where I did my doctorate on the fiction and philosophy of George Eliot. I became interested in the films of the 1950s through the Sunday afternoon television of the 1970s, such films now irrevocably associated with childhood and the digestion of roast dinners. Particularly interested in literary adaptations, both past and recent, I have published on Hardy and Eliot, including an essay on the BBC Middlemarch with Ian Mackillop in The classic novel (Manchester University Press, 1999). I must confess there are no begonias in The Spanish Gardener. Alison Platt
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