North and south
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.
In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
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Classic Literature, Social classes, Children of clergy, open_syllabus_project, Mothers and daughters, Young women, Fiction, Women, English literature, Gaskell, elizabeth cleghorn, 1810-1865, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Young women, fiction, England, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Social conditions, English fiction, Gaskell, elizabeth cleghorn , 1810-1865, Criticism and interpretationgaskell, elizabeth cleghorn , 1810-1865, Young women--fiction, Mothers and daughters--fiction, Children of clergy--fiction, Social classes--fiction, Pr4710 .n6 2005, 823/.8, Social life and customs, Criticism and interpretationPlaces
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North and South: an authoritative text, contexts, criticism
2005, W.W. Norton
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First serialised in Household ways. 1854-1855. - Originally published: in two vols. London : Chapman & Hall, 1855
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