 
Wives and Daughters is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first 
published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to 
January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, 
and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood.
The story revolves around Molly Gibson, only daughter of a widowed doctor 
living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
-- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
