![]() ![]() Would that contemporary novelists could also take on that challenge. As Dickens himself found with Hard Times, marrying social concerns with enjoyable storytelling is far from straightforward, but Gaskell succeeds. It's not exactly original, either – there's more than a doff of the cap to Charlotte Brontë's Shirley, and suggestions that it's an industrial Pride and Prejudice certainly hold some water.īut, actually, it doesn't matter. North and South, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Edition 2 Publisher Chapman and Hall, 1855 Original from Oxford University Digitized Length 361. Dickens was apparently infuriated by its lack of focus, only for Gaskell to respond by cunningly reintroducing edited chapters later. There's even a Shakespearean case of mistaken identity, just to make the course of true love run a little less smooth.Īll of which makes North and South far too long. ![]() It is of medium length, and, allowing for the. She becomes part of a clearly signposted will-they-won't-they love story with the outwardly rough-and-ready manufacturer Mr Thornton. North and South is a well written novel by iconic Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. Margaret is torn from the bucolic surroundings of Hampshire in classic fish-out-of-water style. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one. Gaskell's priorities lay with storytelling. North and South is a social novel published in 185455 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. ![]()
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