 206n222, 230n9
Rose, Jonathan, 5, 52, 184, 193n5, 231n20
Roseau, 95
Rowbotham, Sheila, 240n207
Royal Charter, 128
Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphan Institution, 37–38, 164
Royal Marines, 40, 156, 166
Royal Navy, 5, 23, 28, 30, 35, 43, 46, 49, 52, 95, 119, 126, 128, 156–157, 159, 167–169, 194n14
Ruskin, John, 145
Sadoff, Dianne F., 240n206
sailor suits, 3, 55, 164
sailors
bodily descriptions of, 23, 30–33, 51, 70–72, 78, 83, 117–118, 126–130, 132–133, 137, 163
categorisation of, 5–6, 8–9, 117–119, 128–130
class status of, 5–6, 8–9, 103, 126, 185
clothing of, 23, 33, 45, 47, 55, 76, 83, 102, 104, 107, 112, 117–120, 122, 126–129, 131–134, 136, 149, 151
of colour, 2, 54, 107, 111–112, 126, 178, 203n178, 207n18, 221n53, 222n69
and disguise, 46–47, 98, 120–122, 126–127, 133–134, 144, 225n134
and gifts, 46, 68, 83, 116, 155, 161–162, 171–172, 179, 236n105
as global travellers, 2, 5, 24, 58, 69, 78, 81, 83, 137, 168, 175–176, 223n88
language of, 34, 44, 63, 66, 69–71, 77, 79, 84, 86–87, 89, 102, 109, 118–121, 137, 142, 149, 153, 220n46
and masculinity, 9, 17, 23–24, 30, 35, 44–45, 196n69
and money, 32, 34, 46, 74, 87, 108, 113–114, 118, 126, 129, 132, 138–139, 164–165, 172, 174
and naming, 8, 56–57, 88, 120, 126, 134, 136, 228n183
and national identity, 107, 185, 194n15
polyglot, 2, 138, 160
as readers, 7, 48–49, 52, 60–63, 79, 100, 175, 206n9, 211n78
return of, 7, 10, 18, 30–37, 39, 45–48, 154–156, 158–162, 166–169
as shape-shifters, 8, 15, 23, 56–58, 126, 136, 139
as storytellers, 7, 23, 30, 45, 52, 62, 92, 123, 136–137, 139, 153, 158, 162, 173–174, 184
and technical knowledge, 36, 51, 68–71, 76, 133, 168, 236n105
as tourists, 58, 185
as urban figures, 117–128, 136
as writers, 9, 42, 62–64, 67, 72, 81–82, 96–97, 116, 138–139, 141, 176, 183, 206n9
sailors’ daughters, 2, 11, 75, 140–144, 182
autobiographies by, 13–14, 17, 144, 148, 154–180, 185, 234n73
in fiction, 148–154, 239n195
sailors’ homes, 115–117
Liverpool Sailors’ Home, 42, 111, 115–116, 219n21
London Sailors’ Home, 115
sailors’ wives, 11, 13, 17, 38, 48, 73, 76, 84, 88, 109, 113–114, 117, 136, 144, 151, 177, 221n55
in fiction, 61–62
Sailors’ Magazine, 148
sailortown, 16, 76, 102–103, 105–119, 122, 124–127, 131–132, 138–139
as ‘contact zone’, 107, 112
material culture of, 110, 114–116, 123–124, 131, 223n88, 224n109
Sala, George Augustus, 112, 222n74
Salmon, Edward, 147
Salter, Joseph, 114
Samuel, Raphael, 112
Sanders, Valerie, 64
Sanderson, Thomas, 204n200
Scannell, Dorothy, 105
Schaffer, Talia, 11, 203n189
Schmitt, Cannon, 51, 210n59, 216n172, 228n173
Schor, Hilary M., 240n206
sea
accidents at, 10, 25, 33–35, 68, 89
death at, 10, 18, 26–32, 38, 76, 89, 91–95, 160, 163–165, 172
as escape, 24, 37, 40–41, 43, 47, 55, 57, 122
forgetting of the, 9, 186
and industrialisation, 3, 6, 9–10, 19, 101, 138–139, 154, 182, 184
as metaphor, 3, 10, 20, 111, 135, 137–138, 186
and national identity, 3, 7, 9, 51, 80, 101, 115, 126
temporality at, 67, 71, 79–81, 84–86, 92
violence at, 35, 44, 51, 97
work at, 4, 9, 70–71, 84–85
sea bags, 44, 155, 161
sea trunks, 49, 161
Seacole, Mary, 54
seascapes, 2–3, 33, 140, 173
Sekula, Allan, 9, 242n19
separate spheres, 8, 20, 70, 112, 115, 145, 156
servants, 21, 25–26, 38, 70, 73, 77, 88, 144, 172, 176, 209n34, 210n60
sex, 8, 126–127, 151, 155, 167–168
Sexton, James, 48
sexual violence, 139
sexuality, 103, 139
shanties, 66, 184
ship stewards, 43, 48, 61–62, 80, 91, 125–126, 153, 207n18, 225n134
ships. See also named
descriptions of, 1–2, 55, 103–105, 124, 130
model, 115, 124
