REVIEW: Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

[image error]Way back in 2010, when I reviewed my first Elizabeth Gaskell book, Cranford, a few commenters urged me to read Wives and Daughters. I can’t quite explain why it’s taken me quite so long to actually pick the book up, but recently when I read and reviewed Ruth, someone again mentioned this book, and I knew I had to give it a try.

Wives and Daughters was Gaskell’s last book and was in fact unfinished when she died suddenly in 1865; it was completed by a writer named Frederick Greenwood. (The com...