Widely believed to be her masterpiece, Elizabeth Gaskell\'s "Wives and Daughters" was originally published serially in "Cornhill Magazine" between August 1864 and January 1866.
Molly, lonely and motherless, is befriended by the Hamley family, who are landed gentry and t.
The novel\'s heroine is Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed country doctor in a small town in England.
The work, which was nearly finished at the time of Gaskell\'s death in 1865, was completed by Frederick Greenwood.
Widely believed to be her masterpiece, Elizabeth Gaskell\'s "Wives and Daughters" was originally published serially in "Cornhill Magazine" between August 1864 and January 1866