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Ireland is only mentioned three times within the book (Gaskell). The first time was on page 146 and the context was Mr. Thornton was talking about getting hired hands from Ireland to replace the workers that were on strike at the time (Gaskell). This event caused a cascade of events that led to an impromptu strike against the wishes of the Worker's Union (Gaskell).
In Gaskell's North and South, Wales is talked about as a place to settle down, pictured as a farm house in the wild that would have been preferrable over Margaret's current situation.
In Gaskell's book North and South. Corfu is known as the future home of Edith after her wedding, And a point of travel during the earlier chapters of the text.
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Johann Christian Reil, a German psychologist, helped to make a distinction between philosophy and psychology by giving credence to the field of psychology at the time. He is often credited with coining the term "psychiatry" (Schochow, Steger). Psychiatry, in it's most basic interpretation, is essentially treating the mind as something that can be rehabilitated. This would mean that different conditions could be applied to the state of mind that somebody is in, and an intervention process could exist depending on the circumstances.
