Tipping the Velvet
- ISBN-10
- 1573227889
- ISBN-13
- 9781573227889
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 472
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Sarah Waters
Description
Chronicles the picturesque adventures and romantic misadventures of Nan King, a onetime oyster girl from a provincial seaside town who follows a local music hall star to the gay and lesbian world of late Victorian London. Reprint.
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