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North and South / Elizabeth Gaskell.

by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.

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Oxford University Press, 2008.

Women -- England -- Fiction.

Social classes -- Fiction.

Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.

England, Northern -- Fiction.

England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Penguin English library.

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press.

Penguin classics.

9780141198927 (2012 Penguin English Library trade pbk.)

9780199537006 (2008 Oxford World's Classics trade pbk.)

9780141028125 (2006 Pocket Penguin Classic pbk.)

9780140430554 (1986 Penguin classics pbk.)

[1], 540 p. port. 19 cm.

First published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens.

Includes bibliographical references

Novel examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skillfully explores issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers conflicts with her growing attraction to the mill owner, John Thornton. This new and revised expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.

Historical fiction.

Didactic fiction.

Classic fiction.

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