Wives and Daughters
TV Series • 1999
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.
drama
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🎭 Cast
Justine Waddell as Molly Gibson
Keeley Hawes as Cynthia Kirkpatrick
Michael Gambon as Squire Hamley
Tom Hollander as Osborne Hamley
Anthony Howell as Roger Hamley
Bill Paterson as Mr Gibson
Francesca Annis as Mrs Hyacinth Gibson (née Kirkpatrick)
Iain Glen as Mr Preston