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Wives and Daughters( 1999)

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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.

    Series Cast

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      Justine Waddell

      Molly Gibson

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      Rosamund Pike

      Lady Harriet Cumnor

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      Keeley Hawes

      Cynthia Kirkpatrick

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      Iain Glen

      Mr. Preston

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      Barbara Flynn

      Miss Browning

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      Anthony Howell

      Roger Hamley

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      Francesca Annis

      Hyacinth Gibson

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      Bill Paterson

      Mr. Gibson

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      Michael Gambon

      Squire Hamley

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      Tom Hollander

      Osborne Hamley

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      Deborah Findlay

      Miss Phoebe

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      Penelope Wilton

      Mrs. Hamley

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      Richard Coyle

      Mr. Coxe

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      Jemima Rooper

      Lizzie Goodenough

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      Anna Maguire

      Young Molly

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      Richard Dempsey

      Mr. Bold

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      Elizabeth Spriggs

      Mrs. Goodenough

    Current Season

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    Season 1

    1999 | 6 Episodes

    Season 1 of Wives and Daughters premiered on Nov 28 1999

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    Facts

    Status

    Ended

    Status

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    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