Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
When seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, her life is turned upside down by the arrival of her vain, manipulative stepfather. She also acquires an intriguing new stepsister, Cynthia, glamorous, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets.
"No nineteenth-century novel contains a more devastating rejection than this of the Victorian male assumption of moral authority"
Pam Morris
Pam Morris
Elizabeth Gaskell was born in London in 1810 but spent most of her life in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon. She married the Reverend William Gaskell and had four daughters by him. She worked among the poor, travelled frequently and wrote for Dickens'smagazine, Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell was friends with Charlotte Bronte and consequently went on to write her biography.
Pam Norris is Reader in Literature at Liverpool John Mooores University
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140434781 |
| ISBN 10 | 014043478X |
| Title | Wives and Daughters |
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 720 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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