Bull and Mouth
An inn in St Martin le Grand, near Smithfield, London, from which coaches and wagons left for Cumbria.
Buckland
Caroline Bowles’s home at Buckland Cottage, near Lymington, Hampshire. Southey first visited her there in 1824.
Brixton: a village just outside of London
The country home of the Bedford family, Southey spent several weeks there in September–October 1793, during which time he wrote the first draft of Joan of Arc.
Balliol
Southey was a student at Balliol College, Oxford in 1792-1794, though he left without taking a degree.
Ashestiel
Walter Scott’s home from 1804–1812, it was located near Galashiels in Selkirkshire.
Ambleside
Village in the Lake district, Mary Barker lodged near there in 1806. Hartley and Derwent Coleridge attended the school run by John Dawes there.
Abbotsford
Walter Scott’s house near Melrose in the Scottish borders, from 1812 until his death in 1832.
The Collected Letters of Robert Southey
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In Popular Culture: Literary References
Frankenstein became very popular, particularly after Richard Brinsley Peake's dramatic adaptation in 1823. Throughout the nineteenth century, references to the novel appear in a great many novels and poems, sometimes in serious allusions, sometimes in facetious references. The following list is far from exhaustive.