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jeet_the_maiden 's review for:
Wives and Daughters
by Elizabeth Gaskell
A detailed review coming up soon but what stood out to me was the creation of full characters one could see clearly in the minds eye, even those based atleast a century and a half before my current understanding of human nature - just to see people have always been the same, it's the authors who weave them so expertly into a plot that you end up caring to see what they did next.
Molly Gibson, Roger Hamley, Cynthia Kirkpatrick and even to a great extent Dr Gibson - exemplary characters of their time, with distinct motivations, principles and behaviour.
Also the biggest joy for me was to see it was narrated by Prunella Scales, who does it so brilliantly, and is incidentally the life partner of my other very favourite narrator - Timothy West - what a combination of magnificent theatrical presence it must have been in their home!
Elizabeth Gaskell is slowly becoming my second favourite British Victorian author, after Austen, and followed by Anthony Trollope.
Molly Gibson, Roger Hamley, Cynthia Kirkpatrick and even to a great extent Dr Gibson - exemplary characters of their time, with distinct motivations, principles and behaviour.
Also the biggest joy for me was to see it was narrated by Prunella Scales, who does it so brilliantly, and is incidentally the life partner of my other very favourite narrator - Timothy West - what a combination of magnificent theatrical presence it must have been in their home!
Elizabeth Gaskell is slowly becoming my second favourite British Victorian author, after Austen, and followed by Anthony Trollope.