Comments on: Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

By: onlyanovel

onlyanovel — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:43:31 +0000

Roop, thanks for the comment. Yes, it was very different for women during Gaskell’s time. Sadly, in parts of the world today, things can be even worse.

By: Roop

Roop — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:47:13 +0000

I also felt that it’s unfair that Ruth had to suffer so much,and that she is the one who’s being called “sinful”…and not Bellingham who ruined her,in the first place…and who got scot free

By: onlyanovel

onlyanovel — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:16:08 +0000

Hi Arti, thanks for the comment. I did not expect to have the reaction I did to the story, and I’m glad I read it. Maybe BBC can pick it up and adapt it someday.

By: Arti

Arti — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:54:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing and reviewing this work by Gaskell. I haven’t read it but from your review it sounds very deep and powerful and the questions you’ve posted here are as relevant today as in the 19th Century. It makes good material for a screenplay too.