Tipping the Velvet (2002)

Have I really never posted about this BBC mini-serie Tipping the Velvet before? Can hardly believe it! This is an adaptation of Sarah Waters’ other novel besides The Fingersmith. The story is about a young woman Nance Astley (in the picture, she’s on the left side) who falls in love with a male impersonator named…

Fingersmith (2005)

Fingersmith is a BBC mini-series that was televised in 2005, which is an adaptation of Sarah Water’s novel, who’s also the author of Tipping the Velvet. The lives of two young women collide in Victorian England when a trio of ‘fingersmiths’ (pick-pockets) concoct an elaborate scam to defraud a young heiress of her inheritance. The…