On starting the book my initial thoughts were, how am I going to get through this? Four hundred and seventy eight pages of extremely wordy nineteenth century English in what was inevitably going to be a romance. Against this backdrop of social unrest, the relationship between the two is tumultuous, and it takes further upheaval and tragedy for them to see each other in a different light.įirst serialized in Dickens’s magazine Household Words in the same period as Hard Times, North and South shares its famous counterpart’s concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, while at the same time creating one of the nineteenth century’s most memorable and engaging female protagonists in Margaret Hale. She is shocked by the poverty she encounters and dismayed by the unsympathetic attitude of the textile-mill owner John Thornton, whose factory workers are engaged in an acrimonious strike. Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of Milton. Released – 22nd February 2018 (Originally released in 1855)įormat – ebook, paperback, hardcover, audio
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