Wives and Daughters (1999)

11/28/1999 (EN) • 1h 15m

Drama

Overview

Wives and Daughters is a 1999 four part BBC serial adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. It focuses on Molly Gibson, the daughter of the town doctor, and the changes that occur in her life after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia, while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.

Top Billed Cast

Justine Waddell

Molly Gibson

6 Episodes

Rosamund Pike

Lady Harriet Cumnor

6 Episodes

Keeley Hawes

Cynthia Kirkpatrick

6 Episodes

Iain Glen

Mr. Preston

6 Episodes

Barbara Flynn

Miss Browning

6 Episodes

Anthony Howell

Roger Hamley

6 Episodes

Francesca Annis

Hyacinth Gibson

6 Episodes

Bill Paterson

Mr. Gibson

6 Episodes

Michael Gambon

Squire Hamley

6 Episodes


Last Season

Season 1

1999 | 6 Episodes

Season 1 of Wives and Daughters premiered on November 28, 1999.

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Status

Ended

Network

network

Type

Miniseries

Original Language

English

Keywords

sibling relationship

england

loss of loved one

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

country life

ship

stepmother

marriage

family relationships

miniseries

doctor

period drama

gossip

death

aristocrat

estate

rite of passage

secret marriage

stepsister

19th century

darwinism

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