Victorian London Virtual Field Trip by Renee Atkinson https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion Learn more about people and places mentioned in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Each group will add either interesting facts, videos, pictures, or a greater connection to/impact upon the play. en-us 2018-03-15 18:53:58 UTC 2025-12-02 04:44:58 UTC hello@padlet.com matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242558832 2018-03-15 19:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242558832 matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242559404 2018-03-15 19:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242559404 matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242561697 2018-03-15 19:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242561697 matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242563249 2018-03-15 19:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242563249 matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242563405 2018-03-15 19:12:52 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242563405 matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242563522 2018-03-15 19:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242563522 matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242563675 2018-03-15 19:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242563675 matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242564289 2018-03-15 19:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242564289 At-home Fridays in April matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242566538 2018-03-15 19:19:47 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242566538 matkinson4 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242566767 2018-03-15 19:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242566767 Facts about Covent Garden https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242849094 The current square started out as a vegetable field known as the covent garden during the Middle Ages.
In 1540 King Henry VIII took the lands of the monasteries and gave it to John Baron Russell, the first Earl of Bedford. 
In 1623, Francis Russel (the fourth Earl of Bedford) commissioned Inigo Jones (a renowned architect) to develop the covent garden area into a luxury neighborhood. ]]> 2018-03-16 14:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242849094 The Architect https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242852236 2018-03-16 14:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242852236 Facts about Inigo Jones https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242852460 Inigo Jones was a British painter, architect, and designer; he founded the English classical tradition of architecture.
His greatest achievement is the Banqueting House at Whitehall; his only other surviving royal building is the Queen's Chapel at St. James's Palace.
However, his work was not confined to royal palaces. He was involved in the regulation of new buildings in London for example the Covent Garden.

]]> 2018-03-16 14:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242852460 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242854826 2018-03-16 14:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242854826 The Actors' Church Tour https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242855304 2018-03-16 14:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242855304 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242855348 2018-03-16 14:56:28 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242855348 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242855827 "Cheyne Walk"]]> 2018-03-16 14:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242855827 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242856565 2018-03-16 14:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242856565 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242856624 2018-03-16 14:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242856624 Facts about St. Paul's Church https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857490 St. Paul's Church was designed by Inigo Jones as the parish church of the Covent Garden.
The Church has gained the nickname of "the actors' church" by a long association with the theater community. 
Completed in 1633, St. Paul's was the first entirely new church to be built in London since the Reformation. ]]> 2018-03-16 15:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857490 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857779 2018-03-16 15:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857779 Facts about St. Paul's Cathedral makaylakinslow https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857787 St. Paul's Cathedral is located on the highest point of London, Ludgate Hill.
The cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren as part of the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of London in 1666.
St. Paul's Cathedral was the tallest building in London from its construction until 1962. The dome is the second largest in the world at 366 feet high and reached by 259 steps.]]> 2018-03-16 15:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857787 Sir Christopher Wren- https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857900 Architect of of St. Pauls Cathedral]]> 2018-03-16 15:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857900 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857944 2018-03-16 15:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857944 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857966 2018-03-16 15:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242857966 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242858900 2018-03-16 15:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242858900 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242859555 2018-03-16 15:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242859555 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242860968 2018-03-16 15:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242860968 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242861214 2018-03-16 15:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242861214 Facts about Sir Christopher Wren https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242862737 Sir Christopher Wren was a designer, astronomer, geometrical, and the greatest English architect of his time. 
Wren designed fifty three London churches, including St. Paul's Cathedral. 
He was a founder of the Royal Society and his scientific work was highly regarded by Sir Isaac Newton and Blaise Pascal. ]]> 2018-03-16 15:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242862737 Facts about Cecil Lawson makaylakinslow https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242862989 Cecil Lawson was an English landscape painter and watercolourist.
His first major success was with "The Minister's Garden" in 1878.
He died four years after this success at 31.]]> 2018-03-16 15:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242862989 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242864443 2018-03-16 15:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242864443 Art Exhibitions https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242864794 2018-03-16 15:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242864794 Facts about William Morris https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242865044 He was an English designer, craftsman, poet, early socialist, whose designs for furniture, fabrics, stained glass, wallpaper, and other decorative arts generated the Arts and Crafts movement in England and revolutionized Victorian taste.
Morris joined Henry Mayers Hyndman's Democratic Federation and began tireless tours of industrial areas to spread the gospel of socialism. He was considerately treated by the authorities, even when leading a banned demonstration to London's Trafalgar Square on "Bloody Sunday." 
On this occasion he marched with the playwright George Bernard Shaw at his side.

]]> 2018-03-16 15:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242865044 Facts about Edward 🤬-Jones makaylakinslow https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242865511 Sir Edward Coley 🤬-Jones was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later Pre-Raphaelite movement.
