![]() ![]() In another important subplot, there’s a strike going on with all of Milton’s factories, which threatens to shut down Thornton’s business for good. So with her prejudices of him in hand (there are some major similarities here to Pride and Prejudice), the romance between the two develops slowly. Thornton, on the other hand, is attracted to Margaret despite her initial disdain for him. Margaret misunderstands him from the start, thinking he’s a cruel master over the poor people who work for him. The first time she sees him, Thornton is treating a worker severely. When Margaret moves to Milton, a poverty-stricken factory town (after her father resigns as Vicar due to a matter of conscience), she crosses paths with John Thornton, who runs a cotton mill. ![]() It tells the epic love story of a young woman, Margaret Hale, from the South and an industrialist from the North. If you’re not familiar with the story, North and South is a four-part miniseries of Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1854 novel of the same name. ![]()
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