# Ruth

By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.

"Ruth" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a novel published in 1853. When fifteen-year-old orphan Ruth Hilton is seduced and abandoned by a wealthy gentleman, she finds herself pregnant and cast out from respectable society. Taken in by a compassionate minister and his sister, Ruth is given a new identity as a widow to protect her from scandal. As she builds a life as a governess and nurse, her past threatens to surface, forcing a reckoning with Victorian society's harsh judgment of fallen women. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: England -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Mothers and sons -- Fiction; Unmarried mothers -- Fiction; Religious fiction

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- [Ruth](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/1809) by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (18 h 42 min, English)

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