Cousin Phillis

Author / Creator

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 author

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Summary

Set in the 1840's, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed for ever. The story focuses...

Set in the 1840's, when the coming of the railway was changing the face of England, and quiet rural communities, coming into contact with the outside world, were changed for ever. The story focuses on the effect these changes have on a naïve country girl, Phillis, as she encounters love, with all its pains and pleasures, for the first time.

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