![]() ![]() The novel follows Molly throughout the next couple of years of her life as she adjusts to the new circumstances of her life, and the many challenges it brings with it. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)įor further information, including links to M4B audio book, online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit . Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell is a novel about young girl named Molly Gibson, who at the age of 17 gets not only a new step mother but also a very beautiful step sister. The girls' relations with the local residents, particularly the Squire of Hamley Hall and his family, make for incidents comic, romantic, and tragic, by turns. Gibson decides to marry again, Molly is forced to contend with a pretentious stepmother, but consoled by a close friendship with Cynthia, her new stepsister. (1865) What do you make of the title, Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story In what way is this an everyday story In what way is it not What purpose is served by the opening scene in which Molly awakes for her day of visiting the neighboring aristocratic estate of Cumnor Towers Which. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the daughter of a widowed doctor growing up in the provincial town of Hollingford. Read by Elizabeth Klett.Įlizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. ![]() LibriVox recording of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. ![]()
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