North and South
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cover: Work (1852-65, cropped), oil on canvas by Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1893)
North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. With Wives and Daughters (1866) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004). At first, Gaskell wanted the novel to be titled after the heroine, Margaret Hale, but Charles Dickens, the editor of Household Words, the magazine in which the novel was serialised, insisted on North and South.
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Table of contents
- 1: “Haste to the Wedding.”
- 2: Roses and Thorns
- 3: “The More Haste the Worse Speed.”
- 4: Doubts and Difficulties
- 5: Chapter 5
- 6: Chapter 6
- 7: New Scenes and Faces
- 8: Home Sickness
- 9: Dressing for Tea
- 10: Wrought Iron and Gold
- 11: First Impressions
- 12: Morning Calls
- 13: Soft Breeze in a Sultry Place
- 14: The Meeting
- 15: Masters and Men
- 16: The Shadow of Death
- 17: What Is a Strike?
- 18: Likes and Dislikes
- 19: Angel Visits
- 20: Men and Gentlemen
- 21: The Dark Night
- 22: A Blow and Its Consequences
- 23: Chapter 23
- 24: Mistakes Cleared Up
- 25: Chapter 25
- 26: Mother and Son
- 27: Chapter 27
- 28: Comfort in Sorrow
- 29: A Ray of Sunshine
- 30: Home at Last
- 31: “Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot.”
- 32: Chapter 32
- 33: Chapter 33
- 34: False and True
- 35: Chapter 35
- 36: Union Not Always Strength
- 37: Looking South
- 38: Promises Fulfilled
- 39: Making Friends
- 40: Out of Tune
- 41: The Journey’s End
- 42: Alone! Alone!
- 43: Margaret’s Flittin’
- 44: Ease Not Peace
- 45: Not All a Dream
- 46: Once and Now
- 47: Something Wanting
- 48: “Ne’er to Be Found Again.”
- 49: Breathing Tranquillity
- 50: Changes at Milton
- 51: Meeting Again
- 52: “Pack Clouds Away.”