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.
| ISBN: | 9781454947226 |
| Publication date: | 17th November 2022 |
| Author: | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| Publisher: | Union Square & Co. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 448 pages |
| Series: | Rediscovered Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary |