Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

308 pages first pub 1853 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Ruth is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a fallen woman in Victorian times. Ruth Hilton is an young orphaned seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister a...

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