LodoreBeset by jealousy over an admirer of his wife’s, Lord Lodore has come with his daughter Ethel to the American wilderness; his wife Cornelia, meanwhile, has remained with her controlling mother in England. When he finally brings himself to attempt a return, Lodore is killed en route in a duel. Ethel does return to England, and the rest of the book tells the story of her marriage to the troubled and impoverished Villiers (whom she stands by through a variety of tribulations) and her long journey to a reconciliation with her mother. Lodore’s scope of character and of idea is matched by its narrative range and variety of setting; the novel’s highly dramatic story-line moves at different points to Italy, to Illinois, and to Niagara Falls. And in this edition, which includes a wealth of documents from the period, the reader is provided with a sense of the full context out of which Shelley’s achievement emerged. |
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... Lord Byron , from Lara ( 1814 ) 472 2. The Tempest and Mary Wollstonecraft's The Female Reader ( 1797 ) 474 3. Thomas Campbell , from Gertrude of Wyoming ( 1809 ) 476 4. Edward John Trelawny , from Adventures of a Younger Son ( 1831 ) ...
... Lord Byron , which provided her with a means for some control over material in which she had an interest ( 279 ) , and Paula Feldman argues that her work as a “ silent but major contributor ” means she played a largely unacknowledged ...
... Lord Lodore , is living in Illinois with his devoted daughter Ethel . Lodore decides that he should return to England , and an account of the failure of his marriage to Cornelia , who is controlled by her mother Lady Santerre , occurs ...
... Lord Lodore died ; so true had his prognostic been , that he had no power beyond the grave . He had probably forgotten the exis- tence of this will , or imagined that it had been destroyed : he had determined to make a new one on his ...
... 300 per annum ( June ) . 1830 : Publication of Volume I of Thomas Moore's Letters and Journals of Lord Byron : With Notices of his Life , which Mary had ( 18 Jan- uary ) ; publication of Perkin Warbeck by Colburn and 44 CHRONOLOGY.
Contents
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Mary ShelleyWoman of Letters | 449 |
Some Literary Contexts | 472 |
Illinois and Duelling | 483 |
William Godwin from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice Third Edition | 493 |
Domesticity and Womens Education | 500 |
Contemporary Reviews of Lodore | 531 |
From The Literary Gazette | 543 |
Select Bibliography | 550 |