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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... voice fails them , when that alone is wanting to make the tyrant quail . ” ( Lodore , Fanny Derham , vol . 3 , ch . I ) I. The “ Other ” Mary Shelley : Life and Writings After Frankenstein The story of Mary Shelley's life until her ...
... voice can with none assume its natural modulation , all is shew — & I but a shadow — Journals 429 ) In spite of her considerable grief , Shelley had the more practical aspects of living to consider , including supporting herself and her ...
... voice . 2. Circumstances of Lodore's Composition The composition of Lodore tells us much about Mary Shelley's activi- ties as a writer . It needs to be remembered that Lodore appeared in a decade of what has been called “ feverish ...
... voice fails them , when that alone is wanting to make the tyrant quail " " ( Volume III , Chapter 1 ) . It is as tempting to identify those half our fellow - creatures born with deficient organs as women as it is the poorer classes ...
... voice whose thrilling silver tones I The Morning Post was a daily newspaper , founded in London in 1772 , which was amalgamated with the Daily Telegraph in 1937. Godwin's friend Coleridge , as well as Southey and Wordsworth , wrote for ...
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 |