GASKELL (ELIZABETH) Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, 18 wood-engraved plates by George Du Maurier, publisher's maroon cloth gilt, rubbed (with small loss at extremities of spine) [Sadleir 936; Wolff 2428, "a really superb novel, the author's best"], 8vo, Smith, Elder, 1866

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Forster's copy of Wives and Daughters, a book he considered Mrs. Gaskell's masterpiece. The literary critic James McConkey recalls a meeting they had in which "For the greater part... we talked about novels we both liked and novels he thought I would like, such as Mrs Gaskell's Wives and Daughters" ('Two Anonymous Writers. E.M. Forster and Anton Chekov', in Das and Beer, 1979).

Provenance: E.M. Forster, inscribed "E.M. Forster, King's College, Cambridge" on front free endpaper of volume 1, and book label "This book belongs to E.M. Forster" in both volumes; given to his friend Eric Fletcher.

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