Russell Square is a garden square in Bloomsbury. The Russell family, who were earls of Bedford since 1550. The family gained possession of the land in 1669. According to hidden-london.com, “The square was laid out in 1801 by Humphry Repton on land earlier called Southampton Fields, and subsequently Long Fields. James Burton was the designer of the original buildings that surrounded the square, only a few of which now remain” (hidden-london).
1925: Harley Street is in Marylebone which is in centeral London. It is known for its large number of medicine and surgery speacialists and those numbers only increased as time went on. But before that it consisted of a small amount of house, but doctors were drawn to these areas because the houses were spacious enough for them to double as surgery areas and their residences. It was named after Edward Harley who marreid Henrietta Cavendish Holles, daughter of the Duke of Newcastle.
Russell Square is a vast garden square in Bloomsbury. The Russell family, earls of Bedford from 1550, gained possession of it in 1669. The square was lai
During the time period the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” took place on 10 St. James Street there was the St. James Bazaar. It is a popular new retail development in early Victorian Britain. It opened in 1816, but after the first year, it closed for six years. In the 1840s the building hosted some exhibitions such as in 1844 it hosted the decorative works for the New Houses of Parliament. In 1847 the building was converted into chambers. It has been used as offices. It was the Junior Army and Navy Club from about 1881 to 1904. The building has been changed over time and the current St.
Mayfair, London developed as a bustling social atmosphere around the May Fair Festival that took place there every year in the Spring. Before the 1920's wealthy politicans, aristocrats, bankers ect. moved into the area after the May Fair festival moved out of the area. There were fine restaruarunts, clothing shops, and large stately homes. In the 1920's this area was very wealthy and prestigious. A lot of the people living in Mayfair in the 1920's were young, but with "old money" and often some older relative of the family had fought in the World War.
Regent's Park is a park in the boroughs of Camden and Westminster where it was originally used as a hunting ground by King Henry VIII up until the 1810s and 20s. During those years it was landscaped by John Nash, the city planner, as a place for the royal family and other aristocrats to enjoy and for around 20 years it stayed that way until it was opened up in 1841 to the public for the first time and it became one of the main parks of London.
This is the location where Christina Rossetti was born and raised. She was in the Marylebone section of London, the same area that housed Westminster Abbey. Where she lived may have influenced her views on "fallen" women, and these views most certainly influenced her poem "Goblin Market." Yet, the reviewers of her poems missed or overlooked the allusions to fallen women in Rossetti's poems. Rossetti lived in London, and both of these reviews of her work were published in London, making the city an important place for understanding her work.
This point is where the slave woman was kneeling in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem, "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point." She is drawing a comparison between the slave running away and the pilgrim's arrival to a new land.
