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A harlot's progress /

Dabydeen, David.

A harlot's progress / David Dabydeen. - 1st ed - London : Jonathan Cape, 1999. - 279 p. ; 22 cm.

This tale reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate and a quack doctor, bound together by sexual and financial greed.

0224059726

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Blacks--England--Fiction.
Abolitionists--Fiction.
Prostitutes--Fiction.
Older men--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.


London (England)--History--18th century--Fiction.
Africa--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PR9320.9.D33 / H37 1999

813.54