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Oct 31, 2010 · Wives and Daughters. Elizabeth Gaskell. Random House, Oct 31, 2010 - Fiction - 656 pages. This tender story of parents, children and step-children, mistakes and secrets was Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel and is considered her masterpiece. Set in the watchful society of Hollingford, this is a warm tale of love and longing.
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centers on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries, a new stepsister enters Molly's quiet life, the loveable, but worldly and troubling, Cynthia. The narrative traces the development of the two girls into womanhood ...
Nov 19, 2019 · "Wives and Daughters" is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl at her home on the Rue de Bac in Paris. It tells the story of an orphaned girl whose father decides to marry again.
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell. Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful, gossiping English village during the early nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Pam Morris.
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries a new stepsister, Cynthia, enters Molly's quiet life. Loveable but worldly and troubling, Cynthia's arrival alters Molly's daily life.
The BBC version of Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford" a few years back was mostly about Dame Judi and her spinster cronies and their unbecoming bonnets, but this wonderful series, based on Mrs. G's last novel, focuses on the younger generation: Roger Hamley, the old squire's younger son, seems like a perfect match for Molly Gibson, the doctor's daughter; he's a budding naturalist, she reads ...
Sep 4, 2012 · Elizabeth Gaskell, (1865) Elizabeth Gaskell, (1865) What do you make of the title, “Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story”? In what way is this an “everyday story”? In what way is it not? Chapters 1-20: What purpose is served by the opening scene in which Molly awakes for her day of visiting the neighboring aristocratic estate of ...
