Wives and daughters /

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.

Wives and daughters / Elizabeth Gaskell. - [New ed.]. / edited with an introduction and notes by Angus Easson. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xxxvii, 740 p. ; 20 cm. - Oxford world's classics .

This ed. originally published: 1987.

Includes bibliographical references.

Set in a provincial town in the early nineteenth century, 'Wives and Daughters', Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms.

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Women--Social conditions--England--Fiction.
Stepfamilies--England--Fiction.


Great Britain--Social life and customs--Fiction.

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