Wives and Daughters: A Country Doctor's Daughter and Her New Family
Elizabeth Gaskell
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A country doctor's daughter gains a stepmother, a stepsister with a secret engagement, and a place in a great house where the squire's son is expected to marry money. Gaskell died at her desk with the last instalment unwritten, and the magazine published her editor's note explaining how the story was to have ended. It is her best book: the small deceits are traced so exactly that the reader forgives everybody except the person the plot forgives. Forty-two plates after Constable, Wilkie, Morland and their contemporaries, from cottage interiors and grace before meat to the Salisbury water meadows, keep the quiet English world of the novel steadily in view.
A country doctor's daughter gains a stepmother, a stepsister with a secret engagement, and a place in a great house where the squire's son is expected to marry money. Gaskell died at her desk with the last instalment unwritten, and the magazine published her editor's note explaining how the story...
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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist born in Chelsea and raised in Knutsford, Cheshire. The wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester, she wrote about industrial poverty and provincial life, and published the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist born in Chelsea and raised in Knutsford, Cheshire. The wife of a Unitarian minister in Manchester, she wrote about industrial poverty and provincial life, and published the first biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her works include Mary Barton, Cr...
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