North and South
Author: first_name:  Elizabeth Cleghorn
last_name: Gaskell
Language: English
Year: 1854

Set in Victorian England, <i>North and South</i> is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the aggressive northerners of the dirty, smoky industrial town of Milton. But as she adapts to her new home, she defies social conventions with her ready sympathy and defense of the working poor. Her passionate advocacy leads her to repeatedly clash