![]() ![]() ![]() Kate Alcott is the pseudonym for journalist Patricia O’Brien, who has written several books, both fiction and nonfiction. But we also follow Tess as she learns about the high-fashion business in New York." - Washington Post "An unashamed girlie-book.we learn a good deal about what it was like when the ship went down. Did Lady Duff Gordon put her own safety ahead of that of others? Caught between her loyalty to her employer and her gnawing uncertainty about what really happened, will Tess keep her suspicions to herself or speak up and perhaps change her future forever? ![]() Once safely in New York, Tess must ponder a troubling question posed by the media. Then disaster befalls the Titanic and its passengers, yet somehow Tess manages to secure one of the last spaces on the lifeboats. Before long, Tess draws the attention of two men-one a sailor and the other a businessman-who hold differing views of what America will hold for her. Listed in the Textile Arts category on Art In Fiction, The Dressmaker (2013) is an historical novel by Kate Alcott, set in the pre-WWI early 20th century.Īn aspiring seamstress accompanies a famous fashion designer as her personal maid on the fated ocean liner, the Titanic. ![]()
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