"Bleak House (1959 TV serial) Bleak House (1959) is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959. It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson, Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone, Elizabeth Shepherd as Ada Clare, Iris Russell as Honoria, Lady Dedlock, Timothy Bateson as William Guppy, John Phillips as Mr. Tulkinghorne, David Horne as Sir Leicester Dedlock, Richard Pearson as Inspector Bucket, Malcolm Knight as Jo, Eileen Draycott as"
"worldwide, including a 2007 tour to Australia and New Zealand. Margolyes was nominated for an Olivier Award in 1992 for her original West End season of the show. ""Dickens' Women"" was taken on a world tour in 2012 as part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of Dickens' birth. Dickens' Women Dickens' Women is a one person show written by Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser and starring Margolyes. The play includes 23 different characters (male and female) based on or inspired by characters in Charles Dickens' novels. The ""Sydney Morning Herald"" wrote that the ""elegantly crafted production puts the focus on"
"Dickens' Women Dickens' Women is a one person show written by Miriam Margolyes and Sonia Fraser and starring Margolyes. The play includes 23 different characters (male and female) based on or inspired by characters in Charles Dickens' novels. The ""Sydney Morning Herald"" wrote that the ""elegantly crafted production puts the focus on the storyteller"" (Dickens), highlighting his ""obsession with youthful beauty and his baffling relationships with his sisters-in-law"". ""The Age"" noted that it ""combines character sketches, short readings, biographical material and mordant commentary"". The show was developed in 1989 for the Edinburgh Festival, and Margolyes has taken it on tour"
"with a gay character or that includes gay experience is only for queers."" A television adaptation of the book was made and aired by the BBC in 1990, starring Charlotte Coleman and Geraldine McEwan, which won the Prix Italia in 1991. The book was released on cassette by BBC Audiobooks in 1990, also read by Coleman. A two-part dramatisation, adapted by Winterton and starring Lesley Sharp, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2016. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, which she subsequently adapted"
"2002, Winterson was involved with BBC radio broadcaster and academic Peggy Reynolds. After their relationship ended, Winterson became involved with theatre director Deborah Warner. In 2015, she married psychotherapist Susie Orbach, author of ""Fat is a Feminist Issue"". Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson, (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing. She"
"him, she accepts. North and South has been adapted for the small screen, twice. In 1975, Rosalind Shanks played Margaret. In 2004, Margaret was played by Daniela Denby-Ashe. Margaret Hale Margaret Hale is the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel ""North and South"". Initially, Gaskell wanted the title of the novel to be ""Margaret Hale"", but Charles Dickens, the editor of ""Household Words"", the magazine in which the novel was serialized, insisted on ""North and South"". From Chapter Two: From Chapter Seven: Margaret was a character created to challenge stereotypes about women's role in the 19th century. The theme of"
"Elizabeth Dickens Elizabeth Culliford Dickens (née Barrow; 21 December 1789 – 13 September 1863) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her son's novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" and for Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"". One of eight children of Mary Culliford (1771–1851) and Charles Barrow (1759–1826), Elizabeth Barrow was introduced to John Dickens by her brother, Thomas Culliford Barrow, when the two men were working at the Navy Pay Office in nearby Somerset House. When John Dickens first met Elizabeth she was ""a small pretty girl"
"first Victorian novel with a child protagonist. On 2 April 1836, after a one-year engagement, and between episodes two and three of ""The Pickwick Papers"", Dickens married Catherine Thomson Hogarth (1816–1879), the daughter of George Hogarth, editor of the ""Evening Chronicle"". They were married in St. Luke's Church, Chelsea, London. After a brief honeymoon in Chalk in Kent, the couple returned to lodgings at Furnival's Inn. The first of their ten children, Charley, was born in January 1837, and a few months later the family set up home in Bloomsbury at 48 Doughty Street, London, (on which Charles had a"
"Summer (novel) Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class society, this is one of two novels by Wharton that were set in New England. Its themes include social class, the role of women in society, destructive relationships, sexual awakening and the desire of its protagonist, named Charity Royall. The novel was rather controversial for its time and is one of the less famous among her novels because of its subject matter. At the start of the novel, young charity Royal"
