at the point of Frankenstein's publication famous for having been the site of a school
of distinguished poets, foremost among whom was Wordsworth, who settled at Dove Cottage
in Grasmere in 1799. When he transferred a few miles south to the more commodious
Rydal Mount a decade after, Thomas DeQuincey moved in to Dove Cottage. In this day
the Lake District, as celebrated as it was for its unspoiled natural beauty, was probably
the remotest area of England.