Lodore

Lodore

by Mary Shelley
Lodore

Lodore

by Mary Shelley

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Overview

Also published as The Beautiful Widow, Mary Shelley’s penultimate novel explores the web of relationships between three women bound together by the exacting Lord Lodore: Cornelia, Lodore’s estranged wife, ruled by her mother and the norms of aristocratic society; Ethel, his daughter, raised in the wilderness of Illinois and utterly reliant on her father; and finally, the independent and highly educated Fanny Derham, the daughter of Lodore’s childhood friend. Long considered the most Austen-like and socially oriented of Mary Shelley’s novels, Lodore is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand this brilliant feminist writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781454947226
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Publication date: 09/06/2022
Series: Rediscovered Classics
Pages: 448
Sales rank: 255,381
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mary Shelley (1797–1851) was the author of five novels and numerous works of short fiction, though she is best known for Frankenstein. The daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley was steeped in the progressive ideas of the early-19th-century British Romantic era.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Mary Shelley: A Brief Chronology

Lodore

Appendix A: Mary Shelley—Woman of Letters

  1. “The Bride of Modern Italy” (1824)
  2. From Review of The Loves of the Poets (1829)
  3. From Review of Cloudesley; A Tale (1830)
  4. From “Ugo Foscolo,” Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal (1837)

Appendix B: Some Literary Contexts

  1. George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Lara (1814)
  2. The Tempest and Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Female Reader (1797)
  3. Thomas Campbell, from Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
  4. Edward John Trelawny from Adventures of a Younger Son (1831)

Appendix C: Illinois and Duelling

  1. Morris Birkbeck, from Letters from Illinois (1818)
  2. William Cobbett, from A Year’s Residence in America (1818-19)
  3. Frances Wright, from Views of Society and Manners in America (1821)
  4. William Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Third Edition (1798)
  5. James Fenimore Cooper, from Notions of the Americans (1828)

Appendix D: Domesticity and Women’s Education

  1. Mary Wollstonecraft, from Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787)
  2. Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
  3. William Godwin, from The Enquirer (1797)
  4. Anna Jameson, from Characteristics of Women (1832)
  5. Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1839)

Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews of Lodore

  1. From The Athenæum
  2. From The Examiner
  3. From Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country
  4. From Leigh Hunt’s London Journal
  5. From The Literary Gazette
  6. From New Monthly Magazine
  7. From The Sun

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