Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was a Victorian author and short story writer. An accomplished novelist, Gaskell's best known works include MARY BARTON, NORTH AND SOUTH and WIVES AND DAUGHTERS. She is noteworthy for her extensive use of dialect in her stories, as well as a strong Gothic streak in her ghost stories.
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NORTH AND SOUTH is a study in contrasts between rural southern England and industrial northern England. The heroine is a parson's daughter whose religious doubts have forced him to resign his Hampshire office in the rural South and to move his family to an industrial manufacturing town in Darkshire, the fictional Milton.
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