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Title	:	The Dress Lodger
Author	:	Sheri Holman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 291 pages
Published	:	January 2nd 2001 by Ballantine Books (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. European Literature. British Literature

The Dress Lodger

Sheri Holman

Paperback | Pages: 291 pages

Rating: 3.57 | 7247 Users | 727 Reviews

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In Sunderland, England, a city quarantined by the cholera epidemic of 1831, a defiant, fifteen-year old beauty in an elegant blue dress makes her way between shadow and lamp light. A potter's assistant by day and dress lodger by night, Gustine sells herself for necessity in a rented gown, scrimping to feed and protect her only love: her fragile baby boy.
She holds a glimmer of hope after meeting Dr. Henry Chiver, a prisoner of his own dark past. But in a world where suspicion of medicine runs rampant like a fever, these two lost souls will become irrevocably linked, as each crosses lines between rich and destitute, decorum and abandon, damnation and salvation. By turns tender and horrifying, The Dress Lodger is a captivating historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice. . . .

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Original Title:	The Dress Lodger
ISBN:	0345436911 (ISBN13: 9780345436917)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gustine, Dr. Henry Chiver
Setting:	Sunderland, England,1831
Literary Awards:	Library of Virginia Literary Award Nominee for Fiction (2001)

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This was a February book club assignment, from one of our members who loves well-written historical fiction. As far as I'm concerned, she gave us a real winner this time. Pitting poor against rich in a quarantined town during the 1833 cholera epidemic, we learn that some diseases don't give a damn how high born or wealthy you are. Also at issue are the doctors and researchers who employ grave robbers (resurrectionists) to provide dead bodies for students to learn anatomy. Mix this all together

The best book I've read all year long. This was absolutely stunning writing, rich in detail and a beautiful story.

This is very good, but don't read it when you're feeling down. I love historical fiction, especially set in 19th-century England. This book is beautifully detailed and tells it like it really was in Victorian England for the lower classes. Relentless poverty, filth and squalor, illness. It's all here and could be a quite a downer but for the exceptional writing and the exceptionally hopeful heroine. It's educational and such an eye opener, especially for the reader of historical fiction mostly

The best part of this strange little book is the writing. I see that some readers are annoyed by the second-person present point of view and the "dear reader" business, but I was charmed by the quirky narration. The prose is rich and atmospheric; the story is a gripping melodrama, certainly over-the-top in places, but crammed with fascinating historical details which will make you glad not to have been born poor 200 years ago.The setting is northern England in 1831, just as the "cholera morbus"

Wow, what a ride. A ride that did not go well for the riders.Don't pick this one up if you need a Dickensian happy ending where money and a charitable spirit cures cholera.But do pick this one up. Great read. Get over your whole Dickensian 'everything turns into magical happy pancakes' mindset.

amazing, brilliant book. If Charles Dickens and Quentin Tarantino gave birth to a book, it would be this one.

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad. This is a novel that takes you in the heart of Victorian London. The nightmarish prose, Dickensian and haunting at the same time, introduces Gustine, a very interesting character, and Dr. Chiver who is controversial and fascinating. At the heart of the story lies Medicine, and the well-known practice of stealing the unfortunate dead bodies in order to perform autopsies. There are echoes of the Burke & Hare events and the coming of the plague that