In the issue published the week of August 22, 1846, The People's Journal, a socially progressive and literarily well-connected weekly, reported on a painter/forester in Sherwood Forest around whom a sort of school had started. The journal published reports like these in the optimistic belief that "[t]he influence of [similar] example[s] propagates itself with wonderful rapidity, and, aided by the press and public opinion, it is enabled to exercise a power almost omnipotent" (15).

Located in the center of London, this royal church's cemetery holds the graves of many of England's most important figures, including royalty, religious figures, scientists, and writers. Alfred Lord Tennyson was buried here with great honor on October 12, 1892. He was buried in the poet's corner near Robert Browning, and his resting place is noted by a simple dark gray burial stone giving his name and date of birth and death in gold lettering.

The town of Massacre in the Windward Islands is the community nearest to where Bertha and Rochester have their isolated honeymoon on "a small estate that was owned by Antionette's mother" before she died (Rhys 60). This is where all the interactions between Rochester and Bertha play out on the page as Bertha gradually descends into the "madness" of indulging in alcohol and sex and growing suspicious of Rochester gold-digging for her dowry.

Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Minto is where Claypoole School is located. This is indicated multiple times in the text. Examples include the heading of the letter Gemma attempts to send Mr. Donaldson which reads "Claypoole School/Minto/The Borders" and when Ross finds Gemma trying to find Claypoole on a classroom map and remarks, "Here's Hawick, and Denholm. Minto is too small" (Livesey 71, 91).

Gemma heads to St. David's Well following the completion of her exams. She feels elated and free from the burden of studying and she’s confident in her performance on the Latin portion. When she returns to Weem, however, she finds the house empty. Without anyone to celebrate with, Gemma feels restless and she resolves to "walk up the hill to St. David's Well," in hopes that "[p]erhaps the local deity would calm [her]" (Livesey 383).

In April Lindner’s Jane, the late-night sketch comedy show, Saturday Night Live (SNL), is referenced by Nico Rathburn within Chapter 7, when he personally details his backstory to Jane Moore, in relation to Celine’s (Maddy’s mother) love affair in France. He confides to Jane that, “She’d been seeing her boyfriend, Jean Paul LeFevre—Can you believe that name? It’s like a parody of a Latin lover in a Saturday Night Live skit, for God’s sake” (Lindner 92).