Ireland

Irish Immigrants were discrimminated against during the Victorian Era. They were thought as incompetent and criticized throughout the novel by Gaskell. There is energy, power and courage in the struggle of the Irish immigrants to provide themselves a better life. The Irish were brought in after a workers strike in the novel and provided cheap labor for the mill. The Irish have been the largest source of immigrants to Britian. They immigrated to England to escape famine in their homeland of Ireland.

Westminster Hall

Dickens sets David Copperfield in places recognizable to his audience,19th-century English people. Thus, his descriptions and the world where his fictional characters exist more real. One of the first mentions of the Westminster area is when David crosses the Westminster Bridge with Ms. Pettogy in his search for Emily. The bridge was built in 1862 and mimics the Gothic style of Westminster Hall. Westminster Hall is the oldest building in the Houses of Parliament and the most ancient Palace of Westminster which still stands tall in its original form.

Manchester, England

Manchester, a city located in northwest England, has a population of 440,000 people and is known as the world’s first industrial city (Williams 1). From 1750-1850, industrialization roared in the city; this boost in industry and economic opportunity was, in part, thanks to the factories that supplied work to both city and rural laborers as well as immigrants from other countries.

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