Wives and Daughters (1999)


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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.
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Directed by: Fred Tammes, Nicholas Renton
Written by: Andrew Davies
Produced by: Jane Tranter, Rupert Ryle-Hodges, Rebecca Eaton
Composed by: John E. Keane
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