But, for all her screen, she felt a pair of eyes were fixed upon
her with a glow of admiration deepening their honest brightness.
Somehow, look in what direction she would, she caught the glance of
those eyes before she could see anything else. So she played with
her apron-strings, and tried not to feel so self-conscious. There
were another pair of eyes,-not such beautiful, sparkling
eyes,-deep-set, earnest, sad, nay even gloomy, watching her every
movement; but of this she was not aware. Philip had not recovered
from the rebuff she had given him by refusing his offered hand, and
was standing still, in angry silence, when Mrs. Corney thrust a
young woman just arrived upon his attention. -from Chapter XII:
"New Year's Fte" As interest in 19th-century English literature by
women has been reinvigorated by a resurgence in popularity of the
works of Jane Austen, readers are rediscovering a writer whose
fiction, once widely beloved, fell by the wayside. British novelist
ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL (1810-1865)-whose books were sometimes
initially credited to, simply, "Mrs. Gaskell"-is now recognized as
having created some of the most complex and broadminded depictions
of women in the literature of the age, and is today justly
celebrated for her precocious use of the regional dialect and slang
of England's industrial North. Sylvia's Lovers-Gaskell's fifth
novel, first published in 1863-is the melodramatic tale of a
star-crossed romantic triangle between farmgirl Sylvia Robson and
the two men who love her: her cousin Philip and sailor Charlie
Kinread. Though today considered one of Gaskell's minor works, the
author herself called Sylvia's Lovers "the saddest story I ever
wrote." Friend and literary companion to such figures as Charles
Dickens and Charlotte Bront-the latter of whom Gaskell wrote an
applauded 1857 biography-Gaskell is today being restored to her
rightful place alongside her. This delightful replica volume is an
excellent opportunity for 21st-century fans of British literature
to embrace one of its most unjustly forgotten authors.
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