THE OLD SQUIRE'S TROUBLES

Wives and Daughters

by Elizabeth Cleghorn GASKELL (1810 - 1865)

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)

Listen next episodes of Wives and Daughters:
A CHARITY BALL , A FLUKE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT , A LOVER'S MISTAKE , A PASSIVE COQUETTE , AN ABSENT LOVER RETURNS , AN INNOCENT CULPRIT , BRIDAL VISITS AND ADIEUX , BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS , BUSH-FIGHTING , COMING EVENTS , Conclusion , CONFIDENCES , CYNTHIA AT BAY , CYNTHIA'S CONFESSION , DOMESTIC DIPLOMACY , FATHER AND SONS , GATHERING CLOUDS , HOLLINGFORD GOSSIPS , HOLLINGFORD IN A BUSTLE , MOLLY GIBSON AT HAMLEY HALL , MOLLY GIBSON BREATHES FREELY , MOLLY GIBSON FINDS A CHAMPION , MOLLY GIBSON TO THE RESCUE , MOLLY GIBSON'S WORTH IS DISCOVERED , MR KIRKPATRICK, Q.C. , MRS GIBSON'S LITTLE DINNER , 'OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW.' , OLD WAYS AND NEW WAYS , OSBORNE HAMLEY REVIEWS HIS POSITION , REVIVING HOPES AND BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS , RIVALRY , ROGER HAMLEY'S CONFESSION , SCANDAL AND ITS VICTIMS , SECRET THOUGHTS OOZE OUT , SQUIRE HAMLEY'S SORROW , THE MOTHER'S MANOEUVRE , THE STORM BURSTS , 'TROUBLES NEVER COME ALONE' , UNLOOKED-FOR ARRIVALS