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North and South is a social novel published in by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.

With Wives and Daughters and Cranfordit is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three timesand The version renewed click in the novel and attracted a wider readership. Gaskell's first novel, Mary Bartonfocused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor; North and South uses a protagonist from southern England to present and comment on the perspectives of mill owners and workers in an industrializing city. The novel is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the north of England.

Forced to leave her home in the tranquil, rural south, Margaret Hale settles with her parents in Milton. She witnesses the brutal world wrought by the Industrial Revolutionseeing employers and workers clashing in the first strikes. Sympathetic to the poor whose courage and tenacity she admires and among whom she makes friendsshe clashes with John Thornton: a nouveau riche cotton-mill owner who is contemptuous of his workers.

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The novel traces her growing understanding of the complexity of labour relations and their influence on well-meaning mill owners and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton. Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchesterwhere she lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister.

North and South originally appeared in 20 weekly episodes from September to January in Household Wordsedited by Charles Dickens. During this period Charles Dickens dealt with the same theme in Hard Times also a social novelwhich was published in the same magazine from April to August Hard Timeswhich shows Manchester the satirical Coketown in a negative light, challenged Gaskell and made the writing of her own novel more difficult; she had to ascertain that Dickens would not write about a strike. Gaskell found the time and technical constraints of serialized fiction particularly trying.

She had planned to write 22 episodes but was "compelled to desperate compression" to limit the story to North and South was less successful than Hard Times.]