River Thames

The River Thames is where Daniel meets Mirah for the first time. It is also where he realizes she intends to drown herself. Mirah says to him, "If you had not come, I should have been dead now" (Eliot 171). Unfortunately, in the 19th century, the River Thames was a prime place to catch a disease with human waste clogging the waters (Jeffries).

Works Cited

Delso, Diego. Ayuntamiento y Shard, Londres, Inglaterra. 11 August 2014, Wikimedia Commons. 

Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. The Modern Library, 2002. 

Wilde vs. Queensberry Begins

Oscar Wilde spent several years of his life in prison after being declared guilty of sodomy. His time in jail lead to illness and injury which eventually contributed heavily to his death. The libel trial of Wilde vs. Queensberry sparked a set of events into motion which would eventually lead him to jail.