Sylvia's Lovers

'The saddest story I ever wrote.' Mrs GaskellSylvia's Lovers is set during the French Revolutionary Wars in the remote whaling-port of Monkshaven in Yorkshire. The sea dominates the lives of the inhabitants: whalers returning from their long and dangerous trips to Greenland bring crowds to the quayside, every local man...

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Queen Victoria: A Life of Contradictions

Queen Victoria is Britain's queen of contradictions. In her combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name.Victoria...

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