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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. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling stepsister, Molly finds her situation hard to accept. Intertwined with ...
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 narrative traces the development of the two girls into womanhood within the ...
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] When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written ...
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 · 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.
Nov 28, 1999 · Molly Gibson's quiet country life is disrupted by the addition of a stepmother and stepsister when her widowed father remarries.
