I had never really considered reading any Elizabeth Gaskell novels until I watched, and greatly enjoyed, the BBC adaptation of North and South.I have to say, I love both the book and the miniseries equally! Mr Thornton has definitely acceded to the post of best literary hero in my mind (sorry, Mr Da...
Parece fanfiction de Jane Austen. Quizá fanfiction del que no es horrible, pero si son casi los mismos personajes y situaciones que podemos encontrar en Orgullo y Prejuicio o Sentido y Sensibilidad, aunqe sin el sentido del humor característico de Austen.Debo admitir que la parte social de este libr...
Was inspired to read the book by my love for the BBC mini-series. While I liked the book I preferred the mini-series - regardless the mini-series did a good job adapting the book. The book gets a little sentimental and preachy at points (the mini-series strips these out which is why I liked it bette...
Set in the 1850s, Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South is a Pride and Prejudice themed story of the industrial age of Victorian England. When Margaret Hale’s father loses his faith but not his principles, he resigns from his position as the church minister of a small country village in the south of ...
Another wonderful story from Elizabeth Gaskell. Margaret Hale leaves the bucolic south of England and moves to the industrial north, probably Manchester. There she meets the poor, destitute workers and one owner of a mill, Mr. Thornton. Gaskell presents the viewpoints of both sides with sympathy ...
I have just completed reading this book for the second time and it has been even better then the first time.I'd already seen the BBC series before reading the first time so I already knew the story, and I wish I'd come to the books afresh in a way though I do not think that would have altered in any...
Margaret Hale is a pretty young woman growing up in her aunt's fashionable London household alongside her cousin, Edith. Due to the impending marriage of Edith to one Captain Lennox and subsequent move to Corfu, Margaret is to return to her father's vicarage in the English countryside. She arrives...
Until embarrassingly recently I really only knew Gaskell as Charlotte Brontë’s (not so objective) biographer. Fortunately I was tipped off to Gaskell’s brilliance by via her contribution (The Manchester Marriage) to the collaborative novella A House to Let. Her piece, which really stood out in tha...
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