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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... married Jane St. John in June 1848 , settling in Boscombe , near Bournemouth . Mary Shelley died in London , of a brain tumour , on 1 February 1851 . She was buried with the remains of her parents in St. Peter's church- yard ...
... marriage with Harriet Westbrook , and his parting from her . ( Quoted in Walling 104-105 ) Dowden's comment is echoed by Frederick L. Jones in a 1935 letter to the Times Literary Supplement : “ Mrs. Shelley's mediocre novel .. is of ...
... 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 . Jealousy over an admirer of Cornelia LODORE 21.
... married Polish countess ) leach to a proposed duel , which causes Lodore to flee to America , while his wife stays with her mother . En route to England , Lodore is killed in a duel with an American who was witness to the challenge from ...
... marriage of Lodore and Cornelia ; Lady Santerre's resemblance to Harriet's sis- ter Eliza ; Rhyaider in Radnorshire , where Lodore “ passed his days loi- tering beside waterfalls and clambering mountains ( as did Shelley in 1811 ) ...
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 |