Victorian Period

You are Cordially Invited to the JASNA~SC March Meeting with

Deborah Barnum
A Lecture and Book Discussion on

Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South: A Victorian Pride and Prejudice

Saturday. 16 March 2024, 2-4 pm
Bluffton Library
120 Palmetto Way Bluffton, SC 29910

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North and South, published in 1855, has been described as an industrialized Pride and Prejudice. Set in a mill-town in Victorian England (think Manchester), it is a powerful book of social commentary. Margaret Hale, suddenly uprooted from her gentrified existence in southern England to a town in the noisy industrial north, is at first horrified by the poverty and suffering all around her. But as she begins to befriend the mill-workers and their families, and finds herself in a battle of wills with the wealthy mill owner John Thornton, she develops a sense of social justice and new insights about the human condition. She is a sparkling heroine; he is no Mr. Darcy, only better!

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Deb Barnum lectures on all things Jane Austen…This will be a visual talk on Gaskell and a discussion – read the book if you can – but not required!

~ Free & open to the public ~
~ Light refreshments served ~

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Hope you can join us!