Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets.Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) moved from the London of her childhood to Knutsford and later Manchester, and her experience of the differences between North and South deeply informed her writing. Writer of six novels, numerous shorter works and the biography of her great friend Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell was at first published anonymously but later in her own name. Much of her work was serialised in Charles Dickens's widely-read literary weekly, Household Words.
Gaskell's other novels Mary Barton, Cranford and North and South are also published in the Penguin English Library.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141389462 |
| ISBN 10 | 014138946X |
| Title | Wives and Daughters |
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Series | The Penguin English Library |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-11-29 |
| Number of pages | 816 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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