![]() ![]() ![]() Margaret Hale was born and raised at Helstone parsonage, where her father has a small living. It tells the story of Margaret Hale as she struggles through personal trials and changes of circumstances during the three-year period covered in the novel. This novel, first published in book form in 1855, tells a tender and touching story. Margaret describes Helstone as “like a village in a poem-in one of Tennyson’s poems,” where cottages had “roses growing all over them.” The manufacturing town of Milton-Northern cannot be more different: It had a “lead-coloured cloud” hanging over it, and its air “had a faint taste and smell of smoke.” And, of course, the ways of their respective inhabitants will be different in proportion. The Hales are from Helstone, the Thorntons and Higginses are from Milton, the Shaws are from London. ![]() One cannot separate the people from the places. North and South is a novel where the places are as much the central characters as the protagonists themselves. So exclaims Margaret Hale in a fit of passion after a long day spent in the country hamlet of Helstone in recollection of days past. ![]() ‘Oh, Helstone! I shall never love any place like you.’ ![]()
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