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Margaret’s mother is a flighty, delicate woman, prone to headaches. And the southern idyll begins to crack.Īfter much contemplation and prayer, her father decides to leave the church, thus losing his profession and their home. She turns down an offer of marriage from an eligible man. Following her cousin’s marriage, Margaret returns to her beloved village of Helstone, to its vicarage. North and South follows the story of one Margaret Hale, a nineteen-year-old vicar’s daughter, who has received a genteel upbringing in her aunt’s London home. It’s good stuff! Among These Dark Satanic Mills: When a Southern Lady Meets a Northern Industrialist A mash-up of Austen and Dickens, with a sprinkling of the Brontës, and yet distinctly her own. North and South is this fabulous blend of Austen-like romance with class struggle, social injustice, and the effects of capitalism. Reaping the benefits of socialism in this socialist country I call home, coming from a long lineage of outspoken unionists and being a woman who once wrote a Masters’ thesis steeped in Marxist theory, I should have read North and South years ago. And then I decided to start some reading of Gaskell. Miniseries of Wives and Daughters, Cranford and Return to Cranford have followed. This major gap in my life – and it is a decided gap, I have discovered – had started to be bridged this past autumn, when I discovered the BBC’s North and South miniseries. I hadn’t read any of her books, hadn’t seen any of the adaptations and miniseries, and I’m a former English major, gosh darn it! Over forty years on this planet, and I’ve had nothing to do with Elizabeth Gaskell.

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