• Indexes and indexers in fiction

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Some thoughts inspired by Hazel K Bell’s From flock beds to professionalism. 27.25
Indexing a biography. L.E.C. Hughes 1.111
No room at the top. G.V. Carey 2.120–3
Indexing biographies: lives do bring their problems. Hazel K. Bell 16.168–72
Indexing biographies: the main character. Hazel K. Bell 17.43–4
Books without indexes. Samuel Austin Allibone 5.191
A glossy index (Lady Cynthia Asquith’s Diaries) 18.47
Index makers: Samuel Ayscough 15.157–8
Caliban as indexer (Hilaire Belloc). John A. Vickers 16.205
Indexes past: Marie Antoinette (Hilaire Belloc) 16.268
Dr Powell’s index to Boswell’s Life of Johnson. E.S. de Beer 5.135–39
Indexes past: Index of 1900 to Boswell’s Life of Johnson 13.32
‘A book very much to your credit’: the index to the private edition of Boswell’s papers. Judy Batchelor 14.114
The Burney papers – or, where does an index begin? Althea Douglas 14.241–8
Indexes past: The anatomy of melancholy (Robert Burton) 19.192
Indexes past: Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Samuel Butler) 13.259
Indexing fiction: a story of complexity (novels of A.S. Byatt). Hazel K. Bell 17.251–6
The unconventional index and its merits (on Joachim Camerarius’ analysis of Dürer's ‘Melancolia I’). William S. Heckscher 13.5–25
Clemency Canning. G. Norman Knight 4.19–20/29
Skims, ancient and modern. G.V. Carey 6.92–6
Indexes past: Latter-Day pamphlets (Thomas Carlyle) 12.143
Lewis Carroll as indexer. Hans H. Wellisch 18.110
Indexer nascitur, non fit — Lewis Carroll as an indexer again. August A. Imholtz, Jr. 20.11–13
Indexing the life of Sir Winston Churchill. G. Norman Knight 5.58–63
The ‘Washington read’ and the ‘Clindex.’ (Bill Clinton) Christine Shuttleworth 24.61
The making of an index: F. Howard Collins. Michael Robertson 18.237–43
Sir Edward Cook’s ‘Art of Indexing’ (1918). Michael Robertson 19.31–3
Alexander Cruden and his concordance. John Farrow. 20.55–6
Indexing Defoe. Douglas Matthews 24.12–14
How I indexed Dickens’s letters. James Thornton 4.119–22
Distortion and mutilation — it can happen to us (index to biography of Charles Dickens). Hazel K. Bell 18.40–1
Bias in indexing (on Laurence Echard / John Oldmixon). Margaret Anderson 9.27–30
There’s more to an index ... (Stallybrass indexes Forster). Hazel K. Bell. 20.14
First person indicative (E.M. Forster’s index to Marianne Thornton: a domestic biography) Hazel K. Bell 24.97
Father of the man (George Fox). John A. Vickers 17.20
Early multilingual and multiscript indexes in herbals (of Leonhart Fuchs and Conrad Gessner). Hans H. Wellisch 11.81–102
Cardinal Giuseppe Garampi: an eighteenth-century pioneer in indexing. Charles Burns 22.61–4
Gibbon’s original index. 20–15
Indexing Gladstone: from 5 x 3" cards to computer and database. H.C.G. Matthew 19.257–64
The mystery of the indexer’s elephants (Oliver Goldsmith). Anthony Raven 14.191–3
The modern index to Richard Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations. Alison M. Quinn 5.106–12
On editing and indexing a series of letters (of Sir Robert Hart). Katherine Frost Bruner 14.42–6
William Sebastian Heckscher 1904–1999 [obituary] 22.40–41
A.P.H.(Herbert)’s humorous indexes. G. Norman Knight. 6.108–15
Index makers: Georgette Heyer 17.46
