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Gaskell earnestly depicts the differences between the north of England and the south of England both geographically as well as through her characters. With great insight, she portrays the conflicts between the working class and the more affluent mill-owners, the ‘masters’.
Jan 8, 2023 · Gaskell built her first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (1848), around the Chartist riots, but she is best remembered today for North and South (1854).
Discordant as it was—with almost a detestation for all she had ever heard of the North of England, the manufacturers, the people, the wild and bleak country—there was this one recommendation—it would be different to Helstone, and could never remind them of that beloved place.
Jul 1, 2003 · North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
A concise biography of Elizabeth Gaskell plus historical and literary context for North and South.
Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson, and Sally Shuttleworth Abstract `She tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.’
Gender matters. Contrast of the Industrial North and Rural South. juxtaposes the “companionate marriage plot” with discussion of political and social agency. Masters and Men in North and South. The role of the Working Class Woman in the Labor Strikes.
