LodoreBroadview Press, 1997 M01 31 - 555 pages Beset 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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... 4. From Leigh Hunt's London Journal 541 535 5. From The Literary Gazette 6. From New Monthly Magazine 7. From The Sun 546 Select Bibliography 550 543 545 Preface THIS edition is designed for readers who are interested.
... From Leigh Hunt's London journal 541 From The Literary Gazette 543 From New Monthly Magazine 545 From The Sun 546 From The Examiner Select Bibliography 550 Preface THIS edition is designed for readers who are interested.
... London . The following year Percy Florence went to Trinity Col- lege , Cambridge ( Byron's college , as Harrow had been his school ) , and Mary moved to Grosvenor Square . Her literary activity did not flag , for like many writers who ...
... London journal notes with interest that in Lodore she quotes “ her hus- band so often at the top of her chapters ; and though her characters are laid in high life , and she makes the best of the conventionalities , yet she sympathises ...
Contents
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A Note on the Text | 41 |
Lodore | 47 |
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 |
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