Oscar Wilde's "The Fisherman and His Soul" was published in his collection The House of Pomegranates (1891). You can read the story, annotated by General Education students at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, here at COVE Studio.
Spanish town was the capital of Jamaica until 1872, during which the colony was under British rule (History of Jamaica, Wikipedia). Around the time Jane Eyre was written, slavery in Jamaica was abolished, disrupting the plantation system, leading to an overhaul of previous social and economic models (History of Jamaica, Embassy of Jamaica). Major contributors to the emancipation of West African slaves were British Christian missionaries; However, shortly after the abolishment of slavery, people from India and China began arriving in Jamaica as Indentured Servants (Histo
Wycoller Hall was a late sixteenth century manor house that was the center of a sizeable estate, but collapsed beyond repair. The structure is located in Wycoller, Lancashire, England. The estate was owned by the Cunliffe family after losing their ancestral home to debtors ("Wycoller Hall"). After passing through many brothers of the family, Henry Owen Cunliffe decided to build a home in hopes of attracting a wife; however, he had many debts upon his passing that he could not pay off leading to the estate being sold ("Wycoller Hall").
Moorseats Hall is in Hathersage, which is a village in the Peak District in Derbyshire, England. Hathersage is famous for its brass buttons as it had many mills, now of course, converted to flats. The Moorseats Hall is, in today’s world, worth 3 million dollars. Though Jane Eyre is a fictional story written by Charlotte Bronte, but there are many parallels between her life and the novel. Moorseats Hall can be seen as the Moor House in Bronte’s novel. In the novel it was owned by St. John Eyre and his sisters Diana and Mary live there as well.
The London Labour office was led by Henry Mayhew with a team of collaborators, including publisher John Howden and collaborators Henry Wood, Richard Knight, Augustus Mayhew, and Horace St. John. The office published the London Labour and the London Poor serial (1850-52) after Mayhew broke with the Morning Chronicle in late 1850. The office was originally located at 69 Fleet St. but moved to No.
The London Labour office was led by Henry Mayhew with a team of collaborators, including publisher John Howden and collaborators Henry Wood, Richard Knight, Augustus Mayhew, and Horace St. John. The office published the London Labour and the London Poor serial (1850-52) after Mayhew broke with the Morning Chronicle in late 1850. The office was originally located at 69 Fleet Street, but moved to No. 16, Upper Wellington St., in April 1851.
