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Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Gaskell had a tremendous understanding of human nature and the psychology of various personality types. Some of her descriptions and the characters' dialogue reminded me of people I know. I found the novel hard to take a break from as well as not wanting it to end.
The novel itself is a lengthy one and only ended prematurely due to the sudden death of the author. Even though it's not a finished work, her plans for the ending were made known and are included at the end of the novel so the reader is not left in the lurch scratching their head. I would highly recommend this novel as one of the best examples of English literature and social history of the 19th century.
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ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. East Dane Designer Men's Fashion. But she really won me over as soon as she provided me with an excellent audience proxy for me to cast myself as early on- Lady Harriet ftw, am I right? Then I could really get comfortable. Molly is goddamn adorable, Mr. In my fanfic, she gets the second option, because I think she could turn it around, but because life is Victorian England life, it was probably the former.
Gaskell told her editors what she wanted the ending to be, for the most part, but she died a few chapters before she finished. So you do get to kind of Choose Your Own Adventure, so yay! But the ending is half an obituary, so kind of a downer a little bit?
Overall, this was kinda like reading a really smart, satirical middlebrow domestic novel, probably written for the same audience those are written for today. Some overly shlocky moments and overdone metaphors, but more than worth it in the end, waayyyyy better than North and South. So yeah, Lady Harriet and I will be over here in the corner drinking the tea, enjoying the show and standing up for Molly as required. View all 6 comments. Molly Gibson is a kind-hearted, intelligent, sensitive girl who is thrown into society when her father, the equally sensible but far more sarcastic Mr.
His new wife is flighty, hypocritical, and manipulative, but all in such a soft, pliant way that it is difficult to oppose her. With her comes her daughter Cynthia Fitzpatrick, who is Molly's own age but beautiful where Molly is pretty, and socially brilliant where Molly is genuine. Cynthia and Molly immediately become best friend Molly Gibson is a kind-hearted, intelligent, sensitive girl who is thrown into society when her father, the equally sensible but far more sarcastic Mr. Cynthia and Molly immediately become best friends, but Cynthia is so constantly charming young men that by trying to help her get out of scrapes Molly's own reputation suffers.
Easily one of the most charming, romantic Victorian novels I've ever read. Victorian novels generally put so much emphasis on morals or virtues that I find alien and silly, or are so long-winded in their explanations, descriptions, and dialog, that I grow quite out of patience with them.
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Instead, Gaskell seems to have a good deal of sympathy for characters like Cynthia, who would have been treated very severely by authors like Trollop or Bradden, and quietly pokes fun at the sexist, classist, xenophobic notions of her main characters. She seems to like her characters, and want to explain them to her readers, instead of trying to use them as puppets to force her readers into higher morals. Gaskell is nearly as witty as Dickens, but turns her attention in much the same direction as Austen, with that same satirical edge to her domestic descriptions.
Gaskell is particularly adept at portraying characters' personalities and interests through dialog alone. It ends on a satisfying note, however, so though one does not get to actually read the resolution, one is not left without hope that it did take place. In a way, by ending this novel before view spoiler [the hero and heroine confess their love for each other, hide spoiler ] one is left to resolve it in the manner most satisfactory to oneself, and not bound to the author's choices.
Towards the end of last year I spent many happy hours visiting a world so perfectly realised that it still lifts my heart when I think of it. I stepped into the middle of the s, into the English countryside that Mrs Gaskell knew so well, I met people who were so real, fallible, interesting, and I became caught up in their lives and their stories. At the centre of it all was Molly Gibson, the only child of a widowed doctor.
The apple of his eye. In a lovely prologue she was twelve years old and Towards the end of last year I spent many happy hours visiting a world so perfectly realised that it still lifts my heart when I think of it. In a lovely prologue she was twelve years old and she had been taken The Towers, home of the Duke of Cumnor, for a day of grand entertainments.
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Molly had a lovely time, but there was just one oversight: I loved Molly from the start, her love for her father and for her world, her openness, her honesty. I felt that we were friends, looking at the world together as the story unfolded. We met again when Molly was seventeen, and her father sent her to visit the family of the local squire. He would always be first in her hear but she became a daughter to a mother of sons, a sister to those sons, and a particular favourite of their father.
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And so the stage was set for a story that would move between the aristocracy, the old gentry and the new professional classes. And a story that would say much about a changing world, as one of the young men Molly came to love as a brother was drawn to the arts and romanticism, the other was drawn to science and exploration, and their father clung to his home, his land, his heredity. All of that is there to ponder, and a glorious plot unfolds.
Hyancinth, who was beautiful but terribly, terribly grand, terribly aware of appearances and social position, had been governess to the family of Duke of Cumnor, and she brought with her a daughter.
