The Mummy! Egypt; the 1821 public unwrappings of Egyptian mummies in a theatre near Piccadilly, which she may have attended as a girl; and, very likely, the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus." As Shelley had written of Frankenstein's creation, "A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch," which may have triggered young Miss Webb's later concept. In any case, at many points she deals in greater clarity with elements from the earlier book: the loathing for the much-desired object, the immediate arrest for crime and attempt to lie one's way out
Sub Rosa (novel) how Dawn manages to subvert expectations in the development of her novel, addressing significant issues revolving around gender, sexuality, and human rights. Later in the year, the novel was also selected by Bartley as one of the “Top 5 Novels of the Year.” Both Bartley and David Chau from "The Georgia Straight" similarly positively commented on Dawn's approach to imagination and memory as a means of achieving redemption in the novel. Sarah Pinder from "The Broken Pencil" magazine stated that despite being non-exhaustive in its representations of sex workers, "Sub Rosa" "definitely fills a void," as it "highlights sex workers