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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... means , electronic , mechanical , photocopying , recording , or otherwise , or stored in a retrieval system , without prior writ- ten consent of the publisher - or in the case of photocopying , a licence from CANCOPY ( Canadian ...
... means to allow for Percy's poetry to appear in print , ' the range of quotation from the Medieval Catalan poet Ausias March to a number of quotations from Jacobean playwrights like Beaumont and Fletcher and Ford is a subtle way in which ...
... mean they could not check earlier parts of their work as they composed later sections . Therefore Shelley explained that she wanted to do as she has always done and send the printer a section at a time , which was the common practice ...
... mean that Shelley was well treated . Nevertheless , Shelley was clearly respected in her circle as skilled in the literary trade . As Betty T. Bennett points out , after Percy's death “ she began , as she would for the remainder of her ...
... 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 role in all subsequent accounts of ...
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 |