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Scheila Minnitte
Professor Dr Cameron Dodworth
English 3920 Nineteenth-Century British Literature
23 November 2015
Margaret Hale: From Rural to Urban
Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South present the readers with a captivating novel about
the role of woman in the nineteenth century and provides an understanding of the motives of
social power. Margaret Hale, the main protagonist, is a southern young lady from the rural town
of Helstone, who possess a noble hearth and a robust personality. Her father decides to abandon
his career as a priest at the Church of England, and the family moves to the Northern town of
