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Ruth (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 1998
by Gaskell, Elizabeth
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A fallen woman sympathetically portrayed would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Yet novelist Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her 1853 novel RUTH. Overturning conventional "double standard" assumptions of the day, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and love for her illegitimate son are sufficient for redemption.
Summary
Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her comfort and shelter, only to cruelly desert her soon after. Nearly dead with grief and shame, Ruth is offered the chance of a new life among people who give her love and respect, even though they are at first unaware of her secret - an illegitimate child. When Henry enters her life again, however, Ruth must make the impossible choice between social acceptance and personal pride.
In writing Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell daringly confronted prevailing views about sin and illegitimacy with her compassionate and honest portrait of a 'fallen woman'.
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There is an assize-town in one of the eastern counties which was much distinguished by the Tudor sovereigns, and, in consequence of their favour and protection, attained a degree of importance that surprises the modern traveller.
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- Title Ruth (Penguin Classics)
- Author Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding Paperback
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-03-01
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # G13B-02707
- ISBN 9780140434309 / 0140434305
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.05 x 0.73 in (19.71 x 12.83 x 1.85 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, England
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98139489
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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