This story begins with Augusta Markham and her uncle Alexander Colbourne making their way to the ball in Sanditon. Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings.Within weeks they have left their home in Helstone and are travelling towards Milton and a completely new way of life. Reluctantly Margaret does it, dealing with her mother's confusion, grief, and anger while her father absents himself from the house.
He pitifully begs her to break the news to her mother, as he can't bring himself to do so. Hale has decided to do this and finally confides in Margaret, who is completely shocked. Hale move there and take work as a tutor. Bell who owns land in the northern factory town of Milton. Hale has been corresponding with his old college friend Mr. He doesn't feel that he can, in good conscience, remain in his post as a vicar and so has resigned from his parish. Hale is having a crisis of faith- not in God, but in the tenets of the Church of England. Margaret's intuition about her father's state of mind proves correct. She is relieved when he returns to London. She doesn't succeed,but Henry hides his disappointment behind a mask of cynical indifference which Margaret finds off putting. Caught off guard, she awkwardly fumbles for words to refuse him without hurting his feelings. Margaret's peace is further disrupted by Henry Lennox turning up and abruptly proposing to her. So, oblivious to his regard, Margaret happily returns to Helstone and settles there. Or rather, Margaret regards him as a friend: he has developed deeper feelings for her though being a cautious, methodical lawyer, he has never expressed them.
She attempts to describe it to Henry Lennox, brother to Edith's fiance, who has become her friend.
Margaret has had only brief visits to Helstone during her decade in London and has formed an idealized picture in her mind of life there- quiet, peaceful, and perfect. She is relieved that after the wedding she will be returning to Helstone to live with her parents. Though very fond of Edith, Margaret is growing tired of the shallow pursuits and vapid social interactions that constitute her life in London. Hale is an unambitious vicar in the small village of Helstone in southern England.Īs the novel picks up, Edith is getting married to Captain Sholto Lennox and moving to Corfu where he is posted. Hale is generally considered to have married beneath her Rev. Aunt Shaw is is Margaret's mother's widowed sister who is of higher social and economic status because she married well.
At the beginning of the novel, she has been living in London with her Aunt Shaw for ten years as a companion to her her aunt's daughter Edith. It's main character is 19 year old Margaret Hale, the daughter of Rev. North and South is a novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell in 1855.
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