num_pages: 291
description: In a novel set in the filth and depravity of London's mean streets during the Industrial Revolution, a prostitute borrows a blue dress to attract a higher class of client and is shadowed through the streets by an evil old woman hired by the dress' owner to keep an eye on her
language: English
title: The Dress Lodger
titlecomplete: The Dress Lodger
characters: Gustine, Dr. Henry Chiver
genres: Fiction, Historical, Medicine, Mystery, British Literature, Adult, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 7814
places: Sunderland, England
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Library of Virginia Literary Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr