North and South E.Gaskell

'North and South' is the second industrial novel by writer Elizabeth Gaskell

'North and South' (1855) is the second industrial novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 – 1865). Raised in a wealthy family, Margaret led a comfortable life of the privileged class. But when her father moved the family to the north, she had to adjust to life in Milton - the town is facing the industrial revolution. Margaret hates the new "masters of life," and the owner of a cotton mill, John Thornton, for it becomes a real personification of evil. Margaret makes it clear that "vulgar upstart," that he had better stay away from her at a distance. John is irresistibly attracted to Margaret, and she eventually felt a growing sympathy for him ...

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