Frankenstein in Derbyshire with Dr Amanda Blake Davis

£10 / Free to Derby Museums Friends

Date: 16 Oct 2026 1.30pm - 3pm

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Follow Victor Frankenstein and his creature’s travels from Switzerland to the Arctic, and from Oxford to the Orkney Islands, in this talk which will reveal the importance of Derbyshire to the novel’s plot and to questions of eighteenth-century science and industry.

Join Lecturer in English Literature (University of Derby), Dr Amanda Blake Davis, on an exploration of the landscapes of Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece: Frankenstein.

Amanda Blake Davis is a writer, teacher, and researcher specialising in Romantic literature, particularly Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. She is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Derby, where she leads modules including Mutants and Monsters: Interpreting Fantasy and Poetry and Revolution in the British Romantic Period.

Suitable for adults (18+)Booking essential. Limited places.

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