A Private History of Happiness (37 page)

Banks, Joseph,
103

Barrett, Edward Moulton,
177

Barrett, Elizabeth
,
177–78

Basho, Matsuo
,
101–2
,
105
,
106

Bath,
30
,
219

Bec (abbey),
161–62

Bedford,
59–60

Bedfordshire,
59–60

Belgium,
81

Benjamin of
Tudela
,
141–42

Berkshire,
29–30
,
195–96

Berlin,
7–8
,
83–84

Berry, Agnes,
81–82

Berry, Mary
,
81–82

Berry, Robert,
81

Beverly Farms,
53–54

Bhaskara
,
157–58

Bird, Isabella
,
3–4

Blackwood, John,
145

Blake, Catherine,
151–52

Blake, William
,
151–52

Bordeaux,
51

Boston,
53
,
65–66
,
129–30

Boulge,
173–74

Bousfield (family),
59–60

Bousfield, Charlotte
,
59–60

Bradley, Cyrus P.
,
125–26

Brahmagupta,
157

Bristol,
59
,
127–28
,
219–20

Brocken, the,
203–4

Brown, Capability,
60

Browning, Robert,
177–78

Bucke, Richard,
217

Buckinghamshire,
49–50
,
67

Burlington,
181–82

Burney (family),
169–70

Burney, Fanny
,
169–70

Burns, Robert
,
27–28

Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin de
,
47–48

Butts, Thomas,
151–52

Cairo,
43–44

California,
3–4
,
117

Callender, Hannah
,
109–10

Cambridge,
41–42

Cambridgeshire,
41–42

Camillus,
61–62

Canterbury (New Hampshire),
125

Canterbury,
161
,
174

Cape Ann,
213–14

Carlyle, Jane Welsh
,
139–40

Carlyle, Thomas,
139

Cerinthus,
187

Chang’an.
See
Xi’an

Charles I, King,
67

Charles II, King,
68
,
75–76

Chaucer, Geoffrey,
174

Chelmsford,
59

Chessington,
169–70

China,
9–10
,
39–40
,
57
,
63–64
,
79–80
,
115–16
,
157
,
201–2

Chuzhou,
79–80

Cicero,
215

Cincinnati,
126

Civil War (England),
67–68

Clappersgate,
210

Clara (in Richardson Pack’s poem),
189–90

Clercq, Willem de
,
21–22

Cologne,
97

Columbus (Ohio),
126

Confucius,
58

Connecticut,
25–26

Connell, George,
31–32

Connell, Sarah
,
31–32

Constantinople.
See
Istanbul

Conti, Antonio, Abbé,
77–78

Copenhagen,
203

Cornwall,
127–28

Cowper, William
,
49–50

Crisp, Samuel,
169

Crommelin,
21–22

Cromwell, Oliver,
68

Cumbria,
209–10

Curtis, George William,
53

Cutler, George
,
25–26

Damascus,
116

Darmstadt,
97

David, King,
142

Davy, Humphry
,
127–28

Dawson-Damer, George,
43–44

Dawson-Damer, Mary
,
43–44

Dawson, Wilhelmina,
215

Deathless Wisdom (Buddhist monk),
80

Delaware,
13–14

Delhi,
115

Derbyshire,
5–6

Diogenes Laertes,
119

Disraeli, Benjamin,
43

Douglas, James,
159

Drivstuen,
107

Du Fu
,
63–64

Dublin,
13
,
183–84

Dumont, John,
163

Durrant, Thomas,
121–22

Dwight, Timothy,
86

East Hoathly,
121–22

East Sussex.
See
Sussex

Edinburgh,
5
,
27
,
147–48

Edo.
See
Tokyo

Effingham County,
117

Egypt,
43–44
,
116
,
149–50
,
155
,
165–66

Elford, William,
29–30

Eliot, George
,
145–46

Elm Creek,
117–18

Epictetus,
215–16

Epicurus,
119–20

Essex,
59

Evelyn, John
,
75–76

Exeter,
189

Felpham,
151–52

Fengxiang,
64

Fielding, Henry,
170

Finland,
137–38

FitzGerald, Edward
,
173–74

Flanders,
47

Florence (Massachusetts),
163–64

Florence,
205–6

Fontainebleau,
193
,
199–200

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse,
167–68

France,
5
,
51
,
68
,
87–88
,
161–62
,
167–68
,
179–80
,
191–92
,
193–94
,
199–200

