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7 The Times , 14 September 1831.
8 W.E.K. Anderson, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott (Oxford, 1972),
p. 682, n.3.
9 J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh 1882), vol. x,
pp. 126ff.
10 F. Beaufort, Admiralty, to John Davy, 22 March 1842, in John Davy
Papers, book of sketches and notes, 1831-4, Royal Institution,
jd1/4/1.
11 Full title: Geological Observations on Volcanic Islands, with Brief
Notices on the Geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope .
12 Charles Darwin to John Henslow, March 1834, available online at
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-238.html
13 'George Poulett Scrope', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford, 2004).
14 'Sir Charles Lyell', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
15 American Quarterly Review , xvi/507, quoted in 'Edward Bulwer
Lytton', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .
16 Leslie Mitchell, Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Man of Letters
(London, 2003), p. 40.
17 An account of the place of Vesuvius in literature and drama is
Nicholas Daly, 'The volcanic disaster narrative: from pleasure
gardens to canvas, page and stage', Victorian Studies , liii / 2
(Winter 2011), pp. 255-85.
18 W. G. Carey, trans., The Complete Works of Alexander Pushkin , vol.
iii: Lyric Poems: 1826-1836 (Horncastle, Lincs, 1999), p. 189.
19 The English translation of Pliny's letters that Bulwer Lytton would
have known was first published in 1746. The translation used here
in chapter Three is by Betty Radice (Harmondsworth, 1963).
20 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Last Days of Pompeii (London, 1834),
book 5, chap. 4.
21 Ibid, book 5, chap. 9.
22 Ibid, book 5, chap. 7.
23 Arlene Jacobowitz, James Hamilton 1819-1878 - American Marine
Painter , exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum, New York (1966), esp. p. 9;
cat. 36.
24 This point was first made by Teresa Carbone in the entry on James
Hamilton in Teresa A. Carbone, ed., American Paintings in the
Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876 (London and New York,
2006) vol. ii, pp. 586-92. I am grateful to Karen Sherry for bringing
this to my attention.
25 Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book (1847). Quoted Carbone, ed.,
American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum.
26 Quoted Edward Morris, Victorian and Edwardian Paintings at the
Walker Art Gallery and at Sudley House , National Museums on
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