The 'north and south' of the title are the Satanic mills of the industrial north and the leisured life of London society and rural Hampshire. When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice and a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. "North and South" depicts a young woman discovering herself, in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people, and what brings them together.
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Escritora britânica e contista da era vitoriana, conhecida também como Mrs. Gaskell. Seus romances oferecem um retrato detalhado das vidas de muitos estratos da sociedade, incluindo os muito pobres, e, como tal, são de interesse para os historiadores sociais, bem como os amantes da literatura. Suas obras mais famosas são os romances <i>North & South</i> (1854–5) e <i>Cranford</i> (1851-3); e a biografia <i>The Life of Charlotte Brontë</i> (1857).
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