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Sign up todayWives and Daughters
Penguin Classics
Narrator
Laura Aikman
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Length
26 hours 56 minutes
Language
English
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Laura Aikman. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Pam Norris.
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries a new stepsister, Cynthia, enters Molly's quiet life. Loveable but worldly and troubling, Cynthia's arrival alters Molly's daily life. The narrative traces the development of the two girls into womanhood within the gossiping and watchful society of Hollingford.
Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian society
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Elizabeth Gaskell was born in London in 1810 but spent most of her life in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon. She married the Reverend William Gaskell and had four daughters by him. She worked among the poor, travelled frequently and wrote for Dickens'smagazine, Household Words. Elizabeth Gaskell was friends with Charlotte Bronte and consequently went on to write her biography.
Pam Norris is Reader in Literature at Liverpool John Mooores University
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Laura Aikman
ISBN:
9780241455210
Length:
26 hours 56 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date:
September 3, 2020
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#5,098 Overall
Genre rank:
#27 in Literary Criticism
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