Name: Sylvia's Lovers
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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 9781985024106

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Author

Elizabeth Gaskell

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

496

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN13

9781985024106

Synopsis "Sylvia's Lovers"

Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, which she called "the saddest story I ever wrote". The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (September 29, 1810 - November 12, 1865), often known simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was a Victorian era English novelist and short story writer. Her novels provide a detailed portrait of the lives of many social strata, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians, as well as to literature lovers.

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