Nova Scotia

In chapter 2, Gerald explains that his father is fishing and hunting in Nova Scotia (14). Gerald does not give a specific location. He only says there is no house within five miles of his father (14). 

Columbia University, New York

In the last chapter, the narrator looks ahead at Philip and Gerald’s future together. Philip and Gerald attend Columbia College and that they will graduate soon (158). Mr. Saxton promises to take care of Philip’s education and he requests that Philip postpones his enrolment so that he and Gerald can spend an ample amount of time together (158). As Tribunella says, Columbia College is now known as Columbia University. 

(Re)Discovering Edward Prime-Stevenson’s “Left to Themselves” (1891): Philip Touchtone and Gerald Saxton’s Adventure from New York to Nova Scotia

Earlier treatments of Edward Prime-Stevenson’s Left to Themselves (1891) have performed the crucial tasks of arguing for its importance in literary history as well as examining some of its formal innovations. Our article, which inevitably drew inspiration from the creation of this map, advances scholarship by attending to its treatment of places. In the novel, the young protagonists Philip Touchtone and Gerald Saxton embark on an eventful journey from New York to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Along the way, they encounter all sorts of perils from attempted kidnapping to actual shipwrecks.

England Prostitution

During the Victorian era prostituion was a wide-scale problem in Britian. The eseence of prostitution went against every moral that was being promoted during this era. Chastity, prudence, and grace were dismissed and and disregarded by "fallen women".  It gained momentum, an the largest concern was veneral diseases among prostitutes. British military men were found to be the largest Victim of this problem. The goverment believed that the decline in health and effectiveness of military was a result of prostitutes with veneral diseases mingling with military men.

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