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Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.

North and South

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A Paperback / softback by Elizabeth Gaskell, Angus Easson, Sally Shuttleworth

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    Publisher: Oxford University Press
    Publication Date: 04/09/2008
    ISBN13: 9780199537006, 978-0199537006
    ISBN10: 0199537003
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    ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret's ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.

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