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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... spirit , and his proneness to mingle with his mother earth . ” Certainly Lodore inspired awe in Coleridge , who wrote in 1805 to Godwin about the view of the falls from his house Greta Hall ; to Sara Hutchinson he spoke of the falls as ...
... spirit of resentment , and even revenge , against his wife . ” It might be argued that Mary Shelley is playing with the double sense of the word , as Lodore's will lives on in the actions of the female characters after his death . On ...
... spirit in spoiled Cornelia Lodore ; dependency and need for love in gentle Ethel Villiers ” ( Sunstein 48-9 ) . Some reviewers suggest that Ethel is too good to be a credible character , yet this is consistent with Shelley's purpose ...
... spirit and beautiful form might satisfy a fastidious connoisseur . Having with much trou- ble and expense got several animals of English breed together , he was perpetually seen mounted and forcing his way amid the forest land , or ...
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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 |