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The Eighth Circle of Hell
Author(s): Gary Dolman (Author)
- Publisher: Thames River Press
- Publication Date: 15 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 228 pages
- ISBN-10: 0857289233
- ISBN-13: 9780857289230
Book Description
The Victorian age is often held up as a shining era of British history, a time of wealth and power, of civilisation and philanthropy. It was all of these. Yet it was also a time of cruelty and depravity, where power and wealth were used to ill-purpose. It was the time of the ‘defloration mania’, where young girls were bought and sold like the slaves they became. Elizabeth Wilson is an elderly woman who has spent a lifetime of grinding toil and poverty in a workhouse. She fled there as a young girl, pregnant and penniless, to escape her depraved uncle and his powerful friends. However, advancing dementia has caused her to regress inexorably back in her life, to the point where she is once again re-living the awful memories of her life as an orphaned child. ‘The Eighth Circle of Hell’ is a bleak study of the stark contrast between the polite, strictly ordered society of the Victorian age, and the utter depravity and exploitation of the vulnerable it shielded. This story demonstrates how in the furnace of shared adversity, enmities and friendships can be forged that will last a lifetime, and which are more enduring than the boundaries of life and death.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘This book is more than memorable – it is an important expose on the cruelties faced by the sexual slave trade that still exists today. Bravo Gary Doman.’ – Mirella Sichirollo Patzer, Great Historicals
About the Author
Gary Dolman was born in South Tyneside in 1963, but grew up principally in Harrogate in North Yorkshire, where he now lives with his wife, three children and two dogs. He is fascinated by the human mind and how it contends with adversity in all its forms. He is also passionate about the history – real and mythical – of the north of England.
