Wives and Daughters was first published as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866 in the Cornhill Magazine. The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. When Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.
ok i love love love this book!!! sure it was ridiculously long, but hey it was hundreds of pages of awesomeness... i love elizabeth gaskell, and am sooo happy that quite a few of her major writings have been made into bbc movies. so besides just reading this you should totally watch the movie. they did an awesome job with it and i'm sure miss gaskell would be proud of the ending they supplied. i recommend this 100%.
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ok i love love love this book!!! sure it was ridiculously long, but hey it was hundreds of pages of awesomeness... i love elizabeth gaskell, and am sooo happy that quite a few of her major writings have been made into bbc movies. so besides just reading this you should totally watch the movie. they did an awesome job with it and i'm sure miss gaskell would be proud of the ending they supplied. i recommend this 100%.