Andrew Davies wanted to put across the feeling of what it means to be alive and he does that by showing what it is like to be human. Even small scenes like the card party for the young people are rich in character and emotion.
The length of the mini-series allows character development, enables one to get to know the characters. It shows ordinary life but also how rich that ordinary life is. Molly learns about people, about herself and also about the world around her, even about the little creatures who live at the bottom of ponds. It repays watching time and again.
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Top Gap. By what name was Wives and Daughters officially released in Canada in English? See more gaps Learn more about contributing. Edit page. See the full list. Watch the video. Recently viewed Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more. Set in English society before the Reform Bill, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel - considered to be her finest - demonstrates an intelligent and compassionate understanding of human relationships, and offers a witty, ironic critique of mid-Victorian society.
This text is based on the Cornhill Magazine version of the novel. It also includes notes on textual variants between this edition and the original manuscript, a note on the story's ending and an introduction discussing the novel's challenging investigation of themes of Englishness, Darwinism and masculine authority.
Elizabeth Gaskell was born in London, but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford. In she married the Reverend William Gaskell and had four daughters, and one son who died in infancy. Her first novel, Mary Barton , was published in , winning the attention of Charles Dickens, and most of her later work was published in his journals, including Cranford , serialised in Dickens's Household Words.
Elizabeth Gaskell. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was born in London in , but she spent her formative years in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon and the north of England. As well as leading a busy domestic life as minister's wife and mother of four daughters, she worked among the poor, traveled frequently and wrote. Mary Barto n was her first success. Two years later she began writing for Dickens's magazine, Household Words , to which she contributed fiction for the next thirteen years, notably a further industrial novel, North and South Elizabeth Gaskell's position as a clergyman's wife and as a successful writer introduced her to a wide circle of friends, both from the professional world of Manchester and from the larger literary world.
Her output was substantial and completely professional. Dickens discovered her resilient strength of character when trying to impose his views on her as editor of Household Words. She proved that she was not to be bullied, even by such a strong-willed man. Her later works, Sylvia's Lovers , Cousin Phillis and Wives and Daughters reveal that she was continuing to develop her writing in new literary directions.
Elizabeth Gaskell died suddenly in November Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was born in London in , but she spent her formative years in Cheshire, Stratford-upon-Avon and the north of England.
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