Falkner (novel)

This article is about the Mary Shelley novel. For the John Cheever novel, see Falconer (novel).

Falkner (1837) is the penultimate book published by the author Mary Shelley. Like Shelley's earlier novel Lodore (1835), it charts a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure.[1]

  1. ^ Bennett, 98; Poovey, 164. Poovey notes several tyrannical fathers in Falkner who take the place of lost mothers.