Wives and Daughters - Season 0
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 (Justine Waddell), 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 (Francesca Annis) and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia (Keeley Hawes), while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: BBC One
- Keyword: 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
- Cast: Justine Waddell, Rosamund Pike, Keeley Hawes, Iain Glen, Barbara Flynn, Anthony Howell
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