Status Updates From North and South (Vintage Ed...

She writes more like a Victorian realist than a Regency stylist, and that means the pacing leans slower and the prose heavier. And because Gaskell lingers on description and moral feeling, it can feel like the plot is taking too long to arrive. At that almost 35% cut off I’ll either feel it spill over into something I can’t quite put down or something I forget about.