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