Sylvia's Lovers ***1/2
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Country beauty settles for dull shopkeeper when her jolly sailor is hustled into the Royal Navy by a press gang during the Napoleonic wars. Heartache ensues. Invites comparisons with Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles." Interesting, but not always successful social criticism by author Gaskell, a Unitarian. Ending is rather abrupt.
I'm discussing the novel over on LibraryThing.com. Feel free to stop by.
Previously read Gaskell's "North and South."
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