The Resource The dress lodger, Sheri Holman
The dress lodger, Sheri Holman
- Summary
- A novel on the hardship of the Industrial Revolution through the eyes of an Englishwoman forced to be a prostitute to make ends meet. A potter's assistant during the day, she changes at night into a gown, rented by her pimp to walk the narrow streets. It is cold and business is slow. By the author of A Stolen Tongue
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 291 p.
- Isbn
- 9780871137531
- Label
- The dress lodger
- Title
- The dress lodger
- Statement of responsibility
- Sheri Holman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A novel on the hardship of the Industrial Revolution through the eyes of an Englishwoman forced to be a prostitute to make ends meet. A potter's assistant during the day, she changes at night into a gown, rented by her pimp to walk the narrow streets. It is cold and business is slow. By the author of A Stolen Tongue
- Title
- The dress lodger
- Summary
- In a novel set in the filth and depravity of London's mean streets during the Industrial Revolution, a prostitute borrows a blue dress to attract a higher class of client and is shadowed through the streets by an evil old woman hired by the dress' owner to keep an eye on her
- Award
-
- Award/Notable book
- New York Times Notable Book, 2000
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 003499
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3558.O35596
- LC item number
- D74 2000
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/titleStatement
- Sheri Holman
- Label
- The dress lodger, Sheri Holman
- Control code
- 1219996
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- 291 p.
- Isbn
- 9780871137531
- Lccn
- 99018153
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocm40738964
- (OCoLC)40738964
Subject
- Body snatching -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Physicians -- Fiction
- Prostitutes -- Fiction
- Single mothers -- Fiction
- Sunderland (Tyne and Wear, England) -- Fiction
- Teenage prostitution -- Fiction
- Unmarried mothers -- Fiction
- City life
- Dead
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Historical fiction
- PImps
- Prostitutes
- Serial murders
- Single mothers
- Strategic alliances (Military)
- Surgeons
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- Award/Notable book
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2000
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