Lodore Vol. 3 (Esprios Classics)

Lodore also published under the title The Beautiful Widow is the penultimate novel by Romantic novelist Mary Shelley completed in 1833 and published in 1835. In Lodore Shelley focused her theme of power and responsibility on the microcosm of the family. The central story follows the fortunes of the wife and daughter of the title character Lord Lodore who is killed in a duel at the end of the first volume leaving a trail of legal financial and familial obstacles for the two heroines to negotiate. Mary Shelley places female characters at the centre of the ensuing narratives: Lodore's daughter Ethel raised to be over-dependent on paternal control; his estranged wife Cornelia preoccupied with the norms and appearances of aristocratic society; and the intellectual and independent Fanny Derham with whom both are contrasted.