Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South – class warfare, 'shoppy people' and radical love
- Written by: Matthew Sussman, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
Daniela Denby-Ashe in the BBC TV adaptation of North and South.BBCThe industrial revolution was one of the biggest cataclysms in European history. Between 1790 and 1850, the countryside rapidly depopulated. Huge masses of people flooded into cities for factory work, living cheek-by-jowl in unhygienic slums.
In Britain, the government could barely...
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