Wives and Daughters
by Elizabeth Gaskell
1864-1865 (serial)
narrated by Patience Tomlinson
37h. 35m  (440 pages in the Empire edition)

I’m finished the audio version.   It’s pretty boring until about half way.  After that it’s really rather interesting.  The story is okay,  standard Victorian fiction about love, marriage, class and gender roles,  but with its own internal twists.   I suppose the idea is to make for “uplifting” literature for the female mind.  >>>> MORE >>>>>>