North and South (england)

- AUTHOR: - British author Elizabeth GASKELL was born in 1810 and died in 1865 (at age 55) in the United Kingdom.Her name at birth is Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson.She was a writer, novelist and biographer.Elizabeth Gaskell spent most of her childhood in Cheshire. When she was 12, she was sent to school where she learned Latin, French and Italian.In 1828 she returned to her father's home in London.In 1832 she married her colleague William Gaskell.She was a friend of Charles Dickens. She wrote the first biography of Charlotte Brontë in 1857.She started writing on her husband's advice. His novels have been published as follows:In 1848, Mary Barton,In 1853, Cranford,In 1854, North and South,In 1864, Cousin Phyllis.- FICTION : - NORTH AND SOUTH is a fiction about the industrial society of the North of England, written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published in 1855.The story tells the story of Margaret Hale and her travels from London, where she lived at her aunt's, in the village of South England, to a city in the North of England.His father moved from the South to the North of England, to Milton in Darkshire, an industrial city, a world of strikes, brutality and cruelty.At that time, there were two areas in England: the South is rural, the North is industrial.Margaret establishes relationships with the workers and a boss, John Thornton. She discovers the brutal world of the industrial revolution, where bosses and workers clash.Margaret has sided with the workers, among whom she makes friends.Thereafter, through hardships, she learns to esteem the city, and even John Thornton, whose generosity she begins to appreciate.