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''The Dressmaker'' is a Gothic novel written by the Australian author Rosalie Ham,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kate Winslet to seek revenge with needles in The Dressmaker )〕 and is Ham's debut novel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Dressmaker by Duffy & Snellgrove )〕 It was first published by Duffy & Snellgrove on January 1, 2000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Dressmaker Paperback by Rosalie Ham )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham )〕 The story is set in a 1950s fictional Australian country town, Dungatar, and explores love, hate and haute couture.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Dressmaker - by Rosalie Ham )〕 The novel is divided into four sections, each named after a different fabric and representing different phases in the story: gingham, shantung, felt and brocade.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rosalie Ham: The Dressmaker )〕 Since its release the novel has sold over 75,000 copies〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kate Winslett will play opposite Judy Davis in a big-budget film of 'The Dressmaker' to begin shooting early next year. )〕 and has been translated into a number of languages including German and French.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=THE DRESSMAKER )〕 A film adaptation of the book was released on October 29, 2015, with Kate Winslet as the protagonist Tilly Dunnage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aussie director to compete in Cannes )〕 A special film tie-in edition of the novel, featuring a new book cover with Winslet as the titular character, was released worldwide from August to October 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Dressmaker: A Novel Paperback – August 11, 2015 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Dressmaker A Novel by Rosalie Ham )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Dressmaker Paperback By (author) Rosalie Ham )〕 ==Background and setting== The novel is Rosalie Ham's first published novel,〔 and was picked up for publication within a year after Ham finished writing it. She sent the manuscript to four publishers and received rejections but on one of the readers' advice she sent her manuscript to Duffy & Snellgrove, who picked it up for publication.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Jerilderie letters )〕 According to Ham, the novel is a product of serendipity. In 1996, she enrolled in the writing programme of RMIT University but on her arrival she found that it was already full. As she was leaving, novelist Antoni Jach advised her to take a novel course instead. In novel-writing class, she got an assignment of "a 500-word synopsis of her book", which she recalled as "I had an idea and started writing it. Then you had to hand in 3,000 words, and then you had to hand in 10,000 words, and I had 30,000 words. It was only three weeks before I realised that this was the best 'accident' that had ever occurred to me."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An accidental author )〕 The novel is set in a small country town of Australia. Ham, who herself was born and raised in the southern New South Wales town of Jerilderie, said that she was inspired by the fact everyone knows everything about each other and "(her) mother was a dressmaker in a small country town, and the idiosyncrasies of those two factors were the seed for the story".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=RMIT pair set to wow Hollywood with ‘The Dressmaker’ )〕 But she clarified that she did not intentionally use a country town based on her own experiences as she explained that "My experience in my home town was the absolute contrary (to Dungatar)."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Dressmaker (Ham novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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