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en-wikipedia-org-8719		North and South (Gaskell novel) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	8307	739	69	The novel's title (imposed by Dickens) focuses on the difference in lifestyle between rural southern England, inhabited by the landed gentry and agricultural workers, and the industrial north, populated by capitalist manufacturers and poverty-stricken mill workers;[2] the north-south division was cultural and geographical.[4] The story centers on haughty Margaret Hale, who learns to overcome her prejudices against the North in general and charismatic manufacturer John Thornton in particular. Gaskell, the daughter, and wife of a pastor, did not write a religious novel, although religion plays an important role in her work.[36] Unitarians interpreted biblical texts symbolically, rather than literally.[37] They did not believe in original sin or that women were guiltier or weaker than men, and were more liberal than Methodists, Anglicans or Dissenters.[38] North and South presents a typical picture of Unitarian tolerance in one evening scene: "Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together".[39] The Thorntons do not invoke religion as the Hales do, although Mrs. Thornton reads Matthew Henry's Exposition of the Old and New Testaments.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8719.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8719.txt