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The Journal of Dora Damage 

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Belinda StarlingThe Journal of Dora Damage (2007)
A novel by Belinda Starling

 
In the tradition of Sarah Waters, a rich, sweeping historical novel set in Victorian London, about a bookbinder's wife who, to save her family, must take over her husband's business.

London, 1860: On the brink of destitution, Dora Damage illicitly takes over her ailing husband's bookbinding business, only to find herself lured into binding expensive volumes of pornography commissioned by aristocratic roués. Dora's charm and indefatigable spirit carry her through this rude awakening as she contends with violent debt collectors, an epileptic daughter, evil doctors, a rheumatic husband, errant workmen, nosy neighbors, and a constant stream of wealthy dilettantes. When she suddenly finds herself forced to offer an internship to a mysterious, fugitive American slave, Dora realizes she has been pulled into in an illegal trade of sex, money, and deceit.

The Journal of Dora Damage whips up a vision of London when it was the largest city in the world, grappling with the filth produced by a swollen population. Against a backdrop of power and politics, work and idleness, conservatism and abolitionism, Belinda Starling explores the restrictions of gender, class and race, the ties of family and love, and the price of freedom in this wholly engrossing debut novel.

 
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Hardback Editions

January 2008 : Hardback
Title: The Journal of Dora Damage
Author(s): Belinda Starling
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK 2/1/
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November 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0747585229Title: The Journal of Dora Damage
Author(s): Belinda Starling
ISBN: 0-7475-8522-9 / 978-0-7475-8522-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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October 2007 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1596913363Title: The Journal of Dora Damage
Author(s): Belinda Starling
ISBN: 1-59691-336-3 / 9781596913363 (USA edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Paperback Editions

August 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0747593256Title: The Journal of Dora Damage
Author(s): Belinda Starling
ISBN: 0-7475-9325-6 / 978-0-7475-9325-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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November 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 074759371XTitle: The Journal of Dora Damage
Author(s): Belinda Starling
ISBN: 0-7475-9371-X / 978-0-7475-9371-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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January 2006 : Paperback
Title: Journal of Dora Damage
Author(s): Belinda Starling
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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Other Editions

October 2010 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B004FN0ULMTitle: The Journal of Dora Damage: A Novel
Author(s): Belinda Starling
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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