Sylvia's Lovers (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Elizabeth Gaskell

Overview

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.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411458994
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	08/02/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	454
File size:	714 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865) was a prominent Victorian novelist. She wrote lasting gothic ghost stories such as “The Old Nurse’s Story,” as well as prominent industrial fiction, including North and South. She even took inspiration from her close friends, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens, writing Brontë’s biography as she focused on the role of women in society to create classic works of all kinds.