Wives and Daugthers

ISBN: 1619491869

Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth

Condition: New

Product Description Widower Mr. Gibson decides to remarry for the sake of his daughter, Molly-but his new wife proves to be insincere and selfish. Molly often stays with the Hamleys of Hamley Hall, spending time with their two sons, Osborne and Roger. Wives and Daughters - which follows Molly as she grows into a young woman and falls in love - is Elizabeth Gaskells final novel, and her masterpiece. Review She was a pioneer, multi-tasking mother... Gaskell's work will always be one of the adornments of liberal Britain Guardian My dear Scheherazade...I am sure your powers of narrative can never be exhausted in a single night, but must be good for at least a thousand nights and one -- Charles Dickens Her stories are wonderfully funny, but the ridiculous is bathed in a poignant, dreamlike mood found nowhere else in fiction, and profound ideas and strong values sleep beneath everyday details of bonnets and cakes -- Jenny Uglow People who read her always come away surprised at how modern she sounds. You don't have to think yourself into her century in order to sympathise, since her guiding principle was no more or less than a sense of practical, day-today justice, totally outside the abiding gentleman-lady-peasant-donkey-peasant's wife hierarchy which surrounded her --Zoe Williams Evening Standard Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt Scotsman About the Author Elizabeth Gaskell was born in London in 1810 but spent most of her life in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon. She married the Reverend William Gaskell and had four daughters by him. She worked among the poor, travelled frequently and wrote for Dickens'smagazine, Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell was friends with Charlotte Bronte and consequently went on to write her biography. Pam Norris is Reader in Literature at Liverpool John Mooores University