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.