Wives and Daughters
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
“Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways …”,,Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly’s life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irre….Read More
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