"Elizabeth Carter, and Some Fugitive Pieces, Never Before Published. Together with an Account of Her Life and Character, Drawn Up by Her Own Family"""" (1807). There, Chapone is quoted: Hester Chapone Hester Chapone, ""née"" Mulso (27 October 1727, Twywell, Northamptonshire – 1801), was an English writer of conduct books for women. She became associated with the London Bluestockings. The daughter of Thomas Mulso (1695–1763), a gentleman farmer, and his wife (died 1747/8), a daughter of Colonel Thomas, Hester wrote a romance at the age of nine, ""The Loves of Amoret and Melissa"", which earned her mother's disapproval. She was educated"
"Just Listen (novel) Just Listen (2006) is a young adult novel written by author Sarah Dessen. It is her seventh published novel. Annabel Greene is a girl who has it all—at least, that's how it seems on TV commercials. Annabel's life is far from perfect. Her friendship with her best friends Clarke and Sophie ended bitterly, due to a few events that tore them apart. This left her alone and friendless at the beginning of a new school year. Her sister Whitney's eating disorder is weighing down the entire family, and Annabel fears speaking out about her past and her"
"respond to the various concepts through the author`s deductions and the extensions from Wharton`s own words. Summer (novel) Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class society, this is one of two novels by Wharton that were set in New England. Its themes include social class, the role of women in society, destructive relationships, sexual awakening and the desire of its protagonist, named Charity Royall. The novel was rather controversial for its time and is one of the less famous among"
"a broader more active world. The New Woman pushed the limits set by a male-dominated society, especially as modeled in the plays of Norwegian Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906). Writer Henry James was among the authors who popularized the term ""New Woman"", a figure who was represented in the heroines of his novels—among them the title character of the novella ""Daisy Miller"" (serialized 1878), and Isabel Archer in ""Portrait of a Lady"" (serialized 1880–81). According to historian Ruth Bordin, the term New Woman was The ""New Woman"" was also a nickname given to Ella Hepworth Dixon, the English author of the novel"
"unattractive, and her motivation throughout the story is her love for her half-sister, Laura Fairlie. Additionally, scholars have engaged in queer readings of the novels of Charlotte Brontë, particularly ""Shirley"" and ""Villette"", in which the female main characters engage in close or even obsessive relationships with other women. Some have even speculated that Brontë herself may have been in love with her friend Ellen Nussey; Vita Sackville-West called the letters between the two “love letters pure and simple.” Scholars have similarly speculated on whether the nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson might have been in love with her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert, a"
"WHO DIED SEPTEMBER 12TH 1863 AGED 73 YEARS"". Charles Dickens used his mother as the source for the vain, ineffectual and verbally comic Mrs. Nickleby in his novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" and for Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"". Elizabeth Dickens Elizabeth Culliford Dickens (née Barrow; 21 December 1789 – 13 September 1863) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens. She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her son's novel ""Nicholas Nickleby"" and for Mrs Micawber in ""David Copperfield"". One of eight children of Mary Culliford (1771–1851) and Charles Barrow (1759–1826), Elizabeth Barrow was"
"Rosamond Marshall Rosamond Marshall was a 20th-century American novelist. She wrote historical romances for adult and youth readers during the 1940s and 50's, and two of her novels, ""Kitty"" and ""The Bixby Girls"", were made into motion pictures. Marshall was born Rosamond van der Zee on October 17, 1902 (or, possibly 1893), the daughter of Charles and Florence (née Tappan Botsford). Her first published novel in English, ""None But the Brave, A Story of Holland"" (1942), for young people, won the ""New York Herald Tribune"" Spring Book Award. The novel is set during the Netherlands' revolt against Spain in the"
