• ISBN13: 9780140434248
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books
• Publication Date: June 1, 1996
• Pages: 480
• Original Price: INR 399.0
• Language: English
• Edition: Revised
• Item Weight: 340 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

From the Back Cover
From her home ground, her father's comfortably middle-class living in Hampshire and her aunt's establishment in Harley Street, Margaret is exiled to the ugly northern industrial town of Milton. Surprisingly, her social consciousness awakens. It is intensified by a relationship with the local mill-owner, Thornton, that combines passionate attraction with fierce opposition. The novel explores the exploitation of the working class, linking the plight of workers with that of women and probing the myth and reality of the 'north-south divide'.

Patricia Ingham is Senior Research Fellow and Reader at St Anne's College, Oxford. She has written on the Victorian novel and on Hardy in particular. she is the General Editor of all Hardy's fiction in the Penguin Classics and has edited Gaskell's North and South for the series.