![]() ![]() 'OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood. The novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. Wives and Daughters revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. She was the author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a much-acclaimed and sometimes-reviled biography of her friend and peer. Gaskell'-is now recognized as having created some of the most complex and broadminded depictions of women in the literature of the age, and is today justly celebrated for her precocious use of the regional dialect and slang of. ![]() 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. British novelist ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL (1810-1865)-whose books were sometimes initially credited to, simply, 'Mrs. Eighteen months later Gaskell died, suddenly, in mid - sentence, surrounded by her daughters, in the house in Hampshire. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book! Download cover art Download CD case insert Wives and Daughters ![]()
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