Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_(novel)

Release date is 2003-07-01

E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo and revised by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D.

"Ruth" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a novel published in 1853. When fifteen-year-old orphan Ruth Hilton is seduced and abandoned by a wealthy gentleman, she finds herself pregnant and cast out from respectable society. Taken in by a compassionate minister and his sister, Ruth is given a new identity as a widow to protect her from scandal. As she builds a life as a governess and nurse, her past threatens to surface, forcing a reckoning with Victorian society's harsh judgment of fallen women. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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