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Jan 1, 2013 · by Kate Alcott (Author) 4.2 2,986 ratings. Goodreads Choice Award nominee. See all formats and editions. Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on the Titanic.
Feb 21, 2012 · Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.
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Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men—a kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman—who offer differing views of what lies ahead for her in America. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes, and amidst the chaos, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat.
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Feb 21, 2012 · The Dressmaker. Kate Alcott. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Feb 21, 2012 - Fiction - 320 pages. Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired...
- Kate Alcott
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012
- reprint
- The Dressmaker
Tess Collins is a maidservant desperate to escape the narrow class boundaries of 1912 England in Kate Alcott's historical fiction novel The Dressmaker. Tess knows there is no future as a maidservant to women who treat her disdainfully, especially with sons with roving hands.
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- Kate Alcott
- Paperback
Jan 1, 2013 · Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men—a kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman—who offer differing views of what lies ahead for her in America. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes, and amidst the chaos, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat.
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Feb 21, 2012 · Kate Alcott. 4.0 • 579 Ratings. $6.99. Publisher Description. Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she’s had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be her personal maid on the Titanic.