Frederick Greenwood

This is Mrs. Gaskell's last, and for many, her best novel. The heroine Molly Gibson passes from childhood to maturity in a process that, though often painful for her, is yet sharply and humorously observed. Set in a provincial English town in the early nineteenth century, the novel is a subtle representation of historical change explored in human terms. This edition draws on a full coalition of the manuscript to present the most accurate text so far...