Sylvia's Lovers

by Elizabeth Gaskell · 1863

In a Yorkshire whaling town, a passionate woman is torn between a steady cousin and a dashing sailor pressed into the navy. Gaskell's tragic historical novel.

Books mentioned in Sylvia's Lovers (2)

• A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life by William Law: “with Law's _Serious Call_, the _Pilgrim's Progress_, Klopstock's _Messiah_, and _Paradise Lost_.”
• A Treatise on Self-Knowledge by John Mason: “there was not much reading of such books as _Mason_ on _Self-Knowledge_ and _Law's Serious Call_”