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The lure of a new life in the North; The BBC's new drama series NorthAnd South tells of a young lady's dread of living inManchester but today a girl would not be anywhere else.

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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20041114
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Byline: SUE CORBETT

Young people's take on Manchester has changed dramatically in the century-and-a-half since Elizabeth Gaskell forced the unwilling heroine of her novel North And South to move there.

In 1855 she took it for granted that a vibrant young woman like Margaret Hale (played by Daniela Denby-Ashe in the television adaptation of the book starting on BBC1 tonight) would despair at the thought of Manchester life and infinitely prefer to potter about in her father's New Forest parsonage, with honeysuckle and roses round the door.

But in 2004, any author ...

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