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The Dressmaker
( dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse
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Australia
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Film Art Media
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2015
6320906
2015
single work
film/TV
“You can’t keep anything secret here,” said the old woman. “Everybody knows everything about everyone but no one ever tittle tattles because then someone else’ll tell on them. But you don’t matter – it’s open slather on outcasts.”
'The Dressmaker is a bittersweet tragi-comedy about a glamorous young woman who returns, after many years in Europe, to her small home town in rural Australia in order to right some wrongs from the past. When Tilly comes home, she not only heals her ailing mother, but with her sewing machine, and haute couture style, transforms the women of the town in such a way that she gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. She also falls unexpectedly in love, which leads to her greatest loss, and her most destructive deed.' (Producer's abstract)
Notes
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'Rosalie Ham’s first novel, The Dressmaker, (Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney) was published in 2000, and as of March 2007, has sold over 55,000 copies in Australia, as well as Germany and France and continues to sell. The Dressmaker was short listed for the 2001 Christina Stead prize for fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary awards, nominated for Vision Australia’s Braille Book of the year as well as the Booksellers Association book of the year award. In 2007, The Dressmaker came second in the State Library of Victoria’s poll for most popular novel set in Victoria. It is available on tape and CD, was on the CAE book club list as well as the VCE Readers list for Literature (2002-2012) and continues to be set in some schools for English Literature for year 11 students at schools through out Victoria.' (Source: http://filmartmedia.com/?p=721)
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia:
Type of disability Unspecified mental illness. Type of character Secondary. Point of view Third person.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Braille.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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When Rosalie Met Kate
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24 October 2015; (p. 15) -
Fear and Clothing
2015
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10-11 October 2015; (p. 8-9) Australian author Rosalie Hamcharts her journey from the Riverina to the red carpet. -
‘The Dressmaker,’ by Rosalie Ham
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 16 August 2015; (p. 20)
— Review of The Dressmaker 2000 single work novel -
The Jerilderie Letters
2005
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 20 November 2005; (p. 24) Summer at Mount Hope was partly inspired by the letters exchanged between the author's paternal grandfather, a wool classer from Jerilderie, in NSW, and her grandmother, a Victorian farm girl. -
Life and Art and the Thin Line Between
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 27 April 2002; (p. 5)
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The Objects of Their Desire
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 8 October 2000; (p. 11)
— Review of The Dressmaker 2000 single work novel ; The Waiters 2000 single work novel -
Rippling Chaos
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 225 2000; (p. 44-45)
— Review of The Dressmaker 2000 single work novel ; Black Hearts 2000 single work novel -
Perversely Attractive
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21-22 October 2000; (p. 12)
— Review of The Dressmaker 2000 single work novel ; The Hidden 2000 single work novel -
Paperbacks with Lesley Beasley
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 29 October 2000; (p. 50)
— Review of The Dressmaker 2000 single work novel ; Goose Girl 2000 single work novel ; The Glass Heart 2000 single work novel ; The Waiters 2000 single work novel -
In Short : New Releases
2000
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28 October 2000; (p. 14)
— Review of The Dressmaker 2000 single work novel ; Chick for a Day : What Would You Do If You Were One? 2000 anthology short story poetry -
The Jerilderie Letters
2005
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 20 November 2005; (p. 24) Summer at Mount Hope was partly inspired by the letters exchanged between the author's paternal grandfather, a wool classer from Jerilderie, in NSW, and her grandmother, a Victorian farm girl. -
An Accidental Author
2001
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 24 March 2001; (p. 3) -
Life and Art and the Thin Line Between
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 27 April 2002; (p. 5) -
Fear and Clothing
2015
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10-11 October 2015; (p. 8-9) Australian author Rosalie Hamcharts her journey from the Riverina to the red carpet. -
When Rosalie Met Kate
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24 October 2015; (p. 15)
Awards
- 2007 nominated Braille Book of the Year Award
- 2001 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- 2000 shortlisted Australian Booksellers Association Awards — Booksellers Choice Award
- Country towns,
- Victoria,
- 1950s