Slammerkin - Hardcover

Donoghue, Emma

 
9780151006724: Slammerkin

Synopsis

Born to poverty in eighteenth-century London, Mary Saunders's love of fine clothes and a dream of a better life take her from the world of prostitution to life as a household seamstress in Monmouth to a search for true freedom. 25,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Emma Donoghue was born in Dublin in 1969 and earned her Ph.D. at Cambridge. She is the author of two novels, a critical work on seventeenth-century British culture, and a book of fairy tales. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

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