SOURCE: Johnson, Patricia E. “Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: A National Bildungsroman.” The Victorian Newsletter 85 (spring 1994): 1-9.
In the following essay, Johnson examines North and South as a Bildungsroman in which the characters Margaret and Thornton achieve maturity by revising their ideologies of class and gender.
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