![]() ![]() Here’s why fans of Charlotte Bronte should read North and South. ![]() This revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate and explores Gaskell’s subtle representations of sexual passion and communal strife. Margaret’s internal conflicts mirror the turbulence that she sees all around her. The novel poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience, ranging from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny and industrial action. North and South tells the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner newly settled in the northern industrial town of Milton, whose ready sympathy with the discontented millworkers sits uneasily with her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. Earnest industrial politics, plus everybody falls in love with a mill owner!īefore I make a few comments about the romantic relationship in North and South, here’s the plot summary via the book description: Both novels are page-turners, written by women of conscience. ![]() I recently reread her North and South, one of the great industrial novels of the 19th century it is clearly influenced by Charlotte’s industrial novel, Shirley (which I posted about here). I prefer Elizabeth Gaskell, who is as earnest and intelligent as Charlotte if not as exotic as Emily. ![]() After you’ve read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, whom do you read? Well, the obvious answer is Anne Brontë, and there has been an Anne boom in recent years. ![]()
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