by Elizabeth Gaskell · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140434781
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«Wives and Daughters» is the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (720 pages, in English).
When Molly Gibson's widowed father remarries, the young woman's life in Hollingford changes: her stepmother is vain and her stepsister Cynthia, charming. Molly, turned confidante to Cynthia, mediates in her love affairs and risks reputation and feelings. The work offers an ironic and compassionate look at Victorian society.
Wives and Daughters was originally published in 1866; this edition is based on the text from the Cornhill magazine and includes an introduction and notes by Pam Morris.
Suitable for readers of classics and historical romantic fiction who enjoy portraits of rural nineteenth-century England.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her only biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë family's lasting fame. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851–1853), North and South (1854–1855), and Wives and Daughters (1864–1866), all of which have been adapted for television by the BBC.
