Lionel Verney, the boy who will become The Last Man, grows up with his sister Perdita in the mid-21st century English Lake District’s lowest class.
View of Lodore Falls, Derwentwater; Drawing by Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, 1810; The British Museum
(2) Chapter I.
View of Lodore Falls, Derwentwater; Drawing by Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, 1810; The British Museum