Published in 1854, North and South is GaskelI's great novel of social unrest. Its themes of responsibility, duty; class, and gender in a changing society are mirrored in the day-to-day struggles of its heroine, Margaret Hale, as she adjusts to life in the northern industrial town of Milton, The text is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotation for student reamers.

Preface

The Text of North and South

Volume I

Volume II

Contexts (18 50-1900)

LETTERS

Elizabeth Gaskell·From Letters

Charles Dickens · From Letters

Other ContemporarY Correspondence

CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS

The Spectator · From New Novels (31 March 1855)

Henry Fothergill Chorley · The Athenaeum (7 April

 1855)

Manchester Weekly Advertiser · From Unsigned Review

  (14 April 1855)

Margaret Oliphant · Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

  (May 1855)

Emile Montegut · Revue des Deux Mondes (1 October

  1855)

Graham's Magazine · From Review of New Books (June

1855)

 Elizabeth Gaskell· Lizzie Leigh

 Friedrich Engels · [Manchester at Mid-Century]

 [The Preston Strike]

William Rathbone Greg · The Claims of Labour

W. E. Forster· Strikes and Lock-Outs

 Bessie Rayner Parkes · The Condition of Working Women

in England and France

 Henry Bristow Wilson· [The Clergyman and His

Conscience]

Criticism

 Louis Cazamian· Mrs Gaskell and Christian

Interventionism: North and South

 A. W. Ward· [North and South in Context]

 Elizabeth Haldane· ]Elizabeth Gaskell and Florence

Nightingale]

 Raymond Williams · [North and South and the "structure of

feeling"]

 Aina Rubenius · Factory Work for Women

 Dorothy W. Collin · The Composition of Mrs. Gaskell's

North and South

 W. A. Craik· [The Topography of North and South]

  Rosemarie Bodenheimer · North and South: A Permanent

State of Change

 Jo Pryke ·The Treatment of Political Economy in North

and South

  Hilary M. Schor · ["The Languages of Industrialization"]

 Terence Wright ·Women, Death and Integrity: North and

South

Elizabeth Gaskell: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography