Table of Contents
Preface Introduction A Note on the Text Mary Shelley: A Brief Chronology
Lodore
Appendix A: Mary Shelley—Woman of Letters
- “The Bride of Modern Italy” (1824)
- From Review of The Loves of the Poets (1829)
- From Review of Cloudesley; A Tale (1830)
- From “Ugo Foscolo,” Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal (1837)
Appendix B: Some Literary Contexts
- George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Lara (1814)
- The Tempest and Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Female Reader (1797)
- Thomas Campbell, from Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
- Edward John Trelawny from Adventures of a Younger Son (1831)
Appendix C: Illinois and Duelling
- Morris Birkbeck, from Letters from Illinois (1818)
- William Cobbett, from A Year’s Residence in America (1818-19)
- Frances Wright, from Views of Society and Manners in America (1821)
- William Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Third Edition (1798)
- James Fenimore Cooper, from Notions of the Americans (1828)
Appendix D: Domesticity and Women’s Education
- Mary Wollstonecraft, from Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- William Godwin, from The Enquirer (1797)
- Anna Jameson, from Characteristics of Women (1832)
- Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1839)
Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews of Lodore
- From The Athenæum
- From The Examiner
- From Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country
- From Leigh Hunt’s London Journal
- From The Literary Gazette
- From New Monthly Magazine
- From The Sun
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