Lodore

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Miscellaneous
01 December 2022

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Horror

Series: Rediscovered Classics

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: his estranged wife Cornelia, a woman ruled by her mother and the norms of aristocratic society; his daughter Ethel, raised in the wilderness of Illinois and utterly dependent on her father; and finally, the independent and highly educated Fanny Derham, the daughter of Lodore’s childhood friend.

At first glance, Lodore appears to be a 'silver fork' novel — a popular romance genre from the Regency era about life in fashionable society — yet Shelley’s take imbues the story with subversive critiques of domesticity and masculinity. Long considered the most Jane Austen–like of Mary Shelley’s novels, Lodore is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand this brilliant feminist writer.

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 137mm,
ISBN: 9781454947226
ISBN 10: 1454947225
Series: Rediscovered Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 December 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. She edited the works of her husband, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and is best known as the author of Frankenstein (1818). Lodore was originally published in 1883.