Bartley, timidity about success of “The Hunchback,” 377;
  hearing Knowles read “The Hunchback,” 390;
  plan for a new theatrical speculation in Covent Garden, 553;
  “cutting” “The Star of Seville” for the Stage, 495.

Barton, 293, 326.

Bath, 256, 416.

Batthyany, Count, 299, 302;
  Countess, 302.

Bayard, 506.

Bayley, Miss, marriage to Earl of Shaftesbury, 357.

Beatrice, 336, 341, 344, 516.

Beauclerc, the young ladies, chaperoned by Duchess of St. Albans, 392.

Beaufort, drives the coach, 330.

Beau, Madame le, 491.

Becher, Lady, (see O’Neill, Miss), anecdotes of, 194.

Becher, Sir (William Wrixon), married to Miss O’Neill, 195.

Bedford, Duke of, 347.

Beechey, Sir William, 393.

“Beggar’s Opera, The,” Miss Sheriff in, 471.

Bellamy, Mrs., rivalry with Garrick, 452.

Bellini, 100.

Belvidera, first dress for, 208;
  Fanny Kemble’s dislike of the part, 236;
  her second part, 235, 336;
  in London, 460, 469.

Belvoir Castle burned, 46.

Belzoni, Madame, 37.

Benedict, 426.

Bennett, as Laval, 508; in “Francis I.,” 509.

Bentham, Jeremy, 122;
  his philanthropy, 137;
  John Kemble’s admiration for, 180.

Beowulf, 503.

Berquin, Juvenile dramas, 2.

Berry, the Misses, 106.

Bessborough, 47.

Biagio’s Preface to Dante, 448.

Biagioli, 58.

Bianca, 325, 332, 523;
  Mrs. Kemble’s opinion of Fanny Kemble in, 333, 386, 414, 469, 474, 483;
  Fanny Kemble’s best part, 483;
  her first play in New York, 536.

Birmingham, 278.

Bishop, the murderer, 462.

Bishop, his opera “Cortex,” 86.

Blackheath, 251.

Blackshaw, Mrs., 37.

Blackwood, Mrs., 47, 173.

Blaise Castle, 426.

Blangini, 59.

Boaden, his life of Sarah Siddons, 128.

“Bonaparte,” the play, 366.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 364;
  melodrama on his life, 399;
  at St. Helena, Fanny Kemble’s verses on, 441;
  letters to Josephine, 462.

Bonheur, Rosa, 345.

“Borderers, The,” 508, 509, 513.

Bordogni, 276.

Boston, enthusiasm at Fanny Kemble’s farewell engagement, 588.

Bouilland, Mr., experiments on Brains, 418.

Boulogne, Fanny Kemble at school at, 26;
  farewell to, 31.

Bourbon, the Younger of the Orleans branch, 277.

Boyd, 293, 479.

Bradshaw, Mrs. (Maria Tree), in “Hernani” at Bridgewater House, 376;
  in Clari and Mary Copp, 396, 497.

Braham, 97;
  sings “Tom Tug,” 395.

Brain, anatomy of the, 528.

Brand, Mr., 346.