Planning to establish a hotel in a dense location of travelers, Mrs Seacole visits her brother in the Isthmus of Panama who already owns the Independent Hotel. The beginning of the story highlights the time Mrs. Seacole spends in Panama practicing medicine, treating cholera, and running her own British Hotel next to her brothers. However, Mrs Seacole leaves Panama, bequething her hotel to her brother, after growing restless in the environment.

Seacole, Mary. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. Penguin Books, 2005.

Mrs Seacole was born in Kingston where she established her foundational knowledge of medicine with her mother. It is a personal place for Seacole and even though she travels throughout the world and sets roots, Jamaica has always been her home.

Seacole, Mary. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands. Penguin Books, 2005.

Turner Street is the setting of two important events in Mary BartonI: Jem and Young Mr. Harry Carson's altercation in the bar as well as Harry's murder. The significance of this place is that it is key evidence that implicates Jem for the murder of Harry. While struck with the news of his son's death, Mr. Carson talks with a policeman that recounts the night that Jem and Harry fought: "But after your son had left, the man made use of some pretty strong threats.

After her “guardian” (and mentor in Paterinism) is killed, Beatrice recounts that she “was returning from the task of carrying the last legacy of this old man to his daughter at Genoa, when I was seized in this town by the Inquisitors, and cast into prison” (364).

“To the north of Lucca, where the mountains rise highest, and the country is most wild, there was, at the period those people lived concerning whom I write, an immense ilex wood, which covered the Apennines, and was lost to sight in the grey distance, and among the folds and declivities of the hills. In this forest there lives a witch; she inhabited a cottage aptly built of the trunks of trees; partly of stones, and partly was inclosed by the side of the mountain against which it leaned.