
Sylvia's Lovers (Version 2)
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Read by Terrance Callan
Sylvia Robson is a beautiful young woman living on a farm in Yorkshire at the end of the 18th century. Many love and are loved by her, most importantly: her parents; their farmhand Kester; her cousin Philip Robson, a shopkeeper in the nearby town of Monkshaven whom Silvia marries; and Charley Kinraid, a whaling harpooner to whom Silvia is secretly engaged before he is pressed into the British navy and mysteriously disappears. The course of true love does not run smooth for Silvia and those who love her. But in the end all find at least some degree of peace. (20 hr 45 min)
Chapters
Monkshaven | 26:13 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Home from Greenland | 28:46 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Buying a New Cloak | 29:48 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Philip Hepburn | 27:56 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Story of the Press-Gang | 29:06 | Read by Terrance Callan |
The Sailor's Funeral | 39:09 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Tete-a-Tete - The Will | 30:16 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Attraction and Repulsion | 28:13 | Read by Terrance Callan |
The Specksioneer | 26:14 | Read by Terrance Callan |
A Refractory Pupil | 24:49 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Visions of the Future | 33:19 | Read by Terrance Callan |
New Year's Fete | 1:01:13 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Perplexities | 27:21 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Partnership | 25:51 | Read by Terrance Callan |
A Difficult Question | 30:55 | Read by Terrance Callan |
The Engagement | 26:32 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Rejected Warnings | 34:17 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Eddy in Love's Current | 26:35 | Read by Terrance Callan |
An Important Mission | 18:03 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Loved and Lost | 21:11 | Read by Terrance Callan |
A Rejected Suitor | 16:11 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Deepening Shadows | 21:45 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Retaliation | 27:22 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Brief Rejoicing | 27:37 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Coming Troubles | 38:04 | Read by Terrance Callan |
A Dreary Vigil | 28:12 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Gloomy Days | 27:30 | Read by Terrance Callan |
The Ordeal | 29:24 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Wedding Raiment | 34:43 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Happy Days | 30:06 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Evil Omens | 22:48 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Rescued from the Waves | 28:39 | Read by Terrance Callan |
An Apparition | 24:39 | Read by Terrance Callan |
A Reckless Recruit | 22:17 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Things Unutterable | 19:44 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Mysterious Tidings | 32:43 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Bereavement | 23:38 | Read by Terrance Callan |
The Recognition | 24:29 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Confidences | 27:54 | Read by Terrance Callan |
An Unexpected Messenger | 16:44 | Read by Terrance Callan |
The Bedesman of St. Sepulchre | 26:29 | Read by Terrance Callan |
A Fable at Fault | 20:17 | Read by Terrance Callan |
The Unknown | 23:35 | Read by Terrance Callan |
First Words | 20:08 | Read by Terrance Callan |
Saved and Lost | 34:30 | Read by Terrance Callan |