![]() ![]() ![]() Molly is thus very attached to her father. ![]() The story’s central character is Molly Gibson, the daughter of a village doctor whose mother died when she was quite young. It’s true that the novel isn’t full of melodrama, but as much as I love melodrama I really enjoyed Wives and Daughters‘ quieter pleasures. The book is subtitled “An Every-Day Story”, suggesting something modest and commonplace. (The completion is more of a synopsis of what Gaskell intended for the characters she was very close to finishing it when she died.) Wives and Daughters was Gaskell’s last book and was in fact unfinished when she died suddenly in 1865 it was completed by a writer named Frederick Greenwood. I can’t quite explain why it’s taken me quite so long to actually pick the book up, but recently when I read and reviewed Ruth, someone again mentioned this book, and I knew I had to give it a try. Way back in 2010, when I reviewed my first Elizabeth Gaskell book, Cranford, a few commenters urged me to read Wives and Daughters. ![]()
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