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Ruth / Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited by Nancy Henry.
LIBRA - Special PR4710 .R8 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.
- Series:
- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865. Selections. 1997 Works.
- Everyman Gaskell
- Everyman library
- Everyman paperbacks
- Everyman library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- England--Fiction.
- England.
- Unmarried mothers--Fiction.
- Unmarried mothers.
- Mothers and sons--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Seduction--Fiction.
- Seduction.
- Religious fiction.
- England--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- England--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Religious fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 416 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : J.M. Dent ; North Clarenden, VT : C.E. Tuttle Pub., 2001.
- Summary:
- A young orphan, Ruth Hilton, is seduced and then abandoned by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. She is left to bring up her child in a society that offers her no protection and seems to punish such innocence. Pretending to be a widow, Ruth is taken in by a minister and is given a chance to bring up her son whom she loves above all else. This was a crusading novel when it was published in 1853, and aroused almost as much censure for its shocking scenes as it did sympathy for the heroine.
- Notes:
- "Suggestions for further reading": pages [409]-410.
- Includes bibliographical references (page xxxvii).
- ISBN:
- 0460876600
- 9780460876605
- OCLC:
- 48414612
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