National Art Library (Great Britain). Forster Collection.
Sylvia's lovers
Sylvia's lovers. With a preface by Thomas Seccombe & illustrations by M.V. Wheelhouse
Juvenile literature
Sylvia's lovers : by Mrs. Gaskell
A was powerfully moving novel of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, Sylvia's Lovers is set in the 1790s in an English seaside town. England is at war with France, and press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service. One of their victims is a whaling harpooner named Charley Kinraid, whose charm and vivacity have captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia's devoted cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himself and, in order to win her, deliberately withholds crucial information-with devastating consequences.
Sylvia's lovers, by Mrs. Gaskell
Sylvia's lovers. Introduction by Arthur Pollard
Silvia's lovers
Online resources
Gaskell described Sylvia's Lovers as the saddest story" she'd ever written. Set during the French Revolutionary Wars, Sylvia is a heroine loved by two men: one a sailor and the other her cousin. Her private world is damaged by public events, and Sylvia develops from a willful girl into a woman changed by suffering.
Historical fiction
Novels
Sylvia's lovers a novel
Sylvia's lovers, etc
Les Amoureux de Sylvia, roman anglais traduit
Sylvia's lovers : etc
Sylvia's Lovers. Introd. by Arthur Pollard
Sylvia's lovers. In three volumes. Second edition
Sylvia's lovers : a novel
This tragic tale from Elizabeth Gaskell follows the wartime love affairs of the title character. After her true love is believed to have perished at sea, Sylvia seeks stability in a loveless arranged marriage. But does her husband know more about her first lover's fate than he is admitting?
Set in the whaling port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire during the French Revolutionary wars, the heroine Sylvia is loved by two men of completely different character - the bold sailor Charley Kinraid and the cautious and conventional Philip Hepburn, who idolizes her. In Mrs Gaskell's novel, the war mirrors the private violence which disrupts the lives of her characters.
Los amores de Sylvia
Les amoureux de Sylvia. Roman anglais, traduit ... par E.D. Forgues
Sylvia's lovers : Introd. by Arthur Pollard
Sylvia's lovers (Mrs. Gaskell)
Love stories
Sylvia's lovers : n.p
Sylvia's Lovers (1863) is a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, which she called "the saddest story I ever wrote". The novel begins in the 1790s in the town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is press-ganged (a scene witnessed by Philip). Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident and, believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries her cousin and they have a daughter. Inevitably, Kinraid returns to claim Sylvia and s.
Electronic books
Sylvia's lovers. : By Mrs. Gaskell ... In three volumes
Sylvia's lovers in three volumes
Sylvia's lovers : [1 page of the novel]
Sylvia's lovers etc
Sylvia's lovers : [incomplete printer's copy of the novel]
Sylvia's lovers. (With an introduction by Mrs. Ellis H. Chadwick.)
Love and marriage among whale fishers and other humble people in Whitby during the French Wars.
Sylvia's Lovers
Sylvia's lovers; a novel
Fiction
Sylvian kosijat
Man-woman relationships England Yorkshire Fiction.