📘 Книга "Sylvia’s Lovers".Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Sylvia’s Lovers is set in the period of French Revolutionary Wars, in the remote whalingport of Monkshaven where the sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants. This is a story of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men. One of them is a whaling harpooner named Charley Kinraid, whose charm and vivacity have captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. However, Sylvia’s devoted cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himself.