Sylvia's Lovers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781546790846)

Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, which she called "the saddest story I ever wrote". 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.

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN-10: 1546790845
ISBN-13: 9781546790846
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/18/2017
Pages: 306
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.64d