What Is The Setting For Elizabeth Gaskell's "Sylvia's Lovers"�?

Published in 1863, this novel is set in the whaling port of Monkshaven (based on Whitby) during the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. Sylvia is the daughter of a farmer, Daniel Robson, who leads an attack on the hated press-gang (a government-approved group who kidnapped men to force them to serve in the Navy.) For this he is hanged, and meanwhile her lover, Charlie Kincaid, is carried off by the press-gang. He sends her a message, but it is suppressed by her cousin Philip, who also loves her. Believing Charlie to be dead, Sylvia marries Philip. Years later, when Charlie returns and Sylvia finds out what happened, she is so furious with Philip that he flees to join the army. When he comes back he is so ill and disfigured that at first she doesn't recognise him, but finally they are reconciled and he dies in her arms.