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Sylvia's Lovers Volume 1

Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
Series
Timeless Classics
Language
English
Length
192 pages
ISBN
9781911495147
Published
27 June 2016
Imprint
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Sylvia's Lovers
  • morality
  • social order
  • realism
  • psychological
  • philosophical
  • provoking
  • social analysis
  • adventure

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Monkshaven, the press-gang years. Sylvia’s Lovers volume 1 is Gaskell opening a coastal town: Sylvia Robson, steady Philip Hepburn, sailor Charley Kinraid, a love that has not yet had to choose. Sovereign ebook of the first part. Yorkshire sea-wind, shop and harbour, the Navy’s hunger for men already in the air. Not the whole novel. Courtship before the betrayal. A Victorian beginning with salt on it, and two very different claims on one girl. Harbour air, two claims, the gang not yet at the door.

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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