TY - BOOK AU - Gaskell,Elizabeth Cleghorn TI - Ruth AV - PR PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - England -- Fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - Mothers and sons -- Fiction KW - Unmarried mothers -- Fiction KW - Religious fiction N1 - 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; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4275 ER -