Uppercross is located in Somersetshire. Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove, the parents of Charles, Louisa and Henrietta, live in the Great House at Uppercross. Charles and Mary live in the Uppercross cottage. The cottage was a quarter mile off from the Great House. “Uppercross was a moderate-sized village, which a few years back had been completely in the old English style, containing only two houses superior in appearance to those of the yeomen and the labourers” (Chapter 5). Anne spends much of her time at Uppercross cottage with Mary.

The Montagu House 

Mary Shelley was in Geneva when she thought of the story of Frankenstein. Mary was with her husband Percy Shelley, her friend Lord Bryon, and physician John Polidori, intially on vacation before being trapped indoors by inconvient weather.