{"product_id":"lady-rose-and-mrs-memmary","title":"Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"std\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 490px;\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/53-Lady_Rose_and_mrs_memmary.jpg?v=1593109039\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"redtext\"\u003ePREFACE BY CANDIA MCWILLIAM\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e224pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155431\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike \u003cem\u003eMiss Pettigrew Lives for a Day\u003c\/em\u003e, this 1937 novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups, but one 'with an uneasy crash into social reality', as Candia McWilliam puts it in her preface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt begins when Lady Rose Targenet, born in the 1850s, becomes Lady Galowrie when she is 19 and, suitably, marries Sir Hector, the owner of the estate next to 'Keepsfield', the palatial Scottish mansion where she lives. Some years later, she goes into Edinburgh to see her lawyer - and meets the love of her life on a park bench in Princes Street Gardens...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCandia McWilliam adds, 'It's a little book about dreams and the hard world of money and position and their relations to one another. It's also a love story and a love letter - to Scotland'.  We were not surprised to be told, by Ruby Ferguson's granddaughter, that the then Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, loved the book so much that she invited its author to a luncheon at Buckingham Palace and begged her for a sequel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLady Rose and Mrs Memmary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e has an unusually captivating quality; the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e called it 'a curious, affecting confection of high Scots romance and social realism.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003eWe chose this 1937 cotton printed dress fabric, made for the Calico Printers Association, because the fairy tale element of the 'Masqueraders' (as the fabric is called) suited Lady Rose so admirably, hinging as it does on themes of disguise and changed identity. And the flower in the frieze might be roses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePicture Caption\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"endpaper-caption\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e‘Keepsfield’, the house in \u003cem\u003eLady Rose and Mrs Memmary\u003c\/em\u003e, is obviously not a ‘real’ house; but Hopetoun has many similarities to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ruby Ferguson","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098768953651,"sku":"wos1789694518759","price":31.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098768986419,"sku":"jxt1789694518760","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098769019187,"sku":"sns1789694518761","price":30.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098769051955,"sku":"oob1789694518762","price":48.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/lady-rose-and-mrs-memmary_1.jpg?v=1789694522","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/lady-rose-and-mrs-memmary","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}