When Mary and Perry Jackson reconnected in Chapter 14, he asked her where she was living. She told him Bolstrode Street and expressed that she would like to be in a little house in a suburb and then thought of her love, Vincent Hemming.
Académie Julian was a private art school that Ella Hepworth Dixon studied at as a child with her sister. The art school was in Paris, France from 1868 to 1968.
A house mentioned frequently in Ella Hepworth Dixon's The Story of A Modern Woman. Harley Street is in Marylebone, Central London. It is also noted for a large number of medical professionals.
Where Mary is said to live at the beginning of Chapter 9 of The Story of A Modern Woman.
"Mary walked home to her lodgings in Bulstrode Street more than usually weary with stippling the Laocoön."
Mary has been having some writers block and struggling to think of her next story. She comes up with the idea to write her next chapter about the hospital.
"Dr. Strange, you've got to personally conduct us over the Whitechapel Hospital," said Alison, turning her beautiful, intelligent eyes upon him. "Miss Erle wants to write a chapter about a hospital, and you can explain the internal arrangements to her."
In the 1800s, horses were used for just about everything. Horses were ridden into battle and war with soldiers atop them; they were used for transportation, farm and yard work, sports, and hunting. Basically, horses were used for everything at this time because the technology was minimal, and horses were simple and readily available. Horses were often used to pull a buggy or wagons behind them with passengers inside. Before the car, a horse was the most useful form of transportation.
Trafalgar Square is located in the City of Westminister, towards Central London. It marks the British defeat of Napoleonic forces at the naval Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The area was formally known as Charing Cross and was has been an important site since the 1200s. The square is decorated by a number of statues, the most iconic of which is called Nelson's Column and is guarded by four lion statues. These statues were visible in Perry Jackson's painting that Mary Erle observed.
Where Perry Jackson's studio is located.
"I hope...that you'll come and see my studio. I'm down Kensington now-all among the Royal Academicians."
This hospital, founded in 1740 and relocated to Whitechapel Road, London in 1757, is the setting for chapter XVIII. In this chapter, Dr. Dunlap Strange takes Mary and Alison here and a very strange thing happens. Mary recognizes one of the patients struggling with rapid consumption as the woman she frequently sees waiting for someone in Regent's Park.
