Emma Donoghue is an award-winning writer, living in Canada with her family. Her novels are Room, The Sealed Letter, Landing, Life Mask, Slammerkin, Hood and Stir-fry; short-story collections Astray, Three and a Half Deaths (UK ebook), Touchy Subjects, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, and Kissing the Witch; and literary history including Inseparable, We Are Michael Field, and Passions Between Women as well as two anthologies that span the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Frog Music, her new novel, comes out in Spring 2014.At The Daily Beast Donoghue tagged five of the best historical fictions about the oldest profession, including:
Read about another book on the list.Roxana by Daniel Defoe
This unsettling last novel by the early master of English fiction focuses on a highborn woman—one of whose pseudonyms is Roxana—forced to resort to prostitution. Its subtitle, The Fortunate Mistress, is ironic, because our first-person heroine’s moves up and down the social ladder may earn her a fortune, but also entangle her in complicated miseries, including twelve children and an obsessively devoted maid.
--Marshal Zeringue
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