by Emma Donoghue · Harcourt Brace & Co · tapa dura · ISBN 9780151006724
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«Slammerkin: A Loose Dress, A Loose Woman» is the historical novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Harcourt Brace & Co in hardback (336 pages, in English).
Set in eighteenth-century London, it follows Mary Saunders, a poor young woman who longs for a better life. After a dangerous episode, she flees to Monmouth and becomes a seamstress in a bourgeois household. Her yearning for freedom clashes with the era's class and gender restrictions.
First American edition, published in New York in June 2001; winner of the 2002 Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, especially those seeking portrayals of female characters and eighteenth-century London.
Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright and literary historian. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award and Slammerkin (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Room was adapted by Donoghue into a film of the same name. For this, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2025, Donoghue won the coveted Alice B Readers Award given annually to living writers of published works whose careers are distinguished by consistently well-written works about lesbians.