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Cynthia was bold, confident, and yet she was terribly vulnerable, and though they were very different, had very different ideas about their futures, they became firm friends. The story holds so much. Fortunes rise and fall. There are births, marriages and deaths. There is domesticity, there is society, and there is travel. And there are secrets, and they will have such consequences… All life is there, from quiet domesticity to grand events, and through everything in between. And lives are lived. A broad cast of characters — no not characters, people, because everyone is so perfectly drawn — live, love, make mistakes, learn, enjoy good or bad fortune, feel every emotion under the sun ….
There are so many wonderful scenes, so many moments that strike a chord. The depth of understanding is obvious and the writing is beautiful. Mrs Gaskell has a wonderfully light touch, an instinctive understanding of when linger and when to pass on, and always finds exactly the right words. And I know that I will always remember this world, and that it will keep calling me back. View all 3 comments. Nov 26, Debra rated it liked it. There is noting like not being able to renew a book and having to return it to the library to set a fire under me, which is what I needed with this book.
I had a really hard time getting into it. It dragged and dragged in the beginning for me. After over pages, it began to become enjoyable but I still had to force myself to read it. Honestly, it wasn't until the Character of Cynthia came into the book, that I began to warm up to the book. This is a long book that ends abruptly due to the authors death.
But in the book, we see a marriage, a step Mother who isn't quite evil but isn't quite warm and loving either, a tarnished reputation Molly's when she attempts to get Cynthia's letters back, a healed reputation, engagements, love, a secret marriage, death, and the aspect of new love. I ended up enjoying it but didn't love it.
Mar 28, Lubinka Dimitrova rated it really liked it Shelves: I was just about to give it three stars, but in the end, I decided it does deserve more. Yes, I read more than pages of sweet little nothings, but eventually the characters grew on me, and I could not help but admire Elizabeth Gaskell's ability to present even the most annoying personages as quite likable people. I suppose now I'll have to read North and South.
Jan 25, Gabrielle Dubois rated it it was amazing Shelves: I found it difficult to like the heroine, the little Molly, in the first two chapters. Just a matter of character: I find it difficult to adhere to this kind of fragile and a bit soft natures who are incommoded by a hot English sun of June hot? Please, excuse me, English readers: I cannot swallow anything but one grape! Costumes change, manners change, but not human nature: The fox will always get his cheese, as La Fontaine said! By the way, I read Wives and Daughters in its French version, so, when I quote the original version, I copy it from the Gutenberg Project on Internet which is very nice because there are illustrations, lithographs from the 19th century, for those who like to see this… But then, in chapter 4, there are many good things as: A very well writen portrait of Mr.
Gibson, A thought in which I recognize myself when I write literary articles for a French newspaper: Gibson's intuitive and psychological implication in his patient's mental health. The youngest apprentice always does. It's not hard work. He'll have the comfort of thinking he won't have to swallow them himself…" Ah!
What bothered me already in the first chapters, was that each character represents a social class, a particular type. Have we ever seen a year-old girl ever look at herself in a mirror to get an idea of what she looks like, how beautiful, or not, she is? Have we ever seen a year-old girl have the naivety of a ten-year-old child? Have we ever seen a daughters hide a little of her thoughts and actions from her parents? Gaskell wanted, through Molly, to represent a type of character, and this is why we cannot believe that this character is real.
Similarly, the good Dr. Gaskell describes him as being intelligent, having already had one or more female adventures, and having already been married. Gaskell tells us that he knows the human soul well and demonstrates it to us in different things he does or thinks. But then, why does he do something so stupid!
I read Wives and Daughters with a great pleasure, and finally liked Molly a lot! I had fun reading about these upper-class women who had a lot of time for themselves, and maybe, were bored. In fact, they had to much time to think only of themselves. They had no job to occupy their thoughts, and not all of them were gifted for the piano, reading, or whatever Therefore their thoughts went around in circles around their health.
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They self-listended too much, if I may say so. But when you have only that to think, the pain amplifies. Osborne Hamley is entangled in the position he is supposed to hold in society, in his family, and in the family he created for himself. I could felt the weight of what society and family are expecting from you in Osborne character: Osborne is the first born on whom rest the Hamley family of Hamley Hall: And maybe the good old Squire himself hopes it too, because he is not stupid and knows his own limits: As Osborne had a fashionable physique, was a person of refined taste, liked literature, which was a sign of intelligence at the time, but to which his father is hermetic; everyone came to the conclusion that he was clever and would be able manage the family's wealth.
Osborne is a good boy: Armand lives with his father's money, without working. He keeps Marguerite until their financial resources are exhausted, without seeking to earn money by honest work. Armand feels so much above a common job that he cannot even imagine making a living by the way everyone else does. In a way, he prefers to let his situation die rather than to take control of himself. It is simply inconceivable for an Armand or an Osborne to "descend" at the level of ordinary mortals. Osborne realizes that his poems are not worth much, but it's the only work that would not get his hands dirty.
