Elizabeth Gaskell Ruth

Can a person commit a sin of passion without realizing it? In Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell daringly confronted prevailing views about sin and illegitimacy with her compassionate and honest portrait of a 'fallen woman'.

The tale of a young woman seduced and abandoned by her lover, then taken in and protected by a kindly minister and his sister, "Ruth" is remarkably progressive for the period.

Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Mr. Henry Bellingham, who ...