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A rural young Englishwoman experiences her first love with a worldly engineer in this tale from the beloved author of Cranford and Wives and Daughters.
It is the 1840s in England, and the time has come for nineteen-year-old Paul Manning to make his own way in the world. He takes a position working for Edward Holdsworth, an engineer overseeing expansion of a railway line into the countryside. Paul's work also takes him to Hope Farm and his relatives, the Holmans-his mother's cousin, her minister husband, and their daughter, the tall and beautiful seventeen-year-old Phillis. Paul bonds with Holmans and soon brings his boss to the farm. A quasi-love triangle begins to blossom, and innocent Phillis's world soon transforms . . . Originally published in four parts in The Cornhill Magazine from1863 to 1864, Cousin Phillis is a Victorian novella that captures young people coming of age in a changing nation and a changing world.
It is the 1840s in England, and the time has come for nineteen-year-old Paul Manning to make his own way in the world. He takes a position working for Edward Holdsworth, an engineer overseeing expansion of a railway line into the countryside. Paul's work also takes him to Hope Farm and his relatives, the Holmans-his mother's cousin, her minister husband, and their daughter, the tall and beautiful seventeen-year-old Phillis. Paul bonds with Holmans and soon brings his boss to the farm. A quasi-love triangle begins to blossom, and innocent Phillis's world soon transforms . . . Originally published in four parts in The Cornhill Magazine from1863 to 1864, Cousin Phillis is a Victorian novella that captures young people coming of age in a changing nation and a changing world.