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6 Geographical associations Starting with the poetess subset, the user wants to get a sense of how those involved in the poetess movement were distributed geographically. In particular because London was the publishing centre, she wants to get a sense of how kind of pull it exercised on writers.

She wants to compare the distribution of places of birth and places of death.

She wants to consider the distribution of people living in London vs the people merely visiting London, and see how it changes, if it does, over time.

She wants to consider the proportion of people involved in the subset who published inside London as opposed to outside of London (this would mean drawing on the bibl dbase rather than on just pPlaceOfPublication tags)

As she identifies other areas of activity, such as alternative places of publication such as Dublin or Edinburgh, or the residences of particularly influential writers such as Felicia Hemans, she wants to see to what extent other people in the network/subset are connected to those places

She wants also to try to assess what impact the introduction of the Penny Post in 1840 may have had on where writers lived in relation to where they published, so she would want to see whether patterns of relationships to places of publication change significantly after this date.