"Plymouth is a sea-side English city located in Devon in Southwest England. In 1620, a group of pilgrims left Plymouth for the New World and established Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, United States. In the seventeenth century, Plymouth was an important port town and once had a strong connection to early English piracy" (Cove vetted location). Plymouth was the location in Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility (1813) where Edward went to boarding school and met Lucy Steele. He was sent here as opposed to his brother who was sent to public school.