What a darling book. This story takes place during the late 's early 's, in an English, country, town. It read very easy, was engaging, sprinkled with beautiful descriptions of the era and natural settings, and the characters were so endearing that I was actually moved to tears during parts of the book. I can't help but to compare this novel as a cross between two of my favorite authors, Jane Austen and Jan Karon. I would highly recommend this novel to readers who adm What a darling book. I would highly recommend this novel to readers who admire Jane Austen. Of course, read the book first, but the movie stayed very true to the novel and was a treat to watch.
Jun 27, K. I've been reading and rereading this book since That is a long ass time. So that fifth star up there? Yeah, that is one hundred percent nostalgia talking. Sorry, Kirsti from It's got a fifth star now. I love the story. I love the characters. I love the writing. I love all of the things. Except for the part where Gaskell died before finishing the story, but whatever.
I'm used to it now I first came across this story through the BBC miniseries in , and loved it as only a sixteen year old could. Fast forward to , and the book turned out to be on the syllabus for an English subject that I took in first year uni titled "The Classic Victorian Novel". I love everything about this book. The characters are rich and well described and completely individual. Their emotions are beautifully written, their dialogue is often witty or sassy or sarcastic while other characters are completely superficial.
I think my favourite character will forever be Mr Gibson solely because of him saying "Haven't you got a trashy novel or two in the house? That's the literature to send her to sleep", because it's such a brilliant line that could be equally applicable at any point between and the present. I love the setting, the dialogue, the intrigue regarding Cynthia and her hatred of Mr Preston, the descriptions, the emotion.
I have a five star amount of love for this book. But thanks to Elizabeth Gaskell's rude and untimely death denying me the ending I so desperately want, I can never rate this any higher than four stars. But there you have it. Feb 04, Cissy rated it it was amazing. This is my new favorite. Written by a lesser-known British author in the mids, this novel would be enjoyed by Austen and Dickens fans. It is very long--more than pages in small print--but the characters are wonderfully detailed and the story very compelling.
It is not a difficult read, but I do recommend getting a version that has notes explaining period references. I loved the sweetness of the main character, Molly Gibson, and all the different relationships between her and the other c This is my new favorite. I loved the sweetness of the main character, Molly Gibson, and all the different relationships between her and the other characters. I really loved this story, but if you just can't get to it, rent the 5-hour BBC mini-series. It is extremely faithful to the novel--most of the dialogue is verbatim from the book--and makes up an appropriate, natural ending.
I loved this as much as North and South but for very different reasons. This was so cozy and lovely with complex, lifelike characters in a story that never travels out of town. Molly was an endearing character. Cynthia and Hyacinth were both interesting and ultimately sympathetic characters. All of the Hamleys were wonderful. This was also made all the more enjoyable by reading along with Sarai Sarai Talks Book and chatting about all the thoughts and interactions the characters had.
I love Gas I loved this as much as North and South but for very different reasons. I love Gaskell and will one day read all her novels, at least! Tanto como para convertirse en mi libro preferido de la Gaskell junto con 'Norte y Sur'. Este libro no cuenta con un Sr.
Thornton o nada que se le parezca Me ha gustado mucho, no tanto como Norte y Sur, pero al igual que Norte y Sur se sale un poco de lo convencional en este tipo de novelas. Y es que a Cynthia no le gusta caer mal a la gente. Osborne y Roger, a los que Molly visita regularmente y la ven casi como a una hija.
Su fuerte, a parte de la forma de escribir de Elizabeth Gaskell, son los personajes. Pero al terminar de leer he quedado completamente satisfecha, me ha gustado mucho, a pesar de tener que imaginar el final ya que Elizabeth Gaskell no alcanzo a terminar esta novela. Tal vez sea un 4. Sep 21, Lady Clementina ffinch-ffarowmore rated it really liked it Shelves: The is the story of the Gibsons; Mr Gibson, a country surgeon, is a widower with a young daughter Molly.
As a result, he ends up rather abruptly marrying a widow Mrs Kirkpatrick, who runs a school, and has a daughter of her own, about the same age as Molly. Her nature makes the atmosphere in the house uncomfortable, something Mr Gibson chooses to ignore because he wants to keep the peace in his house.
Meanwhile Cynthia turns out to be someone Molly gets along with as far as the former lets her, but Molly and the reader know she has much to hide, never getting to know the real Cynthia. The two are friends but a study in contrasts as well, Molly, honest, straightforward, kind and caring, and Cynthia with plenty of secrets, nice enough, but superfluous in her feelings and relationships. This is very different from North and South and also in some ways from Cranford, though if one were to class them, this one is closer to Cranford.
My reading of this book this time around was rather haphazard. Still I found this to be a pleasant and interesting read for me. The contrasts between Molly and Cynthia in fact made me thing of the contrasts between Becky and Amelia in Vanity Fair which I am also reading just now, and where some of those same issues, nature, upbringing, class, and so on creep up.
An enjoyable read overall. Apr 17, Mark my words rated it really liked it.