"Margaret Hale Margaret Hale is the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel ""North and South"". Initially, Gaskell wanted the title of the novel to be ""Margaret Hale"", but Charles Dickens, the editor of ""Household Words"", the magazine in which the novel was serialized, insisted on ""North and South"". From Chapter Two: From Chapter Seven: Margaret was a character created to challenge stereotypes about women's role in the 19th century. The theme of challenging stereotypes is one which is integral throughout the novel. Margaret Hale is nineteen years old and before she was 10, lived in Helstone in Hampshire, in the"
"Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson, (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, ""Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"", a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing. She is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, which focuses on LGBT issues. Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by Constance and John William Winterson on 21 January 1960. She grew up in Accrington, Lancashire, and"
"as a historiography and the context they are put into, what is important to remember is that: ""Ultimately...Winterson rejects linear temporality and endorses an apocalyptic urge to escape history and the power structures of a male-dominated society."" Sexing the Cherry Sexing the Cherry (1989) is a novel by Jeanette Winterson. Set in 17th century London, ""Sexing the Cherry"" is about the journeys of a mother, known as The Dog Woman, and her protégé, Jordan. They journey in a space-time flux: across the seas to find exotic fruits such as bananas and pineapples; and across time, with glimpses of ""the present"""
"Audie Award for ""Solo Female Narration"" for her audiobook narration. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 75 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 2001. The film stars Renée Zellweger (in an Academy Award nominated role) as the eponymous heroine, Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver, and Colin Firth as Mark Darcy. It was directed by Sharon Maguire (Helen Fielding's friend who was the inspiration for Shazzer) and the screenplay was written by Fielding, Andrew Davies, and Richard Curtis. A musical version is currently in the works. The show is"
"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, which she subsequently adapted into a BBC television drama of the same name. It is a coming-of-age story about a lesbian girl who grows up in an English Pentecostal community. Key themes of the book include transition from youth to adulthood, complex family relationships, same sex relationships, and religion. In England and Wales, it has been included on both GCSE and A Level curricula, such as the OCR English Literature A Level, Literature Post 1900. The book is semi-autobiographical"
"Mariana (Dickens novel) Mariana (1940) is the first novel by Monica Dickens. ""Mariana"" is a coming of age novel, which describes the growth and experience of Mary Shannon, a young English girl in the 1930s as the first hints of war begin to permeate English domestic life. First published by Michael Joseph, it was reprinted by Persephone Books in 1999 and is the second in their collection. The title is a reference to the poem of the same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The novel starts with an adult Mary spending a weekend in an isolated cottage on the Essex"
"The Female Quixote The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella is a novel written by Charlotte Lennox imitating and parodying the ideas of Miguel de Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"". Published in 1752, two years after she wrote her first novel, ""The Life of Harriot Stuart"", it was her best-known and most-celebrated work. It was approved by both Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson, applauded by Samuel Johnson, and used as a model by Jane Austen for ""Northanger Abbey"". It has been called a burlesque, ""satirical harlequinade"", and a depiction of the real power of females. While some dismissed Arabella as a"
"2013 film ""The Invisible Woman"" she was portrayed by Joanna Scanlan. In the 2017 film ""The Man Who Invented Christmas"" she was portrayed by Morfydd Clark. Catherine Dickens Catherine Thomson ""Kate"" Dickens (""née"" Hogarth; 19 May 1815 – 22 November 1879) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, and the mother of his ten children. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1815, Catherine came to England with her family in 1824. She was the eldest daughter of 10 children to George Hogarth. Her father was a journalist for the ""Edinburgh Courant"", and later became a writer and music critic for"
"directed. A pastiche, ""Nice Work"" by David Lodge, was published in 1988. A Sunday Express Book of the Year winner, it was adapted as a television series by the BBC in 1989. North and South (Gaskell novel) North and South is a social novel published in 1855 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. With ""Wives and Daughters"" (1865) and ""Cranford"" (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004). The later version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership. Gaskell's first novel, ""Mary Barton"" (1848), focused on relations"
