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Cousin Phillis

Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
114 pages
ISBN
9781911495086
Published
25 June 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • novella
  • rural England
  • friendship
  • love
  • engagement
  • family
  • relationships
  • devotion
  • way of life
  • health

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Paul Manning down from London to a rural Holman farm, and Phillis, already promised. Gaskell’s Cousin Phillis is friendship that becomes love too late, a girl’s health, a visitor who stays. Sovereign ebook. Not a simple triangle. Intelligence in a farmhouse, the city boy, the engagement that was already there. Quiet devastation. Victorian feeling without a melodrama’s shout. A novella of what you notice too slowly, and a cousinhood that will not quite stay cousinly.

Author

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) widened the Victorian novel's moral imagination. Published by Dickens in Household Words and admired by contemporaries from Ruskin to George Eliot, she wrote fiction that refused to look away from social suffering — child labour, class division, the hidden cost of industrial progress — while never losing warmth or narrative pleasure.

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