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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... desire to explore social polemics , includ- ing women's education , using the conventions of writing expected of women in the 1830s . This edition of Lodore is intended to acquaint readers with that “ other ” Mary Shelley , so that they ...
... desire to have custody of his children by Har- riet after their marriage failed ( 2.437 ) . While Dowden is most interested in drawing parallels between Ethel's and Villiers ' money troubles and Percy's and Mary's experi- ences in the ...
... desire to remain true to Jacobin ideals of the decade of her birth , and for what it illustrates about ideological perspectives on women as the middle class gained hegemony during the 1830s . The most sustained discussion with respect ...
... desire to be what a pros- perous man desires , which is above all else a female . She there- fore had to lack the competitive desires and worldly ambitions that consequently belonged — as if by some natural principle — to the male . For ...
... desires were not of necessity attracted to material things . But because a woman's desire could in fact be manipulated by signs of wealth and position , she required an education . ( Ideology of Conduct 96-7 ) Armstrong maintains that ...
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 |