"The Only Story The Only Story is a novel by Julian Barnes. It is his thirteenth novel, and was published on 1 February 2018. The short (273 pp.) novel is the life story of Paul Roberts, who we first meet as a 19-year-old Sussex University undergraduate returning to his parents' house in the leafy southern suburbs of London (Sutton, in Surrey, is suggested as a model.) The time is the early sixties, and there are a few references to current events. Paul joins the tennis club, which is the one of the few opportunities such places offer for socialising. In"
"as Madame Duret. Down a Dark Hall Down A Dark Hall (1974) is a novel for young adults by Lois Duncan. It is a supernatural/suspense novel and is the only gothic fiction she has written. It tells the story of a girl who was sent to a boarding school by her parents where only four students were admitted including herself. After Kit's mother remarries David, Kit is forced to attend Madame Duret's Blackwood Boarding School. She planned to attend school with her best friend, Tracy, but Tracy was not accepted, despite her better grades. The school is far out in"
"The position often features in fiction. One notable character is Ebeneezer Scrooge's charwoman Mrs. Dilber who appears in Charles Dickens's ""A Christmas Carol"". In 1926, Lord Dunsany's fantasy novel, ""The Charwoman's Shadow"" was published to good reviews. Another well-known fictional charwoman is Ada Harris, the central character in Paul Gallico's novel ""Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris"" and its three sequels. In the British radio comedy series ""It's That Man Again,"" Dorothy Summers played the part of Mrs Mopp, an office char whose catch phrase was ""Can I do you now, Sir?"" (i.e., ""May I clean your office now, Sir?"" but"
"Sexing the Cherry Sexing the Cherry (1989) is a novel by Jeanette Winterson. Set in 17th century London, ""Sexing the Cherry"" is about the journeys of a mother, known as The Dog Woman, and her protégé, Jordan. They journey in a space-time flux: across the seas to find exotic fruits such as bananas and pineapples; and across time, with glimpses of ""the present"" and references to Charles I of England and Oliver Cromwell. The mother’s physical appearance is somewhat ""grotesque"". She is a giant, wrapped in a skirt big enough to serve as a ship’s sail and strong enough to"
"Clarissa Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family and is regarded as one of the longest novels in the English language (based on estimated word count). It is generally regarded as Richardson's masterpiece. Clarissa Harlowe, the tragic heroine of ""Clarissa"", is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently and now desires to become part of the aristocracy. Their original plan was to concentrate"
"Charlotte Temple Charlotte Temple is a novel by British-American author Susanna Rowson, originally published in England in 1791 under the title Charlotte, A Tale of Truth. It tells the story of a schoolgirl, Charlotte Temple, who is seduced by a British officer and brought to America, where she is abandoned, pregnant, sick and in poverty. The first American edition was published in 1794 and the novel became a bestseller. It has gone through over 200 American editions. Late in life, the author would write a sequel that would be published posthumously. The book relates the tale of Charlotte Temple, who"
"Henry Mackenzie's ""The Man of Feeling"" (1771) and Maria Edgeworth's ""Castle Rackrent"" (1800). Continental examples are Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel ""Julie, or the New Heloise"", his autobiography ""The Confessions"" (1764–70) and Goethe's novel ""The Sorrows of Young Werther"" (1774). Although there were novels in the interim, Samuel Richardson's ""Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded"" (1740) is the next landmark development in the English novel. Richardson's generic models were quite distinct from those of Defoe. Instead of working from the journalistic biography, Richardson had in mind the books of improvement that were popular at the time. Pamela Andrews enters the employ of a ""Mr."
"The Belle of Amherst The Belle of Amherst is a one-woman play by William Luce. Based on the life of poet Emily Dickinson from 1830 to 1886, and set in her Amherst, Massachusetts home, the 1976 play makes use of her work, diaries, and letters to recollect her encounters with the significant people in her life – family, close friends, and acquaintances. It balances the agony of her seclusion with the brief bright moments when she was able to experience some joy. After one preview, the original Broadway production, directed by Charles Nelson Reilly and starring Julie Harris, opened on"