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Index Page numerals in italics refer to illustrations. Abbey Gardens (Shrewsbury), 54 Addison, Joseph, 30–31, 41–42, 68, 82, 87–88, 178 Admiralty, 82, 87–88, 93 Aesthetic Movement, 211–13 African Grove (New York), 15, 142, 280 n.16 African Theatre (New York), 277 n.50 Agus, Joseph, 112 Ahmed III, 105 Albert Hall, 126 Alexander the Great, 105, 108 Alexandra Palace, 126 Alexandra, Queen, 235 Algiers (New Orleans pleasure garden),  Amelie, Princess, 39 Amherst, Alicia, 18, 22 amusement parks, 9, 151–53, 160, 169–76, 217–45 Apollo Gardens (Birmingham), 53 Apollo Gardens (London), 32,  Arban, Jean-Baptiste, 124 Armstrong, Louis ‘‘Satchmo,’’ 171 Arne, Thomas, 80, 103 Arnold, Samuel, 103 Arrowsmith, Mr. (singer at London’s Vauxhall ),  Arsenal (Paris), 44 Ashburnham House, 198 assemblies, 63, 76 Audubon Park (New Orleans), 169, 174 Ayton, Fanny, 119 Bach, Johann Christian, 102, 115, – Bagatelle (Bath), 53 Bagnigge Wells, , 32 Baker, Benjamin, 28, 147 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 240–41 ballet, 119, 146, 198–99, 202 balloons, 124, 145, 168, 177, 190–91 Baltimore, 137, , 144 Bank of England, 88–89 Barber Surgeons Hall (Newcastle), 54 Barcelona, 218 Bartram, C. C., 230 Bartram, John, 20 Bath, 36, 53–54, , 57, 59, , 61, 63, 72, 74, 106, 179. See also Bathwick Villa Gardens, Gravel Walks, Grosvenor Gardens, King’s James’s Palace, Orange Grove, Spring Gardens , Sydney Gardens Bathurst, Lord, 37 Bathwick Villa Gardens (Bath), 54 Baudelaire, Charles, 8, 178, 185–88, 195, 208–9, 212, 243 Baum, John, 202, 204–6, 213 Bean, William, 223, 234 Beethoven, Ludwig von, 124 Bell, Anthony, 69 Belle Vue (Manchester), 230 Belleville, 221 Benjamin, Walter, 178–79, 182, 184–86, 188 Berenger, Charles de, Baron, 198 Berlin, 10. See also In den Zelten Beulah Spa, 5 Billington, Elizabeth, 112 Birmingham, 24, 53, 222, 229, 239. See also Apollo Gardens; Casino Theatre of Varieties and Pleasure Grounds; Vauxhall Bish, Thomas, 119 Bishop, Henry, 102, 119 Blackpool Pleasure Beach, 221–22, , 223– 24, , 225, 229, 233–35, 239, 241–44, 293 n.48, 295 n.80 308 Index Blackpool, 227, 229, 233–34, 241–45, 293 n.48. See also Raikes Hall; White City Blewitt, Jonathan, 119 Bolden, Buddy, 171 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 281 n.32 Boston, 132–33. See also Washington Gardens Boswell, James, 60, 62, 111 botanical gardens, 126, 139, 217–19 Botany Bay, 92 Boyle, Richard, third earl of Burlington, 35, 44–47 Brandon, Alfred, 204–5, 213 Brewer, John, 11–12, 50, 65 Bridgeman, Charles, 19, 44 Brighton, 22. See also Promenade Grove Bristol, 56, 239. See also Vauxhall Brown, John Calvin, 217–19, 225, 230, 238, 291 n.26 Brown, Lancelot, 22, 40–42 Brown, William, 141, 277 n.50 Brussels, 10 Buffalo Bill, 225, 235 Bunbury, Sarah, 14 Bunn, Alfred, 10 Burchell, Isabella, 112 Burlington, Lord. See Richard Boyle, third earl of Burlington Burney, Charles, 100–101 Burney, Fanny, 76, 177, 182–89 Canal Street, City Park and Lake Railroad Company, 172 Canaletto, ,  Cardiff, 239 Carlyle, Thomas, 198 Carrollton Gardens, 150–51, , 160–63,  cascades, 20, 33, 36, 42–43, 59, 102, 112, 121, 188, 255 n. 20 Casino Theatre of Varieties and Pleasure Grounds (Birmingham), 229 Castle Garden (New York), 17, , 138–39 Castle Hill (Shaftesbury), 58 Castle, Terry, 70, 178–79, 182, 184 Central Park, 23 Chambers, William, 40 Chandler, Mary, 56 Charles II, 93 Charleston, 144, 156, 159. See also Vauxhall Chelsea Hospital, 71 Chester, 55, 243 Chicago Exposition, 226 Chichester, 55 Children, 8, 144, 156–57, 161, 168, 238 chinoiserie, 35, 43,  Chiswick, 35, , 44–45, , 46,  City Park (New Orleans), 169, 174 Cleethorpes, 222 Cobham, Lord. See Richard Temple, first Viscount Cobham Cochran, Charles Blake, 222, 226 Cocking, George, 124 Colley, Linda, 41, 94–96 Collins, Pat, 229, 293 n.48 Columbian Gardens (Baltimore), 137, , 144–46 Coney Island, 9, 130, 170, 220–21, 229, 244 Cook’s Circus (New York),  Cooke, Tom, 119 corsairs, 93–95 Courbet, Gustave, 208 Cours La Reine (Paris), 24, 26, 44 Coventry, 53 Cremorne Gardens, 15, 21, 195–216 Cremorne Stadium, 198 Cruikshank, George, 180,  Cruisers and Convoys Act (1708), 87–88 Crystal Palace (London), 126. See also Great Exhibition Crystal Palace (New York), 275 n.22 Cuper’s Garden, , 51, 53, 61 dancing, 74, 120, 143–44, 146–47, 157–58, 168, 198, 200, , 202, 224, 227 D’Argenville, Dézallier, 20–21, 24 Davis, Lucy, 205 Debord, Guy, 216 Degas, Edgar, 208 Delacroix, Joseph, 131–32, 135, 137, 139 Denbies (Jonathan Tyers’s estate), 19, 36 Derby, 239 Devil’s Dyke...

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