London is the capital of the not just England, but the entire globe-spanning never-sunsetting British Empire. With sizable territory on every continent, wealth and resources poured into the city, encouraging rapid industrialization that would produce the extremes of wildly luxurious aristocratic neighboorhoods and blackened, soot-lined slums. As the Victorian era passed into World War One and the Interwar Period, London once again faced a reckoning of harsh inequality and national struggle through the Great Depression.
The Brownhill Inn was a lodging house in Scotland founded in the late 18th century by Mr. John Bacon, a Scottish vintner and landowner. The coaching house was popularized by one of its notable patrons, Robert Burns, wdiely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. Spending many an evening warmed by the inn's hearth, Burns referred to the establishment as his 'local,' often serving as the muse or backdrop for his clever (and occasionally drunken) witticisms. One brief quip complimented the abundance of bacon at the inn while also complaining of the excessive abundance of 1. Mr.
Bury is a market town located in Greater Manchester, England. Bury's history dates back to the Roman occupation of Britain. During the Industrial Revolution Bury flourished as a mill town but following World War II, the demand for cotton decreased leading to some financial hardships in the town.
Quotes from Voyage
" ... the first winter I was on tour -- Wigan, Blackburn, Bury, Oldham, Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Southport. ... I counted up to fifteen and then slid off into thinking of all the bedrooms I had slept in..."
Keswick is a market town located in the Allerdale Borough in Cumbria, England. Evidence of prehistoric settlement has been found near the town such as Neolithic stone tools and the Castlerigg stone circle (similar to Stonehenge). The market received its charter in the thirteenth century from King Edward I. Keswick is often associated with the Lake Poets movement as members of the movement such as William Wordsworth lived in the town.
Eglwyseg Rocks is a valley located near Llangollen vale in Wales. Several Bronze Age burial mounds have been found in the valley and are the setting for Welsh folklore stories about giants. It is unclear when the area was settled and by whom, but many scholars believe Eglwseg Rocks dates back to the Middle Ages.
Brackish Pond is located in the Devonshire Parish of Bermuda. This parish is one of nine parishes in Bermuda. In 1612, the British claimed Bermuda as a colony and established its first settlement on the island. Bermuda is a part of the British Overseas Territories to this day. Brackish Pond is in the center of the island.
Luss is a village in the "Argyll and Bute" unitary authority council area of Scotland. It is located on the west bank of Loch Lomund, mentioned by Dorothy Wordsworth in the excerpt of Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland.
Wordsworth comments that Luss was the village that she was told the rural part of Scotland began. This holds true in the modern day as Luss became a conservation village and a popular tourism location in the Loch Lomund National Park. Outside of the ones managed by the park, cars are a rarity in this location
In Epistle to William Wilberforce, Anna Laetitia Barbauld says that beauty is "At once the Scythian, and the Sybarite Blending repugnant vices, misally'd."
note: a sybarite is a person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury, according to the dictionary.
Bermuda is an archipelago designated as a British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the location that Peter Finch compares the weather of the Western Peninsula of Britain to when describing Wales.
