Wives & Daughters: Wallpaper, Friends Only Banners, and Icons

[olde_fashioned]

Another perennial favourite of mine is Wives & Daughters. I guess I've been in the mood for Gaskell lately, and it's easy to forget how good Molly and Roger go together this series is. ;-D

Twenty-two icons this time, mostly of Molly, a couple of Cynthia, Lady Harriet (who totally rocks, in my very humble opinion) and a few of Roger Hamley. I also made a wallpaper and matching friends only banner, with complimentary icons.

As always, my icons are not bases, please credit/comment if taking, and enjoy!

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

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Comments

[handmaiden-yane.livejournal.com]

Mary Barton was EG's first book and in many ways, it's very telling that it's her first.

However, it's funny because North & South is like a combination of Wives & Daughters and Mary Barton. Mary Barton is from the point of view of the working class in Manchester and deals a lot more with the union and all that. It's a good read.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

So it's not as well-written as her others, then?

I'm pretty sure my Norton Critical Edition of N&S compares it to Dickens' Hard Times, and Mary Barton, too. I for one am now thoroughly interested in this time period and the issues surrounding it, and I will definitely read MB sometime or other. (I already have a long To-Read list!)

[handmaiden-yane.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's necessarily not as well-written...it's just...different...she focuses a lot on issues such as poverty and sickness and even drugs. It's a lot darker, I think, than Wives & Daughters.

Have you noticed how Wives & Daughters and North & South are very character-driven? Mary Barton is interesting because while her characters are engaging, they aren't as fully developed. It's like Mary Barton is her training ground for all of her ideas about characters, social classes, and all of that. Mary Barton is like the well where everything else she does springs out from.