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- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 496
- ISBN-10: 1544800541
- ISBN-13: 9781544800547
- Format: 17.8 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang, a scene witnessed by Philip. Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor relay to her Charlie's parting message and, believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries her cousin.
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- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 496
- ISBN-10: 1544800541
- ISBN-13: 9781544800547
- Format: 17.8 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars. Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. When Kinraid goes back to his ship, he is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang, a scene witnessed by Philip. Philip does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor relay to her Charlie's parting message and, believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries her cousin.
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