The house of Vanessa Bell and her sister Virginia Woolf, where the Bloomsbury Group would meet to discuss art, writing, and philosophy. The 10 key members of the Bloomsbury Group include: Venessa Bell (painter), Clive Bell (art critic), Virginia Woolf (writer), Leonard Woolf (

Kensington Palace had its start as the small Nottingham House villa, which was picked by William III and Mary II in 1689 to be a country retreat. Its proximity to Parliament but distance from the negative aspects of the city were what made the building attractive to them. Over time, the building was transformed into a palace for royals, including Queen Caroline, Queen Victoria, Diana, Princess of Wales, and now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The gardens were transformed by Queen Anne, and George I filled the building with fine art.

Basutoland was a colony that is now present-day Lesotho, the country in which Thomas Mofolo was born in 1876.  From 1884 to 1966, Basutoland was a British colony, and therefore, Mofolo was educated by Evangelical Christian Missionaries, which provides context to his work.  Many of his earlier pieces were influenced by Christian beliefs, but his novel, Chaka, is not, which may explain why it took a significant amount of time before the work was widely published (Thomas Mofolo).