![]() ![]() The change of lifestyle shocks Margaret, who sympathizes deeply with the poverty of the workers and comes into conflict with John Thornton, the owner of a local mill, also a friend of her father. ![]() ![]() The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. The story: the heroine, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The book is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. LibriVox recording of North and South, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. ![]()
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