Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,  1810-1865 <br/><br/>
Ruth 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_(novel)  Release date is 2003-07-01 
<br/><br/>E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo and revised by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D.  E-text prepared by Charles Aldarondo and revised by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D. 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>England -- Fiction Domestic fiction Mothers and sons -- Fiction Unmarried mothers -- Fiction Religious fiction 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR