Dimensions
130 x 197 x 43mm
Molly Gibson is the strong focus of personal relationships in the English country town of Hollingford, the person everyone relies on, the quiet conciliator and confidante. Molly seems fated to suffer, firstly from her father's ill-conceived remarriage and then from seeing her friend Roger Hamley infatuated with Molly's stepsister Cynthia. She saves Cynthia from the effects of an earlier intrigue, is a great comfort to Roger's mother before her death, and gives to all without stint, sustaining others but repressing her own emotional needs. But who is to look out for her? When will she have a fulfilling life of her own?
The most comprehensive edition available, with introduction, notes, selected criticism, further reading, text summary and chronology of Elizabeth Gaskell's life and times.
