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Wives and Daughters Places Elizabeth Gaskell in the First Rank of English Authors ELIZABETH GASKELL COMPLETE CLASSICS Wives and UNABRIDGED Daughters Read by Patience Tomlinson When her father remarries, the honest, innocent Molly Gibson suddenly finds herself with a new stepsister, Cynthia, who is beautiful, worldly and impetuous. This would be more than enough to deal with, but the new wife is the deeply snobbish (and darkly secretive) Hyacinth. Thwarted love, scheming ambition and small-town gossip underlie the warmth, irony and brilliant social observation which link the relationships and the inevitable conflicts as profound change comes to rural England. The most mature and rewarding of her novels, Wives and Daughters places Elizabeth Gaskell in the first rank of English authors. Patience Tomlinson has appeared extensively in theatre and radio in the UK. She has worked for the Royal National Theatre and the Young Vic, and was twice a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company. She has made over 1,500 broadcasts, including stories, books, radio plays and poetry. For Naxos Total running time: 27:34:00 • 22 CDs AudioBooks, she has played the part of Emilia in Othello. View our catalogue online at n-ab.com/cat = Downloads (M4B chapters or MP3 files) = CDs (disc–track) 1 1-1 CHAPTER 1: THE DAWN OF A GALA… 5:35 25 2-9 ‘To be sure. Come in, Mr Coxe’ 5:19 2 1-2 This was no unusual instance… 5:40 26 2-10 ‘Would it tend to cure your – well! passion…’ 5:07 3 1-3 For the first time in her life, Molly Gibson… 5:39 27 2-11 ‘I only wish Osborne and Roger…’ 5:25 4 1-4 ‘We shall go back to town on Friday the 18th,’… 5:39 28 2-12 ‘Don’t you like to go? Would you rather not?’ 5:54 5 1-5 CHAPTER 2: A NOVICE AMONGST… 4:47 29 2-13 CHAPTER 6: A VISIT TO THE HAMLEYS 4:53 6 1-6 She turned hastily round not to lose another… 4:24 30 2-14 She rose languidly, and wrapping her light… 3:43 7 1-7 There was some bread, and some cold chicken… 5:34 31 2-15 So she began. Molly was not so much… 4:14 8 1-8 The housemaids came in to arrange the room. 5:42 32 2-16 Molly tried to find out in the picture… 4:29 9 1-9 Molly was an obliging girl, and fond of children… 5:00 33 3-1 The squire had hitherto been too busy to talk… 5:12 10 1-10 There was an implied blame running through… 3:36 34 3-2 Molly looked out of her chamber window… 5:23 11 1-11 ‘You must go and wish Lady Cumnor…’ 4:18 35 3-3 She dropped her voice very soft and low... 3:34 12 1-12 Once out into the park Molly struck her pony… 4:51 36 3-4 ‘Mr Osborne Hamley is very clever, is he not?’ 3:29 13 1-13 CHAPTER 3: MOLLY GIBSON’S CHILDHOOD 4:23 37 3-5 CHAPTER 7: FORESHADOWS OF LOVE PERILS 5:23 14 1-14 The popularity of this world is as transient… 3:47 38 3-6 ‘I guess your request. I make it before you do...’ 3:57 15 1-15 Several years before the opening of this story… 4:54 39 3-7 ‘She’s a good girl,’ said her father… 4:23 16 1-16 Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed... 5:13 40 3-8 All that afternoon the squire tried to steer… 4:00 17 2-1 CHAPTER 4: MR GIBSON’S NEIGHBOURS 4:48 41 3-9 CHAPTER 8: DRIFTING INTO DANGER 5:06 18 2-2 But somehow things had changed… 5:02 42 3-10 And this time she had nearly finished learning… 4:57 19 2-3 ‘Use my purse as freely as if it was your own…’ 5:19 43 3-11 He was a tall powerfully-made young man… 5:04 20 2-4 He had married a delicate fine London lady… 5:04 44 3-12 After dinner, too, the gentlemen lingered… 5:27 21 2-5 She had not been able for many years… 4:50 45 3-13 ‘Thursday, the 19th, Harriet,’ said Lady Cumnor… 4:19 22 2-6 Major Coxe was at some unpronounceable… 4:45 46 3-14 ‘Do you think what Harriet says is true, Mary?’ 4:24 23 2-7 CHAPTER 5: CALF-LOVE 4:33 47 3-15 ‘She is at school at Boulogne, I know...’ 4:47 24 2-8 After a little more consideration… 4:37 48 3-16 CHAPTER 9: THE WIDOWER AND THE WIDOW 3:18 49 3-17 It was a very pleasant change... 