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The Course Of True Love (Never Did Run Smooth) by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
14 Oct 2025
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Margaret is still in Milton when Mr Hale dies and promptly goes missing. John finds her and the two shelter in from a storm end up making passionate love and Margaret finds herself pregnant…
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Right To The Heart by IWannaDoBadThingsWithYou237
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
14 Oct 2025
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AU of the story. Before moving to Milton Margaret at the tender age of seventeen marries Henry Lennox. Their marriage is plagued by illness and all Henry can do is offer to help Margaret adopt a baby so she will not be alone when he dies…
At seventeen John Thornton did not intend to impregnant a girl, however duty dictates he takes care of his wife and child though his wife dies in childbed. His father however does not agree and before his untimely death he arranges to have the child adopted without telling his son where she is.
Fast forward seven years later to when Mr Hale moves his family to Milton and…
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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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Between North and South by foldingmoonlight
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
11 Jul 2025
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The story didn’t end at the station: Margaret Hale and John Thornton have only just begun to learn about each other - body, soul and everything in between.
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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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The Mutiny on the Russell by maembe13
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
27 May 2025
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Margaret Hale had been told her brother was lost at sea after the mutiny. Frederick Hale vanished from the lives of the Hales until eleven years after her marriage to John Thornton. Then, news finally reached Margaret that her brother had been found. Alive.
I.E. The story where the Mutiny on the HMS Russell is based on the Mutiny on the HMS Bounty instead of the Mutiny on the HMS Hermoine.
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- Part 2 of Masters, Magistrates, Mutineers & Men
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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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The Rhythm of Life : North and South Retold by philipaholt
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
24 Mar 2025
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This was my first North and South fanfiction that I wrote almost 15 years ago (cue internal screaming) . It was a modern retelling of the original Gaskell story. If modern’s not your thing, give me a chance to steal your soul. I’ve made a few converts over the years.
This is where my John and Maggie were born.
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- Part 1 of The Gods Are Laughing at Us
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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.
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Margaret Hale and Why She Couldn't Explain About Thornton to Her Brother
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Masters, Magistrates, Mutineers & Men by maembe13
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV
10 Dec 2024
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John Thornton's hands shook so hard he could barely make out the printed letters on the page. He must be misreading the names, he thought to himself. "ARREST OF HALE THE MUTINEER AND PIRATE. Mr. Frederick Hale, formerly of Helstone, awaits a naval court martial on charges of mutiny, piracy, and treason." John determined to call upon the Hales to make sure there was no connection between this Frederick Hale and his friends at Crampton Court.
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- Part 1 of Masters, Magistrates, Mutineers & Men
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A Brother's Transgression 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
11 Oct 2024
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Margaret Hale had refused his offer of marriage, so John Thornton is surprised when she asks for his help in a delicate matter. As he discovers more about the Hales and their family secrets, how will this change their relationship? Starting a few months after the riot / proposal / Outwood incident, this story takes a non-canon turn (or two).
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Lady Lennox by Caesia390
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
30 Aug 2024
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The year is 1920. The world is still reeling from the Great War. Lady Margaret Lennox, a former nurse, is the young mistress of Wragby Hall. Her husband, Sir Henry Lennox, is an embittered invalid. Her brother and her parents are dead. Her cousin is in an asylum.
John Thornton is the gamekeeper on the estate, another veteran whose only desire is to be left alone.
Now complete!
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There Will Your Heart Be Also by Lothiriel84
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
09 Jun 2024
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Spain was a revelation for Mr Thornton, in more ways than one.
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- Part 1 of Where Your Treasure Is
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I can see you standing
I can see you staringExiles is a really beautiful song and it matched the misunderstanding at the train station so well
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The Conflict Of The Mind by anywhereis
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
24 May 2024
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Margaret Hale found herself bound in matrimony to John Thornton following the tumultuous events at Outwood Station. The weight of this forced union bore down upon her with an immense burden of stress and pressure. How much she could bear it?
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Across the Miles by AnnabellaGrace
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
14 Apr 2024
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Margaret Hale left Milton seven months ago and is now living in Cadiz, Spain. Can a letter from Margaret to John Thornton be the impetus to a greater understanding of each other and lead to more correspondence between them? Are they more willing to say what they feel through the written word sent across the miles from Spain to England and from England to Spain?
This story is completed, and will be updated three times a week. I have gifted this story to my friend and fellow miller, Fossy, who loves a HEA for John and Margaret as much as I do!
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All Those Miles We Walked by TRavine for Penelope_Gobstop
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), North and South - Ambiguous Fandom, Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
15 Mar 2024
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Colton, England, 1920.
In an attempt to heal from a traumatic experience, young war widow Margaret Lennox enters into a secret passionate affair with her family's gamekeeper John Thornton, a former soldier who is fighting demons of his own.
As lust turns into something deeper, they must overcome more than mere social divides and learn to make peace with the past.This angsty crossover between "North and South" and D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" is completed and will be updated regularly.
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Redeeming What Was Lost by DarkshireLass
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV), north - Fandom
02 Mar 2024
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Letters discovered in a box - they tell a story.
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How I Wish to Know and Love You by ceaselesslyinlove
Fandoms: North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell | UK TV, North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (UK TV)
23 Sep 2023
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Margaret self-reflects after the strike and realizes she cares for Mr. Thornton in a way that is not very platonic whatsoever.
How does the story unfold differently with this startling realization?