Darby, Katy. <br/><br/>
The whores' asylum  [text (large print)] / 
Katy Darby. 
 - Large print edition 
 - Leicester :  Thorpe,  2013. 
 - 465 pages (large print) ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Also known as 'The Unpierced heart'. 
<br/><br/> Oxford, 1887. Even as Victoria celebrates the fiftieth year of her reign, a stone's throw from the calm cloisters and college spires lies Jericho, a maze of seedy streets and ill-lit taverns, haunted by drunkards, thieves and the lowest sort of brazen female as ever lifted her petticoats. When Stephen Chapman, a brilliant young medical student, is persuaded to volunteer at a shelter devoted to reforming the fallen women of Oxford, his closest friend Edward feels a strange sense of dread. But even Edward - who already knows the devastating effect of falling in love with the wrong woman - cannot foresee the macabre and violent events that will unfold around them, or stop Diana, the woman who seems destined to drive them apart. 
<br/><br/> Adult. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781444814040 (hbk.) 1444814044 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.<br/>Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.<br/>Oxford (England)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical romance.<br/>Large type books.<br/>Romantic suspense fiction.<br/>Historical fiction.