Wives and Daughters, 9780099540724
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Secrets and step-families tangle in a heartwarming tale of love and longing.

Wives and Daughters

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  • Paperback

    656 pages

  • Release Date

    14 September 2010

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Summary

Wives and Daughters: A Hollingford Tale of Love and Longing

Set in the watchful society of Hollingford, this is a warm tale of love and longing. Molly Gibson is the spirited, loyal daughter of the local doctor. Their peaceful close-knit home is turned upside down when Molly’s father decides to remarry.

Whilst Molly struggles to adjust to her snobbish stepmother, she forms a close relationship with her glamorous new stepsister Cynthia. The strength of this friendship is soon …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099540724
ISBN-10:009954072X
Series:Vintage Classics
Author:Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:656
Release Date:14 September 2010
Weight:472g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 32mm
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Critics Review

“My dear Scheherazade … I am sure your powers of narrative can never be exhausted in a single night, but must be good for at least a thousand nights and one.”

She was a pioneer, multi-tasking mother… Gaskell’s work will always be one of the adornments of liberal Britain * Guardian *My dear Scheherazade…I am sure your powers of narrative can never be exhausted in a single night, but must be good for at least a thousand nights and one – Charles DickensHer stories are wonderfully funny, but the ridiculous is bathed in a poignant, dreamlike mood found nowhere else in fiction, and profound ideas and strong values sleep beneath everyday details of bonnets and cakes – Jenny UglowPeople who read her always come away surprised at how modern she sounds. You don’t have to think yourself into her century in order to sympathise, since her guiding principle was no more or less than a sense of practical, day-today justice, totally outside the abiding gentleman-lady-peasant-donkey-peasant’s wife hierarchy which surrounded her – Zoe Williams * Evening Standard *Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt * Scotsman *

About The Author

Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell was born on 29 September 1810 in London. She was brought up in Knutsford, Cheshire by her aunt after her mother died when she was two years old. In 1832 she married William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister like her father. After their marriage they lived in Manchester with their children. Elizabeth Gaskell published her first novel, Mary Barton, in 1848 to great success. She went on to publish much of her work in Charles Dickens’s magazines, Household Words and All the Year Round. Along with short stories and a biography of Charlotte Bronte, she published five more novels including North and South (1855) and Wives and Daughters (1866). Wives and Daughters is unfinished as Elizabeth Gaskell died suddenly of heart failure on 12 November 1865.

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