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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 her. They meet again by chance and form a secret friendship; on an outing together they are spotted by Mrs Mason who, fearing for her shop's reputation, dismisses Ruth. Alone in the world, Ruth is whisked away by Bellingham to London where it is implied she becomes a fallen woman. They go on holiday to Wales together and there on a country walk Ruth meets the disabled and kind Mr Benson. Bellingham falls sick with fever and the hotel calls for his mother who arrives and is disgusted by her son's having lived in sin with Ruth. Bellingham is persuaded by his mother to abandon Ruth in Wales, leaving her some money. A distraught Ruth attempts suicide but is spotted by Mr Benson who helps comfort her. When he learns of her past and that she is alone he brings her back to his home town, where he is a Dissenting minister, to stay with him and his formidable but kind sister Faith. When they learn that Ruth is pregnant they decide to lie to the town and claim that she is a widow called Mrs Denbigh, to protect her from a society which would otherwise shun her. Ruth has her baby, whom she names Leonard. She is transformed into a Madonna type figure, calm and innocent once more. The rich local businessman Mr Bradshaw admires Ruth and employs her as a governess for his children, including his eldest daughter Jemima who is in awe of the beautiful Ruth.
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1810 - 1865, filha de um pastor unitário escocês, ficou órfa de mãe com 1 ano de idade, sendo criada por uma tia em Knutsford, cidade imortalizada no romance Cranford. Seus primeiros estudos foram em uma escola em Barford House e depois no internato Avonbank, onde ficou dos 15 aos 17 anos, sendo aí incentivada a ler os clássicos. Casou-se com o ministro unitário William Gaskell (1832), com que teve seis filhos, mas apenas quatro chegaram a vida adulta.
Seu primeiro romance, Mary Barton, foi elogiado de imediato pelos escritores Thomas Carlyle e Charles Dickens. Este convidou-a para colaborar em sua revista , Housebold words, onde a escritora publicou seus trabalhos posteriores.
Tornou-se popular por suas histórias de fantasmas, em estilo gótico, e chocou o público ao retratar, em detalhes, no auge da industrialização inglesa, o universo dos operários da industria têxtil local, incorporando o dialeto deles, em especial aos diálogos.
Foi a primeira biografia da escritora Charlotte Bronte |
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