Ruth - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth is a novel by an English novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in three volumes in 1853.
The plot - Ruth is a young orphan girl working in a respectable sweatshop for the overworked Mrs Mason. She is selected to go to a ball to repair torn dresses. At the ball she meets the aristocratic Henry Bellingham, a rake figure who is instantly attracted to he...