San Carlo Theater

Naples is where Horatio Saville marries Clorinda. Ethels enjoys seeing the 'sights' of the city. 

17. Visiting Saville in Naples (257)

Roman Forum

Rome is a historic and important city that Shelley references repeatedly in her novels. Ethel's interest in the city echoes that of the author.

16. Passage through Rome (253)

 Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo), Florence

Another location that Shelley was familiar with in her life and features heavily in her other novel Valperga.

15. Passage through Florence (253)

The Alps

A recurring location in many of Shelley's novels.

14. Passage through Switzerland (253)

Map of the Rhine River via EIA

During their travel to Italy, Ethel and Villiers follow the Rhine River into the Continent. This passage mimics Shelley's own journeys.

13. Following the Rhine (252)

Richmond Riverside

Eton College is a secondary school of high prestige in England, and from which multiple male characters of Lodore graduated. Eton the city is located near Windsor, and both are relatively near London. Both times Ethel visits Eton, she stays at Salt Hill. 

9. Ethel visits her Father's School (183)

Ethel tours Eton College with Villiers as her guide.

27. Return to Salt Hill (344-345)

Ethel stays at Salt Hill while Villiers tries to manage their finances in London.

The Illinois

4. Ethel's Childhood in Illinois

The place of Ethel's idyllic childhood. Lord Lodore settles them on the edge of settled American territories--where there was still much wilderness. Illinois became a state in 1818, which would place Lodore's arrival with Ethel roughly during the time that it was still governed as a territory.

 Henry A. Papprill, after John William Hill. New York from the Steeple of St. Paul’s Church, Looking East, South, and West. 1848.

New York functions as the arrival and departure point for America in Lodore.

3. Lord Lodore arrives with the three-year-old Ethel in America

London Street Scene, 1830

London, the captial of England/Great Britain, was the cultural and economic center of the empire. As a result, Ethels passes through it many times throughout the novel.

2. Lord Lodore passes through London with Ethel while on his way to America