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Synopsis. Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell), the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry.
Wives and Daughters (TV Mini Series 1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Summaries. The daughter of a country doctor copes with an unwanted stepmother, an impetuous stepsister, burdensome secrets, the town gossips, and the tug on her own heartstrings for a man who thinks of her only as a friend. For many years, young Molly Gibson (Justine Waddell) had lived a blissful sheltered life with her widower father (Bill ...
What you were saying resounded with so many things in my heart. 'Wives and Daughters' is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It has been made into a motion, the mini-series 'Wives and Daughter,' starring Justine Waddell as the main character, the lovely and lovable Victorian lady named Molly Gibson. It is a BBC film adaption that presents a slice of ...
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Wives and Daughters When 17-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown into turmoil as her stepmother and stepsister become dominant figures in her life. Year: 1999 · Season 1 · Credits: Francesca Annis, Justine Waddell, Bill Paterson...
Sep 19, 2017 · It’s with subsequent viewings that my adoration and appreciation for this miniseries grows by leaps and bounds. An adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel of the same name, Wives and Daughters, is less popular than its BBC period drama predecessor Pride and Prejudice, but no less interesting. The novel, unfortunately, unfinished at the time ...
The series was a joint production of the BBC and WGBH Boston, an American public broadcast station and 'won high audience ratings' when it first screened in the UK in 1999. Its audience rivalry with an adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Oliver Twist , screened on ITV at the same time, was dubbed 'the battle of the bonnets'.
