Production notes: This ebook of North and South was published by Global Grey in 2018.

This book has 487 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1855. Sympathetic to the poor whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends, she clashes with John Thornton, a cotton mill manufacturer who has a contemptuous attitude to workers. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton where she witnesses the harsh brutal world wrought by the industrial revolution and where employers and workers clash in the first organised strikes. It is set in the fictional town of Milton in the North of England when industrialisation was changing the city. North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. North and South Elizabeth GaskellĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. Show more Genres ClassicsFictionRomanceHistorical FictionHistorical19th CenturyVictorian. Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchester, where she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister.Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15. 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. The novel traces her growing understanding of the complexity of labour relations and their influence on well-meaning mill owners and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton. Sympathetic to the poor (whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends), she clashes with John Thornton: a nouveau riche cotton-mill owner who is contemptuous of his workers. She witnesses the brutal world wreaked by the Industrial Revolution, seeing employers and workers clashing in the first strikes. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton. The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor North and South uses a protagonist from southern England to present and comment on the perspectives of mill owners and workers in an industrialising city.

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell