Elizabeth Gaskell North and South review and information about the 1855 English novel. Between 1854 and 1855, American author Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel was published in the Charles Dickens owned magazine Household Words. Here you can read information about the novel’s content, reception, reviews and author.
Elizabeth Gaskell North and South reviews
- “Elizabeth Gaskell’s rich weave of storytelling and social chronicle remains a landmark.” (The Guardian)
- “An admirable story … full of character and power.” (Charles Dickens)
North and South
- Author: Elizabeth Gaskell (England)
- Book type: 1855 English social novel
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Length: 479 pages
- Format: paperback / ebook / audiobook
- Prize: £ 7.99
- Editorial Rating: ∗∗∗∗∗ (excellent)
- Order book from: Amazon / Bol
Blurb of the 1855 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell
When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice.
In North and South Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern and in Margaret Hale created one of the mostoriginal heroines of Victorian literature.
Elizabeth Gaskell was born September 29, 1810 in London, but 
grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848, winning the attention of Charles Dickens, and most of her later work was published in his journals. She was also a lifelong friend of Charlotte Brontë, whose biography she wrote. On November 12, 1865 she died in Holybourne, Hampshire at the age of 55. Her grave is near the Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford.