![]() ![]() ![]() While doing this, the novel argues for the tolerance and acceptance of those who are a little different, colourful and individualistic. ![]() The novel highlights the community’s narrow-mindedness, pettiness, vindictiveness, snobbery, gossipy nature and hypocrisy. Set in the early 1950s in rural Victoria, the novel characterises a small-town community to draw attention to the way these communities can turn on those individuals who are a little different to the mainstream. Written by a woman primarily for women, it celebrates female glamour, style, fashion and the power of the make-over, while also drawing attention to the small-mindedness of small-town communities, the injustice of bullying, and the satisfaction of revenge. Rosalie Ham’s novel The Dressmaker (2000) is a commercial novel intended to entertain. ![]()
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