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About Wives and Daughters. 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 vain, manipulative stepfather.
Wives and Daughters, novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published serially in The Cornhill Magazine (August 1864–January 1866) and then in book form in 1866; it was unfinished at the time of her death in November 1865. Known as her last, longest, and perhaps finest work, it concerns the interlocking.
Molly Gibson, whose mother has long ago died, is brought up by her father Dr. Gibson. At the age of 17, Molly visits and immediately befriends the Hamleys, her neighbors, especially she and the youngest son Roger Hamley, studying in Cambridge, become good friends. This is when Dr. Gibson tells his daughter of his upcoming marriage to Hyacinth Kirkpatrick, a widower who also has a daughter ...
29 de nov. de 2017 · Books. 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 ...
Top-rated. Sun, Dec 19, 1999. S1.E4. Episode #1.4. Roger returns from Africa after Osbourne's death to find his sister-in-law and his nephew living at their home as well. Cynthia has accepted the marriage offer of Mr. Henderson, a lawyer from London, while Roger seems to have his heart set on another. 8.5/10.
1 de jul. de 2003 · Wives and Daughters Credits: Charles Aldarondo and Joseph E. Loewenstein Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: England -- Fiction Subject: Young women -- Fiction Subject: Love stories Subject: Domestic fiction Subject: Fathers and daughters -- Fiction Subject: Bildungsromans Subject: Social ...
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 Paterson).
