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The story is about 19-year-old Paul Manning, 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.
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- 1864
Cousin Phillis begins when Paul and Phillis are both seventeen, and by using Paul as narrator Elizabeth Gaskell gains an unusual perspective on girlhood; equal in age and class, only gender divides them. In physical and intellectual terms she is the superior, ‘half a head taller than I was, reading books that I had never heard of…’
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Jun 22, 2022 · Seeing Phyllis so sad after Holdsworth’s departure, Paul tells his cousin that Holdsworth loves her and hopes to marry her on his return. As time passes, however, Holdsworth’s letters to Paul include references to a new friend: a French-Canadian girl named Lucille Ventadour.
By return letter, I heard that a second-cousin of my mother's was married to the Independent minister of Hornby, Ebenezer Holman by name, and lived at Heathbridge proper; the very Heathbridge I had described, or so my mother believed, for she had never seen her cousin Phillis Green, who was something of an heiress (my father believed), being ...
Jul 1, 2003 · Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
May 28, 2007 · Cousin Phillis, Wives and Daughters, and modernity; By Linda K. Hughes; Edited by Jill L. Matus, University of Toronto; Book: The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell; Online publication: 28 May 2007; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521846765.007
Dec 26, 2001 · Inside the house sate cousin Phillis, her golden hair, her dazzling complexion, lighting up the corner of the vine-shadowed room. She had not risen when I bade her good-by; she had looked at me straight as she said her tranquil words of farewell. I found Mr Holdsworth down at the line, hard at work superintending.
