Sylvia's Lovers

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 researc...