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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...
Wives and Daughters. Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter - all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue.
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 ...
Jan 1, 1997 · Books. Wives and Daughters. Elizabeth Gaskell. Penguin, Jan 1, 1997 - Fiction - 720 pages. A story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful, gossiping English village during the early nineteenth century When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her ...
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
Nov 29, 2017 · Wives and Daughters. Elizabeth Gaskell. Courier Dover Publications, Nov 29, 2017 - Fiction - 640 pages. Molly Gibson is a small-town girl in England during the 1830s, kind-hearted but unwise in the ways of the world. Her widower father sends her to stay with the aristocrats of Hamley Hall, where she befriends both of the family's sons, learning ...
Dec 26, 2001 · Wives and Daughters was first published in book form in 1866 by Smith, Elder. Both the Cornhill serial and the Smith, Elder first edition had eighteen full-page illustrations by George du Maurier, and those are included in this e-book.
