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050	0	0	_aPR6054.O547 _bS58 2000
082	1		_aFIC DON _2
100	1		_aDonoghue, Emma _d(, 1969-)
245	1	0	_aSlammerkin _b: a novel _c/ Emma Donoghue
260			_aOrlando, FL _b: Harcourt, Inc. _c, 2000
300			_a336 p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aBorn to rough cloth in working-class London in 1748, Mary Saunders hungers for linen and lace. Her lust for a shiny red ribbon leads her to a life of prostitution at a young age, where she encounters a freedom unknown to virtuous young women. But a dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth and the refuge of the middle-class household of Mrs. Jones, to become the seamstress her mother always expected her to be and to live the ordinary life of an ordinary girl. Although Mary becomes a close confidante of Mrs. Jones, her desire for a better life leads her back to prostitution. She remains true only to the three rules she learned on the streets of London: Never give up your liberty; Clothes make the woman; Clothes are the greatest lie ever told. In the end, it is clothes, their splendor and their deception, that lead Mary to disaster. Emma Donoghue's daring, sensually charged prose casts a new sheen on the squalor and glamour of eighteenth-century England. Accurate, masterfully written, and infused with themes that still bedevil us today, Slammerkin is historical fiction for all readers.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	4	_aSaunders, Mary _d(, 1764) _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWomen _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWomen murderers _v--Fiction
650		4	_aMurder _v--Fiction
651		4	_aGreat Britain _x-History _y-George III, 1760 - 1820 _v--Fiction
651		4	_aLondon (England) _x-History _y-18th century _v--Fiction
651		4	_aMonmouth (Wales) _v--Fiction
655		4	_aBiographical fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
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