Wives & Daughters (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)

Wives & Daughters, Gaskell's final and unfinished novel, is a finely textured study of provincial English life in the 1830s, centered on Molly Gibson, her widowed father, her charming stepsister Cynthia, and the quietly transformative Roger Hamley. Combining domestic realism with social comedy, the novel examines courtship, inheritance, scientific ambition, and the moral pressures of class. In an ...