Wives and Daughters (Gaskell - Wordsworth ed.)

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell

ISBN: 9781840224160

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Wives and Daughters is Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships—father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter—all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue.