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Sylvia's Lovers
Sylvia's Lovers
Sylvia's Lovers
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Sylvia's Lovers

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The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBooklassic
Release dateJun 29, 2015
ISBN9789635270538
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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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