North and South
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2008
Summary
‘A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting examination of changing social conscience’ Joanna Trollope
Milton is a sooty, noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown. However, as she begins to befriend her neighbours, and her st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099511489 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099511487 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Gaskell, Jenny Uglow |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 394g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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Critics Review
“Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt.”
Gaskell saw the emotional and economic realities of ordinary life with a steely honesty * The Times *
Ruth, North and South and Mary Barton are at least as good as any of Dickens’s novels – Sara Paretsky
Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt * Scotsman *
One of the most perceptive novels of the mid-Victorian era * Glasgow Herald *
North And South explores themes that still seem strikingly modern. One hundred and fifty years after it appeared, the North-South divide - and the social and economic gulf it implies - remains intact * Daily Mail *
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 from 2014 to 2016.
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