CELEBRATING THE BEAUTIFUL ‘NORTH AND SOUTH’ 20 YEARS LATER. We celebrate the lovely #PeriodDrama from BBC. #JohnThornton #MargaretHale #NorthandSouth #Romance

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CELEBRATING THE BEAUTIFUL ‘NORTH AND SOUTH’ 20 YEARS LATER. Celebrating the period drama we feel in love with 20 years ago. Features Richard Armitage.

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Feeling bad for Mr. #JohnThornton.

"'Novelists like Edith Wharton depict the new money families of the Gilded Age, those whose fortunes came from industry rather than land holdings, experiencing an astronomical rise in wealth outpaced by their ability to understand or consume art & culture,' said Ms. Zibrak. 'In these novels, buying fake or purely decorative books is aligned w/having poor taste in art or an ignorance of social custom.'" (NYT) #NorthAndSouth #RichardArmitage #ElizabethGaskell

@JaHoe1960 That hand action! "Northern ways" to the extreme! 😉 😅 #NorthAndSouth #JohnThornton #Hands
Time to appreciate Northern ways and Milton masters! #RichardArmitage #JohnThornton #NorthandSouth #BBC #ElizabethGaskell
Higher demand for cotton clothing, a canceled strike, a copy of Microsoft Excel: Hey, an 1850s mill owner can dream. #NorthAndSouth #RichardArmitage #JohnThornton
A rose by any other name would not be a Helstone rose. #NorthAndSouth #JohnThornton #RichardArmitage #ThorntonThursday
A note on the other (Spanish) North and South in Mrs Gaskell’s North and South (1855)

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