Wives and daughters

an every-day story

About this book

The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.

Subjects

  • british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • children of physicians
  • country life
  • england, fiction
  • england -- social life and customs -- 19th century -- fiction
  • english
  • english literature
  • fathers and daughters
  • fathers and daughters, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, coming of age
  • fiction, family life, general
  • manners and customs
  • social classes
  • social conditions
  • social life and customs
  • stepfamilies
  • women
  • young women
  • young women, fiction