Preface 7
Introduction 9
A Note on the Text 41
Mary Shelley: A Brief Chronology 43
Lodore 47
Appendix A: Mary Shelley--Woman of Letters
1. "The Bride of Modern Italy" (1824) 449
2. From Review of The Loves of the Poets (1829) 461
3. From Review of Cloudesley; A Tale (1830) 465
4. From "Ugo Foscolo," Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal (1837) 469
Appendix B: Some Literary Contexts
1. George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Lara (1814) 472
2. The Tempest and Mary Wollstonecraft's The Female Reader (1797) 474
3. Thomas Campbell, from Gertrude of Wyoming (1809) 476
4. Edward John Trelawny, from Adventures of a Younger Son (1831) 480
Appendix C: Illinois and Duelling
1. Morris Birkbeck, from Letters from Illinois (1818) 483
2. William Cobbett, from A Year's Residence in America (1818-19) 488
3. Frances Wright, from Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) 491
4. William Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Third Edition (1798) 493
5. James Fenimore Cooper, from Notions of the Americans (1828) 495
Appendix D: Domesticity and Women's Education
1 . Mary Wollstonecraft, from Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) 500
2. Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) 504
3. William Godwin, from The Enquirer (1797) 513
4. Anna Jameson, from Characteristics of Women (1832) 516
5. Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1839) 519
Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews of Lodore
1. From The Athenaeum 531
2. From The Examiner 533
3. From Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country 535
4. From Leigh Hunt's London Journal 541
5. From The Literary Gazette 543
6. From New Monthly Magazine 545
7. From The Sun 546
Select Bibliography 550