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North and South

Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
17 hours 4 minutes
ISBN
9781802561029
Published
15 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • England
  • Industrial Revolution
  • social inequality
  • class conflict
  • labor relations
  • cotton mills
  • urbanization
  • agricultural South
  • industrial North
  • factory workers

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Description

Margaret Hale moves from southern comfort to industrial Milton and collides with mill-owner Thornton over class, strikes, and stubborn pride. Romance under factory smoke. Spoken as when North and South have to learn each other?s language.

Author

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) widened the Victorian novel's moral imagination. Published by Dickens in Household Words and admired by contemporaries from Ruskin to George Eliot, she wrote fiction that refused to look away from social suffering — child labour, class division, the hidden cost of industrial progress — while never losing warmth or narrative pleasure.

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