He was a founder-partner of Morris and Co.
He was a student of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.]]> 2018-03-16 15:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242865511 Navvy https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242867437 Road Builders]]> 2018-03-16 15:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242867437 "at-home day" Facts https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242868727 The "At Home" day was a social custom in Victorian Britain, where women of gentle status would receive visitors on a specific day of the week. The women would print calling cards indicating she would be "At Home" on "Fridays in April". Those of her acquaintances who had received the card could then call on her that day.]]> 2018-03-16 15:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242868727 Facts about Navvy makaylakinslow https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242868834 Navvies were men who built the railways.
The word navvy comes from the word navigator.
The railways were predominantly built by hand.]]> 2018-03-16 15:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/242868834 Connection to Pygmalion laurentodd1 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244147333 Mr. Doolittle, Eliza's father, is a navvy. The reader is exposed to all tiers of society, from the laborers to the royal court, showing how different their lives are.]]> 2018-03-20 16:59:09 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244147333 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244565375 Covent Garden is where the opening scene takes place. The scene occurs before the Covent Garden was made into a luxury neighborhood. At the time of act 1, the garden was still a vegetable market.]]> 2018-03-21 15:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244565375 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244567186 Inigo Jones is the famous architect who developed the Covent Garden into a luxury neighborhood. He also designed the St. Paul's church, which is where the opening scene takes place. ]]> 2018-03-21 15:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244567186 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244568846 St. Paul's church is also known as "the actor's church" because of its ties to thee theater. In the opening scene, the lady and her daughter are exiting the church after seeing a play. They then meet Eliza.]]> 2018-03-21 15:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244568846 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244572846 In the opening stage directions, the distinction between St. Paul's Church and St. Paul's Cathedral is made. The distinction between the church and cathedral is used as a symbol. Much like Eliza, the church is considered quiet and simple. However, after her transformation she appears to have more in common with the cathedral which is loud and ornate, even though she is the same person on the inside (much like the church and cathedral are used to worship the same religion.)]]> 2018-03-21 15:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244572846 Connection to Pygmalion laurentodd1 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244859570 Mrs. Higgins scolds her son when he interrupts her "at-home day", showing how important this occasion was to her.]]> 2018-03-22 07:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244859570 Connection to Pygmalion laurentodd1 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244860099 Edward 🤬-Jones depicted Pygmalion in a series of paintings called "Pygmalion and Galatea". However, his creations are of the Greek mythology, not the play.]]> 2018-03-22 07:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/244860099 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/245039523 2018-03-22 15:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/245039523 Mrs. Higgins's "At-home day" https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/245045458 2018-03-22 15:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/245045458 Relationship with Pygmalion https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/340449484 He is not an actor in the play. He is alluded in Act 3 by the narrator when Mrs. Higgins' room is being described. This introduces Mrs. Higgins' external characteristics of the wealthy/upper class.
-BreAnna]]> 2019-03-12 14:53:45 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/340449484 rachelrichardson https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/340450043 Saint Paul's Cathedral is over 1400 years old and has been rebuilt six times within that time span. 
Sir Christopher Wren's rebuild took 35 years and in 1697, it held its first service since the fires destoryed in in 1666. ]]> 2019-03-12 14:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/340450043 Facts about Cecil https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/340451650 Cecil  was born in shropshire to scottish parents and immigrated to london in 1861 with his father who was a portrait painter.  Cecil's wife was also a flower painter. 
-Theresa]]> 2019-03-12 14:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/340451650 William Morris https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/340956692 William Morris was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and the methods of production.]]> 2019-03-13 16:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/340956692 Joshua Johnson https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/342430374 Inigo Jones was both an architect and an artist. He is known for founding the English classical tradition of architecture. His works are very famous such as the Queen's House and the Banqueting House.]]> 2019-03-18 14:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/342430374 williamcollins11 https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/342440794 2019-03-18 15:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/342440794 Morgan Thomas https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/342447220 St. Paul's Church
Inigo Jones brought the classical architecture of Rome and the Italian Renaissance into Britain when he built St. Paul's Church in 1633. 
The church was the setting of the first scene of Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw.]]> 2019-03-18 15:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/342447220 Catherine Bowman https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/342449965 The Covent Garden Market was known for being a noisy, lively market place where people from around the neighborhood would come to buy and sell various goods. However, the Covent Garden Market has not always been such a friendly place, the area used to be used for orchards for the Westminister Abbey and by the 18th century, the area became a well-known red-light district, attracting prostitutes, playwrights, and street performers. The area was quickly cleaned up and organized back to being a market place for the town.]]> 2019-03-18 15:17:45 UTC https://padlet.com/matkinson4/pygmalion/wish/342449965