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Trouble at t' mill

In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell determined to show her middle-class readers the problems of the poor in the new industrial towns. She gave her stubborn passion to her heroine, writes Jenny Uglow

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This article appeared in the Guardian on Saturday February 23 2008 on p21 of the Features & reviews section. It was last updated at 13:49 on March 23 2008.

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