The Belly Dancer (Paperback)

from Soniamarie

While reading the first half of this novel, I almost chucked it. The heroine, Dora is so dumb and naive at first, it is frustrating. She acts like a child, is treated like a child, and struggles most fruitlessly to please her new husband and every high society matron she crosses paths with. Not u...

from SomewhatBent

The Belly Dancer DeAnna Cameron Berkley Trade (2009), Edition: 1, Paperback, 320 pages Set against the backdrop of the 1893 Chicago World Fair The Belly Dancer provides a look at social standing, perception of propriety, self examination and determination to do the Right (if not socially proper) ...

from vernefan

Dora Chambers has just arrived to the White City, Chicago in 1893 at the time of the great World's Fair. Newly wed to an up and coming banker, Charles Chambers, Dora finds life in the big city a bit different than that of her homeland back in New Orleans. With a mysterious past that even she was ...

from kbsartori

I like historical novels because they transport me to other places and other times. That's exactly what author, DeAnna Cameron, does and she does it very well! After finishing this thoroughly entertaining novel: all about young, naive Dora, the Victorian Lady Managers she tries to emulate, and th...

from vernefan

Dora Chambers has just arrived to the White City, Chicago in 1893 at the time of the great World's Fair. Newly wed to an up and coming banker, Charles Chambers, Dora finds life in the big city a bit different than that of her homeland back in New Orleans. With a mysterious past that even she was ...