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American Notes is a difficult book to index because Dickens does not always provide specific names for individuals and establishments. The following list is primarily intended to give an overview of the kinds of topics, places, and individuals which resurface throughout the book. The list can be used as index to locate specific people and places, though it should be noted that some are only mentioned in passing and that the list is not exhaustive.
Unbracketed words and phrases can be searched for; bracketed words and phrases do not appear in the text. Brackets provide more complete names or names of individuals referred to but not specified -- [Tyler, John] would be located by searching for "the President himself" -- or indicate the general category to which a searchable word or name belongs.
The terms are divided into five sections:
Blue Laws
business
editors
health
independence
institution
Levees
Poor Law
the Press
prison
[religion]. the Pulpit; Unitarian; Taylor, [Edward Thompson] (a seaman turned Methodist minister); Mormonist; Dr. Channing; Shaker; Joseph Smith; Joanna Southcote
republican
seriousness
slavery
smartness
Transcendentalists
Universal Distrust
[women]. Blue Ladies
Ashburton, Lord
Bridgman, Laura
Burleigh, Lord
Carlyle, [Thomas]
Channing [William Ellery]
Cooke [Thomas Potter]. [theater]
Emerson, [Ralph Waldo]
[Felton, Cornelius Conway]. Greek Professors
Franklin, [Benjamin]
Harrison, [William Henry]. [Lowell and fashion]
Howe, Samuel Gridley
Jackson [Andrew]. [Lowell and fashion]
Lowell, [Francis Cabot]. [factory town]
Mitchell, [William]. [theater]
Paap, [Simon] (the dwarf)
Robins, [George Henry]
Sully [Thomas]. [painters]
[Tyler, John]. the President himself
Webster, [Daniel]
West, [Benjamin]. [painters]
Adelphi Hotel
Almack's [club]
Astley's [equestrian theater]
Cairo
Five Points. [New York, disreputable district]
[Georgetown University]. Jesuit College
Girard College
[Harvard University]. University of Cambridge
Hell Gate
Niblo's [Garden]
Perkins Institute
Sing-Sing [Prison]
The Tombs. [Manhattan House of Detention for Men]
Tremont House. [hotel]
Authors, literature and literary references:
[Arabian Nights ]. Barmecide Feast; Sinbad's Travels
Cooper, [James Fenimore]
Crabbe, [George]
Defoe, [Daniel]
[History of New York, by Irving]. Knickerbocker
"The Lady of the Lake"
[Le Sage]. Gil Blas; Halting Devil; strolling player; Dr. Sangrado
Shakespeare
["Sweet Williams' Farewell to Black Ey'd Susan"]; [John Gay]. Black-Eyed Susan
[Swift, Jonathan]. Brobdingnag, Yahoo, Lilliputian; the great satirist's brain
Vicar of Wakefield
artist in boots
the Britannia [trans-Atlantic crossing]
Downeasters [sectionalism]
Johnny Cake [sectionalism]
Kentucky Giant
The Lowell Offering [the journal of the factory girls]
Mint Julep [list of other drinks -- gin-sling, sherry cobbler, sangaree]