Wessex is an extremely vital geographic location that helped devlop the plot of Daniel Deronda for a plethora of reasons. In the novel Daniel Deronda, the countryside of Wessex is used repeatedly in the text, especially in describing Offendene. Offendene was the home of Gwendolen Harleth's mother, Fanny Davilow. This home of Fanny Davilow is coveniently located in the part of Wessex in which life moves very slow and is anything but booming and bustling which is what Gwendolen seems to greatly desire for herself.

The Ex-Queen, or Countess of Windsor, and mother to Adrian and Idris, comes from the Austrian Empire.  

This is a lake near where Lionel's sister, Perdita, dwells in a cottage. Ullswater is loacted in the Lake District--it associates Perdita with the Lake School of poets, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey.