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Born 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.
 
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June 2001 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0151006725Title: Slammerkin
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
ISBN: 0-15-100672-5 / 978-0-15-100672-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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July 2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1860498280Title: Slammerkin
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
ISBN: 1-86049-828-0 / 9781860498282 (UK edition)
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
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January 2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000OLFJZ6Title: Slammerkin
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
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January 2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B002J3DYX6Title: Slammerkin
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Paperback Editions

May 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1554684706Title: Slammerkin
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
ISBN: 1-55468-470-6 / 9781554684700 (USA edition)
Publisher: Harpercollins Canada
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2004 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B0010K07BQTitle: Slammerkin
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May 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B001O9CG6MTitle: Slammerkin
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
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May 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0156007479Title: Slammerkin
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
ISBN: 0-15-600747-9 / 978-0-15-600747-4 (USA edition)
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June 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 186049899XTitle: Slammerkin
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
ISBN: 1-86049-899-X / 9781860498992 (UK edition)
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
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2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000K6IR0OTitle: Slammerkin
Author(s): Emma Donoghue
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January 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B001F3R88STitle: Slammerkin
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