The Grimm brothers spent their whole lives together and naturally they died in the same place as well. Wilhelm Grimm, who had spent most of his life being ill, died of an infection in 1859, at the age of 73. Jacob Grimm became a retired recluse shortly after his brothers death and eventually died of natural causes in 1863, at age 78. He worked everyday to then end of his life and stated this in his autobiography.

Uppercross is located in Somersetshire. Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove, the parents of Charles, Louisa and Henrietta, live in the Great House at Uppercross. Charles and Mary live in the Uppercross cottage. The cottage was a quarter mile off from the Great House. “Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and the labourers” (Chapter 5). Anne spends much of her time at Uppercross cottage with Mary.