Ruth Paperback - 1998
by Elizabeth Gaskell; Angus Easson (Editor); Introduction by Angus Easson
A fallen woman sympathetically portrayed would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Yet novelist Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her 1853 novel RUTH. Overturning conventional "double standard" assumptions of the day, Gaskell draws a heroine whose emotional honesty, innate morality, and love for her illegitimate son are sufficient for redemption.
Summary
In writing Ruth, Elizabeth Gaskell daringly confronted prevailing views about sin and illegitimacy with her compassionate and honest portrait of a 'fallen woman'.
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There is an assize-town in one of the eastern counties which was much distinguished by the Tudor sovereigns, and, in consequence of their favour and protection, attained a degree of importance that surprises the modern traveller.
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- Title Ruth
- Author Elizabeth Gaskell; Angus Easson (Editor); Introduction by Angus Easson
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-03-01
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780140434309 / 0140434305
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.05 x 0.73 in (19.71 x 12.83 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, England
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98139489
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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