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Wives and daughters

Title:

Wives and daughters

Author:

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.

Personal Author:

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.

Publication Information:

New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2001.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 679 pages : facsimile ; 20 cm.

Series:

Penguin classics

Penguin classics.

Summary:

A novel that follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. It focuses on family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter. It portrays the world of the late 1820s and the forces of change within it.

General Note:

First published 1866; published in Penguin Books 2001.

"Edited with an introduction and notes by Pam Morris" -- Cover.

Language:

English

Subject Term:

Children of physicians -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Social classes -- Fiction.

Stepfamilies -- Fiction.

Young women -- Fiction.

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