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

Shelley places the ficitonal town of Longfield in Essex.

1. Ethel is born

"In the flattest and least agreeable part of the county of Essex, about five miles from the sea, is situated a village or small town, which may be known in these pages by the name of Longfield." (49)

7. Ethel arrives at Longfield with Elizabeth (168)

 Call Number: 822.33S527. Location: Armstrong Browning Library Stokes Oversize Collection

CALL NUMBERS: 291.37 B358L V.1 AND  291.37 B358L V.2, LOCATION: ARMSTRONG BROWNING LIBRARY STOKES SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION