Going to London was an amazing experience and I learned so much from being there. In the context of the books I feel what I most realized was that the women writers we were reading wrote very subversively. They used their status as women to write novels with political messages in order to incite change. This was especially apparent while we were in London because we learned a lot of history on our walking tours that tied in with the novels. Learning the social and political context behind parts of the novels enabled me to have a better understanding of what parts of the books were designed to call for social change. I feel that being in London and seeing some of the sights from the books and learning more about the authors themselves and the history enriched my overall reading of each of the books.