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Cousin Phillis (1863–1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in four parts in The Cornhill Magazine, [1] though a fifth and sixth part were planned. [2] Later it was published in book form, including an edition in 1908 with illustrations by Mary Wheelhouse. [3] The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, [nb 1] who ...
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- 1864
Jun 22, 2022 · Phyllis’s father, Mr. Holman, is a Nonconformist minister (i.e., not a member of the Church of England or Roman Catholic Church), as well as a farmer. The young men are Mr. Holdsworth, an engineer, and Paul Manning, who is both Holdsworth’s assistant and Phyllis’s cousin.
Nov 13, 2020 · Paul Manning, Phillis’s cousin and Holdsworth’s subordinate at the railway company, is our primary narrator. Paul’s own emotional life is never centred. He’s briefly attracted to Phillis, but soon sees her as a sister, since she is a couple of inches taller than him and better at reading Latin (!).
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Young Paul Manning and his cousin Phillis Holman (15-16) are the central characters of the story, and their relationship is more like siblings than potential lover's. The love interest for Phillis is introduced when Paul brings his boss, Holdsworth, to the Holman's for a visit. Phillis' parents are also prominent.
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Sep 21, 2012 · Cousin Phillis. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 - 1865). Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his second cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence.
SectionChapterTime00:24:3800:29:2700:31:4200:25:41In Cousin Phillis, Paul Manning describes the same ‘iron railing on the top of the wall, and two great gates between pillars crowned with stone balls for a state entrance to the flagged path leading up to the front door’, that Anne Thackeray Ritchie describes more succinctly in her Preface to the 1891 edition of Cranford: ‘There used to ...
Phillis's cousin, Paul Manning, narrates the whole story as a kind of memoir, and himself is deeply involved in it as one of the characters of the novel. He intuitively discovers but also keeps the secret for Phillis, for whom he has brotherly love. The secret is complicated by the fact that, using his own
