The journal of Dora Damage /

In 1860 London, a poverty-stricken Dora Damage illicitly takes over her ailing husband's bookbinding business and finds herself caught up in binding expensive volumes of pornography for aristocratic rakes, contending with violent debt collectors, an epileptic daughter, scheming doctors, a sick...

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Main Author: Starling, Belinda (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, 2007.
Edition:Advance reading copy from uncorrected proofs.
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Summary:In 1860 London, a poverty-stricken Dora Damage illicitly takes over her ailing husband's bookbinding business and finds herself caught up in binding expensive volumes of pornography for aristocratic rakes, contending with violent debt collectors, an epileptic daughter, scheming doctors, a sick husband, and wealthy dilettantes.
Item Description:The Cushing Library/Basbanes Collection copy is part of the Nicholas A. Basbanes collection.
Physical Description:452 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781596913363
1596913363