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Bodices and breeches top the TV schedules
From: The Independent - London
Date: 19960801
Author:Marianne Macdonald.
Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is to form the centrepiece of BBC1's autumn schedule, it was revealed yesterday - the latest example of television's craze for bonnets, bosoms and breeches following Jane Austen's TV triumph, writes Marianne Macdonald.
The three-part adaptation is to star Tara Fitzgerald, Rupert Graves and Toby Stephens, son of the actress Maggie Smith.
A surprising choice in many ways, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of the Bronte sisters' least accessible novels. It is the story of Helen, a beautiful young mother forced to flee her debauched and unfaithful ...
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