Sylvia's Lovers , Complete: Top Novelist Focus
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Top Novelist Focus Book 85 · 谷月社
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INDEX
CHAPTER I
MONKSHAVEN
CHAPTER II
HOME FROM GREENLAND
CHAPTER III
BUYING A NEW CLOAK
CHAPTER IV
PHILIP HEPBURN
CHAPTER V
STORY OF THE PRESS-GANG
CHAPTER VI
THE SAILOR'S FUNERAL
CHAPTER VII
TETE-A-TETE.—THE WILL
CHAPTER VIII
ATTRACTION AND REPULSION
CHAPTER IX
THE SPECKSIONEER
CHAPTER X
A REFRACTORY PUPIL
CHAPTER XI
VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
CHAPTER XII
NEW YEAR'S FETE
CHAPTER XIII
PERPLEXITIES
CHAPTER XIV
PARTNERSHIP
CHAPTER XV
A DIFFICULT QUESTION
CHAPTER XVI
THE ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER XVII
REJECTED WARNINGS
CHAPTER XVIII
EDDY IN LOVE'S CURRENT
CHAPTER XIX
AN IMPORTANT MISSION
CHAPTER XX
LOVED AND LOST
CHAPTER XXI
A REJECTED SUITOR
CHAPTER XXII
DEEPENING SHADOWS
CHAPTER XXIII
RETALIATION
CHAPTER XXIV
BRIEF REJOICING
CHAPTER XXV
COMING TROUBLES
CHAPTER XXVI
A DREARY VIGIL
CHAPTER XXVII
GLOOMY DAYS
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE ORDEAL
CHAPTER XXIX
WEDDING RAIMENT
CHAPTER XXX
HAPPY DAYS
CHAPTER XXXI
EVIL OMENS
CHAPTER XXXII
RESCUED FROM THE WAVES
CHAPTER XXXIII
AN APPARITION
CHAPTER XXXIV
A RECKLESS RECRUIT
CHAPTER XXXV
THINGS UNUTTERABLE
CHAPTER XXXVI
MYSTERIOUS TIDINGS
CHAPTER XXXVII
BEREAVEMENT
CHAPTER XXXVIII
THE RECOGNITION
CHAPTER XXXIX
CONFIDENCES
CHAPTER XL
AN UNEXPECTED MESSENGER
CHAPTER XLI
THE BEDESMAN OF ST SEPULCHRE
CHAPTER XLII
A FABLE AT FAULT
CHAPTER XLIII
THE UNKNOWN
CHAPTER XLIV
FIRST WORDS
CHAPTER XLV
SAVED AND LOST
CHAPTER I
MONKSHAVEN
CHAPTER II
HOME FROM GREENLAND
CHAPTER III
BUYING A NEW CLOAK
CHAPTER IV
PHILIP HEPBURN
CHAPTER V
STORY OF THE PRESS-GANG
CHAPTER VI
THE SAILOR'S FUNERAL
CHAPTER VII
TETE-A-TETE.—THE WILL
CHAPTER VIII
ATTRACTION AND REPULSION
CHAPTER IX
THE SPECKSIONEER
CHAPTER X
A REFRACTORY PUPIL
CHAPTER XI
VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
CHAPTER XII
NEW YEAR'S FETE
CHAPTER XIII
PERPLEXITIES
CHAPTER XIV
PARTNERSHIP
CHAPTER XV
A DIFFICULT QUESTION
CHAPTER XVI
THE ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER XVII
REJECTED WARNINGS
CHAPTER XVIII
EDDY IN LOVE'S CURRENT
CHAPTER XIX
AN IMPORTANT MISSION
CHAPTER XX
LOVED AND LOST
CHAPTER XXI
A REJECTED SUITOR
CHAPTER XXII
DEEPENING SHADOWS
CHAPTER XXIII
RETALIATION
CHAPTER XXIV
BRIEF REJOICING
CHAPTER XXV
COMING TROUBLES
CHAPTER XXVI
A DREARY VIGIL
CHAPTER XXVII
GLOOMY DAYS
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE ORDEAL
CHAPTER XXIX
WEDDING RAIMENT
CHAPTER XXX
HAPPY DAYS
CHAPTER XXXI
EVIL OMENS
CHAPTER XXXII
RESCUED FROM THE WAVES
CHAPTER XXXIII
AN APPARITION
CHAPTER XXXIV
A RECKLESS RECRUIT
CHAPTER XXXV
THINGS UNUTTERABLE
CHAPTER XXXVI
MYSTERIOUS TIDINGS
CHAPTER XXXVII
BEREAVEMENT
CHAPTER XXXVIII
THE RECOGNITION
CHAPTER XXXIX
CONFIDENCES
CHAPTER XL
AN UNEXPECTED MESSENGER
CHAPTER XLI
THE BEDESMAN OF ST SEPULCHRE
CHAPTER XLII
A FABLE AT FAULT
CHAPTER XLIII
THE UNKNOWN
CHAPTER XLIV
FIRST WORDS
CHAPTER XLV
SAVED AND LOST
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About the author
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 — 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte, published in 1857, was the first biography of that author.