Franklin, Benjamin
,
137
,
171–72

French Empire.
See
Napoleon

French Revolution,
11
,
191

Frizzell (family),
117–18

Frizzell, Lodisa
,
117–18

Fujiwara Michinaga,
46

Fyfield,
11–12

Gainsborough, Thomas,
134

Ganesh,
157

Gay, John,
77

Gedney, Solomon,
163–64

Geneva,
211–12

George II, King,
189

Germany,
7–8
,
35–36
,
83–84
,
97
,
199
,
203–4

Gibbs, George,
25–26

Gilbert, Olive,
163–64

Glover, John,
107

Goldie, John
,
103–4

Granada,
145–46

Grasmere,
209–10

Gravesend,
213

Gray, Thomas
,
41–42

Great Fire of 1666 (London),
160

Greece,
43
,
119–20
,
155–56
,
206
,
215

Green, Thomas
,
133–34

Gujarat,
135

Haiti,
5

Hales, Lady,
170

Halifax,
93
,
103
,
129

Halley, Edmond,
159–60

Hampshire,
11–12
,
95–96

Hannibal,
86

Hanska, Evelina,
180

Hardwick,
5–6

Haslau,
36

Hattori Ransetsu
,
105–6

Haydon, Benjamin
,
195–96

Hayley, William,
151

Head, George
,
93–94

Helm, Aoke,
138

Herculaneum,
82
,
86

Hermarchus,
120

Hermippus
,
119–20

Higginson, Ann,
213

Higginson, Francis
,
213–14

Highlands (Scotland),
27–28

Hino, Mount,
23–24

Holland,
21–22
,
81

Holmes, Oliver Wendell
,
53–54

Homer,
112

Horace
,
33–34
,
187
,
216

Hsu Hsia-k’o
,
9–10

Hull, Hannah,
65–66

Hull, John
,
65–66

Hull, Judith,
65–66

Hunter, Miss,
139

Huntingdon,
49

Hyman, Mary,
196

Ibn Battuta
,
115–16

Iceland,
11

Illinois,
99
,
117

Imlay, Gilbert,
191–92

India,
115
,
116
,
135
,
157–58

Ipswich,
71
,
133

Ireland,
183–84

Irving, Washington
,
199–200

Istanbul,
47–48
,
77
,
111
,
135–36

Italy,
33–34
,
51–52
,
81–82
,
89–90
,
146
,
167
,
177–78
,
187–88
,
205–6

Jacobite Rebellions,
189

Jamaica (Queens County),
110

Japan,
23–24
,
45–46
,
57–58
,
101–2
,
105–6
,
123–24
,
207–8

Jerkin,
107–8

Jerusalem,
142

Johnson, Samuel,
17

Jonah (father of Benjamin of Tudela),
141

Jonah (prophet),
144

Josephine, Empress,
193–94

Kalm, Pehr
,
137–38

Kamo no Chomei
,
23–24

Kazusa,
123

Keil, John,
160

Kelso,
215

Kenny, Patrick
,
13–14

Kent,
121

Kittredge, Maria,
31

Knox, Edmond,
89–90

Knox, Jane
,
89–90

Knyff, Leonard,
134

Kongsvold,
107–8

Kyohaku,
102

Kyoto,
45–46
,
57–58
,
105–6
,
123–24
,
207

Laessoe, Mrs.,
203

Lake District,
107
,
209–10

Lake Ontario,
103–4

Lancaster,
97

Larcom, Lucy
,
99–100

Lee, Jarena
,
143–44

Leeds,
159

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,
158
,
160

Leicester,
213

Leicestershire,
213

Leipzig,
35

Lesbos,
119–20
,
155–56

Levin, Rahel,
83–84

Lewes, George Henry,
145–46

Lichfield,
17–18

Lilivati (daughter of Bhaskara),
158

Linnaeus, Carolus,
137

Litchfield,
25–26

Liverpool,
69–70

Logan, Hannah,
181–82

Logan, James,
181

London,
43
,
49
,
59
,
67–68
,
75–76
,
78
,
81
,
85–86
,
89
,
103
,
107
,
128
,
133–34
,
139–40
,
145–46
,
151–52
,
159–60
,
169
,
177–78
,
191

London (Ontario),
217

Long Island,
110

Lowell,
99

Lowell, James Russell,
53

Machiavelli, Niccolò
,
205–6

Madhya Pradesh,
157

Maecenas,
33

Maine,
99–100

Manchester,
5

Manlius Torquatus,
33–34

Marcus Aurelius
,
15–16

Marie-Louise of Austria,
193

Massachusetts,
31–32
,
53–54
,
61
,
65
,
99
,
163–64
,
213–14

Matsuo Basho.
See
Basho, Matsuo

Mecca,
115

Medici,
205

Menderes River,
111–12

Menou, General,
86

Metrodorus,
120

Michault, Nicholas,
48

Michigan,
218

Middlebury,
87

Missouri,
117

Mitford
,
Mary Russell
,
29–30
,
195–96

Montagu, Edward Wortley,
77

Montagu, Mary Wortley
,
77–78

Montaigne, Michel de
,
51–52

Montreal,
103

Morgan, Thomas Charles,
183–84

Morocco,
115–16

Moscow,
185–86

Moses,
142

Muhammad Ali,
43

Murasaki Shikibu
,
45–46

Naniwa.
See
Osaka

Naples,
81–82

Napoleon, Emperor,
21
,
22
,
84
,
93
,
133
,
193–94
,
199