Ruth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23426340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Gaskell (0000-0001-6497-6211, corresponding author), Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
| Editors | Tim Dolin (0000-0002-0311-2599) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 384 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Ruth (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/owc/9780199581955.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4253488800 |
| ISBN | 9780199581955 |
| Open Library | OL24925171M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
‘I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage to shock people.’ Elizabeth Gaskell's second novel challenged contemporary social attitudes by taking as its heroine a fallen woman. Ruth Hilton is an orphan and an overworked seamstress, an innocent preyed upon by a weak, wealthy seducer. 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. But Ruth's self-sacrificing love and devotion are tested to the limit by a twist of fate that brings her past back to haunt her. Gaskell's depiction of Ruth lays bare Victorian hypocrisy and sexual double-standards, and her novel is a remarkable story of love, of the sanctuary and tyranny of the family, and of the consequences of lies and deception.
Art · Depiction · Dissenting opinion · Hypocrisy · Kindness · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sister · Sociology · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Domestic fiction · England · Fiction · Fiction, general · General · Long Now Manual for Civilization · Mothers and sons · Social conditions · Unmarried mothers
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2010 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |