For some reason I confused this novel with the John Jakes book of the same title and I wondered why a young female Victorian author would have written a book about American Civil War. Any way, when I started writing this review I sat for minutes staring at the blinking curser wondering how I should ...
This book is no Middlemarch, but Elizabeth Gaskell is a similarly astute observer of human behavior, particularly the struggle to do what is good and right in a time of social, economic, and political upheaval. Few of the characters remain static: they change their minds, form unlikely friendships a...
North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell's second social novel, and fourth romance. With it, the author gives us a perfect description of the discrepancies between the South,with his quieter way of living, and the industrialized North. The relations between the work force and the factories masters a...
Young Margaret Hale's life is turned on its head when her father, a parson from the South of England, renounces his position because he experiences a crisis of faith. He moves his anxious wife and dutiful daughter to the factory town of Milton Northern, where he's going to work as a tutor. The town,...
This is by far, my favourite Victorian novel I’ve read to date. The tension mounts slowly and deliciously as our heroine is prevented from acting by the social constraints of her time. Misunderstandings and false assumptions abound until the reader’s patience is tenderly rewarded. Elizabeth Gaske...
The North and South of the novel isn't American, but English, although there are some interesting similarities. As depicted in this mid-19th Century novel, in the south of England are the "aristocratic counties" and largely agricultural. Margaret Hale, the novel's protagonist, is from that rural sou...
At first glance into the book's discription and some scattered reviews, I thought North and South to be simply another Price and Prejudice, albeit a highly recommended one. But it is certainly not. Sure, it does feature romance (and in my humble opinion, a better one - I always have a little trouble...
This was one of the rare occasions on which I saw the movie (in this case miniseries) before I read the book. And though it’s always a different experience to read a story when you already mostly sort of know the ending, this book’s value wasn’t much diminished by an advance knowledge of the plot. ...
When her father leaves the Church of England, Margaret Hale and her family must move from pastoral southern England to the manufacturing town of Milton. Margaret first suffers from culture shock, but soon finds herself caught up in the politics of the town, and between her sympathy for the poor work...
I had already seen the BBC production of North and South (many, many times!) before reading this book so had a good idea of the story and the setting. North and South, in some respects, is like a grittier version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (another book and TV adaptation that I love). The ...
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