False Woman: Emma Donohee

The novel takes place in London in the mid -eighteenth century. The life of Mary Saunders, girls from a poor family, sulfur and bleak. Her innocent desire to have at least something bright – for example, a red ribbon – leads to irreversible consequences. At a very young age, Mary becomes a prostitute and unexpectedly finds out what real freedom is, inaccessible to virtuous women. Nevertheless, the danger she is exposed to make the girl look for refuge in the small town of Monmouth. Mary becomes a servant, and then an assistant to the seamstress in the Jones family. Mrs. Jones nourishes a sincere affection for her, but Mary, driven by dreams of the best share and the desire to save more money, secretly returns to the previous craft. She is guided by the three rules learned on the streets of London: never part with her freedom, a woman makes clothes and clothes – this is the biggest deception in the world. In the end, it is the craving to beautiful dresses that leads it to disaster

Author
Donohee Emma
Translator
Guseva A. G.
Publisher
Central Polygraph, 2014
Series
World sensation
Genre
Modern foreign prose

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