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Wives and Daughters 1999 1 Season History Drama Romance List Reviews Based on Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's novel about families in a 19th-century English country town.
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford.
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.
Feb 9, 2022 · Wives and Daughters, An Every-Day Story is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. It was partly written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl at her home on the Rue de Bac in Paris.[1]
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters, Volume II. by Elizabeth Gaskell. 4.33 · 24 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1866 · 18 editions. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that wa…. Want to Read. Rate it: Wives and Daughters: Volume 1 and Wives and Daughters, Volume II.
May 30, 1996 · It was Gaskell's last and most mature work, powerful and engrossing in structure and unfinished. As her daughter reported, in January 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell died: "quite suddenly, without a moments warning, in the midst of a sentence" leaving the last chapter incomplete. Wives and Daughters is just a few pages short of an all embracing happy ...
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Nov 28, 1999 · EPISODE 1. Episode 1. Molly Gibson is dismayed when her doctor father remarries. She is, however, cheered to find that she has also acquired a beautiful stepsister. 44 min · 28 Nov 1999 G. EPISODE 2. Episode 2. Molly's stepsister Cynthia arrives from France, and the lives of the two young women become enmeshed with those of Squire Hamley's sons.
