English 3620
Georgia State University
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These pictures (taken more than 120 years apart) both depict the same view from Chancery Lane, of Maughan Library and Old Public Records Office. The right picture was taken in 1896, only 44 years after the publication of Bleak House.
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Leicester Square was first known as Leicester Field, and it was a residential area. The north side of the property, prior to becoming Leicester square, only had one building, which was Leicester House. The house belonged to and was built by Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester between 1632 and 1636. Streets and houses were built around the Leicester Field between the Restoration and the Revolution; and, by the 17th century, its center had been railed around. This area was famous for duels, most notably, the duel between Captain French and Captain Coote; Captain Coote died on the grounds. Around this time, Leicester...
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This image is John Constable's painting, View of Highgate, painted in the first quarter of the 19th-century. The landscape is painted likely from the position of the artist from within Hampstead Heath, looking towards the center Gate House area of Highgate. Constable was a very influential painter, most notably for his proto-impressionist style that serves as a predecessor to many of the French impressionists like Renoir and Monet. The work of art depicted in this image and the reproduction thereof are in the public domain worldwide. The reproduction is part of a ...
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[ID: An 1850 map of settled colonies of Austrlalia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia). The map only focuses on areas that have been settled rathern than the continent as a whole. Image source is Wikimedia Commons.]
\Charles Dickens was fortunate enough to live through and observe the development of the continent of Australia, which he reflected through his writing. Prior to Dickens’ birth, Australia had been colonized by the British for decades and used...
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[Image ID: The picture on the left shows one cent coin from 1845 that is attributed to the East India Company. The coin is copper in color and features Queen Victoria in profile. The picture on the left is an illustration of the Sepoy Mutiny at Meerut. The foreground...
moreLocated at the Northern End of Regent's Park, at the boundary of Camden and Westminster, lies the London Zoo. Established on April 27, 1828, the zoo was originally only accessible to members of the Zoological Society. Sir Stamford Raffles and Sir Humphry Davys are responsible for the birth of this landmark after obtaining the land shortly before Raffles' death in 1826. Davys' managed to push forward in their plans, honoring his colleague's legacy, and oversaw the creation of the zoo. King Charles IV ended up granting a charter to the project, leading to its newfound accessibilty to the public. The London Zoo boasts many accomplishments, the first of which being that this place is actually the world's oldest scientific zoo. At this time, it was considered tradition to take the out-of-town visitors here,making it the perfect place for a regal and esteemed man such as Steerforth to take David Copperfield to see. In the interactions between David and Steerforth in chapter 20, it is...
moreAfter David finishes school in Canterbury with Dr. Strong, Aunt Betsey asks him what it is that he wants to do with is life. With David being unsure of the answer, Betsey suggests that David take up an apprenticeship to become a proctor. Doctors' Commons is where David takes up his apprenticeship under Mr. Spenlow and Mr. Jorkins. During his apprenticeship, David enjoys a newfound sense of freedom living on his own in London. His aunt had an apartment arranged for him to stay in while he learned how to become a proctor. She also hired Mrs. Crupp to cook for David.
Doctors' Commons was a self-governing teaching body of practitioners of civil law. Members of Doctors' Commons had obtained doctorate degrees in civil law from either Oxford or Cambridge. Members of the governing body, called fellows, were elected from the advocates by existing fellows. In 1565, the society leased a site in Paternoster Row, which served as the headquarters until 1598. In 1568, the society moved to...
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Thomas Shotter Boys' painting titled Blackfriars from Southwark 1842
Situated along the bank of the River Thames in London, Blackfriars is a historic site with religious and theatrical significance. The relatively small area can be found between St. Paul’s Cathedral and The Temple, the name of London’s legal district which houses the Royal Courts of Justice. Blackfriars began in the 13th century when the Black Friars—named as such because of the black colored mantles they wore over their white habits, but also known as Dominicans—established a friary there. The Dominicans were a mendicant group founded by St. Dominic, a Catholic priest who is known as the patron saint of astronomers. Their friary “was built in 1278 at the end of Fleet Street...
moreCharles Dickens was born in Landport, Hampshire in 1812, but by the age of four or five he and his family had moved to Chatham, Kent where Dickens spent the formative years of his childhood. Kent is a county in South East England that borders Greater London to the northwest, and also shares a border with Essex along an estuary of the River Thames. Within the county of Kent, the District of Dover and the City of Canterbury can be found, two important locations within Dickens’ own David Copperfield. David, upon leaving his forced occupation in London, walks all the way to Dover, where his Aunt Betsey Trotwood is said to live. As we know from reading the novel he’s accepted by his Aunt and is cared for by her. When she sets him up to be schooled it is in Canterbury that his education is seen to and where he makes the acquaintance of Mr. and Agnes Wickfield.
Dover as a district is probably most famous for being the location of The White Cliffs of...
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