Wives and Daughters

    Wives and Daughters

    By Elizabeth Gaskell

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    Publication Date: 29th November 2017

    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, learning the elder's dark secret while falling in love with the younger. But her father has remarried in her absence, and in addition to a selfish and ambitious stepmother, Molly has acquired a stepsister who quickly becomes a rival for the younger Hamley's affections.
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    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, learning the elder's dark secret while falling in love with the younger. But her father has remarried in her absence, and in addition to a selfish and ambitious stepmother, Molly has acquired a stepsister who quickly becomes a rival for the younger Hamley's affections.
    Molly's strikingly realistic coming-of-age story, recounted with humor and path... Read More
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    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, learning the elder's dark secret while falling in love with the younger. But her father has remarried in her absence, and in addition to a selfish and ambitious stepmother, Molly has acquired a stepsister who quickly becomes a rival for the younger Hamley's affections.
    Molly's strikingly realistic coming-of-age story, recounted with humor and pathos, depicts the consequences of both good and bad marriages as well as the dynamics of changing relationships within family. Elizabeth Gaskell develops timeless themes of friendship, love, money, and tragedy amid a portrait of a rapidly changing Victorian world. Her richly drawn characters and their preoccupation with social behavior and moral issues provide thought-provoking entertainment in the manner of Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot.


    Reprint of the Smith, Elder, & Co., London, edition.
    Details
    • Price: $11.00
    • Pages: 640
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
    • Publication Date: 29th November 2017
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • ISBN: 9780486827513
    • Format: eBook
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / Coming of Age
      FICTION / Classics
      FICTION / Family Life
      FICTION / World Literature / England / 19th Century
    Author Bio

    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810–65) was a major Victorian novelist whose works have provided readers with endless enjoyment and social historians with enormous insight into English life in the mid-19th century. Her major works include Cranford and Wives and Daughters, in addition to the first biography of her fellow novelist Charlotte Brontë.

    Table of Contents
    I.    THE DAWN OF A GALA DAY
    II.    A NOVICE AMONGST THE GREAT FOLK
    III.    MOLLY GIBSON'S CHILDHOOD
    IV.    MR. GIBSON'S NEIGHBOURS
    V.    CALF-LOVE
    VI.    A VISIT TO THE HAMLEYS
    VII.    FORESHADOWS OF LOVE PERILS
    VIII.    DRIFTING INTO DANGER
    IX.    THE WIDOWER AND THE WIDOW
    X.    A CRISIS
    XI.    MAKING FRIENDSHIP
    XII.    PREPARING FOR THE WEDDING
    XIII.    MOLLY GIBSON'S NEW FRIENDS
    XIV.    MOLLY FINDS HERSELF PATRONISED
    XV.    THE NEW MAMMA
    XVI.    THE BRIDE AT HOME
    XVII.    TROUBLE AT HAMLEY HALL
    XVIII.    MR. OSBORNE'S SECRET
    XIX.    CYNTHIA'S ARRIVAL
    XX.    MRS. GIBSON'S VISITORS
    XXI.    THE HALF-SISTERS
    XXII.    THE OLD SQUIRE'S TROUBLES
    XXIII.    OSBORNE HAMLEY REVIEWS HIS POSITION
    XXIV.    MRS. GIBSON'S LITTLE DINNER
    XXV.    HOLLINGFORD IN A BUSTLE
    XXVI.    A CHARITY BALL
    XXVII.    FATHER AND SONS
    XXVIII.    RIVALRY
    XXIX.    BUSH-FIGHTING
    XXX.    OLD WAYS AND NEW WAYS
    XXXI.    A PASSIVE COQUETTE
    XXXII.    COMING EVENTS
    XXXIII.    BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS
    XXXIV.    A LOVER'S MISTAKE
    XXXV.    THE MOTHER'S MANŒUVRE
    XXXVI.    DOMESTIC DIPLOMACY
    XXXVII.    A FLUKE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT
    XXXVIII.    MR. KIRKPATRICK, Q.C.
    XXXIX.    SECRET THOUGHTS OOZE OUT
    XL.    MOLLY GIBSON BREATHES FREELY
    XLI.    GATHERING CLOUDS
    XLII.    THE STORM BURSTS
    XLIII.    CYNTHIA'S CONFESSION
    XLIV.    MOLLY GIBSON TO THE RESCUE
    XLV.    CONFIDENCES
    XLVI.    HOLLINGFORD GOSSIPS
    XLVII.    SCANDAL AND ITS VICTIMS
    XLVIII.    AN INNOCENT CULPRIT
    XLIX.    MOLLY GIBSON FINDS A CHAMPION
    L.    CYNTHIA AT BAY
    LI.    "TROUBLES NEVER COME ALONE"
    LII.    SQUIRE HAMLEY'S SORROW
    LIII.    UNLOOKED-FOR ARRIVALS
    LIV.    MOLLY GIBSON'S WORTH IS DISCOVERED
    LV.    AN ABSENT LOVER RETURNS
    LVI.    "OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW"
    LVII.    BRIDAL VISITS AND ADIEUX
    LVIII.    REVIVING HOPES AND BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS
    LIX.    MOLLY GIBSON AT HAMLEY HALL
    LX.    ROGER HAMLEY'S CONFESSION
        CONCLUDING REMARKS [By the Editor of the "Cornhill Magazine."]

