Sylvia's Lovers Author:Elizabeth Gaskell Set in the isolated whaling port of Monkshaven, Sylvia's Lovers (1863) exposes the tyrannical press-gangs, one of which carries off Sylvia's lover, the harpooner Charley Kinraid. Sylvia, left penniless and believing Charley dead, marries her cousin; when her first love returns a hero from the Napoleonic wars, treachery is revealed and Sylvia mus... more »t make a fateful choice in this strange and powerful dramatization of human destruction.« less