Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a novel published in 1863. Set in 1790s coastal England during the age of impressment, it follows young Sylvia Robson torn between two men: her devoted Quaker cousin Philip and Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor. When Charlie is seized by a press gang, Philip conceals this truth, leading Sylvia to marry him believing her lover dead. The consequences of this deception unfold across years of separation, war, and devastating revelations in what Gaskell called "the saddest story I ever wrote." (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
Title Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia%27s_Lovers
Credits Produced by Charles Aldarondo. HTML version by Al Haines.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 72.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Historical fiction
Subject Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subject Women -- England -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 4535
Release Date
Last Update Dec 28, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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