Mary Saunders, daughter of a poor seamstress and a father who died in jail, allows her desire for fine things to lead her into prostitution at a young age, and though she tries repeatedly to turn her life around, the lure of money and freedom proves difficult to resist.
year: 2002
call number/section: 1000
subjects: saunders, mary, d. 1764, fiction, women, london, fiction, women murderers, murder, london (england), homicide, great britain, history, george iii, 1760-1820, fiction, london (england), 18th century, monmouth (wales), 1714-1837