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Dear Miss Hale ... by dianakc
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
23 Feb 2024
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A series of letters exchanged between Margaret Hale and John Thornton over the period of a month. This takes place after Margaret's parents have died and she is living in London.
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04 Dec 2025
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Cotton by SarahsPen
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom
28 Sep 2023
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As the Hale family struggles to adjust to life in an industrial town, Margaret Hale befriends Fanny Thornton and develops an unexpected bond with her older brother, cotton manufacturer John Thornton. Meanwhile, the spectre of civil war in America threatens social and economic unrest across northern England, including for the people of Milton.
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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
04 Nov 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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14 Sep 2025
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The Oak and the Ash by SomebodyCalledMeSebastian
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
23 Jul 2022
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After an explosive argument where Margaret confronts Mr Thornton directly about the Outwood misunderstanding, Mr Thornton and Margaret begin a gentle courtship, slowly getting to know one another. Will they fall in love? ;-)
A romantic HEA story, with a moment or two of minor angst and mild sex.
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From the Ashes - Break of Dawn by TRavine
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
17 Jul 2022
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Sequel to my story "From the Ashes".
Over the course of their first year of marriage, John and Margaret gradually grow to know and understand each other better, as they come to terms with the past and build a future together.
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- Part 2 of From the Ashes