The real love story of Frankenstein! In 1814, 16-year-old Mary Godwin fell in love with the 22-year-old married poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in spite of the condemnation of their families and society, ran away to Paris, taking Mary's 15-year-old step-sister Claire with them, chased by the law and Mary's hated stepmother. Two teenage girls and the romantic poet of "free love" would walk across France, ravaged by war in the defeat of Napoleon, to Switzerland and up the Rhine River to a castle called Frankenstein, on an intimate journey of love, sexual awakening, and self-discovery, and find the real inspiration for the most famous name in literature. In this recently discovered secret autobiography, Mary Shelley reveals the intimate truth of that trip, the story of a rivalry between two sisters and the origins of her famous book.
In her published diary, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote of where they went and what they saw, but never until now has been revealed the intimate secrets of where inspiration arose. Released from a promise to keep portions of the journey secret, Mary Shelley lays her soul bare in the intimacy of love, loss, and betrayal, the search for a mother's validation, and inspiration as a woman artist discovering her voice.
The real love story of Frankenstein! In 1814, 16-year-old Mary Godwin fell in love with the 22-year-old married poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and in spite of the condemnation of their families and society, ran away to Paris, taking Mary's 15-year-old step-sister Claire with them, chased by the law and Mary's hated stepmother. Two teenage girls and the romantic poet of "free love" would walk across France, ravaged by war in the defeat of Napoleon, to Switzerland and up the Rhine River to a castle called Frankenstein, on an intimate journey of love, sexual awakening, and self-discovery, and find the real inspiration for the most famous name in literature. In this recently discovered secret autobiography, Mary Shelley reveals the intimate truth of that trip, the story of a rivalry between two sisters and the origins of her famous book.
In her published diary, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote of where they went and what they saw, but never until now has been revealed the intimate secrets of where inspiration arose. Released from a promise to keep portions of the journey secret, Mary Shelley lays her soul bare in the intimacy of love, loss, and betrayal, the search for a mother's validation, and inspiration as a woman artist discovering her voice.
Michael January is a screenwriter and travel author. His Favorite Castles book series is in its fifth edition with the publication of Favorite Castles of Germany and Favorite Castles of Switzerland. "Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley: The Frankenstein Diaries" is his first historical collaboration novel. "Aces: A Novel of Pilots in WWII" followed and "The Boy King's Tale". 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: or, The Modern Prometheus. Her other published works include historical novels: Valperga, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, and Falkner; and the travel memoir Rambles in Germany and Italy. This is her first posthumously published work, though her story and characters of Frankenstein have been revised and utilized in countless unauthorized works and adaptations.
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