![]() Over the past few months I’ve watched three adaptations of Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone:ġ972 (with Robin Ellis and Anna Cropper as especially effective), 1996 (I just loved Keeley Hawes and Gregg Wise), and 2016 (which I found incoherent) ġ982 (Diana Quick and Ian Richardson extraordinary) and Fiona Seres’s 2018 (unforgettable so many of the performances) while I read with a group of friends on Collins’s marvelous novel, The Woman in White. ![]() ![]() Towards the end we are again told “vindicates” through all risks and all sacrifices - through the hopeless struggle against Rank and Power, through the long fight with armed deceit and fortified Success, through the waste of my reputation, through the loss of my friends, through the hazard of my life … This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.” It is also about “the machinery of Law” and the power of those with “long Purses.” So begins the novel. ![]() Marian Halcombe (Jessie Buckley) when Walter Hartright (Ben Hardy) first sees herĪs read using Buckley in voice over, Marion’s letter to Walter, Laura Fairlie now Hartright (Olivia Vinall) and Mrs Hartright, Walter’s mother (Cathy Belton) ![]()
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