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Author Ham, Rosalie, author

Title The dressmaker / Rosalie Ham
Published Potts Point, N.S.W. : Duffy & Snellgrove, 2000
©2000

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 W'PONDS  827.03 H1986 A6/D  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL  827.03 H1986 A6/D  AVAILABLE
Description 296 pages ; 20 cm
regular print
Summary Exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, returns from Europe to the small Victorian town of Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twnety years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills
Notes First published in Australia by Duffy & Snellgrove, 2000
Subject Australian fiction.
Costume -- Fiction.
Country life -- Australia -- Fiction.
Country life -- Australia -- Victoria -- Fiction.
Dressmakers -- Fiction.
Dressmaking -- Fiction.
Fashion design -- Fiction.
Fashion designers -- Fiction.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
Gothic revival (Literature)
Haute couture -- Fiction
Interpersonal relations -- Australia -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Australia -- Fiction.
Revenge -- Australia -- Fiction.
Women dressmakers -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
Victoria http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046608 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
Genre/Form Gothic fiction.
Fiction.
Author Seedsman, Jenny. (narrator)
LC no. 00002174
ISBN 9781875989706 (paperback)