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The Air Is Full Of Spices by Aaliko
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
06 Oct 2025
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'Love and Marriage, they go together like a horse and carriage', goes the song.
But how do desire, attraction and affection evolve in a happy marriage? Here is a fic following John and Margaret's love through the years, to explore these universal themes.
About the title: "The Air Is Full Of Spices" is a quote from 1995's movie Sense and Sensibility, when Colonel Brandon answers young Margaret Dashwood's question about India. Close your eyes and hear dear Alan Rickman's velvety voice speak his reply... you'll get a good notion of my inspiration for this story 😍
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Never Doubt I Love by VeeDeeAnn
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
03 Oct 2025
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John Thornton, Mill owner of Milton Northern. Handsome, successful, a driven complicated man with a tragic and mysterious past. Margaret Hale, of Helstone and London. Beautiful, young, protected by her loving uncle, and cousin of society beauty Lady Edith Lennox. North and South. Their lives are worlds apart, and the path to true love never did run smooth…..
Set in a later period, beginning in 1869, this is AU John and Margaret’s love story, with many obstacles and misunderstandings before our lovers are finally united.
Do not be fooled dear reader, things are not always as they seem, and all will be revealed at the end!! While these are not the John and Margaret of canon, I hope I have retained the essence of Mrs Gaskell’s characters.
Comments are most welcome.
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Interstitial by LikeMuh_Fashnik
Fandoms: North and South (UK TV), North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
01 Oct 2025
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What was this, the third time? Or the fourth?
Margaret Hale was beginning to lose track. Not that every time John Thornton kissed her wasn't highly memorable, just that it was starting to become a habit; the rule, rather than the exception.
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Basically, every time Margaret Hale and John Thornton were alone together and could have gotten frisky, they did.
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The Machinery Behind the World by sophiaquills
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South - Ambiguous Fandom, North and South (UK TV)
27 Sep 2025
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He was never in the plan.
Then again, neither was she.
But they arrived on time.
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A Marriage of Inconvenience by TheScribbler_CMB
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
27 Aug 2025
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A collection of short stories based on the premise that John and Margaret marry for convenience and gradually come to realise their feelings for each other.
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The First Time by Violet83
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
24 Aug 2025
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The first time John Thornton and Margaret Hale meet is in a Boston coffee shop. Is it love at first sight or just an irritating encounter?
Maybe by the second time (or third time, or fourth time...) they'll figure it out?
Now complete!
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Фанвидео создано для Зимней Фандомной Битвы 2017. Видеоряд из сериала "Север и Юг". Песня в исполнении Андрея Миронова.
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- Русский
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The Thornton Tales by TheScribbler_CMB
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
04 Aug 2025
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A series of short stories set after John and Margaret get engaged and celebrating the many years of their happy marriage.
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The Thorn and the Rose: A Collection of North and South Short Stories by TheScribbler_CMB
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
03 Aug 2025
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A series of quick and simple North and South fanfic stories that follow the love and life of John Thornton and Margaret Hale, spanning from their early days of misunderstandings to their happily forever after.
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A Milton Match - as seen from Standish House by DarkshireLass
Fandoms: North and South - Ambiguous Fandom, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
12 Jul 2025
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Margaret Hale and John Thornton have become engaged. Fanny Watson wished to find out more about their relationship and to impart advice on marriage. She is reminded of her own early married days with Robert Watson, as she watches her brother and his fiancee.
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- Part 3 of A Milton Match
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Before We Were Us by TheScribbler_CMB
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
16 Jun 2025
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A series of short stories exploring different paths by which John Thornton and Margaret Hale could have found each other, fallen for one another, and confessed their love.
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This Wild, Strange, Miserable Convenience by ElizabethHades
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
30 May 2025
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At her Father and Godfather's bidding, John Thornton makes another offer of marriage to Margaret Hale, who is no longer in any position to refuse. But he is determined to keep his own feelings to himself, and leave her to her desires and inclinations. He cannot risk having his world, and his heart, shattered by her once again...
If you love a soft, tender, lovesick John, and a fragile, gently trusting Margaret, this story is for you!
A slow-burn, HEA, romantic marriage of convenience, with some sickness, hurt/comfort, loneliness and a fair amount of angst and tension.
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A Milton Match - as seen from Marlborough House by DarkshireLass
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
30 May 2025
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When Mrs Thornton receives news of her son’s engagement to Margaret Hale, how does she react? We learn a bit about her past and see the newly engaged couple through her eyes. This story runs parallel to Anna Shaw’s view of events.
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- Part 2 of A Milton Match
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A Thrill of Hope by philipaholt for Vandraren_Lilly
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
24 May 2025
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In Breath of Hope, Margaret agrees to court John Thornton.
This is the story of that courtship and all that could have been.
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- Part 4 of The Greatest of These
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A Fall of Consequence by ForeverAutumn1
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
10 May 2025
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What if Frederick, not Leonards, suffered a fall at Outwood Station…
After Margaret Hale rejects his proposal, heartbroken John Thornton is devastated to see the woman he loves in the arms of another man. But when an accident leaves her lover injured, John becomes their only hope. Now he must face an impossible choice...
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A Milton Match – as seen from Harley Street by DarkshireLass
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
06 May 2025
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In the final chapters of North and South, Margaret Hale and John Thornton meet again at a dinner in the Harley Street house of Mrs Shaw and the Lennoxes. Seeing the reunion and their engagement from Anna Shaw’s point of view gives added insights and further glimpses of Margaret and John. We also learn a bit more about Anna Shaw. Is she as anodyne as the novel makes her appear? How does her past colour her thoughts on Margaret’s decision to marry John Thornton?
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- Part 1 of A Milton Match
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And so we will go on together, no longer strangers but not yet friends... by RoseintheBud
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South (UK TV)
27 Apr 2025
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What happened right after North & South ended? It turns out there was a lot of things that needed to be figured out. This is just a little slice of John and Margaret's lives in that window of time before they get married, from John's POV. As in the book, so here is John a beautiful, obsessive, neurotic man who doesn't think he is equal to Margaret and doesn't realize that she is every bit as in love with him as he is in love with her.
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A Marriage of Convenience by sophiaquills
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
19 Apr 2025
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Margaret is forced to marry John.
But can these two stubborn and passionate people overcome their differences and learn to fall in love.
[Started posing on FF.net but revising and completing it here]
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Tethered by AnnabellaGrace for SomebodyCalledMeSebastian
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
07 Mar 2025
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John Thornton had never stopped loving Margaret Hale, or wishing that he could call her his own. His mill was struggling financially, and she lived in London with her family, hundreds of miles away. In spite of the difficulties, did he have the audacity to go after her? If he did, how would she respond?
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New Year, New Beginnings by Kaybell
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
25 Feb 2025
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After Margaret offers John a “new beginning” to their friendship on New Year’s Eve, they are forced to wait out a storm together in his office. After some champagne, where will things lead? Takes place after Maria’s death and Outwood Station.