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Frankenstein by Mary Shelly | London and Sussex, England

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April 24 - 29, 2022 • Dana Schwartz

Join best-selling author Dana Schwartz for a pilgrimage dedicated to Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein. Our participants will discuss the book, go on gorgeous hikes together, and explore the questions of: what makes us human?

What’s Included

  • One day in London and five nights in Sussex at Tilton House in shared rooms

  • Vegetarian food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner from lunch on the 24th to breakfast on the 29th

  • Transportation within England from April 24th in London until April 29th in Sussex

  • One-on-one chaplaincy sessions

  • Private walking tours, picnics, and talks with local experts

  • Customized journal

Please Read! All registrants must read and agree to our Terms & Conditions

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April 24 - 29, 2022 • Dana Schwartz

Join best-selling author Dana Schwartz for a pilgrimage dedicated to Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein. Our participants will discuss the book, go on gorgeous hikes together, and explore the questions of: what makes us human?

What’s Included

  • One day in London and five nights in Sussex at Tilton House in shared rooms

  • Vegetarian food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner from lunch on the 24th to breakfast on the 29th

  • Transportation within England from April 24th in London until April 29th in Sussex

  • One-on-one chaplaincy sessions

  • Private walking tours, picnics, and talks with local experts

  • Customized journal

Please Read! All registrants must read and agree to our Terms & Conditions

More about this trip

  • The story goes that Frankenstein was born from a now-iconic scary story writing contest between her and companions at Villa Diodati in Switzerland during the ‘year without a summer.’ Her legacy of feminism, humanism, passion and horror follows us today. We are going to walk in her footsteps, then follow her lead, writing and sharing our own scary stories.

    We will spend time in London, visiting the grave of Mary Wollstonecraft where she first kissed Percy Shelley, seeing her portrait and other important haunts. Then we will retreat to the countryside to walk and write with Shelley as our inspiration while asking ourselves the question: What makes us human?

    We will meet in London on the morning of the 24th, explore pieces of Mary Shelley’s life and past, and then travel to Tilton House where we still stay for the remainder of our time together. We will spend our days reading Frankenstein, discussing its themes, taking great walks as Mary Shelley used to for inspiration, and in community over this text.

Trip Faculty

Dana Schwartz

Faculty Leader (she/her)

Dana Schwartz is a writer of books, comics, and television. She’s the author of four books, including New York Times best seller and Reese Witherspoon book club pick, “Anatomy: A Love Story," and the host of the number-one charting podcast, NOBLE BLOOD. Dana lives in Los Angeles with her fiancé and their two cats, and she spends most of her time baking and learning strange facts about history.

Vanessa Zoltan

Chaplain (she/her)

Vanessa is the CEO of Not Sorry. She is on three of our podcasts: Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, The Real Question, and Hot & Bothered. She founded Common Ground Pilgrimages in order to travel with brilliant faculty to beautiful places and talk about books with amazing pilgrims. It was a great trick she pulled off. She is also the author of the book, "Praying with Jane Eyre".

Vanessa was trained as a non-denominational chaplain at Harvard Divinity School. She is a proud California girl who currently lives in MA with her gorgeous, blended family. Her Romance novelist pseudonym, if she ever publishes a Romance novel, will be Lorelai Mason, as you can see in her profile pic.

 

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”

-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein