by Emma Donoghue · Harcourt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780156007474
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«Slammerkin» is the historical novel by Emma Donoghue, published by Harcourt in paperback (390 pages, in English).
Set in eighteenth-century London, it follows Mary Saunders, a poor young woman fascinated by fine fabrics, whose desire for a better life leads her into prostitution. After a dangerous misstep, she flees to Monmouth and becomes a seamstress in Mrs Jones's household. A novel about social class, the female condition and the power of clothes.
The work is inspired by the historical figure of Mary Saunders. It won the 2002 Ferro-Grumley Award for lesbian fiction.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, and for book clubs; it will also appeal to those who know Emma Donoghue from Room.
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.
