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Wives and daughters

an every-day story

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Gaskell, Mrs., Ward, A. W., Gaskell · 1867

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Popularity 62

The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.

FictionStepfamiliesChildren of physiciansFathers and daughtersYoung womenSocial classesSocial life and customsSocial conditionsWomenEngland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- FictionCountry lifeBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)