"North and South" (1854) is a social novel by Elizabeth Gaskell that contrasts the industrialized North of England with the agrarian South. Through the perspective of Margaret Hale, the novel examines the complex relationships between employers and workers amidst the Industrial Revolution and its strikes.
"North and South" (1854) es una novela social de Elizabeth Gaskell que contrasta el norte industrializado de Inglaterra con el sur agrario. A través de la perspectiva de Margaret Hale, la novela examina las complejas relaciones entre empleadores y trabajadores en el contexto de la Revolución Industrial y sus huelgas.
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| Back | North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004). The 2004 version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership. Quick facts: Author, Country … Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor; North and South uses a protagonist from southern England to present and comment on the perspectives of mill owners and workers in an industrialising city. The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton. She witnesses the brutal world wrought by the Industrial Revolution, seeing employers and workers clashing in the first strikes. Sympathetic to the poor (whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends), she clashes with John Thornton: a nouveau riche cotton-mill owner who is contemptuous of his workers. The novel traces her growing understanding of the complexity of labour relations and their influence on well-meaning mill owners and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton. Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchester, where she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister |
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