![]() ![]() ![]() But his actions merely ensured that he would fail. But after one of his apprentices became romantically interested in her, he became determined to keep her in a state of perpetual adolescence. Gibson had his way, Molly would have never experienced any coming-of-age. And two, Molly fell in love with one Roger Hamley, the scientifically-minded younger son of a local squire. One, her father married a woman she disliked, a former governess named Hyacinth “Claire” Kirkpatrick. She and her widowed father lived an idyllic life until two things occurred. ![]() The four-part miniseries struck me as Molly’s coming-of-age story. And despite the passage of time, it has a sterling reputation as one of the best adaptations of a literary source in recent years.Īdapted by Andrew Davies and directed by Nicholas Renton, "WIVES AND DAUGHTERS" told the story of Molly Gibson, the young daughter of a local village doctor during the last decade of the Georgian era. Eleven years have passed since the BBC first aired "WIVES AND DAUGHTERS", the 1999 adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1865 novel. ![]()
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