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Wives and Daughters
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Title: Wives and Daughters
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Release Date: July, 2003 [EBook #4274] [Edition 10 was first posted on December 26, 2001] [This edition was first posted on June 26, 2003]
Edition: 11
Language: English
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WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
BY
ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL
CHAPTER I
THE DAWN OF A GALA DAY
To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a coun