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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... passed his days loi- tering beside waterfalls and clambering mountains ( as did Shelley in 1811 ) ” ( 1.436 ) . Though Lodore “ more nearly resembles Mary's con- ception of Byron ” ( 1.436 ) , Dowden sees the breakdown of his mar- riage ...
... Tower of London from the four- teenth century until 1834 . 3 Perhaps a topical reference to electoral reform ; the first Reform Bill passed in 1832 . world , only through the kindliness of her disposition , LODORE 49.
... passed away ; and the first Lord Lodore , with most of his generation , was gathered to his ancestors . To the new - sprung race that filled up the vacant ranks , his daughter Eliz- abeth appeared a somewhat ancient but most amiable ...
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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 |