Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction, Margaret Hale. It shows how, forced to move from the country to an industrial northern town, she develops a passionate sense of social justice, and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. North and Southdepicts a young woman discovering herself, in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people, and what brings them together.

North and South

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Celina Irena Kuhn

He went. He went away as if weights tied every limb that bore him from her.

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