Brookhaven

In David Copperfield, James Steerforth is a character in the novel that represents the upper class in Victorian Society. Steerforth is a wealthy and privileged man with no sympathies for those who don’t have access to the same opportunities as him. Steerforth lives in Highgate in a nice home with his mother and Miss Dartle. In chapter twenty of the novel, Steerforth brings David over to his house for the first time.

The Capital and Chesney Wold

Chesney Wold symbolizes a great deal of wealth and power within Bleak House. It stands for the static ordering of society and indicates the top of the British class system. As a landowner, Sir Leicester has the most input over the majority of the country. As one of the 'great country families', he is determined that the world should run as he and the House of Lords would order it. He will change things as he sees fit and his wife, Lady Dedlock, has without a doubt married him in order to join him in this luxury.

England

Sarah/Sally Forbes Bonetta Davies witnessed the brutal murder of her family during a slave hunt when she was very young, and later given to Queen Victoria as a gift. She was liberated by the queen and was called her goddaughter She was initially given out of a tradition of giving enslaved or “apprentice” children to serve the recipient (similar to Mary Prince with her first mistress), but her relationship with the queen and respect given to Sally by her set an example for the country as in the new era of the abolition of slavery in 1833.

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