Some personalities: Sherlock Holmes; Mary Petherbridge; Sidney & Beatrice Webb. Margaret Anderson 7.19–23
Alexander von Humboldt’s Kosmos: indexing it. Oliver Lubrich and Ottmar Ette 24.2–6
A word upon indexes: Leigh Hunt. 6.74
What, no index? Constant Lambert. David Lee 14.177–8
‘Discursive, dispersed, heterogeneous’… indexing Seven pillars of wisdom. (T.E. Lawrence) Hazel K. Bell 24.9–11
Leacock on indexing. Peter Greig 8.201–3
Bernard Levin and The Indexer. Hazel K. Bell 24.127–132
‘The precious work’: from the correspondence between Oula Jones and Bernard Levin, 1981–1999. Frances S. Lennie 24.133–134
A Machiavellian index (to Livy’s Decades). Hans H. Wellisch 18.86
(Both also in Early humanist indexing. 14.58)
Indexes past: The Biglow papers [James Russell Lowell] 19.290–1
Josephine McGovern, 1924–2001 [obituary] 22.198
Marot, Hofstadter, index [Douglas Hofstadter’s translation of Ma mignonne by Clément Marot]. Christine Shuttleworth. 21.22–3
The Mandela Portal ? how do visitors get there? Shadrack Katuu and Sello Hatang. 28.69–73
Colin Matthew 1941–1999 [obituary] 22.41
Indexes past: London Labour and the London poor (Henry Mayhew). 14.53–5
Moreana — after twenty years (Thomas More). William S. Heckscher 14.122
The making of a dictionary: James A. H. Murray. Hazel K. Bell. 20.78–80
First and last lines (Ogden Nash). John A. Vickers 16.103
Could still do better: the revised index to the Newman biography. John A. Vickers 17.189–90
Nietzsche as indexer. August A. Imholtz 11.204
Indexing Pepys’s diary. Robert & Rosalind Latham 12.34–5
‘The index to the definitive Pepys’. Robert Latham 14.88–90
Index makers: Samuel Pepys. Hazel K. Bell 17.285
Some personalities: Sherlock Holmes; Mary Petherbridge; Sidney & Beatrice Webb. Margaret Anderson 7.19–23
Index makers:  Mary Petherbridge 16.115–16
Wot, no index? – or the death of the ‘Washington read’.(Sarah Palin) Maureen MacGlashan. 28.18-19
Seyward Darby’s Going rogue index. (Sarah Palin) 28.19-23
‘Thankless task’ accomplished for Pym. Hazel Bell 14.189
No thankless task: Barbara Pym as indexer. Hazel Holt 15.236–7
Cook & Wedderburn’s index to Ruskin’s Works. James Thornton 5.154–8
Index for afterthoughts: John Ruskin’s Fors Clavigera. 14.124
A long fiction index (to Walter Scott’s Waverley novels). Philip Bradley 8.153–63
An indexer in Flytopia (short story by Will Self). Christine Shuttleworth 22.196
A Shavian index (G.B. Shaw). 15.26–7
An unauthorizable index. (Lemony Snicket) Hazel K. Bell 24.83
Swift on indexing. John A. Vickers 17.32
Thirty-nine to one: indexing the novels of Angela Thirkell. Hazel K. Bell. 21.6–10
A cautionary tale [‘The spotted dog’ by Anthony Trollope]. Hazel K. Bell. 21.24
Fishing for information (Izaac Walton). 19.274–5
The strange affair of the resurrection of (Evelyn) Waugh. 16.191
Some personalities: Sherlock Holmes; Mary Petherbridge; Sidney & Beatrice Webb. Margaret Anderson 7.19–23
Indexing Wesley’s journals and diaries. John A.Vickers 25.9–11
Henry Benjamin Wheatley. Evelyn K. Green 4.115–16
Bibliography of works by H.B. Wheatley. L.M. Harrod. 4.116–17; 5.35–7
In memoriam: H.B.W.(Wheatley). E.L.C. Mullins 8.94–7
The other Wheatley. J.D. Lee 24.2–5
Freda Wilkinson 1910–1999 [obituary] 22.42–3
Publishing and prostitution (memoirs of Harriette Wilson). Hazel. K. Bell 22.133–4
Index makers: Charlotte Yonge. Margaret Anderson 17.160