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Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

Ruth Hilton, an orphan who works long, exhausting hours as a dressmaker’s apprentice, becomes besotted by a wealthy young man, Henry Bellingham, after he saves a child from drowning. Ruth is little more than a child herself but Bellingham takes advantage of her innocence and then heartlessly abandons her, pregnant and more alone than ever. This dramatic and powerful novel about the plight of a ‘fallen woman’ fearlessly challenged Victorian taboos about unmarried motherhood and illegitimacy, and confirmed its author as one of the most outspoken writers of her age.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression No. 1283
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2006
• Full Cloth Hardback, 373 pp
• Illustrated by Alexy Pendle,
• Size 245 x 165mm, 1.2kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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