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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... never hesitated to use them , when I fought any battle for the miserable and oppressed . People are so afraid to speak , it would seem as if half our fellow - creatures were born with defi- cient organs ; like parrots they can repeat a ...
... never made her rich , Shelley lived at a time when women were able to support themselves , however precariously , through writing . The range and the initiative she displayed extended her scope beyond the writing of fiction ; she was in ...
... never entered the ideological- political fray again .... She was finished with the intellectual and emotional struggle that had characterized all her previous work and she settled into an artistically unchallenging , but emotion- ally ...
... never die : that repentance and time may paint them to us in different shapes ; but though we shut our eyes , they are still beside us , helping the inexorable destinies to spin the fatal thread , and sharpen- ing the implement which is ...
... never convey the idea of desolation and disregard , which gives it so painful a meaning in a woman's mind ” ( Volume III , Chap . 12 ) . But in her emulation of her father's ability as a writer who “ transfuses himself into the very ...
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 |