Wessex is an extremely vital geographic location that helped devlop the plot of Daniel Deronda for a plethora of reasons. In the novel Daniel Deronda, the countryside of Wessex is used repeatedly in the text, especially in describing Offendene. Offendene was the home of Gwendolen Harleth's mother, Fanny Davilow. This home of Fanny Davilow is coveniently located in the part of Wessex in which life moves very slow and is anything but booming and bustling which is what Gwendolen seems to greatly desire for herself.

Ionia, now part of Western Anatolia, is where Evadne, comes from. She was Princess of Wallachia (now Romania). 

The Ex-Queen, or Countess of Windsor, and mother to Adrian and Idris, comes from the Austrian Empire.  

When the monarch abdicates his throne, becoming the Earl of Windsor in 2073, his family resides at Windsor Castle in the county of Berkshire.