![]() ![]() ![]() Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchester, where she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. The novel traces her growing understanding of the complexity of labour relations and their influence on well-meaning mill owners and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton. Sympathetic to the poor (whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friends), she clashes with John Thornton: a nouveau riche cotton-mill owner who is contemptuous of his workers. North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. She witnesses the brutal world wreaked by the Industrial Revolution, seeing employers and workers clashing in the first strikes. It is set during the Industrial Revolution. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton. Elizabeth Gaskells novel North and South is a tale of love, growth, and change. The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor North and South uses a protagonist from southern England to present and comment on the perspectives of mill owners and workers in an industrialising city. ![]() North and South is a social novel published in 1854 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 - 1865). ![]()
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