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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... leaving the text as much in keeping with its original state as possible , including errors of spelling and punctuation . I have silently omitted the long ' s ' from the selec- tions from William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft ...
... . 1818 : Publication of Frankenstein by Lackington , Hughes , Harding Mayor , & Jones ( January ) ; leave for Italy with Claire and Alba ( March ) ; settle in Bagni di Lucca ( LODORE 43 Mary Shelley: A Brief Chronology.
... leave America , to return to Europe , and to face at once all the evils which he had journeyed so far to escape . He did not — he remained . His motives for flight returned on him with full power after any such paroxysm , and held him ...
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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 |