Name: North and South
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Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
ISBN: 9781512082616

North and South

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

North and South draws on Gaskell's own experiences of the poverty and hardship of life in the industrial north of England. Her heroine, Margaret Hale, is taken from the wealthy south by her nonconformist minister father, to live in a fictional northern town. The stark differences are explored through Margaret's abrupt change in circumstance, and her sympathetic reaction to the plight of the northerners. She comes into conflict with a local mill owner who proposes marriage to her. The two undergo a series of misunderstandings and changes of heart before they are reunited.

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, short-story writer, and biographer whose fiction became one of the important achievements of Victorian literature. Born Elizabeth Stevenson in London in 1810 and raised largely in Knutsford, Cheshire, she drew on both provincial life and the industrial society of Manchester in works that combine social observation, moral intelligence, domestic detail, and sympathy for lives shaped by class, gender, labour, religion, and change. Her marriage to William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister in Manchester, placed her at the centre of a world where religious dissent, social reform, industrial conflict, and literary culture intersected.Gaskell's major works include Mary Barton, Ruth, North and South, Sylvia's Lovers, Wives and Daughters, and Cranford, as well as The Life of Charlotte Brontë, one of the landmark literary biographies of the nineteenth century. Her novels range from industrial fiction and social protest to domestic comedy, psychological study, and village portraiture. In Cranford, she turned her gift for close social observation toward a small community of women whose customs, economies, affections, and losses reveal both the comedy and dignity of ordinary life. Gaskell died in 1865, leaving a body of work central to Victorian fiction, women's writing, social realism, and classic English literature.

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From her home ground, her father's comfortably middle-class living in Hampshire and her aunt's establishment in Harley Street, Margaret is exiled to the ugly northern industrial town of Milton. Surprisingly, her social consciousness awakens. It is intensified by a relationship with the local mill-owner, Thornton, that combines passionate attraction with fierce opposition. The novel explores the exploitation of the working class, linking the plight of workers with that of women and probing the myth and reality of the 'north-south divide'.