Eileen's review
The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
by Sheri Holman
Eileen's review
The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Sheri Holman
Eileen's review
rating:
recommended for: history buffs
The best thing about this book was the incredible historical detail about life and medicine in Britain in the mid 1800s. The author delves into the rawest aspects of lower class life in an eastern port city with an attention to detail that nearly outshines the story.
The fear of medicine, grave robbing, and autopsies seems so backwards and antiquated at first, but Sheri Holman manages to suggest that we are not so far removed from those backwards 19th century attitudes.
It's also a page-turner with very strong writing.
The fear of medicine, grave robbing, and autopsies seems so backwards and antiquated at first, but Sheri Holman manages to suggest that we are not so far removed from those backwards 19th century attitudes.
It's also a page-turner with very strong writing.
