This paper concerns with one of her social explorers: the middle class heroine Margaret Hale who was brought up in the South but is forced to leave her home and move to an industrial town in the North. 2. ... Elizabeth Gaskell, the author of North and South, was a first-hand witness to the effects of the industrial revolution since she was living in one of the biggest industrial towns of the time: Manchester. ... This quality of straightforwardness "equips Margaret to urge straight speaking on Thornton and Higgins" (Stoneman 128). ... Her contact with common people (laborers in H...

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