Everingham

Everingham is a fictional estate in Norfolk, England. Everingham is where Mansfield Park's Henry Crawford was born, and he is also the heir to receive Everingham. This is a setting for several scenes in Mansfield Park. 

Bermuda or Bahama

Mrs. Croft mentions Bermuda along with when she is telling Mrs. Musgrove of her travels around the Atlantic with Admiral Croft. Mrs. Croft has seen some of the extent of the British Empire, thought not all: "I never went beyond the Streights -- and never was in the West Indies. We do not call Bermuda or Bahama, you know, the West Indies" (103).

Austen, Jane. Persuasion. edited by Linda Bree, Broadview, 1998.

See also the vetted location in the COVE master map for The Bahamas.

New York

The New York Journal of Medicine published this table in 1850 regarding the brain sizes of different races.  Looking at this table, it is clear that the white doctors who created it considered whiteness to be dependent upon the supposed biologic superiority of the white race.  Their ideas of superiority are displayed as they claim that white people (the “modern caucasion group”) have the largest brain size.  Today, we know that these findings are untrue, there

Discussion Post #10

I found the topic of Undisciplining Victorian Studies in this class's discussion to be very interesting. Historically speaking Victorian studies have been seen as a prodominetly white community, not much of the literature was written or published by people of colour. Many works that have been studied have been dug up and rediscovered.

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