![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Ruth Hilton is an orphan and an overworked seamstress, an innocent preyed upon by a weak, wealthy seducer. 'I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage to shock people.'Įlizabeth Gaskell's second novel challenged contemporary social attitudes by taking as its heroine a fallen woman. Improved appearance with completely reset text of the novel.Up-to-date bibliography, author chronology, and invaluable notes elucidating historical, religious, and literary allusions and points of signficance. ![]() Fully revised and corrected new edition based on the three-volume first edition of 1853 collated with the one-volume 1855 edition.Tim Dolin's new introduction challenges the view of Ruth as one of Gaskell's weaker novels and explores its radicalism and cultural influence, and the remarkable story of love, family, and hypocrisy that it tells.Ruth (1853) was the first mainstream novel to make a fallen woman its eponymous heroine shocking to contemporary readers, its radical utopian vision of 'a pure woman faithfully presented' predates Hardy's Tess by nearly forty years.Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public HealthĮdited by Tim Dolin Oxford World's Classics.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
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