Elizabeth Gaskell

Sylvia's Lovers is a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, which she called "the saddest story I ever wrote".

Anna, a German mill-owner’s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, ‘The Grey Woman’ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone …