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Cousin Phillis - A Classic Victorian Novella of Love, Innocence, and Loss
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515435488
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A quiet and beautifully observed Victorian novella, Cousin Phillis is Elizabeth Gaskell's tender story of youth, first love, family affection, and the painful awakening from innocence into experience.
Paul Manning, a young railway engineer, comes to know his mother's relatives in the countryside: the Holman family, whose farm and household seem at first to belong to an older, calmer, more rooted world. There he meets Phillis Holman, his cousin, a thoughtful and sensitive young woman raised among books, work, religious seriousness, and rural duty. Paul is charmed by the warmth and dignity of the household, but his visits also bring the outside world with him, including the accomplished Edward Holdsworth, whose intelligence and easy confidence stir emotions Phillis has never had to confront before.
As affection deepens and misunderstandings gather, Gaskell traces the delicate movement from admiration to love, from trust to disappointment, and from girlhood toward emotional knowledge. First published in the 1860s, Cousin Phillis is one of Gaskell's finest shorter works, combining pastoral beauty with psychological precision and moral restraint. For readers of Victorian fiction, domestic realism, classic romance, and studies of character, this novella offers a deeply humane portrait of feeling, memory, and the cost of growing up.
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