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North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
4.0

While I don't have much to add to any reviews of Gaskell's novel of the Industrial North - beyond it has a very nice love story and Mrs. Thornton is a great character - I do wonder if the "social novel" got a little lost in the love story. Because the workers start to fade into the background the more Margaret starts to fall in love with John.

But it is a very nice piece of Victorian literature (and without all of Dickens's prating flat characters).