Girton College fits into the novel as it acknowledges the idea of the “New Woman” as means of improving education to become more independent.

Description In Context

Where Fanny and her husband live. 

General Information About the Location 

- District of West London, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 

- Cosmopolitan and multicultural 

Baker Street is the street the Lorimer sisters live on in their apartment in Romance of a Shop, and the station specifically is an underground rail station like a subway which helps citizens travel across London in little time.

Historical Info:

The Clarence Gate is the lodge located in Regent’s Park London. Off of Baker Street and Park Road, it hosted guesting in a white small house with slanted roof features.

Location in Context:

This is a gate that Gertrude and Lucy pass by after Fred proposed to Lucy and was denied.

Quotes: 

• Middle-to-upper class residential area
• Contains the embassies or high commissions of five countries
• Attached to the Natural History Museum and Imperial College London amongst other points of interest
• Constance Devonshire’s place of residence

Tunbridge Wells is located in Kent, England next to Sussex. Although many people lived there since its establishment, it wasn’t until the 1870s that sewer systems were installed in the town. A general hospital was established in 1884, and by the 1880s the population of Tunbridge Wells surpassed 25,000. In the novel, this is where Aunt Caroline and Uncle Septimus live, and where Fanny was when she was staying for a period of time towards the beginning of the novel

• Most prominent collection was their natural history collections which were outsourced to the new British Museum of Natural History in 1887.
• New development of the White Wing in 1884 created the ability to house more antiquities and ethnography, allowing the library to further expand. (wiki)

A market area in Brixton, an area of south London that is multi-ethnic, with a large percentage of the population of Afro-Caribbean ancestry. Brixton Market is a combination of a street market and adjacent covered market areas, and is well known for its African and Caribbean produce and other goods.