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Industrial north v intellectual south. Margaret is forced into Milton (Manchester). She meets textile factory owner Thornton. Harsh man in a tough business. She's appalled, but attracted. EX. He beats a man who he catches smoking in his factory and fires him. She is outraged. He tells her of a fire caused by smoking in another factory that killed 30.
— Apr 22, 2026 09:28AM
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Carl
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The enthusiasm has waned. The ending is obvious and the obstacles aren't that interesting. 1) It's all a misunderstanding, and everybody looks better for it.
Margaret is seen with her brother, helping him escape. Thornton believes she's compromised by this late night meeting with a male, but he continues to act nobly toward her. Score one for him. More at: http://goo.gl/SmyLV4
— Aug 18, 2016 07:53PM
Margaret is seen with her brother, helping him escape. Thornton believes she's compromised by this late night meeting with a male, but he continues to act nobly toward her. Score one for him. More at: http://goo.gl/SmyLV4
Carl
is on page 305 of 406
Gaskell's take on unions seems to come to this. The unions, if they force men to join, are guilty of the same sort of tyranny as owners. Our strong union man (Higgins) is made to seem somewhat responsible for the suicide of a fellow worker who didn't want to join the union but was forced to. Hmmm.
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— Aug 17, 2016 12:52PM
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Carl
is on page 275 of 406
The political to and fro has sadly faded away, and the novel has taken a decidedly soap opera turn. The strike loses its impetus when the strikers engage in violence and lose sympathy. (Margaret, standing next to Thornton, is hit in the head by a stone.)
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— Aug 16, 2016 07:11PM
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Carl
is on page 175 of 406
Conflicts raging
Thornton's workers have gone on strike.
Margaret sympathetic to both Thornton and the workers.
Mrs. Hale getting sicker
Bessy getting sicker
Children of strikers getting hungry.
Great confrontation scene between Thornton and his workers. Margaret gets hit by a rock; the men leave; Irish scab workers hiding upstairs.
Gaskell knows how to move a plot along!
— Aug 15, 2016 02:40PM
Thornton's workers have gone on strike.
Margaret sympathetic to both Thornton and the workers.
Mrs. Hale getting sicker
Bessy getting sicker
Children of strikers getting hungry.
Great confrontation scene between Thornton and his workers. Margaret gets hit by a rock; the men leave; Irish scab workers hiding upstairs.
Gaskell knows how to move a plot along!
Carl
is on page 130 of 406
Thornton is the "good" owner--straightforward in his dealings with factory workers, but he insists he has no obligation to explain any of the economics to the men.
Bessy's father (she is the sick girl--cotton dust--whom Margaret has befriended) is headed out on strike.
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— Aug 14, 2016 12:24PM
Bessy's father (she is the sick girl--cotton dust--whom Margaret has befriended) is headed out on strike.
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Carl
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North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
I've liked other Gaskell novels, and this one is promising. Mostly interesting characters.
Father (Richard) is a vicar who is forced by his conscience to give up his living and his wonderful little vicarage in the south of England. He is a dissenter--basically believes that the Church of England is too involved in the world more at: http://goo.gl/3fnhTj
— Aug 13, 2016 07:21PM
I've liked other Gaskell novels, and this one is promising. Mostly interesting characters.
Father (Richard) is a vicar who is forced by his conscience to give up his living and his wonderful little vicarage in the south of England. He is a dissenter--basically believes that the Church of England is too involved in the world more at: http://goo.gl/3fnhTj