On 30 August 1832 Elizabeth married a Unitarian minister, William Gaskell, in Knutsford. They spent their honeymoon in North Wales, staying with Elizabeth's uncle, Samuel Holland, near Porthmadog. The Gaskells then settled in Manchester, where William was the minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel. Manchester's industrial surroundings influenced Elizabeth's writing in the industrial genre. Their first child, a daughter, was stillborn in 1833. A son, William, (1844–45), died in infancy, and this tragedy was the catalyst for Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton. Their other children were Marianne (1834), Margaret Emily, known as Meta (1837), Florence Elizabeth (1842), and Julia Bradford (1846). Florence married Charles Crompton, a barrister and Liberal politician, in 1863.
In March 1835 Mrs Gaskell began a diary, documenting the development of her daughter Marianne, her views of herself and William as parents, the value she gave to her role as a mother, her religious faith, and, later, the relationship between Marianne and her sister, Meta. In 1836 she co-authored with her husband a cycle of poems, Sketches among the Poor, which was published in Blackwood's Magazine in January 1837. In 1840 William Howitt published Visits to Remarkable Places containing a contribution entitled Clopton Hall by "A Lady", the first work written and published solely by Mrs Gaskell. In April 1840 Howitt published The Rural Life of England, which included her second work, Notes on Cheshire Customs.
In July 1841 the Gaskells travelled to Belgium and Germany, and German literature came to have a strong influence on her short stories. In 1847 she published her first work of fiction, Libbie Marsh's Three Eras, in Howitt's Journal, using the pseudonym "Cotton Mather Mills". Her next work, The Sexton's Hero, was published under the same pseudonym. She made her last use of the pseudonym in 1848, with the publication of her story Christmas Storms and Sunshine. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in October 1848.
In 1850 the Gaskells moved to a villa at 84 Plymouth Grove, where Elizabeth wrote her remaining literary works, while her husband held welfare committees and tutored the poor in his study. The Gaskells' social circle included writers, religious dissenters and social reformers such as William and Mary Howitt. Charles Dickens and John Ruskin visited Plymouth Grove, as did the American writers Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Eliot Norton, while the conductor Charles Hallé, who lived close by, taught piano to one of their daughters. Her close friend Charlotte Brontë stayed there three times, and on one occasion hid behind the drawing room curtains as she was too shy to meet the Gaskells' other visitors.
In early 1850 Mrs Gaskell wrote to Charles Dickens asking for advice about assisting a girl named Pasley whom she had visited in prison. Pasley provided her with a model for the title character of Ruth in 1853. Lizzie Leigh was published in March and April 1850, in the first numbers of Dickens's journal Household Words, in which many of her works were to be published, including Cranford and North and South, her novella My Lady Ludlow, and short stories.
On 30 August 1832 Elizabeth married a Unitarian minister, William Gaskell, in Knutsford. They spent their honeymoon in North Wales, staying with Elizabeth's uncle, Samuel Holland, near Porthmadog. The Gaskells then settled in Manchester, where William was the minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel. Manchester's industrial surroundings influenced Elizabeth's writing in the industrial genre. Their first child, a daughter, was stillborn in 1833. A son, William, (1844–45), died in infancy, and this tragedy was the catalyst for Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton. Their other children were Marianne (1834), Margaret Emily, known as Meta (1837), Florence Elizabeth (1842), and Julia Bradford (1846). Florence married Charles Crompton, a barrister and Liberal politician, in 1863.
In March 1835 Mrs Gaskell began a diary, documenting the development of her daughter Marianne, her views of herself and William as parents, the value she gave to her role as a mother, her religious faith, and, later, the relationship between Marianne and her sister, Meta. In 1836 she co-authored with her husband a cycle of poems, Sketches among the Poor, which was published in Blackwood's Magazine in January 1837. In 1840 William Howitt published Visits to Remarkable Places containing a contribution entitled Clopton Hall by "A Lady", the first work written and published solely by Mrs Gaskell. In April 1840 Howitt published The Rural Life of England, which included her second work, Notes on Cheshire Customs.
In July 1841 the Gaskells travelled to Belgium and Germany, and German literature came to have a strong influence on her short stories. In 1847 she published her first work of fiction, Libbie Marsh's Three Eras, in Howitt's Journal, using the pseudonym "Cotton Mather Mills". Her next work, The Sexton's Hero, was published under the same pseudonym. She made her last use of the pseudonym in 1848, with the publication of her story Christmas Storms and Sunshine. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in October 1848.
In 1850 the Gaskells moved to a villa at 84 Plymouth Grove, where Elizabeth wrote her remaining literary works, while her husband held welfare committees and tutored the poor in his study. The Gaskells' social circle included writers, religious dissenters and social reformers such as William and Mary Howitt. Charles Dickens and John Ruskin visited Plymouth Grove, as did the American writers Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles Eliot Norton, while the conductor Charles Hallé, who lived close by, taught piano to one of their daughters. Her close friend Charlotte Brontë stayed there three times, and on one occasion hid behind the drawing room curtains as she was too shy to meet the Gaskells' other visitors.
In early 1850 Mrs Gaskell wrote to Charles Dickens asking for advice about assisting a girl named Pasley whom she had visited in prison. Pasley provided her with a model for the title character of Ruth in 1853. Lizzie Leigh was published in March and April 1850, in the first numbers of Dickens's journal Household Words, in which many of her works were to be published, including Cranford and North and South, her novella My Lady Ludlow, and short stories.
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