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Ruth

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ISBN-10: 0199581959

ISBN-13: 9780199581955

Edition: 2011

Authors: Elizabeth Gaskell, Tim Dolin

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'I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage to shock people.'Elizabeth Gaskell's second novel challenged contemporary social attitudes by taking as its heroine a fallen woman. Ruth Hilton is an orphan and an overworked seamstress, an innocent preyed upon by a weak, wealthy seducer. When he heartlessly abandons her she finds shelter and kindness in the home of a dissenting minister and his sister, who do not reject her when she gives birth to an illegitimate child. But Ruth's self-sacrificing love and devotion are tested to the limit by a twist of fatethat brings her past back to haunt her.Gaskell's depiction of Ruth lays bare Victorian hypocrisy and sexual…    
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Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 5/12/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.56" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

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