Trafalgar Square is a plaza located in London, England. The historical plaza that features monuments and fountains is nestled near the River Thames, Charring Cross and The National Gallery. The square is mentioned in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as Peter Walsh walks around the city and reflects on his life. Throughout British history, the plaza has been the location of many protests, including pensioners, suffragettes, anti-nuclear, anti-war, anti-apartheid, anti-poll tax (Escobar 364).

Unfortunately, however, historians believe that the plaza’s political activity is now history; due to urbanization and progress within the nation, the political aspect of the plaza has faded into the nation’s past. This continual urbanization of society’s important landmarks “often fails to account for the ‘larger economic, political and cultural processes’ that shape them” (Escobar 365). The plaza has become an everyday experience for Londoners—just another part of their normal...

Arianna Thielman

7 December 2020

Literature in English

Professor MacLure

Manchester

            The novel Mary Barton was based in Manchester and mentioned many times the different aspects of the city. Manchester is in northwestern England and is a metropolitan area/city. It is an important “regional city” and was considered an urban prototype in the early 18th century. It was one of the first industrial cities created in the now Western World (Rodgers, 1). It began as being a market town that produced mainly cotton and only had a population of a mere 10,000 people. Soon those industries had prospered, and it soon became a commercial and industrialized city with over 300,000 inhabitants. Eventually the 19th century turned into Manchester's “golden age” and it was all thanks to the cotton industry that began in Manchester and spilled out into the suburbs and urban areas that surrounded the area/city. Mining was also a very common...