Cousin Phillis (annotated) - Tapa blanda

"Cousin Phillis" (1864) is a novel of social customs by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was published in four parts, though a fifth and sixth part were planned. The story is about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his (second) cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of adolescence.