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Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
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Release dateNov 26, 2013
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
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Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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    An intriguing, anti-romantic novel, melodramatic and fascinating. I didn't find either the handsome, dashing but shallow and unreliable Charley Kinraid or the dismal, obsessed Philip Hepburn sympathetic, but I did find poor Sylvia so. Hope to have a review of this in the ezine 'the F word' out soon, going into it's 'anti romantic' tendencies as I see them. I think readers often find Gaskell's intention unclear because she finished the third volume in a rush, so Sylvia's bitter disillusionment with her one-time-Idol Kinraid receives less stress than her growing obession with him in the first volume.
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    An interesting novel--not as good as Gaskell's North and South or Wives and Daughters, but still an interesting historical novel...i.e., written about press gangs and the whaling industry during the Napoleonic Wars sixty years later.

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