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Sylvia's Lovers
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A coastal historical novel of love, press-gangs, Quaker witness, family loyalty, and wartime trauma in Yorkshire.
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Sylvia's Lovers
Sylvia’s Lovers is set in a Yorkshire whaling town during the Napoleonic wars, where forced naval impressment, religious conviction, romantic misunderstanding, and family duty reshape ordinary lives. Gaskell turns local history into a powerful study of memory, grief, and moral consequence.
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Author died in 1865; original text first published in 1863. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language edition.
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[Editor's Note:--The chapter numbering for volume 2 & 3 was changed from the original in order to have unique chapter numbers for the complete version, so volume 2 starts with chapter XV and volume 3 starts with chapter XXX.]
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Oh for thy voice to soothe and bless! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil! Behind the veil!--Tennyson
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VI THE SAILOR'S FUNERAL
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- 01Full text
- 02SYLVIA'S LOVERS.
- 03VI THE SAILOR'S FUNERAL
- 04XII NEW YEAR'S FETE
- 05XVIII EDDY IN LOVE'S CURRENT
- 06part, when I read o' the way those French chaps are going on, I'm
- 07part of her face was lost to him as she half averted it, with a shy
- 08THE SAILOR'S FUNERAL
- 09chapter aloud to herself, and now she could see no longer, even if
- 10book of maps to the farm; and there he sat on many an evening
- 11NEW YEAR'S FETE
- 12chapter. Remembering his last conversation with his aunt, he might
- 13chapter in the Bible daily to his housekeeper servant; and, like
- 14EDDY IN LOVE'S CURRENT
- 15'DEAR AND HONOURED UNCLE,'----
- 16chapter 5. I'm afraid it's a bad look-out. Is he a friend of yours,
- 17'DEAR SYLVIA,
- 18'PHILIP HEPBURN.
- 19book-learning: but his present sense of responsibility had made him
- 20part of the latter before he could induce Kester to promise to come
- 21'DEAR HESTER,--
- 22'PHILIP HEPBURN.
- 23part of it, but I left it at Mrs. Dawson's in my desk; and I can't
- 24part with this relic of his dead father on any slight necessity.
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