Lodore (Annotated)

Lodore (1835) transforms the materials of the fashionable "silver-fork" novel into a searching domestic and moral study. Centered on Lord Lodore, his estranged wife Cornelia, and their daughter Ethel, the novel examines aristocratic pride, exile, education, marriage, debt, and female endurance. Shelley's style is poised and analytical, combining Romantic intensity with the social observation of ea...