Historical Context:

Switzerland became a country in 1300. It is a country known for its various mountain ranges and culture.

Relevance in Text:

Fanny has her honeymoon in Switzerland.

Quotes: 

Baker Street was a residential area for primarily upper middle class people, and was known for having many businesses, including a wax museum. In Romance of a Shop, the girls' studio and residence were located on Upper Baker Street in unit 20B. 

Quote from Romance of a Shop: 

- “By the end of June the premises in Upper Baker Street were quite ready for occupation” (Chapter IV)

Russell & Allen's is a boutique where Conny goes to try on a dress for a social engagement.

Levy describes, “Constance being engaged in having a ball-dress tried on at Russell and Allen's” (IV).

St. Columb Major is a town in Cornwall. St. Columb Major is larger and farther from the coast than St. Columb Minor, which is more of a coastal village. Both of the St. Columbs are named after a woman saint. St. Columb Major was said to have been built near a healing spring, and during the 1857s, a historic building known as the Bank House was built in the town.

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