When the author's father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, she is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England.

Penguin Classics relaunch. 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. In NORTH AND SOUTH Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern and in Margaret Hale created one of the mostoriginal heroines of Victorian literature.

Details

ISBN13: 9780140434248
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 496
Edition:
Publication Date: 25 Jan 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 20.1(H)x12.9(L)x3(W)362
Weight (gm): 362

Author Biography

Patricia Ingham (External Editor) Patricia Ingham is Senior Research Fellow and Reader at St Anne's College, Oxford. She has written on the Victorian novel and on Hardy in particular. she is the General Editor of all Hardy's fiction in the Penguin Classics and has edited Gaskell's North and South for the series.

Reviews

"[An] admirable story … full of character and power"
¬óCharles Dickens