Strait Lace
About this ebook
Strait Lace is a B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree
A young woman in Edwardian England is expected to behave with propriety, especially if she is the daughter of a vicar. But Harriet Loxley’s family is not as staid as you might imagine and when Harriet leaves Nottingham for London to pursue her studies it is with her family’s support. What she doesn’t tell them is that she also intends to seek out the Women’s Social and Political Union and the notorious Christabel Pankhurst.
Harriet’s fight for the vote plays out against the background of her family’s ups and downs in the Nottingham lace industry and her own struggle to realize her potential in a society that sets limits on women.
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About the author
Rosemary Hayward was born in Hertfordshire, England, and read English at Hertford College, Oxford. After living in Oxford, Nottingham, London, and Bracknell, she later settled between Santa Cruz, California, and Seville, Spain.
Her debut novel, Margaret Leaving, is a mystery of memory and family secrets set against the lingering shadows of the Second World War. Her second, Strait Lace, begins the Loxley Hall series, bringing Edwardian Nottingham and the women’s suffrage movement vividly to life.
Rosemary is fascinated by the intersection of personal lives and larger history: the textures of clothing, the rituals of food, the quiet decisions that shape extraordinary change. When she is not writing, she loves gardens, old churches, walking, music, and beer.
