Ruth: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
Ruth: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
Ruth is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810–1865).
Catalogue synopsis
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"Ruth" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a novel published in 1853. When fifteen-year-old orphan Ruth Hilton is seduced and abandoned by a wealthy gentleman, she finds herself pregnant and cast out from respectable society. Taken in by a compassionate minister and his sister, Ruth is given a new identity as a widow to protect her from scandal. As she builds a life as a governess and nurse, her past threatens to surface, forcing a reckoning with Victorian society's harsh judgment of fallen women.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Ruth
- Author credits: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810–1865)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Domestic fiction
- England -- Fiction
- Mothers and sons -- Fiction
- Religious fiction
- Unmarried mothers -- Fiction
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- Category: British Literature
- Category: Novels
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