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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... interest that in Lodore she quotes “ her hus- band so often at the top of her chapters ; and though her characters are laid in high life , and she makes the best of the conventionalities , yet she sympathises with the truly great world ...
... interest ( 279 ) , and Paula Feldman argues that her work as a “ silent but major contributor ” means she played a largely unacknowledged role in all subsequent accounts of Byron's life ( “ Mary Shelley and ... Moore's Life of Byron ...
... interest in a period of social mobil- ity ” ( Wheeler I7 ) . But there is just as much difference between Lodore and those works whose “ elaborate discussions on the cultivation of ton , the detailed exactness of the descriptions of ...
... interests . 3. Critical Reception Shelley's letter to Ollier in 1835 notes with pleasure that the novel has been “ a ... interest only for what it might reveal about Percy Shelley's biography . Examples of contem- porary reviews , found ...
... interest of its own , due to the fact that some of the incidents are taken from actual occurrences in her early life , and some of the characters sketched from people she had known ” ( 2.264 ) . Such has been the fate of the novel at ...
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 |