North and South
Age: 15+
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- Courage
- Empathy
- Complaining
- Dishonesty
Values
Struggles
How Can I Use This Book?
- Why does Gaskell spend time describing the Indian shawls? What do they represent? p. 9
- How were Indian textiles looked upon in the 17th and early 18th centuries? How did that change after the Industrial Revolution?
- Look up the Calico Acts of the early 18th century. How did these acts impact India?
- How do Margaret’s parents’ strengths and weaknesses contribute to the person she becomes?
- How does the relationship between Thornton and Higgins begin, evolve and finally blossom? What is Gaskell telling us about class differences through this relationship?
What’s This Book About?
Set in the mid-19th century North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skillful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal and public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society. This is a tale of hard-won triumphs—of rational thought over prejudice and of humane care over blind deference to the market.
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Anything I need to be aware of?
VIEW FLAGSGenres: Educational, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
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