Dorothea sees her relationship to Casaubon not only as lovers, but more as a teacher and a student, or a disciple to a God. Some hints of servitude can also be seen. (“Kissing his unfashionable shoe ties as if he were a Protestant Pope”, “as Milton’s daughters did to their father”) What is Eliot trying to convey through their unique dynamic?
This is where the Lorimer's relatives, the Pratts, live, and where Fanny stays while they try to find a place to set up their photography studio. An affluent area.
Girton was the first college for women at Cambridge University. It opened in 1869 and was first located in Hitchen, but moved to the village of Girton in 1873 (closer to Cambridge). There are references throughout the novella to Girton.
Considered the heart of the publishing trade, this is a street in the City of London near St. Paul's Cathedral. The City is the historic financial district of London. It is suggested in the novella that Gertrude has made many trips here with manuscripts or at least sent many manuscripts by mail, hoping and failing to get them accepted for publication.
This is where the Lorimer sisters live at the very beginning of the novella. It's in South Kensington, near Holland Park. South Kensington is an affluent area of London.
This is where the Devonshire family lives, good friends of the Lorimers. Gertrude and Phyllis stay here while they figure out where to set up their photography shop. It's in South Kensington, near Kensington Gardens and the Royal Albert Hall. South Kensington is an affluent area of London.
As we read, I'll add to the map, so we can visualize the movements of characters in The Romance of a Shop.
