Sylvia's Lovers by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Gaskell . Undated, early 20th century, Collins Illustrated Pocket Classics series, 474 pages. Illustrated by Victor Prout. Gaskell was a British novelist, short story writer, and biographer of Charlotte Bronte, with whom she was friends. She chronicled the changes that were happening to British society during industrialization and is now considered a master of Victorian literature. She claimed that Sylvia's Lovers was her saddest novel.

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