# Wives and Daughters

By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.

"Wives and Daughters" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a novel first published serially from 1864 to 1866. Young Molly Gibson's quiet life in a provincial English town transforms when her widowed father remarries, bringing a worldly stepmother and stepsister into their home. As Molly navigates new family dynamics and her friendship with the troubled Hamley family, she discovers hidden marriages, secret debts, and broken promises that threaten the happiness of those she holds dear. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: England -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Love stories; Domestic fiction; Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Bildungsromans; Social classes -- Fiction; Children of physicians -- Fiction; Stepfamilies -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Wives and Daughters](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/105) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (27 h 16 min, English)
- [Wives and Daughters (version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/6376) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (25 h 18 min, English)
- [Wives and Daughters (Dramatic Reading)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/9250) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (26 h 8 min, English)

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