01364cam a2200277 4500 214716038 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 810226s1981||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 81001920 81001920 9780671249625 0671249622 TxAuBib eng eng Siddons, Anne Rivers. Fox's Earth / Anne Rivers Siddons. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1981. 477 p. ; 22 cm. In 1904, Ruth Yancey is only ten years old when she is brought to live at the magnificent mansion called Fox's Earth. But the impoverished daughter of an abusive mill worker has already internalized her mother's steely code: Men may hold all the power, but a woman possesses one thing that can get her anything in the world she wants...if she's prepared to make certain sacrifices. Deserted by her mother in order to give her a better chance at wealth, Ruth's own ambition drives her to possess Fox's Earth at any cost, even though her sacrifice will ultimately be her own husband, children, and grandchildren. 20101214. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Women Fiction. South (U. S) Fiction. Historical fiction.