{"id":142422,"date":"2019-02-27T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142422"},"modified":"2019-02-19T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:14:24","slug":"jen-recommends-the-gown-jennifer-robson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142422","title":{"rendered":"Jen Recommends: The Gown &#8211; Jennifer Robson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-142423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Gown-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Gown-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Gown.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><em>London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory,\u00a0burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation\u2019s recent victory.\u00a0Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair\u00a0fashion\u00a0house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship,\u00a0but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are\u00a0chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess\u00a0Elizabeth\u2019s wedding gown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Toronto, 2016: More than half a century later, Heather Mackenzie seeks\u00a0to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from\u00a0her late\u00a0grandmother. How did her beloved Nan, a woman who never spoke of her old\u00a0life in Britain, come to possess the priceless embroideries that so closely resemble the motifs on the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her\u00a0wedding almost seventy years before? And what was her Nan\u2019s connection to the\u00a0celebrated textile artist\u00a0and holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/4264341?locg=11\"><strong>The Gown<\/strong><\/a><em>, Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding\u00a0gowns in history was created.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This one has it all: historical fiction, London, fashion, British royalty, the working class and World War II. (I wouldn&#8217;t call this Holocaust Fiction, but it is a small part of the story.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory,\u00a0burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation\u2019s recent victory.\u00a0Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair\u00a0fashion\u00a0house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship,\u00a0but their nascent hopes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":142423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical-fiction","category-jen-recommends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Gown.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-B38","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142424,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142422\/revisions\/142424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}