Wives and Daughters: Unabridged edition

Wives and Daughters (1866) is widely considered Elizabeth Gaskell's masterpiece and in one of her most popular novels. Unfortunately, she died suddenly in 1865 and never wrote the final chapter of the novel, so it is in a sense unfinished. However, she left advice as to how the novel should end and thus Frederick Greenwood, editor of the Cornhill Magazine where it was first published as a serial, made a write-up explaining the ending as intended by Mrs. Gaskell, which has been included in t...