Recommendation: Tipping the Velvet
Ruth Tolman recommends…
Tipping the Velvet
TV series
TV series
TV dramatisation of the novel by Sarah Waters following the story of Nancy Astley who falls in love with a male impersonator performing in her town and embarks on a journey of self discovery. It has some excellent representations of Victorian male impersonators and public opinion towards them at the time.
Posted by Zory on February 6th, 2010 at 08:00 am
Category: recommendations, tv 9 comments »
February 6th, 2010 at 10:36 am |
I love Sarah Waters! Her first 3 books are amazing. They’re all Victorian period pieces with lesbian main characters. Fingersmith is about thieves and secretaries (and has a really happy ending), and Affinity is about a psychiatrist and prisoner (very dark and intense). BBC made miniseries of all 3.
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February 6th, 2010 at 11:40 am |
I loved that movie (series)!!!!
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February 6th, 2010 at 12:55 pm |
i’ve been meaning to see this for a while, if it’s anything like Fingersmith i’m sure it’s great :]
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February 6th, 2010 at 2:42 pm |
My roommate and I LOVE Tipping The Velvet. The book is even better than the miniseries.
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February 6th, 2010 at 8:30 pm |
Yay! Its novel is really excellent, too. I love both film (TV series) and novel. ;)
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February 7th, 2010 at 1:54 pm |
It was pretty good. strange ending… but very good otherwise. Thank you for sharing :)
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February 7th, 2010 at 10:35 pm |
Sarah Waters is amazing.
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February 8th, 2010 at 8:20 am |
I read the novel and love it. Thanks for the reminder I’ll look for the miniseries.
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March 25th, 2010 at 8:12 pm |
This is one of my favorite books and the movie was reallly good too! I just remember how happy i was when i read it cause it reminded me alot of feelings i’d had.
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