Wives and Daughters
28/11/1999



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.
Cast


Justine Waddell
Molly Gibson


Rosamund Pike
Lady Harriet Cumnor


Keeley Hawes
Cynthia Kirkpatrick


Iain Glen
Mr. Preston


Barbara Flynn
Miss Browning


Anthony Howell
Roger Hamley


Francesca Annis
Hyacinth Gibson


Bill Paterson
Mr. Gibson


Michael Gambon
Squire Hamley


Tom Hollander
Osborne Hamley


Deborah Findlay
Miss Phoebe


Penelope Wilton
Mrs. Hamley


Richard Coyle
Mr. Coxe


Jemima Rooper
Lizzie Goodenough


Anna Maguire
Young Molly


Richard Dempsey
Mr. Bold


Elizabeth Spriggs
Mrs. Goodenough
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