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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.
A very powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia’s Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service.
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As the service went on, ill-checked sobs rose from behind the two girls, who were among the foremost in the crowd, and by-and-by the cry and the wail became general. Sylvia's tears rained down her face, and her distress became so evident that it attracted the attention of many in that inner circle.
Jan 9, 2017 · Sylvia's Lovers. by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. 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. Language. English. Sticky notes. On Kindle Scribe. Publication date. January 9, 2017. File size. 1135 KB.
Sep 5, 2023 · Sylvia's Lover is one of the least known novels of Elizabeth Gaskell, first published weekly in Cornhill magazine in 1863. The story revolves around Sylvia Robson and the two men in her life: Philip, her cousin -and later, her husband, and Charlie Kinraid, the one she fell in love with.
Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men...
