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Ruth

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Hardback cloth boards,Slipcase

Publisher: The Folio Society 2006

Condition: Near Fine: read once

Folio,First Edition

ISBN: N/A

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.

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