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    Wives and Daughters
    Wives and Daughters
    Wives and Daughters
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    Wives and Daughters

    Written by Elizabeth Gaskell

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this audiobook!

    Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists ever to use dialect in her works, finding often that no word but the vernacular would suffice to convey the meaning she wanted to achieve. She was the author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a much-acclaimed and sometimes—reviled biography of her friend and peer.

    Wives and Daughters revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. The novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    ISBN9781094250502
    Author

    Elizabeth Gaskell

    Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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