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Sylvia's lovers / Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Sanders.

by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.

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Oxford University Press, 2008, c1982.

Women -- England -- Fiction.

Fishing villages -- England -- Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.

Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.

England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

9780199656738 (2014 Oxford World's Classics trade pbk.)

9780199538256 (2008 pbk.)

0192815717 (1986 pbk.)

xxiv, 533 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published in 1863.

2014 Oxford World's Classics trade paperback edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Francis O'Gorman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 516-533).

"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."--Back cover.

Historical fiction.

Sanders, Andrew, 1946-

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