Back زوجات وبنات Arabic Manželky a dcery Czech Esposas e hijas Spanish Wives and Daughters, an Every-Day Story French רעיות ובנות HE Wives and Daughters Polish Жёны и дочери Russian Hustrur och döttrar Swedish
 Title page of the first edition, 1864–1866 | |
| Author | Elizabeth Gaskell |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Romance novel |
| Published | Serialized: August 1864 to January 1866; book 1866 |
| Publisher | Cornhill Magazine (serial); Smith, Elder and Company, book |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Preceded by | Sylvia's Lovers |
Wives and Daughters, An Every-Day Story is a novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. It was partly written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl at her home on the Rue de Bac in Paris.[1] When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
- ^ Patrick Waddington, ‘Mohl, Mary Elizabeth (1793–1883)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2007 accessed 7 Feb 2015