I'm speaking today with M. A. McLaughlin, author of The Lost Dresses of Italy listed in the Textile Arts category on Art In Fiction.
View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rDe_rXrLC2k
- Overview of the story of The Lost Dresses of Italy as a dual time novel taking place in 1947 and 1864 and inspired by a three-week trip to Italy taken by Victorian poet Christina Rossetti
- Poetry of Christina Rossetti and why it has endured
- Christina's sonnet sequence Monna Innominata as inspiration for the plot
- Combining a costume history and design with the story of Christina's time in Italy
- Reasons for setting the modern story in post-war Verona
- Researching costume design and preservation
- The role of pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the novel
- Some of the challenges of fictionalizing real people
- What is it about the Romantics and Victorians that Marty is attracted to?
- Reading from The Lost Dresses of Italy
- Things that Marty learned from writing her novel - the complicated nature of Italy's participation in World War II and its aftermath.
Read more about M. A. McLaughlin on her website: https://martyambrose.com/
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