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North and South draws on Gaskell's own experiences of the poverty and hardship of life in the industrial north of England. Her heroine, Margaret Hale, is taken from the wealthy south by her nonconformist minister father, to live in a fictional northern town. The stark differences are explored through Margaret's abrupt change in circumstance, and her sympathetic reaction to the plight of the northerners. She comes into conflict with a local
...2) Ruth
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English
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The orphaned heroine Ruth is seduced then abandoned by wealthy Henry Bellingham. Shamed in society's eyes by her illegitimate son, yet rejecting the opportunity to marry her seducer, Ruth affirms that we are not bound to repeat our mistakes.