Wives and Daughters

Complete and unabridged, with 42 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, John Everett Millais and John Constable. A country doctor's daughter gains a stepmother, a stepsister with a secret engagement, and a place in a great house where the squire's son is expected to marry money. Gaskell died at her desk with the last instalment unwritten, and the magazine published her editor's note expla...