- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407090887
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
North and South
'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience' Joanna Trollope
'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience' Joanna Trollope
Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as she begins to befriend her neighbours, and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops, she starts to see Milton in a different light.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JENNY UGLOW
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407090887
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 576
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Praise for North and South
North And South explores themes that still seem strikingly modern. One hundred and fifty years after it appeared, the North-South divide - and the social and economic gulf it implies - remains intact
Daily Mail
Ruth, North and South and Mary Barton are at least as good as any of Dickens's novels
Sara Paretsky
Gaskell saw the emotional and economic realities of ordinary life with a steely honesty
The Times
One of the most perceptive novels of the mid-Victorian era
Glasgow Herald
Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt
Scotsman