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Ruth Hilton, an orphan and dressmaker's assistant, is seduced and then heartlessly deserted by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. A dissenting minister advises her to pass as a widow and be employed as a governess with the tyrannical Mr Bradshaw. However, the deceit brings grievous consequences.Read More

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    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'.

  • BookDepository

    Ruth : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140434309 : 0140434305 : 01 Mar 1998 : Ruth Hilton, an orphan and dressmaker's assistant, is seduced and then heartlessly deserted by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. A dissenting minister advises her to pass as a widow and be employed as a governess with the tyrannical Mr Bradshaw. However, the deceit brings grievous consequences.

  • ASDA

    Ruth Hilton an orphan and dressmaker's assistant is seduced and then heartlessly deserted by the wealthy Henry Bellingham. A dissenting minister advises her to pass as a widow and be employed as a governess with the tyrannical Mr Bradshaw. However the deceit brings grievous consequences.

  • Blackwell

    In Ruth Elizabeth Gaskell set out to portray, not 'the Condition of England' already famously addressed in Mary Barton, but the nature and sensibility of a fallen woman.Her orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced and then...

  • Pickabook

    Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Angus Easson, Angus Easson (Editor)

  • 0140434305
  • 9780140434309
  • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Angus Easson
  • 31 July 1997
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432
  • New Ed
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