multinational crews of, 5, 8, 19, 76, 86, 89, 186
privacy on, 42, 63, 67–68
violence on, 26, 77, 98, 139
work on, 68, 74, 77, 84, 88, 176, 206n11
Shipwrecked Mariners’ Benevolent Society, 164
shipwrecks, 3, 25–26, 38, 89–92, 97–98, 120–121, 128, 151–152, 163, 184
shipwrights, 28, 34, 39, 90, 204n200
shop workers, 35, 76, 88, 90, 164, 169
Sinor, Jennifer, 69, 71, 85, 88–89, 211n77
Skallerup, Harry R., 206n9, 208n27
slavery, 122, 125
slum fiction, 151
slums, 24, 42–43, 45, 48, 101, 105, 114, 116, 149, 151, 190n39, 205n214
Smith, Frank, 47–48
Smith, Neil, 81, 83–88, 94
Smith, Sidney, 77–79
smuggling, 22, 74, 82, 98, 109, 121
social investigation, 102–103, 105, 108, 118, 126, 185
social mobility, 41–42, 48, 50–51, 54, 144, 174, 176–177, 179
social realism, 15, 20, 29, 138, 182, 184, 186
soldiers, 8, 33, 43, 54, 120, 207n18, 240n207
St Asaph Workhouse, 55
Stanley, Henry Morton, 54–58
Stead, W.T., 147
Steadman, William, 28
Steedman, Carolyn, 180, 239n182, 241n12
Steinberg, Philip, 9
Stephen, Leslie, 143
Stevenson, R.L., 16, 44, 54, 74, 118, 183, 190n44, 210n59
‘The Beach of Falesá’, 97
The Ebb-Tide, 97
Treasure Island, 145
The Wrecker, 97–99
Stoker, Bram
Dracula, 184
stokers, 33, 138–139, 148, 167, 172
stowaways, 47–48
Strand Magazine, 148
Strange, Julie-Marie, 23, 197n77, 213n123, 236n95
Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans, and South Sea Islanders, 114
Stretton, Hesba
Little Meg’s Children, 149–151, 153, 174
supernatural, the, 30–31, 184
Tabili, Laura, 107, 166, 187, 188n21, 225n125, 235n83
Tate & Lyle, 83
tattoos, 23, 34, 111, 119, 129, 132, 136, 226n150
Taylor, Allan K., 42–43, 45
Thames, 1–2, 33, 51, 103–104, 122, 130–133, 190n39, 194n14, 226n153
Thomas Wood, 80
Thomas, William, 68, 90–92
Thompson, E.P., 5, 9
Thompson, Flora, 146
Thomson, Christopher, 34, 45, 190n34
Tillett, Ben, 43
Times Literary Supplement, 142
Tobias, Wilhelmina, 105
Todd, Marjory, 148, 156, 172–176
Tomkins, Alannah, 59
Tosh, John, 156, 159, 161, 180, 230n10, 237n131, 238n172
Toynbee Hall, 174
toys, 30, 172. See also dolls
trade unionists, 22, 43, 104
travel writing, 57, 63, 65–66, 73, 99–100, 144, 183
Trodd, Anthea, 117
Truce, 158
Turner, J.M.W., 2
Uglow, Jim, 36–37
United States, 7, 56–57, 105, 110, 125–126, 161
vagrancy, 2, 97, 160
Vargo, Gregory, 51
Verne, Jules, 147
Vidar, 97
Vincent, David, 12, 19, 21, 59
Wagner, Tamara S., 37
waif stories, 16, 41, 148–151, 154. See also orphans, ‘ocean waifs’
Walden, Dan, 110
Walkowitz, Judith, 114, 189n33
Wallis, Thomas Wilkinson, 28
Warner, Susan
The Wide, Wide World, 147
Warspite, 48
Watt, Christian, 29, 196n63
weather, 10, 38, 71, 66, 68, 74, 77, 88, 90–91, 105, 115
West Indies, 25, 39, 89, 95, 114, 168
Whampoa, 77–78, 80
White, Walter, 49, 184
Whitehead, Alexander, 71
Whitlock, Gillian, 177
Whittaker, Elizabeth, 233n60
‘Robina Crusoe, and Her Lonely Island Home’, 151–152
Wicke, Jennifer, 96
Wide World Magazine, 93, 148
Williams, David M., 5
Williams, Raymond, 72, 102, 183, 191n53, 229n192
Williamson, John, 73–74
Wilson, Joseph Havelock, 22–23, 45, 104
Winchester College Mission of St Agatha’s, 116
Windermere, 56
women
and paid work, 19, 25–28, 33, 38, 50, 77, 88, 112–114
and remarriage, 27–28
as sailors, 23, 144
Woolf, Virginia, 138, 142–143, 180
Workers’ Educational Association, 174
workhouses, 2, 22, 25–28, 33, 55–56, 139, 151, 199n102
working class. See autobiography, working-class; sailors, class status of
Worpole, Ken, 176
Yonge, Charlotte M., 147
Young, Paul, 217n8
Youngs, Tim, 208n30
Zweig, Paul, 56

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