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'But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.'
When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole world changes. As her sympathy for the town's mill workers grows, her sense of social injustice piques and she passionately fights their corner. However, just as she disputes the mill owner, John Thornton's treatment of his workers, she cannot deny her growing attraction to him. Highlighting the changing landscape of nineteenth-century Britain and championing the role of women in Victorian society, Gaskell brilliantly captures the lives of ordinary people through one of her strongest female characters in literature.
| ISBN: | 9780007902255 |
| Publication date: | 1st October 2011 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
| Publisher: | William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 594 pages |
| Series: | Collins Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Feminism and feminist theory Sociology: work and labour Social and cultural history Industrialisation and industrial history Social discrimination and social justice Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |