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Holman, Sheri.
The dress lodger /
Sheri Holman.
New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
2000.
291 p ;
24 cm.
Booklist.
Pub Weekly.
Library Journal.
Gustine, a young prostitute in nineteenth-century England, agrees to procure the dead bodies of victims of the bubonic plague for surgeon Henry Chiver to use in his anatomy school in exchange for his care of her fragiles on who was born with a remarkable anatomical defect, but her loyalty to the doctor is challenged by his growing greed and his obsession with her child.
Adult.
Physicians
Fiction.
Physicians
England
Fiction.
Prostitutes
Fiction.
Prostitutes
England
Fiction.
Children of prostitutes
England
Fiction.
Great Britain
History
1800-1899 (19th century)
Fiction.
Great Britain
History
19th century
Fiction.
Historical fiction
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