Shaw's house on Harley Street, in neither 'North' nor 'South' but rather in London. North and South is neatly organized its first and last scenes take place in the same back drawing room of the same affluent Mrs.

As she travels the public spaces of streets and railroads, she advances in her private educational progress towards understanding both herself and her world, in order to better serve her family and her society. In North and South, moving to and within the industrial city called Milton, Margaret Hale acquires a breadth of understanding and competence that contradicts our own century's stereotype of the sheltered Victorian female. In all of Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction, places of movement, like streets, wharves, market places, and railroads, are loci of education. The title hints that this novel's theme is movement from one physical place to another, places which represent the attitudes and values of those who choose them and those who experience them.

14-26.ĮDUCATION THROUGH EXPERIENCE IN NORTH AND SOUTH Mary H KuhlmanĪbout Gaskell's fourth novel, Jenny Uglow says, ' North and South is part Bildungsroman, part industrial novel.' 1 Fused together, these depict the growth of the private main character, Margaret Hale, and the conditions of the public world around her in Victorian urbanized and industrialized Britain, so that Margaret is educated through various experiences of an industrialized society. The Gaskell Society Journal Volume 10 (1996) pp.

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