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Wives and Daughters Paperback - 1997
by Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Used
Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, this narrative traces the development of two girls into womanhood within the gossiping and watchful society of Hollingford.
Description
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Details
- Title Wives and Daughters
- Author Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 720
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, London
- Date 1997-01-01
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP69332822
- ISBN 9780140434781 / 014043478X
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.3 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 3.30 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Stepfamilies
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Wives and Daughters is far more than a nostalgic evocation of village life; it offers an ironic critique of mid-Victorian society. 'No nineteenth-century novel contains a more devastating rejection than this of the Victorian male assumption of moral authority', writes Pam Morris in her introduction to this new edition, in which she explores the novel's main themes – the role of women, Darwinism and the concept of Englishness – and its literary and social context.