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FROM: Karen Dini <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 10:49 AM

I have a patron looking for a book that was published in about the last 6
months or so. It takes place in England (maybe Victorian era?) The main
character is a woman who was raised "respectable" but ends up a prostitute.
She is still able to marry a respectable man, but ends up preferring the
street. The patron also thinks that a murder is somehow involved, but is
not the main focus of the story. Maybe also a seamstress involved. Sorry
there's not more to go on, but that's all she was able to remember. Thanks
in advance for any leads.

Karen Dini
Reader Services Coordinator
Addison Public Library
[removed]@addison.lib.il.us

FROM: Anita Vassallo <[removed]@mont.lib.md.us>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 11:31 AM

I read this about a month ago. It's Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue. Interesting
book.
Anita


>===== Original Message From Karen Dini <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us> =====
> I have a patron looking for a book that was published in about the last 6
>months or so. It takes place in England (maybe Victorian era?) The main
>character is a woman who was raised "respectable" but ends up a prostitute.
>She is still able to marry a respectable man, but ends up preferring the
>street. The patron also thinks that a murder is somehow involved, but is
>not the main focus of the story. Maybe also a seamstress involved. Sorry
>there's not more to go on, but that's all she was able to remember. Thanks
>in advance for any leads.
>
>Karen Dini
>Reader Services Coordinator
>Addison Public Library
[removed]@addison.lib.il.us
>
>......................................................................
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Anita T Vassallo
Senior Librarian
Germantown Library
12900 Middlebrook Rd
Germantown, MD 20874
240-777-0108
Fax 240-777-0129

FROM: Wendy Isom <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 11:42 AM

This might be Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue.

Hope that helps - Wendy

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Dini [[removed]@addison.lib.il.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:25 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Book title?


I have a patron looking for a book that was published in about the last 6
months or so. It takes place in England (maybe Victorian era?) The main
character is a woman who was raised "respectable" but ends up a prostitute.
She is still able to marry a respectable man, but ends up preferring the
street. The patron also thinks that a murder is somehow involved, but is
not the main focus of the story. Maybe also a seamstress involved. Sorry
there's not more to go on, but that's all she was able to remember. Thanks
in advance for any leads.

Karen Dini
Reader Services Coordinator
Addison Public Library
[removed]@addison.lib.il.us

FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 11:52 AM

This sounds like SLAMMERKIN by Emma Donoghue.

Robin Beerbower
Outreach Services
Salem Public Library
PO Box 14810
Salem, OR 97309
503-588-6089


>>> [removed]@addison.lib.il.us 02/28 8:25 AM >>>
I have a patron looking for a book that was published in about the last 6
months or so. It takes place in England (maybe Victorian era?) The main
character is a woman who was raised "respectable" but ends up a prostitute.
She is still able to marry a respectable man, but ends up preferring the
street. The patron also thinks that a murder is somehow involved, but is
not the main focus of the story. Maybe also a seamstress involved. Sorry
there's not more to go on, but that's all she was able to remember. Thanks
in advance for any leads.

Karen Dini
Reader Services Coordinator
Addison Public Library
[removed]@addison.lib.il.us

FROM: Holly Varley <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 12:02 PM

My guess is: Slammerkin, by Emma Donoghue
New York : Harcourt, 2001.
336 p. ; 24 cm.

Born to poverty in eighteenth-century London, Mary Saunders' love
of fine clothes and a dream of a better life take her from the
world of prostitution to life as a household seamstress in
Monmouth to a search for true freedom.

Holly

Karen Dini wrote:

> I have a patron looking for a book that was published in about the last 6
> months or so. It takes place in England (maybe Victorian era?) The main
> character is a woman who was raised "respectable" but ends up a prostitute.
> She is still able to marry a respectable man, but ends up preferring the
> street. The patron also thinks that a murder is somehow involved, but is
> not the main focus of the story. Maybe also a seamstress involved. Sorry
> there's not more to go on, but that's all she was able to remember. Thanks
> in advance for any leads.
>
> Karen Dini
> Reader Services Coordinator
> Addison Public Library
> [removed]@addison.lib.il.us
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

--
Holly Varley
Collection Development Librarian
Clermont County Public Library
513-732-2736 ext 12
[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us

FROM: Karen Dini <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 12:24 PM

Thank you Anita and Sandra! The title was indeed Slammerkin, and I'm sure
my patron will be delighted. You guys are great!

Karen Dini
Reader Services Coordinator
Addison Public Library
[removed]@addison.lib.il.us

FROM: "Jean Trainor" <[removed]@fnsb.lib.ak.us>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 12:57 PM

THE DRESS LODGER by Sheri Holman

I don't know if this will fit the bill, but the protagonist is a 15 year old
prostitute in 19th century England. She rents an elegant gown from her
landlord to attract a higher class clientele. She falls in with a surgeon
who needs to obtain cadavers for his anatomy school.
Copyright 2000 by Atlantic Monthly Press

Jean Trainor
FNSB Public Library
Fairbanks, AK


> I have a patron looking for a book that was published in about the last 6
> months or so. It takes place in England (maybe Victorian era?) The main
> character is a woman who was raised "respectable" but ends up a
prostitute.
> She is still able to marry a respectable man, but ends up preferring the
> street. The patron also thinks that a murder is somehow involved, but is
> not the main focus of the story. Maybe also a seamstress involved. Sorry
> there's not more to go on, but that's all she was able to remember.
Thanks
> in advance for any leads.
>
> Karen Dini
> Reader Services Coordinator
> Addison Public Library
> [removed]@addison.lib.il.us
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: "Karen Traynor" <[removed]@midyork.lib.ny.us>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 2:02 PM

This sounds vaguely like "Slammerkin" by Emma Donaghue.

Karen Traynor
Sullivan Free Library
519 McDonnell Street
Chittenango, NY 13037


----- Original Message -----
From: Karen Dini <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>

> I have a patron looking for a book that was published in about the last 6
> months or so. It takes place in England (maybe Victorian era?) The main
> character is a woman who was raised "respectable" but ends up a
prostitute.
> She is still able to marry a respectable man, but ends up preferring the
> street. The patron also thinks that a murder is somehow involved, but is
> not the main focus of the story. Maybe also a seamstress involved. Sorry
> there's not more to go on, but that's all she was able to remember.
Thanks
> in advance for any leads.
>

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