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Wives and Daughters: “I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!”
Wives and Daughters: “I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!”
Wives and Daughters: “I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!”
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Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell. When her mother died, she was three months old and she was sent to live in Knutsford, Cheshire with her Aunt Hannah, this setting would become the basis for her novel Cranford. At 22 she married and settled in Manchester to raise her family. Friends with Charlotte Bronte she went on to write her biography and was also highly regarded by a certain Charles Dickens who published her ghost stories in his magazine. Much of her work views the emerging industrial society of Victorian England through her own moral and religious values and has an uncanny ability to look at and report on the many strata of society. Here we publish Wives and Daughters.

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Release dateJan 9, 2014
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Wives and Daughters: “I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!”
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Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was a British novelist and short-story writer. Her works were Victorian social histories across many strata of society. Her most famous works include Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

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