Plymouth, UK
1. An image of a seawall on the coast of Plymouth, Present Day.
Sefton, UK
1. A picture of a yawl leaving port just outside of Liverpool near the town of Sefton.
West Indies
The West Indies are the islands that separate the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, modern day Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos. Slave labor had been used in the West Indies for close to two hundred years, but around the time of North and South things had started to change
Harley Street-London
In the 17th century Harley Street was a very sought-after location. The area was developed with many fashionable houses around 1715.
Alhambra, Spain
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2. In North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Alhambra, Spain is mentioned in Chapter XII Morning Calls. Fanny and Margaret are talking about places they long to see and Fanny mentions London and Abraham is a place that Fanny would love to see.
Mr. Bulstrode As A “Late-Comer” To Middlemarch
Look at this narrative from Mrs. Bulstrode on her husband’s supposed origin:
“Mr. Bulstrode’s narrative occasionally gave of his early bent towards religion, his inclination to be a preacher, and his association with missionary and philanthropic efforts. She believed in him as an excellent man whose piety carried a peculiar eminence in belonging to a layman, whose influence had turned her own mind toward seriousness, and whose share of perishable good had been the means of raising her own position.” (613)
Cromer, UK
2. In Chapter XLIX, Margaret and her Aunt Shaw take a vacation to Cromer. At that location, Margaret finds a curative, meditative place that starts to bring her out of a stupor. The seaside atmosphere gave her a place to construct her thoughts, and she seemed to become more self-conscious of who she was because of it.
Mexico
2. Mexico was mentioned inside Chapter XXX by Frederick Hale as he was recounting some of his adventures there while he was in the navy.
3. Mexico is a country in North America and the third largest in Latin America. In the 19th century before Gaskell wrote North and South, Britain was the first European great power to acknowledge Mexico's independence.