north and south elizabeth gaskell chapter summaries

Hale feels about her circumstances when she compares them to her London based sister, Mrs. Hale) to a factory town would be quite the adjustment for anyone.Įven within the Hale family, we get a sense of class tension between how Mrs. Going from London and a certain level of high society (Margaret) and the hamlet of Helstone and being a pastor’s wife (Mrs. Up to this point, it is understandable that Margaret and her mother have noticed all that is unpleasant about Milton. ‘And may I say, you do not know the North?’ asked he, with an inexpressible gentleness in his tone as he saw that he had really hurt her.” Thornton,’ she concluded, collapsing into a determined silence, and angry with herself for having said so much. Thornton “’Now, in the South we have our poor, but there is not that terrible expression in their countenances of a sullen sense of injustice which I see here. Since the title is North and South, it is fitting to list this one first. I’ve noticed four themes that I will be curious to watch: John Thornton (a business man in Milton, Mr. Henry Lennox (brother to Captain Lennox) Margaret’s dad came to fetch her after nine years of living with the Shaws and having lessons with Edith. Now I know that it was Margaret’s cousin Edith who married Captain Lennox for love and that Margaret’s mother, Mrs. So, for the first time in Book Club history, I started a book over and I’m so glad I did! I am not sure why I missed everything the first round through, but I’m guessing I was thinking of other things as I read and (clearly) not paying attention. Was Margaret the one who got married in Chapter 1? I recall something about a wedding and her mom not coming because of clothing.

I could not have told you the name of anyone, except maybe Margaret. In Chapter 3 of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (free on Kindle) I had no idea what was going on.

North and south elizabeth gaskell chapter summaries