Slammerkin
by Donoghue, Emma
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 186049899X
- ISBN 13
- 9781860498992
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Synopsis
Slammerkin : A loose gown; a loose woman. Born to rough cloth in Hogarth's London, but longing for silk, Mary Saunders's eye for a shiny red ribbon leads her to prostitution at a young age. A dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth, and the position of household seamstress, the ordinary life of an ordinary girl with no expectations. But Mary has known freedom, and having never known love, it is freedom that motivates her. Mary asks herself if the prostitute who hires out her body is more or less free than the "honest woman" locked into marriage, or the servant who runs a household not her own? And is either as free as a man? Ultimately, Mary remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets: Never give up your liberty. Clothes make the woman. Clothes are the greatest lie ever told.
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10319
- Title
- Slammerkin
- Author
- Donoghue, Emma
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 186049899X
- ISBN 13
- 9781860498992
- Publisher
- Virago
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 186049899X
- Bookseller catalogs
- Romance; England;
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