North and South

Both, a timeless romance and a richly detailed social novel, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell's masterpiece of Victorian Literature. It is a novel of love and social strife in northern England during the industrial revolution. When Margaret Hale is uprooted from Hampshire and moves to the industrial town of Milton in the North of England, her whole world changes. As her sympathy for the town's mill workers grows, her sense of social injustice awakens and she passionately fights their corner.