![]() ![]() ![]() Hale’s health is immediate and a matter of great concern. Hale and Dixon have an especially hard time adjusting to the grime, grayness and fast-paced life of an industrialized town. Margaret, her mother and their servant Dixon have nothing to say in the matter and find their lives turned upside down. Hale had been a minister but has become a Dissenter and left his parish to become a teacher. Our heroine Margaret Hale is 19, and she and her parents have left their beloved, idyllic Helstone in the South for Milton. North and South takes place in the 1850s in the North, in a town called Milton which I believe is a stand in for Manchester, the industrial heart of England. North and South is all about power relationships, abuse within them and the struggle for equality. I was impressed with the subject matter Gaskell took on in her work. ![]() I recently watched it (loved it!) and decided to give the novel a try. Over the years, on social media, I’ve seen references to “ThorntonThursdays” with pictures and video clips but I only recently discovered that they came from the 2004 BBC series North and South. She was a contemporary of the Brontes, friend to and biographer of Charlotte, and in her novel North and South she channels both the dark undercurrents of the Brontes and the romance of Austen. During my high school years, I was introduced to Jane Austen and the Brontes but for some reason never Elizabeth Gaskell. ![]()
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