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Victorian era stripped bare in BBC's 'Velvet'

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20030523
Author:Bridget Byrne

Andrew Davies has created successful TV miniseries based on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," Elizabeth Gaskell's "Wives and Daughters" and George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda."

Now, he's tackled Sarah Waters' "Tipping the Velvet," a tale of lesbian love set in the music halls, mean streets and posh parlors of Victorian London.

"Sarah writes very vividly. I'm often accused of inventing sex scenes that aren't really there in the books I adapt, but there was certainly no need to with this book. If anything they had to be slightly toned down," says Davies, speaking from his home near Warwick, ...

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