A moving tale of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, set in the time of Napoleon, against the tensions of wartime. As the author depicts Sylvia's fateful decision to marry one man while loving the other, she deftly interweaves the eternal themes of jealousy, unrequited love, and the consequences of individual choice.
SYLVIA'S LOVERS (1863) by Elizabeth Gaskell is British Victorian literature and social commentary at its most profound, heartfelt and tragic.
The story of Sylvia Robson, the two different men who lay claim on her heart, and the complex fates of their extended families is one of Gaskell's most powerful and memorable works.