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Wives and Daughters

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27 Hours 21 Minutes

LibriVox

January 2011

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If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!

Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. 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. She was the author of The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a much-acclaimed and sometimes-reviled biography of her friend and peer.

Wives and Daughters revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. The novel was first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  • Anonymous

    The book was tedious at times though indicative of that time period. It’s also quite long. The only thing that kept me going was wanting to know what happened to Molly. I found other characters irritating and same with a few narrators. While some; particularly, the gentleman who read, we’re decent; few of them were nearly unbearable to listen to. One woman read in near monotone. On a positive note, makes me grateful we don’t live like that, well most of us, any longer!! And one does learn a good deal of class, dress, morals, etc., from this novel.

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  • Anonymous

    I enjoyed this novel. If you are an Anglophile you probably will enjoy how the various economic and aristocratic classes interact and view each other in the 19th century. I was disappointed to find that Mrs. Gaskell died before completing the final chapter. Regardless a good book and by the end you know enough about the characters to have a good guess as to the ending. I agree with the review which pointed out that some of the narrators were not great.

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  • Krista D

    It was a good book but unfortunate about the writer at the end. The multiple narrators always irritates me. Most of them were fine but there are a few that are painful to listen to.

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  • Patty G

    This was an Excellent book. Characterization transcends time.

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