Sylvia Lovers — Volume 3 eBook Elizabeth Cleghorn 18101865 Gaskell
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Sylvia Lovers — Volume 3 eBook Elizabeth Cleghorn 18101865 Gaskell
"This is written with a vivid, lively and evocative style, often enlivened by humour. The first volume is lively and brisk in tone, yet overall, this is a tragic tale and the questions that it sets up about unrequited love, honour and duty are finally insoluable in terms of 'this world' which, apart from her natural inclinations as a minister's wife, is no doubt why Gaskell ends by drawing on the next in the final volume.Set in the whaling town of Monkshaven (actually, Whitby)when conservation was unheard of (preposition, I know!), the story concerns the two admirers of pretty, spirited daughter of the one time whaling Speckioneer turned farmer Daniel Robson, and her two admirers.
One of the two is her unappealing,religious, dutiful, hard-working cousin Philip Hepburn, who becomes a business partner in a haberdasher's. He has 'made an idol' of Sylvia for years, much to her disgust. He idiotically believes he will win Sylvia's heart by teaching her to read and by trying to get her to wear drab colours.
Her preferred admirer is naturally the handsome, swaggering, talkative, dashing Specksioneer (Chief Harpooner) Charley Kinraid, who becomes Sylvia's hero when he is shot defending his crew mates from a press gang raid. He takes to calling on Sylvia's family when he is recovering, and they soon fall in love.
Kinraid has a reputation as a womaniser that has preceeded him, and Philip tries to warn Sylvia against him, but she does not believe him. When by coincidence he sees Kinraid being taken by a press gang on a deserted beach, Kinraid begs him to give the message to Sylvia that she must remain as true to him as he will to her, and that he will return. Philip treacherously decides against passing on a message he considers to be worthless and schemes to marry Sylvia himself.
But Kinraid returns...
I didn't find either the shallow, egotistical, opportunistic Kinraid, who has no human vulnerabilities, or the dismal, self-rightous Philip symapthetic, but I did feel a good deal for poor Sylvia.
Because of Gaskell's Victorian reticence, she clearly cannot go into the question of physical attraction which is the root of the problem here in Sylvia's torn loyalties, and this adds to the confusion of the nature of Sylvia's true feelings for both in the melodramatic denounement.
An interesting read. Most people enjoy the lively, cheerful note of the first volume, where Sylvia and Kinraid are falling in love, to the 'gathering shadows' of the second volume and the outright melodrama of the third. I enjoy a bit of melodrama myself...Mary Ann"
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"This is written with a vivid, lively and evocative style, often enlivened by humour. The first volume is lively and brisk in tone, yet overall, this is a tragic tale and the questions that it sets up about unrequited love, honour and duty are finally insoluable in terms of 'this world' which, apart from her natural inclinations as a minister's wife, is no doubt why Gaskell ends by drawing on the next in the final volume.
Set in the whaling town of Monkshaven (actually, Whitby)when conservation was unheard of (preposition, I know!), the story concerns the two admirers of pretty, spirited daughter of the one time whaling Speckioneer turned farmer Daniel Robson, and her two admirers.
One of the two is her unappealing,religious, dutiful, hard-working cousin Philip Hepburn, who becomes a business partner in a haberdasher's. He has 'made an idol' of Sylvia for years, much to her disgust. He idiotically believes he will win Sylvia's heart by teaching her to read and by trying to get her to wear drab colours.
Her preferred admirer is naturally the handsome, swaggering, talkative, dashing Specksioneer (Chief Harpooner) Charley Kinraid, who becomes Sylvia's hero when he is shot defending his crew mates from a press gang raid. He takes to calling on Sylvia's family when he is recovering, and they soon fall in love.
Kinraid has a reputation as a womaniser that has preceeded him, and Philip tries to warn Sylvia against him, but she does not believe him. When by coincidence he sees Kinraid being taken by a press gang on a deserted beach, Kinraid begs him to give the message to Sylvia that she must remain as true to him as he will to her, and that he will return. Philip treacherously decides against passing on a message he considers to be worthless and schemes to marry Sylvia himself.
But Kinraid returns...
I didn't find either the shallow, egotistical, opportunistic Kinraid, who has no human vulnerabilities, or the dismal, self-rightous Philip symapthetic, but I did feel a good deal for poor Sylvia.
Because of Gaskell's Victorian reticence, she clearly cannot go into the question of physical attraction which is the root of the problem here in Sylvia's torn loyalties, and this adds to the confusion of the nature of Sylvia's true feelings for both in the melodramatic denounement.
An interesting read. Most people enjoy the lively, cheerful note of the first volume, where Sylvia and Kinraid are falling in love, to the 'gathering shadows' of the second volume and the outright melodrama of the third. I enjoy a bit of melodrama myself...Mary Ann"
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