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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Mary Shelley's Dundee (www.maryshelley.co.uk) histories, biographies, an interactive map, the "Dundee Edition" of Frankenstein, comics, annual writing prizes, resources and more (with teaching guides and materials, and SO MUCH more, to come) - FREE

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

“It is his vegetable ambition never to stir” (Margaret Anne Doody on Mr Bennet) #happyfathersday #prideandprejudice

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“O, wert thou in the cauld blast On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee.” #BurnsNight

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Coming soon: MARY SHELLEY'S DUNDEE (art by Katy Stone)

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Meanwhile, on Zoopla: one of Sir Walter Scott’s former properties is on the market… www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/det...

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Frankenstein: Crafting a Tale Eternal, a tie-in exhibition to celebrate the new Netflix Frankenstein, opens to the public on 17 October at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. Love this!

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

THE GULLIVER TRILOGY #1 Gulliver’s Travels (The Norton Library) #2 The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels #3 Gulliver’s Afterlives (Bloomsbury)

Book cover: Gulliver’s Travels, ed.
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Book cover: The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Daniel Cook and Nicholas Seager

Book cover: Daniel Cook, Gulliver’s Afterlives

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.” Hogg’s Scottish Gothic masterpiece was first published #otd in 1824:

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

You’re never too old for a lovely certificate surprise, are you?

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Having a great time at my first ever Defoe Society conference (aka DefCon) in Lichfield. Pictured: the Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of the University of Dundee. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Legend.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense” (Elizabeth Bennet) #PrideandPrejudiceDay

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

“Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west, The drift is driving sairly; Sae loud and shrill’s I hear the blast, I’m sure it’s winter fairly.” #BurnsNight2025

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

My Away Message is now… on! 🔕

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Casually playing a games app I’ve just downloaded (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?) and look who immediately pops up… I’m starting to think she’s haunting me, so, just in case… hi, Mary!

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The good folk at Odeon have asked me to introduce the first screening of the new Nosferatu in Dundee - timings to follow! www.odeon.co.uk/films/nosfer...

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Delighted to say I've been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt) was born #otd in 1887

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

COMING OCTOBER 2026 Edited by Daniel Cook, with a Foreword by [redacted]

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

I’ll be in Glasgow next week for the biennial British Association for Romantic Studies conference - looking forward to a big programme of papers and chats with friends old and new… bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5270

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Edwin Morgan’s The Loss Ness Monster’s Song #StAndrewsDay

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

“I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.” Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships was published #otd in 1726.

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Along with Geneva and the French Alps, Dundee features prominently in The Book Trail’s new page on Mary Shelley. And, published next week, Anne Eekhout’s novel Mary (or the Birth of Frankenstein) will similarly take us back to where it all began: Scotland! www.thebooktrail.com/book-trails/...

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