leaving_fragments 's review for:

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

4.0

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it's astounding how current the themes of this book still are.... the problem of a justice system more swayed by authority than evidence in the case of frederic mirrors racism in treatment of non-white people by the police today, the scene of margaret hiding on the women's toilet at the train station because she feels unsafe at night alone as a woman, the conflict of outsourcing labour to those who will work for lower wages... it's all still relevant commentary on society today, although it was published 170 years ago