Chicago is a city positioned along Lake Michigan and is the most populous city in both the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States.

Philadelphia is the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania and was founded by William Penn, an English Quaker, in 1682 to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony.

New York is a state in the northeastern United States. New York was one of the original thirteen colonies that formed the United States.

Birchington-on-Sea, Kent is a village of about 10,000 people in northeast Kent, England, facing the North Sea. It is both a tourist and retirement destination. Its churchyard is the burial place of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

17 Red Lion Square was a significant location for writers and painters associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Dante Gabriel Rossetti lived there briefly in 1851. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones lived there from 1856-59.  Almost directly opposite was the Working Men's College (now #31 Red Lion Square) where D. G.

45 Upper Albany St. (now 166 Albany St.) was the home of the Rossetti family; the family moved there in December 1850. It is here that Christina Rossetti wrote "Goblin Market."