Gwyneth Hughes, a British documentary director and screenwriter who works mainly in television, adapted what final novel written by Charles Dickens?
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Gwyneth Hughes Gwyneth Hughes is a British documentary director and screenwriter who works mainly in television. A former newspaper journalist from the north of England, her credits include the crime drama "Five Days", "Cherished", a film about the wrongful conviction of Angela Cannings, an adaptation of Charles Dickens's unfinished work "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", and "The Girl", which explores an alleged obsession Alfred Hitchcock had with the actress Tippi Hedren. Her work on "Five Days" earned her a nomination at the 2008 Golden Globe Awards. In 2013 she wrote "Remember Me", which debuted on the BBC in November 2014.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was unfinished at the time of Dickens's death (9 June 1870) and his ending for it is unknown.
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Dickens (docudrama) Dickens was a 2002 BBC docudrama on the life of the author Charles Dickens. It was presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based, and Dickens was played by Anton Lesser. It was broadcast in three hour-long episodes.
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Clara Howard Clara Howard was the second-to-last novel published by Charles Brockden Brown. First published in 1801, the novel is both an epistolary novel and a novel of manners which diverges, alongside the novel Jane Talbot from earlier novels by Brown which were more intense and radical Gothic fiction.
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Charles Frederick Field Charles Frederick Field (1805–1874) was a British police officer with Scotland Yard and, following his retirement, a private detective. Field is perhaps best known as the basis for Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens's novel "Bleak House".
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David Copperfield (disambiguation) David Copperfield is a novel by Charles Dickens.
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No Name (novel) No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine "All the Year Round" before book publication.
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The House of the Seven Gables The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by a gabled house in Salem belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The book was well received upon publication and later had a strong influence on the work of H. P. Lovecraft. "The House of the Seven Gables" has been adapted several times to film and television.
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Dexter Collection of Dickensiana The Dexter Collection of Dickensiana is a special collection of materials by, about and associated with the novelist Charles Dickens, donated to the British Library by John Furber Dexter.
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Dora Spenlow Dora Spenlow is a character in the novel "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens. She is portrayed as beautiful but childish. David, who is employed by her father, the lawyer Mr Spenlow, falls in love with Dora at first sight and marries her. She proves unable to cope with the responsibilities of married life, and is more interested in playing with her dog, Jip, than in acting as David's housekeeper. All this has a profound effect on David, but he still loves her. However, a year into their marriage she suffers a miscarriage, and her health steadily declines until she eventually dies.
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Agnes Wickfield Agnes Wickfield is a character of "David Copperfield", a novel by Charles Dickens. She is a friend and confidante of David (the narrator and protagonist of this semi-autobiography) since his childhood and at the end of the novel, his second wife. In Dickens' language, she is the "real heroine" of the novel.
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Bleak House (2005 TV serial) Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel "Bleak House", which was originally published in 1852–53. Produced with an all-star cast, the serial was shown on BBC One from 27 October to 16 December 2005, and drew much critical and popular praise. It has been reported that the total cost of the production was in the region of £8 million.
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The Final Passage The Final Passage is Caryl Phillips's debut novel. First published in 1985, it is about the Caribbean diaspora exemplified in the lives of a young family from a small island of the British West Indies who decide to join the 1950s exodus to the mother country. They arrive in London full of hope, but their hopes are thwarted while new challenges, if not opportunities, never thought of before, seem to arise.
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The Life of Our Lord The Life of Our Lord is a book about the life of Jesus Christ written by English novelist Charles Dickens, for his young children, between 1846 and 1849, at about the time that he was writing "David Copperfield". "The Life of Our Lord" was published in 1934, 64 years after Dickens' death.
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Twist (film) Twist is a 2003 Canadian drama film and a retelling of Charles Dickens' classic, "Oliver Twist".
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The Adventures of Philip The Adventures of Philip on his Way Through the World: Shewing Who Robbed Him, Who Helped Him, and Who Passed Him By (1861–62) is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. It was the last novel Thackeray completed, and harks back to several of his previous ones, involving as it does characters from "A Shabby Genteel Story" and being, like "The Newcomes", narrated by the title character of his "Pendennis". In recent years it has not found as much favour from either readers or critics as Thackeray's early novels.
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Oliver Twist (1999 miniseries) Oliver Twist is a 1999 television miniseries produced by ITV based on the book "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.
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Under the Skin (novel) Under the Skin is a 2000 novel by Michel Faber. Set in northern Scotland, it traces an extraterrestrial who, manifesting in human form, drives around the Scottish countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet. The novel, which was Faber's debut, was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Award. It was later adapted into a feature film by Jonathan Glazer.
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Ebenezer Scrooge Ebenezer Scrooge ( ) is the fictional character of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella, "A Christmas Carol".
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The Old Curiosity Shop The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.
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Peter Prince Peter Prince (born 10 May 1942) is a British novelist. He was born in England and studied in America. His first novel "Play Things" won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1973. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special for his work on the 1980 BBC miniseries "Oppenheimer". His novel "The Good Father" was adapted into a "film" starring Anthony Hopkins. His latest novel "Adam Runaway" was published in 2005.
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Great Expectations (1946 film) Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson. It won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography) and was nominated for three others (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay).