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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... wish to present an interpretation of Lodore that is in keeping with Betty Bennett's belief that Shelley remained true to the ideals she shared with her parents and her husband : “ Mary Shelley can- not be properly read or understood ...
... wishes and feelings in which Lord Lodore died ; so true had his prognostic been , that he had no power beyond the grave . He had probably forgotten the exis- tence of this will , or imagined that it had been destroyed : he had ...
... wish - fulfilment . Sunstein also argues that Shelley is critical of herself and “ distributes reflections of herself ” among the three heroines : “ Cornelia as Wollstonecraft potential ener- vated by a bad education .... Love ...
... wish to see America ( Letters 2.13 ) . She also met Robelt Owen's son , whose Indiana colony New Harmony was visited by Birkbeck . Although she declined an invitation to join Wright at Nashoba ( Sun- stein 284 ) , her friend Frances ...
... wishes . Cut off from the rest of the world , they claimed here a consideration and a deference , which , with the moderate income of fifteen hundred a - year , they would have vainly sought elsewhere . There was a family tradition ...
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 |