How long does it take to read Wives and Daughters?
an every-day story
Mrs. Gaskell, Gaskell, Mrs., Ward, A. W., Gaskell
Wives and Daughters by Mrs. Gaskell, Gaskell, Mrs., Ward, A. W., Gaskell takes about 11 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1866. 622 pages, about 171,050 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 100 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
Subjects: Fiction, Stepfamilies, Children of physicians, Fathers and daughters, Young women, Social classes
