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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... once . Above all , she was interested in knowing the length of the second volume so she could determine where it would end . As writers seldom had more than one copy of a manuscript , sending sig- nificant portions would mean they could ...
... once the novel , as she put it , crawled into existence almost a year later ( Letters 2.237 ) . A number of letters to her publisher asking for presentation copies of Lodore seem to have gone unanswered , and it is not clear whether she ...
... once into insignificance . It was matter of conjecture among them whether Mr. Fitzhenry ( so was named the English stranger ) would remove to the vicinity of the more considerable town , but no such idea seemed to have occurred to him ...
... 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 back . He despised himself for his hesitation . He had ...
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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 |