Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters

by Elizabeth Gaskell
Publication Date: 05/03/2015

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Wives and Daughters was Mrs Gaskell's last novel, and was not quite finished at her death. Francis Greenwood, then editor of the Cornhill Magazine, provided 'Concluding Remarks' based on Mrs Gaskells's comments to her daughter Meta on how she intended the book to end.


The book was serialised in the Cornhill Magazine August 1864 to January 1866, and first published in England by Smith Elder and Co. in 1866. The story is about the romances of Molly Gibbons and her father, stepsister, and two sons of the local squire; all set against a background of rigidly enforced 'stations in life' and 'nervous illness'. It is the least religious of Mrs Gaskell's writings.

ISBN:
1230000309258
1230000309258
Category:
Historical romance
Publication Date:
05-03-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bellware
Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was born in London in 1810. Her mother, Eliza, the niece of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, died when she was a child. Much of her childhood was spent in Knutsford, Cheshire, a town she would later immortalize as Cranford.

In 1832 she married a Unitarian minister, William Gaskell, and they settled in Manchester. The industrial surroundings offered her inspiration for her writings and it was here that she wrote both Cranford (1853) and North and South (1855), as well as the first biography of Charlotte Brontë.

Her last novel, Wives and Daughters, said by many to be her most mature work, remained unfinished at the time of her death in 1865.

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