Maria Kendall is stunningly beautiful, impeccably mannered, effortlessly graceful--in short, a perfect candidate for marriage. Thus all of polite London society is astonished that she is the...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel of 1930s Yorkshire.It is the summer of 1932, and Sarah Burton embarks on a new beginning as the headmistress of...

When Fiona Macleod is sent by her guardian aunt and uncle to spend a London season with the Tribble sisters, it is something of a last resort. At nineteen, Fiona is a beautiful and wealthy...

Virginia Woolf started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel after finishing 'The Waves', tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent...

Truth be told it was a matter of economy that drove the staff at Number 67 Clarges Street to become masters of matchmaking. But that is a well-guarded secret...and it all begins when the...

Through the eyes of many Fairacre friends, we trace Mrs. Pringle's life and her stormy standing as the redoubtable cleaner of the town's school. However maddening she is, life at Fairacre would be...

In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold, in her suitcase a polka-dot dress and a one-way ticket. In a...

When Amy and Effy Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on a much needed inheritance, they place an advertisement in The Morning Post and hire themselves out as...

In 1923 the beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to Douglas and his career in the Indian Civil Service, outrages the English and Indian communities by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty...

Miss Hannah Pym, middle-aged spinster and housekeeper, longs for adventure, though she's attained the pinnacle of a servant's career, running the household of Thornton Hall for her melancholy...

Kate and Baba are in London, playing out the tragicomedy of their married lives to its surprisingly level-headed conclusion. Kate, feeling trapped in her grey stone house with her increasingly...

Oh to be as beautiful as Euphemia! plain Jane Hart sighs when she joins her sister Euphemia at Number 67 Clarges Street for the Season. Then Lord Tregarthan might notice her...as she had noticed...