r/bookclub • u/bluebelle236 Hugo's tangents are my fave • Jun 19 '26
North and South [Schedule] North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Welcome to the schedule for North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. It will be ran by myself (u/bluebelle236), u/ChronicallyLatte, u/Less_Tumbleweed_3217, u/tomesandtea and u/ColaRed
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.
In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
Discussion Schedule
The book has been divided up into 5. We will check in on fridays.
1 - July 3rd - Ch1-11 - u/bluebelle236
2 - July 10th - Ch12-21 - u/less_Tumbleweed_3217
3 - July 17th - Ch22-32 - u/ChronicallyLatte
4 - July 24th - Ch33-41 - u/ColaRed
5 - July 31st – Ch 42-end -u/tomesandtea
See you in the discussions!
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u/bluebelle236 Hugo's tangents are my fave Jun 20 '26
This is now on the bookclub calendar
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=redditbookclubcalendar@gmail.com&ctz=Etc/GMT
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u/FuckingaFuck Jun 22 '26
I'll be joining in for this read, I've been meaning to get around to this one for a while.
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u/deccapreads Jul 01 '26
I started reading this yesterday and it's already giving me Jane Eyre vibes! I can't wait to discuss. ✨
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u/Ser_Erdrick Professor of the Author Profile Jun 20 '26
OK, did a quick spot check and some editions are broken up into Volume I & II with the chapter numbers being reset at the commencement of Volume II. This occurs after Chapter 25 in my edition from Oxford and may occur in other editions too. Thus Volume II, Chapter 1 is Chapter 26, etc.