"It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the narrow divide between sanity and insanity, using as its focus one of the most fascinating of all Victorian heroines."
""North and South" follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north while meeting a dashing mill owner."
"Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she ends up in an affair."
