Frankenstein Diaries: The Romantics: The Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Michael January

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Publication Date: June 13th, 2015

Publisher:

Winged Lion Publications

ISBN:

9780692429716

Pages:

244

Description

The real love story of Frankenstein. In 1814, two years before the notorious "Gothic Summer" in Geneva, 16 year old Mary Godwin eloped to Paris with the 22 year old poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, inviting Mary's 15 year old step-sister Claire Claremont to go with them. They would walk across war ravaged France to Switzerland and up the Rhine River to a castle called Frankenstein. Three years later Mary would publish the diaries she kept of that journey of two teenage girls and the poet of "free love". In the published version of "A History of a Six Week's Tour" she would tell where they went and what they saw, but she never revealed the true secrets of that trip, from where a later inspiration arose. Here now, for the first time is revealed the secret personal life of the author of Frankenstein on that tour and beyond.

About the Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born on August 30, 1797 and died on February 1, 1851. She was a novelist, essayist and biographer, best known for Frankenstein. Her other published works include historical novels: Valperga, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, and Falkner; and the travel memoir Rambles in Germany and Italy. Michael January is a screenwriter and author. His Favorite Castles book series is in its fifth edition. "The Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley - The Frankenstein Diaries The Romantics" is his first historical novel.