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Sylvia's Lovers

Sylvia's Lovers

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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Classic FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1722881143
ISBN13: 9781722881146
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 12 2018
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.63 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell. 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 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. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang, a scene witnessed by Philip. Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor relay to her Charlie's parting message and, believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries her cousin. This act is primarily prompted out of gratefulness for Philip's assistance during a difficult time following her father's imprisonment and subsequent execution for leading a revengeful raid on press-gang collaborators. They have a daughter. Inevitably, Kinraid returns to claim Sylvia and she discovers that Philip knew all the time that he was still alive. Philip leaves her in despair at her subsequent rage and rejection, but she refuses to live with Kinraid because of her child.

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