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Gaskell's first novel, ..." (1848), and much of her third, "North and South" (1855), take place in Manchester (renamed "Milton" in the latter), where she spent her adult life. More than any other city, Manchester was made by industrialization, its population more than quadrupling during the first half of the nineteenth-century as would-be workers sought jobs in rapidly multiplying cotton mills and factories. By the time that Gaskell was writing, it was the second biggest city in England.
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