Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Published on 17 November 2022 by Union Square & Co. in the United States as part of 'the Rediscovered Classics' series.
Paperback | 448 pages
137 x 211 x 29 | 550g
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.