Slammerkin

Description:

Exciting, riveting, historical period book about a young seamstress who through a series of misfortunes (to put it mildly) falls in with a veteran prostitute struggling to survive in big bad London.

subjects: Historical fiction,  Fiction,  Women,  Murder,  Women murderers,  History,  Fiction, historical,  London (england), fiction,  Great britain, fiction,  Social conditions,  England, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  Poverty,  Teenagers,  Teenage prostitution,  Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction Winner

People: Mary Saunders (d. 1764),  Mary Saunders (-1764)

Places: Great Britain,  London (England),  London,  England,  Monmouth (Wales)

Times: George III, 1760-1820,  18th century