Wives and daughters
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Literary Fiction / Historical Fiction
Wives and daughters
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
—· 622 p· 1866
Literary Canon20th Century Classicreflective
Overview
About
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
Pages
622
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Victorian Social Detail9
Character Development9
Prose8
Emotional depth8
Narration8
Worldbuilding6
Pacing6
Plot twists5
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