3:50 110 7-12 She settled herself to her work again… 4:28 50 4-1 A disturbance to the pleasant, even course... 4:55 111 7-13 Molly went into her own room… 4:45 51 4-2 Mr Gibson had been far too busy… 5:09 112 7-14 Day after day the course of these small frivolities… 4:34 52 4-3 Ashcombe was a larger estate than that… 4:36 113 7-15 ‘I was a trouble, I daresay.’ 3:20 53 4-4 CHAPTER 10: A CRISIS 5:23 114 7-16 Cynthia might well say she did not consider… 4:35 54 4-5 ‘Could you love her as your daughter?’ 5:28 115 8-1 Cynthia herself appeared extremely indifferent… 1:40 55 4-6 They were neither of them quite as desirous... 4:53 116 8-2 CHAPTER 20: MRS GIBSON’S VISITORS 5:45 56 4-7 Mr Gibson turned a little paler… 4:38 117 8-3 Just at this moment, Molly heard… 5:45 57 4-8 Out of the bitterness of her heart she spoke… 4:40 118 8-4 ‘I believe in senior wranglers,’ said Cynthia... 5:18 58 4-9 She did not see Roger Hamley returning … 5:28 119 8-5 They were talking of France. 5:06 59 4-10 She did not take her eyes away from his… 5:40 120 8-6 CHAPTER 21: THE HALF-SISTERS 5:51 60 4-11 ‘You will have thought me hard,’… 4:22 121 8-7 ‘Ah, Roger!’ he said one day. 5:35 61 4-12 Molly was very near crying again. 4:58 122 8-8 Mrs Gibson took up arms… 5:18 62 4-13 CHAPTER 11: MAKING FRIENDSHIP 4:45 123 8-9 Molly caught a few words occasionally… 5:43 63 4-14 ‘Because it isn’t,’ said she, daring all. 5:28 124 8-10 He made a face of dismay, and then went off… 5:45 64 4-15 ‘What eyes! So like your dear father’s!’ 3:52 125 8-11 ‘I’m very glad I yawned in his face,’… 5:40 65 4-16 ‘Thank you, my own love.’ 4:13 126 8-12 CHAPTER 22: THE OLD SQUIRE’S TROUBLES 5:15 66 5-1 Molly followed Mrs Kirkpatrick… 4:44 127 8-13 The remarks had come round... 5:13 67 5-2 Mrs Kirkpatrick fondled the hand… 5:16 128 8-14 ‘You see, all you public schoolboys...’ 3:23 68 5-3 An old rhyme Molly had heard Betty use… 5:02 129 8-15 About five minutes elapsed… 4:51 69 5-4 ‘Thank you,’ said she, her lips trembling… 3:15 130 9-1 Osborne was strongly tempted to get up… 4:55 70 5-5 And the tête-à-tête was merged in a trio. 2:53 131 9-2 ‘I thought master wasn’t justly himself…’ 4:21 71 5-6 CHAPTER 12: PREPARING FOR THE WEDDING 4:06 132 9-3 CHAPTER 23: OSBORNE HAMLEY REVIEWS… 4:59 72 5-7 But Mr Gibson, economical as he was… 5:27 133 9-4 Then he bethought him of his poems… 4:59 73 5-8 Her preparations were thus… 4:05 134 9-5 When Roger came home… 4:13 74 5-9 Mr Gibson winced. Jeanie was his first love… 3:38 135 9-6 As yet, Roger had never seen his brother’s wife… 3:32 75 5-10 ‘Nonsense, sister,’ said Miss Browning. 3:48 136 9-7 ‘Not he,’ said the squire, taking the pipe out… 3:50 76 5-11 CHAPTER 13: MOLLY GIBSON’S NEW FRIENDS 5:25 137 9-8 CHAPTER 24: MRS GIBSON’S LITTLE DINNER 4:56 77 5-12 ‘You seem to have seen a great deal…’ 5:16 138 9-9 ‘How could you talk such nonsense, Cynthia?’ 5:15 78 5-13 The next day Molly went with Miss Browning… 5:46 139 9-10 Osborne had instinctively gone to stand… 5:36 79 5-14 Mr Gibson and Molly drove over to Ashcombe… 5:58 140 9-11 CHAPTER 25: HOLLINGFORD IN A BUSTLE 5:06 80 5-15 Then they went in to dinner. 5:14 141 9-12 Lady Harriet came to call on her old governess… 5:22 81 5-16 CHAPTER 14: MOLLY FINDS HERSELF PATRONIZED 3:10 142 9-13 Off went Mrs Gibson rather unwillingly… 5:25 82 5-17 Before Molly could shape her next question… 4:38 143 9-14 Cynthia took the utmost pains in dressing Molly… 5:15 83 6-1 Mr Preston came into the room just at this time… 5:43 144 9-15 CHAPTER 26: A CHARITY BALL 4:24 84 6-2 When he had left the room… 5:18 145 9-16 Probably Mr Roscoe would have felt more… 5:48 85 6-3 ‘I’ve brought you the wasps’-nest I promised…’ 5:14 146 10-1 Just at this moment the band… 4:50 86 6-4 He looked round the table as he sate down.
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