Winged Lion Publications to Release “Frankenstein Diaries: The Romantics - Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley"

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - May 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Winged Lion Publications and Prestbury Books are pleased to announce the “Frankenstein Diaries: The Romantics – The Secret Memoirs of Mary Shelley” by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Michael January is scheduled for release on June 15, 2015.

The inspiration for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s most famous work, “Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus” has been debated for 200 years. It has been the subject of scholarly research, conjecture and speculation. In a later edition of the book, Mary Shelley claimed the story came to her in a waking dream, but that explanation has never been entirely satisfying, and in fact, the inspiration came much earlier, and was far too personal for her to reveal.

In 1814, two years before the notorious “Gothic Summer” in Geneva, 16 year old Mary Godwin eloped to Paris with the 22 year old married poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, inviting Mary’s 15 year old step-sister Claire Clairmont to go with them. They would walk across war ravaged France to Switzerland and return up the Rhine River. Three years later Mary would publish a journal she kept of that journey of two teenage girls and the poet of “free love” on a tour of self-discovery. 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 portions of that tour and beyond.

In 1848, before her death, released from a promise, Mary Shelley would write a more fully detailed version of these events in intimate personal revelation in the form of a memoir, revealing previously unknown details of her life and relationships. She did not publish these diaries, but left the decision whether to publish to her children. They did not publish the recovered manuscripts, but returned them to a friend, discovered in Switzerland.

Additional portions of the diaries relating to the Shelleys and other romantic poets and authors, and the events of their rich and ultimately tragic lives are still yet to be revealed, but the story of “The Frankenstein Diaries: The Romantics” by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Michael January is set for release this summer. Available for pre-order at Amazon Frankenstein Diaries: The Romantics

More information at www.FrankensteinDiaries.com

Author Biography

Michael January is a screenwriter and travel author. His “Favorite Castles” book series is in its fourth edition with the publication of “Favorite Castles of Germany” which includes material on the Frankenstein castle and related stories, and “Favorite Castles of Switzerland”. Prestbury Books