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Ruth : and other tales, & c

"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"--Goodreads.com.

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  • "Morton Hall"@en
  • "Bessy's troubles at home"@en
  • "Ruth"
  • "Ruth"@pl
  • "Mr Harrison's confessions"@en
  • "Hand and heart"@en
  • "Grey woman"@en
  • "Works"

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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"--Goodreads.com."@en
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "Fans of social realism will appreciate the surprisingly nuanced and multi-faceted perspective on Victorian era morals and mores offered in Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's sweeping novel Ruth. The story follows the fortune of Ruth, an orphan who is tricked into an intimate relationship with an aristocrat who later abandons her when she is pregnant with his child. Ruth, distraught, struggles with the social strictures that paint her as an irredeemable sinner ..."@en
  • "Orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced and then abandoned by wealthy young Henry Bellingham. Shamed in the eyes of society by her illegitimate son, and yet rejecting the opportunity to marry her seducer, Ruth finds a path that affirms we are not bound to repeat our mistakes."
  • "Ruth is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a fallen woman in Victorian times. Ruth Hilton is an young orphaned seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister and his sister. They conceal her single status under the pretense of widowhood in order to protect her child from the social stigma of illegitimacy. Ruth goes on to gain a respectable position in society as a governess, which is threatened by the return of Bellingham and the revelation of her secret."@en
  • "Published in 1853, this novel features a young orphan girl named Ruth, who works in a sweatshop and is seduced by Henry Bellingham, a wealthy rake. Eventually abandoned by Bellingham, Ruth gives birth to a son, Leonard, whom she tries to raise in ignorance of the circumstances of his birth. But her past pursues her to a tragic end."@en
  • "Ruth is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in three volumes in 1853. The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the main character Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a minister and his sister. They conceal her single status under the pretence of widowhood in order to protect."@en

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Religious fiction"@en
  • "Religious fiction"
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Cancel leaves (Publishing)"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Christian fiction"@en
  • "Christian fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Adaptations"
  • "Roman anglais"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "General fiction"
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  • "Large type books"

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  • "Ruth : A novel"
  • "Ruth : ein Roman"
  • "Ruth : and other tales, & c"@en
  • "Ruth. Introduction by Margaret Lane"@en
  • "Ruth : and other tales"@en
  • "Ruth : and other tales"
  • "Ruth and other tales"
  • "Ruth and other tales"@en
  • "Ruth, and other tales, &c"@en
  • "Ruth, a novel"@en
  • "Ruth, a novel"
  • "Ruth and Others Tales"
  • "Ruth. Introd. by Margaret Lane"
  • "Ruth a novel"@en
  • "Ruth : A Novel"
  • "Ruth : a novel. In three volumes"
  • "Ruth : roman traduit de l'anglais"@en
  • "Ruth : roman traduit de l'anglais"
  • "Ruth a novel. In three volumes"@en
  • "Ruth, and other tales, etc"@en
  • "Ruth and other tales & c"
  • "Ruth : a novel"@en
  • "Ruth : a novel"
  • "Ruth a novel ; in 3 volumes"
  • "Ruth, par Mme Gaskell,... roman traduit de l'anglais"
  • "Ruth. A novel. By the author of "Mary Barton" [Mrs. Gaskell]"@en
  • "Ruth. a novel. By the author of "Mary Barton." ... In three volumes"@en
  • "Ruth a novel in three volumes"@en
  • "Ruth and other tales, &c"@en
  • "Ruth : and other tales, etc"@en
  • "Ruth, and other tales"
  • "Ruth, and other tales"@en
  • "Ruth : eine Erzählung"
  • "Ruth : Introd. by Margaret Lane"
  • "Ruth"@es
  • "Ruth"@en
  • "Ruth"
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  • "Ruth"@pl
  • "Ruth, a novel, by the author of "Mary Barton" [E. C. Gaskell]"
  • "Ruth. Roman traduit de l'anglais"
  • "Ruth : and other tales, &c"@en
  • "Ruth. A novel"@en

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