In the town of Monkshaven during the Napoleonic Wars, Sylvia's beloved, Charley, is pressed onto a whaling ship and then reported dead, and when Sylvia marries her cousin, Philip, she finds that Philip has been guilty of betrayal. Set in 1790 in Monkshaven, where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men for service in the Napoleonic wars. One of their victims is Charley Kinraid, who captured the heart of Sylvia Robson. But Sylvia's cousin, Philip Hepburn, hopes to marry her himself and, in order to win her, withholds crucial information with devastating consequences. Acknowledgements
vii(1)
Introduction
viii(21)
Further Reading
xxix(2)
A Note on the Text
xxxi
SYLVIA'S LOVERS
1(455)
Notes
456(21)
Appendix 1: Sources
477(6)
Appendix 2: Dialect and Textual Changes
483
