· Born in Ireland, national bestselling author EMMA DONOGHUE spent many years in England and now lives in Canada. Her books include Room (basis for the Oscar-nominated film), Slammerkin, and The Pull of the Stars. Her novels have been translated into eight www.doorway.ru · In Slammerkin Emma Donoghue took a brief, sparse news article of a woman, Mary Saunders in the mid 's and turned it into a tale that transports us to the grime and grit of 18th Century London, and to the small town life of Monmouth Wales.5/5(94). Slammerkin tells the story of teenaged Mary Saunders in 18th century London, who resorts to a life of selling her body in an effort to move past her working class, poverty stricken upbringing. The first thing I want to say is that Emma Donoghue is such a talented writer. I hadn’t read anything by her beforehand, but most will know her from Room/5().
Slammerkin (Hardcover) Published August 2nd by Virago Press. Virago Modern Classics Coming of Age Collection, Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. A stunning and mesmerizing work of imaginative reconstruction, Emma Donoghue's novel Slammerkin (in 18th-century England the word referred to both "loose dress" and "loose woman") tells the harrowing tale of a real historical figure named Mary Saunders, who was born into working-class destitution in s London. Slammerkin. by Emma Donoghue. Born to rough cloth in working-class London in , 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.
Slammerkin tells the story of teenaged Mary Saunders in 18th century London, who resorts to a life of selling her body in an effort to move past her working class, poverty stricken upbringing. The first thing I want to say is that Emma Donoghue is such a talented writer. I hadn’t read anything by her beforehand, but most will know her from Room. Emma Donoghue's richly-hued prose unflinchingly recreates the brutality and degradation of eighteenth-century London's seamy side. Her secondary characters are anything but secondary; many of them could respectably carry their own stories. Slammerkin: A loose gown; a loose woman. Born to rough cloth in Hogarth's London, but longing for silk, Mary Saunders's eye for a shiny red ribbon leads her to prostitution at a young age. A dangerous misstep sends her fleeing to Monmouth, and the position of household seamstress, the ordinary life of an ordinary girl with no expectations.
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