Torquay, England makes an appearance in North and South as Margaret begins to make plans for moving the family from Helstone to Milton. Mrs. Hale laments that Mr. Hale cannot not be with her during her respite while Margaret moves the family as he had done before their marriage. Mrs. Hale had spent that time in Torquay with a titled couple.
In North and South, Delhi, India enters the narrative when Margaret wears the shawls to show the guests before Edith's marriage. The shawls were imported, expensive, and a sign of wealth. Gaskell's incorporation of the Indian shawls into her narrative is meant to bring forth the importance of colonialism in British economics and society. Furthermore, it gives background to the importance of the manufacturing sectors that she weaves into the narrative later in Milton.
How does Casaubon exert his power over Dorothea?
“But this codicil is framed so as to make everybody believe that she did.” … “I couldn’t take any immediate action on that ground, Chettam. In fact, if it were possible to pack him off…it would look all the worse for Dorothea to those who knew about it. It would seem as if we distrusted her—distrusted her, you know.” (Ch. 49)
But the months gained on him and left his plans belated: he had only had time to ask for that promise by which he sought to keep his cold grasp on Dorothea’s life. (Ch. 50)
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Passages pertaining to my discussions:
She might have compared her experience at that moment to the vague, alarmed consciousness that her life was taking on a new form that she was undergoing a metamorphosis in which memory would not adjust itself to the stirring of new organs. Everything was changing its aspect: her husband's conduct, her husband's conduct, her own duteous feeling towards him, every struggle between them— and yet more, her whole relation to Will Ladislaw.
(Book V, chapter 8)
