Wives and Daughters (eBook)

Elizabeth Gaskell (Autor)

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2017
640 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-82751-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Set in an English town of the 1830s, this strikingly realistic coming-of-age story depicts the consequences of both good and bad marriages. Timeless themes unfold against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society.

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Molly Gibson is a small-town girl in England during the 1830s, kind-hearted but unwise in the ways of the world. Her widower father sends her to stay with the aristocrats of Hamley Hall, where she befriends both of the family's sons, learning the elder's dark secret while falling in love with the younger. But her father has remarried in her absence, and in addition to a selfish and ambitious stepmother, Molly has acquired a stepsister who quickly becomes a rival for the younger Hamley's affections.Molly's strikingly realistic coming-of-age story, recounted with humor and pathos, depicts the consequences of both good and bad marriages as well as the dynamics of changing relationships within family. Elizabeth Gaskell develops timeless themes of friendship, love, money, and tragedy amid a portrait of a rapidly changing Victorian world. Her richly drawn characters and their preoccupation with social behavior and moral issues provide thought-provoking entertainment in the manner of Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot.

Autor

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810–65) was a major Victorian novelist whose works have provided readers with endless enjoyment and social historians with enormous insight into English life in the mid-19th century. Her major works include Cranford and Wives and Daughters, in addition to the first biography of her fellow novelist Charlotte Brontë.

Inhalt

I.    THE DAWN OF A GALA DAYII.    A NOVICE AMONGST THE GREAT FOLKIII.    MOLLY GIBSON'S CHILDHOODIV.    MR. GIBSON'S NEIGHBOURSV.    CALF-LOVEVI.    A VISIT TO THE HAMLEYSVII.    FORESHADOWS OF LOVE PERILSVIII.    DRIFTING INTO DANGERIX.    THE WIDOWER AND THE WIDOWX.    A CRISISXI.    MAKING FRIENDSHIPXII.    PREPARING FOR THE WEDDINGXIII.    MOLLY GIBSON'S NEW FRIENDSXIV.    MOLLY FINDS HERSELF PATRONISEDXV.    THE NEW MAMMAXVI.    THE BRIDE AT HOMEXVII.    TROUBLE AT HAMLEY HALLXVIII.    MR. OSBORNE'S SECRETXIX.    CYNTHIA'S ARRIVALXX.    MRS. GIBSON'S VISITORSXXI.    THE HALF-SISTERSXXII.    THE OLD SQUIRE'S TROUBLESXXIII.    OSBORNE HAMLEY REVIEWS HIS POSITIONXXIV.    MRS. GIBSON'S LITTLE DINNERXXV.    HOLLINGFORD IN A BUSTLEXXVI.    A CHARITY BALLXXVII.    FATHER AND SONSXXVIII.    RIVALRYXXIX.    BUSH-FIGHTINGXXX.    OLD WAYS AND NEW WAYSXXXI.    A PASSIVE COQUETTEXXXII.    COMING EVENTSXXXIII.    BRIGHTENING PROSPECTSXXXIV.    A LOVER'S MISTAKEXXXV.    THE MOTHER'S MANŒUVREXXXVI.    DOMESTIC DIPLOMACYXXXVII.    A FLUKE, AND WHAT CAME OF ITXXXVIII.    MR. KIRKPATRICK, Q.C.XXXIX.    SECRET THOUGHTS OOZE OUTXL.    MOLLY GIBSON BREATHES FREELYXLI.    GATHERING CLOUDSXLII.    THE STORM BURSTSXLIII.    CYNTHIA'S CONFESSIONXLIV.    MOLLY GIBSON TO THE RESCUEXLV.    CONFIDENCESXLVI.    HOLLINGFORD GOSSIPSXLVII.    SCANDAL AND ITS VICTIMSXLVIII.    AN INNOCENT CULPRITXLIX.    MOLLY GIBSON FINDS A CHAMPIONL.    CYNTHIA AT BAYLI.    "TROUBLES NEVER COME ALONE"LII.    SQUIRE HAMLEY'S SORROWLIII.    UNLOOKED-FOR ARRIVALSLIV.    MOLLY GIBSON'S WORTH IS DISCOVEREDLV.    AN ABSENT LOVER RETURNSLVI.    "OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE, AND ON WITH THE NEW"LVII.    BRIDAL VISITS AND ADIEUXLVIII.    REVIVING HOPES AND BRIGHTENING PROSPECTSLIX.    MOLLY GIBSON AT HAMLEY HALLLX.    ROGER HAMLEY'S CONFESSION    CONCLUDING REMARKS [By the Editor of the "Cornhill Magazine."]

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Thrift Editions
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 130 x 130 mm
• Gewicht: 508 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: aristocrat • aristocratic • Britain • British • cornhill magazine • cranford • Darwin • darwinsim • Engagement • England • English • Englishness • Fashion • Fashionable • female • Feminine • Feminism • France • frederick greenwood • Girl • girlish • Gossip • gossiping • Great Britain • High Society • Little Women • Love • Mid-Victorian • mini-series • North and South • Paris • Relationship • Romance • romance, 19th century literature, victorian novel, coming of age story, friendship, love, money, tragedy, humor and pathos, provincial english town, rebellious girl, small town gossips, wicked stepmother, evil stepsister, rivalry, victorian society, moral authority, roles of women, darwinism, easy to read, dramatic, feel good, engaging, female protagonist, blended families, historical • Romantic • rue de bac • serial • Social • Society • Trollope • Victorian • widow • widowable • widower • Woman • Women
• ISBN-10: 0-486-82751-8 / 0486827518
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-82751-3 / 9780486827513