Cumberland and Westmoreland
Cumberland and Westmoreland are the counties
comprising England's Lake District, 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.