    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, learning the elder's dark secret while falling in love with the younger. But her father has remarried in her absence, and in addition to a selfish and ambitious stepmother, Molly has acquired a stepsister who quickly becomes a rival for the younger Hamley's affections.
    Molly's strikingly realistic coming-of-age story, recounted with humor and pathos, depicts the consequences of both good and bad marriages as well as the dynamics of changing relationships within family. Elizabeth Gaskell develops timeless themes of friendship, love, money, and tragedy amid a portrait of a rapidly changing Victorian world. Her richly drawn characters and their preoccupation with social behavior and moral issues provide thought-provoking entertainment in the manner of Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot.


    Reprint of the Smith, Elder, & Co., London, edition.
    • Price: $11.00
    • Pages: 640
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
    • Publication Date: 29th November 2017
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • ISBN: 9780486827513
    • Format: eBook
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / Coming of Age
      FICTION / Classics
      FICTION / Family Life
      FICTION / World Literature / England / 19th Century

    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810–65) was a major Victorian novelist whose works have provided readers with endless enjoyment and social historians with enormous insight into English life in the mid-19th century. Her major works include Cranford and Wives and Daughters, in addition to the first biography of her fellow novelist Charlotte Brontë.

    I.    THE DAWN OF A GALA DAY
    II.    A NOVICE AMONGST THE GREAT FOLK
    III.    MOLLY GIBSON'S CHILDHOOD
    IV.    MR. GIBSON'S NEIGHBOURS
    V.    CALF-LOVE
    VI.    A VISIT TO THE HAMLEYS
    VII.    FORESHADOWS OF LOVE PERILS
    VIII.    DRIFTING INTO DANGER
    IX.    THE WIDOWER AND THE WIDOW
    X.    A CRISIS
    XI.    MAKING FRIENDSHIP
    XII.    PREPARING FOR THE WEDDING
    XIII.    MOLLY GIBSON'S NEW FRIENDS
    XIV.    MOLLY FINDS HERSELF PATRONISED
    XV.    THE NEW MAMMA
    XVI.    THE BRIDE AT HOME
    XVII.    TROUBLE AT HAMLEY HALL
    XVIII.    MR. OSBORNE'S SECRET
    XIX.    CYNTHIA'S ARRIVAL
    XX.    MRS. GIBSON'S VISITORS
    XXI.    THE HALF-SISTERS
    XXII.    THE OLD SQUIRE'S TROUBLES
    XXIII.    OSBORNE HAMLEY REVIEWS HIS POSITION
    XXIV.    MRS. GIBSON'S LITTLE DINNER
    XXV.    HOLLINGFORD IN A BUSTLE
    XXVI.    A CHARITY BALL
    XXVII.    FATHER AND SONS
    XXVIII.    RIVALRY
    XXIX.    BUSH-FIGHTING
    XXX.    OLD WAYS AND NEW WAYS
    XXXI.    A PASSIVE COQUETTE
    XXXII.    COMING EVENTS
    XXXIII.    BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS
    XXXIV.    A LOVER'S MISTAKE
    XXXV.    THE MOTHER'S MANŒUVRE
    XXXVI.    DOMESTIC DIPLOMACY
    XXXVII.    A FLUKE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT
    XXXVIII.    MR. KIRKPATRICK, Q.C.
    XXXIX.    SECRET THOUGHTS OOZE OUT
    XL.    MOLLY GIBSON BREATHES FREELY
    XLI.    GATHERING CLOUDS
    XLII.    THE STORM BURSTS
    XLIII.    CYNTHIA'S CONFESSION
    XLIV.    MOLLY GIBSON TO THE RESCUE
    XLV.    CONFIDENCES
    XLVI.    HOLLINGFORD GOSSIPS
    XLVII.    SCANDAL AND ITS VICTIMS
    XLVIII.    AN INNOCENT CULPRIT
    XLIX.    MOLLY GIBSON FINDS A CHAMPION
    L.    CYNTHIA AT BAY
    LI.    "TROUBLES NEVER COME ALONE"
    LII.    SQUIRE HAMLEY'S SORROW
    LIII.    UNLOOKED-FOR ARRIVALS
    LIV.    MOLLY GIBSON'S WORTH IS DISCOVERED
    LV.    AN ABSENT LOVER RETURNS
    LVI.    "OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW"
    LVII.    BRIDAL VISITS AND ADIEUX
    LVIII.    REVIVING HOPES AND BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS
    LIX.    MOLLY GIBSON AT HAMLEY HALL
    LX.    ROGER HAMLEY'S CONFESSION
        CONCLUDING REMARKS [By the Editor of the "Cornhill Magazine."]