North and South
$20.69
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
23 May 2012
Summary
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
“How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?”
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 relatio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198927 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141198923 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 23 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 130mm x 27mm |
| Series: | The Penguin English Library |
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About The Author
Elizabeth Gaskell
Jenny Uglow writes on literature, art, and social history. Her books include award-winning biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth and Thomas Bewick, as well as a study of Sarah Losh, a surprising Victorian architect and visionary, and group studies including The Lunar Men and the panoramic In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon’s Wars, 1793-1815. She is now writing on Edward Lear.
Jenny lives in Canterbury, and has four grown-up children and seven grandchildren. She was created an OBE in 2008, and was Chair of the Royal Society of Literature 2014-2016.
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