Wives and Daughters (solo version): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Wives and Daughters (solo version), credited to Elizabeth Gaskell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. Read by Elizabeth Klett. Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the daughter of a widowed doctor growing up in the provincial town of Hollingford. When Mr. Gibson decides to marry again, Molly is forced to contend with a pretentious stepmother, but consoled by a close friendship with Cynthia, her new stepsister. The girls' relations with the local residents, particularly the Squire of Hamley Hall and his family, make for incidents comic, romantic, and tragic, by turns. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Wives and Daughters (solo version)
• Author credits: Elizabeth Gaskell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 60
• Listed recording duration: 25:17:37

Catalogue topics

• audio
• gaskell
• 19th century
• england
• victorian
• social life and customs

Opening tracks: first 24 of 60

1. 01 - The Dawn of a Gala Day — 21:02
2. 02 - A Novice Amongst the Great Folk — 36:48
3. 03 - Molly Gibson's Childhood — 17:07
4. 04 - Mr. Gibson's Neighbors — 29:23
5. 05 - Calf-Love — 29:06
6. 06 - A Visit to the Hamleys — 32:45
7. 07 - Foreshadows of Love Perils — 16:58
8. 08 - Drifting Into Danger — 31:15
9. 09 - The Widower and the Widow — 20:30
10. 10 - A Crisis — 42:59
11. 11 - Making Friendship — 37:10
12. 12 - Preparing for the Wedding — 19:28
13. 13 - Molly Gibson's New Friends — 24:58
14. 14 - Molly Finds Herself Patronized — 30:48
15. 15 - The New Mamma — 18:43
16. 16 - The Bride at Home — 21:49
17. 17 - Trouble at Hamley Hall — 25:45
18. 18 - Mr. Osborne's Secret — 30:14
19. 19 - Cynthia's Arrival — 26:23
20. 20 - Mrs. Gibson's Visitors — 20:23
21. 21 - The Half-Sisters — 31:48
22. 22 - The Old Squire's Troubles — 25:01
23. 23 - Osborne Hamley Reviews His Position — 19:58
24. 24 - Mrs. Gibson's Little Dinner — 14:40

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