Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the un
Molly Gibson is a small-town girl in England during the 1830s, kind-hearted but unwise in the ways of the world. Her widower father sends her to stay with the aristocrats of Hamley Hall, where she bef
Forced to move from the rural tranquillity of southern England to the turbulent northern mill town of Milton, Margaret Hale takes an instant dislike to the dirt and noise that seems to characterize he
North and South is a social novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Along with Wives and Daughters and Cranford, it is one of her best known novels and has been adapted for television twice, in 197
Margaret Hale is unhappy when she is forced to leave her beloved Hampshire rectory home and settle in an industrial town in the north of England. Her situation is not helped by the frosty relationship
The novel is set in the fictional town of Milton-Northern, in the industrial-era North of England. The heroine, Margaret Hale, is a new arrival in the town. She remembers her former home in the South
The classic book, North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell! There's a reason why North and South is one of the best books of all time. If you haven't read this classic, then you'd better pick up a copy
This richly textured novel of romance and class conflict explores the dichotomies between the pastoral South and industrial North during England's mid-Victorian era. Praised by Dickens as "an admirabl
Elizabeth Gaskell’s last novel,?a tender story of parents, children and step-children, mistakes, and secrets, is considered her masterpiece ? Set in the watchful,?gossiping society of Hollingford,
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 soci
