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In Our Time: North and South

North and South

09/03/2017

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, who set her 1855 novel in a version of Manchester she called Milton in the county of Darkshire.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South, published in 1855 after serialisation in Dickens' Household Words magazine. It is the story of Margaret Hale, who was raised in the South in the New Forest and London's Harley Street, and then moves North to a smokey mill town, Milton, in Darkshire. As well as Margaret's emotional life and her growing sense of independence, the novel explores the new ways of living thrown up by industrialisation, and the relationships between 'masters and men'. Many of Margaret Hale's experiences echo Gaskell's own life, as she was born in Chelsea and later moved to Manchester, and the novel has become valued for its insights into social conflicts and the changing world in which Gaskell lived.

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Sally Shuttleworth
Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford

Dinah Birch
Pro-vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool

And

Jenny Uglow
Biographer of Elizabeth Gaskell


Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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