North and South (with an Introduction by Adolphus William Ward) (Paperback)

from lisahistory

I do not agree with those who thought that the main female character was weak -- she may have started that way, in her schoolgirl years, but her involvement with the workers in an industrial town is really interesting. The male lead, Thornton, I did not find as interesting -- I never really felt ...

from nittnut

Do you ever read the Introduction to a book and then wish you hadn't? Or not, at least, until you had read the book? The intro in my edition was no less than 26 pages long. It discussed, among other things, the "question of rebellion: how far is the individual justified in pursuing individual fre...

from veevoxvoom

Summary: Margaret is a vicar's daughter who has grown up in the south of England, in sunny days and slow hours. However, when her father relocates their family to Milton, an industrial town in the north. Margaret faces culture shock moving from the south to the north, but also finds an unusual ro...

from Mercury57

Like her contemporary Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell wanted to expose the human consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Where Dickens sought "to take the rooftops off" in Dombey and Son to show the disease and suffering caused by the relentless pursuit of the capitalist enterprise, in Nort...

from veevoxvoom

Summary: Margaret is a vicar's daughter who has grown up in the south of England, in sunny days and slow hours. However, when her father relocates their family to Milton, an industrial town in the north. Margaret faces culture shock moving from the south to the north, but also finds an unusual ro...