How Jaguar lost its roar

How Jaguar lost its roar

As the mob gathered outside his gates, John Thornton, mill owner and love interest in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, felt something more than fear. He felt hard done by. He’d followed every rule and regulation, stayed well within the law, yet here the crowd came. “As if he hadn’t a right to get labour where he could!” his sister protested, as the windows began to shake. So focused on the unfairness was he that he barely noticed Margaret Ha…