num_pages: 521
description: 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.
language: English
title: North and South
titlecomplete: North and South
characters: Mrs. Hannah Thornton, Fanny Thornton, Dixon, John   Thornton, Bessy Higgins, Mr. Hale, Mrs. Hale, Nicholas Higgins, Mr. Bell, Margaret Hale, Frederick Hale
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Historical Romance, Historical, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Victorian, Audiobook
ratings_count: 166032
places: England
publisher: Penguin Books