Sylvia's Lovers: A Novel of the Whaling Coast
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, David Wilkie and James Ward. Whitby in the 1790s, a whaling town: the press gang takes men off the ships as they come in, a girl loves a specksioneer, and a shopman who loves her hears something he chooses not to repeat. Gaskell, a Manchester minister's wife, called this the saddest story she ever wrote; she researched the Whitby press-gang riots on the spot, and the lie at the center is told in half a sentence, by a decent man. Fifty-eight plates range from Munch to James Ward, gathering harbour scenes, animal portraits and women's faces into the coastal world this novel inhabits.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, David Wilkie and James Ward. Whitby in the 1790s, a whaling town: the press gang takes men off the ships as they come in, a girl loves a specksioneer, and a shopman who loves her hears something he chooses not to r...
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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was an English novelist and short-story writer who lived and wrote in Manchester. Her published fiction includes Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, My Lady Ludlow, A Dark Night's Work, and Curious, If True.
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was an English novelist and short-story writer who lived and wrote in Manchester. Her published fiction includes Ruth, Sylvia's Lovers, My Lady Ludlow, A Dark Night's Work, and Curious, If True.
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