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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... seemed to appertain to the beautiful apparition , remembered as Lord Lodore's wife . She was so young , that time played with her as a favourite child ; so etherial in look , that the language of flowers could alone express the delicate ...
... seemed to imply volumes of meaning , was the employment that made winter nights short , summer days swift in their progress . This dreamy kind of existence , added to the old - fashioned habits which a recluse who lives in a state of ...
... seemed yet to set at defiance the efforts of his fellow settlers ; and at the same time comforts of so civilized a description , that the Americans termed them luxuries , appeared in the abode and reigned in the domestic arrangements of ...
... seemed to have occurred to him . Probably he rejoiced in an accident that tended I Information Lodore presumably acquired during his travels in these countries . 2 Shelley may be basing this on Birkbeck's account of a projected shipping ...
... seemed to enjoy the unchang- ing tenor of his life . It had not always been so . During the first three or four years of his arrival in America , he had evidently been unquiet in his mind , and dissatisfied with the scene around him ...
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 |