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Sylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire where the sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants. The people of Monkshaven hate the French, but they live in greater and more immediate fear of the callous press-gang, who snatch sailors returning from a whaling trip before they have even spoken to their friends or families. In Elizabeth Gaskell's provincial England war mirrors a private violence which has already disrupted the lives of her fictional characters. Sylvia is a heroine loved by two very different men - the bold sailor Charley Kinraid and the cautious and conventional Philip Hepburn, who idolizes her. The novel follows her development from a wilful, imaginative, but not especially clever girl, to an alert woman whose suffering changes her.
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Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was a friend of Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens, who first accepted Cranford for publication in his magazine Household Words.
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A fine novel, Aug 28 2010
By Vern - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sylvia's Lovers (Paperback)
This is a mature and engaging work by a fine novelist. Taking the operations of England's press gangs around the turn of the eighteenth century as a point of departure, the author builds a suspenseful and moving story. (The story is not as lurid as the title might imply to today's sensibility.)
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good read for a winter afternoon, Nov 20 2009
By Pandora "classic literature reader" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Sylvia's Lovers (Paperback)
classic female lit. Sylvia's Lovers sounds lurid, but it is 1800's innocent. A woman has to choose between two men.
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