Status Updates From North and South

“Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used — not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.” (Chap. XIV, p. 109)
Love Margaret and her characterization 🫶🏻

Goshhhhhhh. I didn’t like Henry in the 2004 BBC miniseries but he is soooooo much worse in the book. Insufferable 🚨

At one point, Gaskell describes a woman’s marriage to the love of her life as “her affliction and downfall” simply because she’s poor and that might be the most melodramatic thing a Victorian woman has ever penned.

Surprisingly similar to the mini series. Very good story and it’s interesting to learn about the mills and industrial part of the 1800’s.