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Cousin Phillis

Set in the 1840's, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed for ever. The story focuses on the effect these changes have on a naïve country girl, Phillis, as she encounters love, with all its pains and pleasures, for the first time.

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  • "The tale of a rural habitation in the late 19th Century and the effect of industrialisation on the local community. Seventeen year old Phillis lives on Hope Farm with her parents Minister Ebenezer Holman and his simple wife. Her second cousin Paul Manning, at first reluctantly, comes to visit. He is the son of a rising inventor from Birmingham and is employed as a clerk to Edward Holdsworth, the managing engineer of a railway company laying a line close to the farm..."
  • "Set in the 1840's, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed for ever. The story focuses on the effect these changes have on a naïve country girl, Phillis, as she encounters love, with all its pains and pleasures, for the first time."@en
  • "For Paul Manning, one of the undeniable charms of the countryside is his beautiful yet naive cousin Phillis. But, when Paul finds himself uncomfortably implicated in the romantic drama that unfolds between Phillis and his sophisticated colleague, country life suddenly becomes not quite the simple and artless pleasure it once was."@en
  • "The complete and unabridged version of Gaskell's Cousin Phyllis, first published in 1864, now read by Kenneth Branagh."@en
  • "Set in the 1840's, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed for ever. The story focuses on the effect these changes have on a naive country girl, Phillis, as she encounters love, with all its pains and pleasures, for the first time."@en
  • "With a young love thwarted, a sympathetic cousin tries his best to ease the pain."
  • "With a young love thwarted, a sympathetic cousin tries his best to ease the pain."@en
  • "Paul Manning is working away from home as the assistant to Mr Holdsworth, a managing railroad engineer. He makes contact with his distant relatives, the Holmans, who live nearby and welcome him into their family. When Paul aslo introduces Mr Holdsworth to the Holmans, a mutual attraction forms between the older man and Paul's cousin, the naive Phillis. However, an impending move to Canada places their blossoming relationship under threat."@en

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Didactic fiction"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Pastoral fiction"@en
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  • "Cousin Phillis"
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  • "Cousin Phyllis"
  • "Cousin Phyllis"@en

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