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by Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)

Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was
serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864
to 1866, and completed by her editor
posthumously. It looks at English life in the
1830s through the experiences of Molly
Gibson, the daughter of a widowed doctor
growing up in the provincial town of
Hollingford. When Mr. Gibson decides to
marry again, Molly is forced to contend
with a pretentious stepmother, but
consoled by a close friendship with Cynthia, her new stepsister. The
girls' relations with the local residents, particularly the Squire of
Hamley Hall and his family, make for incidents comic, romantic, and
tragic, by turns.

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Elizabeth Gaskell

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Total running time: 25:17:37
Read by Elizabeth Klett

Cover design: Kathryn Delaney

Cover art: George Dunlop Leslie, Considering a

Reply (detail), c1865

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