‘Nay, Ruth, you are not going to have secrets from me, are you?’ You are cordially invited to Elizabeth Gaskell’s House's 10-year anniversary season of Ruth events! These are dedicated to the most controversial of all Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels. Ruth is an infamous book. It was ‘banned, burned and denounced from the pulpit’ when it was published in 1853. Yet it is also a ground-breaking work and so is now recognised as the first mainstream novel to tell
