Looking for a literary Mother’s Day gift?
Fill your mom’s iPad, Kindle, Nook or other eReader with classic eBooks about mothers. Below, we’ve linked to a collection of the most popular fiction about mothers in Project Gutenberg.
These are not all sentimental or happy stories, but they will give your mom some classic literature to enjoy all year round.
Classic Fiction about Mothers and Daughters
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
The Awkward Age by Henry James
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament by Thomas Hardy
Classic Fiction about Mothers and Sons
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
Ruth by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
Classic Dramas About Mothers
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
Riders to the Sea by J. M. Synge
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