This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.” Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret’s ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder, John Thornton. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman, and from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny, it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Overall, it was an enjoyable series.“North and South is a novel about rebellion. The characters were articulate and the plot was both credible and absorbing. The story was well told with excellent acting, especially from Armitage, Sinead Cusack and Tim Piggott Smith.
The BBC is very good at this sort of thing. Gaskell, and the central characters go through some hardships and misunderstandings before they reach the predictable happy ending. She befriends the family of a union leader and causes controversy by speaking her mind about working conditions in the mills. Hale's family don't have a lot of money and seem out of place. The heroine is Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe) a clergyman's daughter from Hampshire who finds it difficult to fit into northern society.
The hero is John Thornton (Richard Armitage) a self-made mill owner, who initially appears to be an aloof and brutal tyrant (Mr. The story is set mainly in England's industrial North West during the 1850s, a time when even the rich seemed on the verge of destitution. I've probably seen far too many BBC costume dramas, but we were both gripped immediately and watched the whole thing in one sitting - all four hours. I bought the DVD version for my wife she liked the book and enjoyed the BBC version of Wives & Daughters.
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