The complete online text of Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Gaskell.

The English author Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) wrote sociological novels that explored the ills of industrial England and novels of small-town life that are penetrating studies of character. Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson was born on Sept. 29, 1810. Her...

A recent review of Mrs. Gaskell's critical reputation divided her critics into three camps. One group, now fading, still treats her mainly as the author of Cranford (1853). A second emphasizes her "social-problem" novels but insists that they be regarded...

For some critics Elizabeth Gaskell was a conventional, middle-class Victorian wife and mother who accepted the values of her world and who also happened to write books--a feminine dove among literary eagles Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, to borr...

THE Queen's favourite dress designer, Sir Hardy Amies, has left his 1.5 million fortune to a gay lover half his age. David Freeman became Sir Hardy's companion in the Seventies, but stayed out of the limelight. Publicly, the designer surrounded himself with...

Miniatures, Volumes 1 and 2, by Leopold Godowsky. Warner Bros. Publications (15800 N. W 48th Ave., Miami, FL 33014), 2001. 45 pp. each, $12.95 each. Teachers seeking duet music from the classical repertoire to use with their elementary-level students will welcome this collection...