Elizabeth Gaskel

North and South is a social novel by an English writer Elizabeth Gaskell about the life difficulties of the industrial North of England in the nineteenth century, written on behalf of the lady from the South. The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England. Margaret Hale is a daughter of an Anglican priest, who forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south and 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. North and South is one of the best known novels by Elizabeth Gaskell and has been adapted for television twice, in 1975 and 2004. The latter version renewed interest in the novel and gained it a wider audience.

By Elizabeth Gaskel

North and South

Maria Victoria Farrugia

Celina Irena Kuhn

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

"I ask Thee for a thoughtful love, Through constant watching wise, To meet the glad with joyful smiles, And to wipe the weeping eyes; And a heart at leisure from itself To soothe and sympathise“

too full of sorrow to cry, but with a dull cold pain, which seemed to have pressed the youth and buoyancy out of her heart, never to return.

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