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Tara's high drama with no costume; TV REVIEW.(Features)

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From: The Mirror (London, England)
Date: 19961118
Author:Purnell, Tony

T ara Fitzgerald is famous for stripping for the sake of her art, but you would have thought she would have kept her clothes on in a Bronte novel.

She got her period kit off in The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall (BBC1) and some of the scenes were so steamy and violent they had to postpone them until after the news.

Viewers expecting another cosy costume drama like Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice must have fallen out of their armchairs.

Kissing with tongues and topless ...

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