Making a Costume Drama out of a Crisis
Jenny Diski: ‘Downton Abbey’, 21 June 2012
Habits of the House
by Fay Weldon.
Head of Zeus, 320 pp., £14.99, July 2012,978 1 908800 04 6 Show More
by Fay Weldon.
Head of Zeus, 320 pp., £14.99, July 2012,
“... the post the return of Upstairs, Downstairs, the TV programme it was being most nostalgic about. Jean Marsh, who devised the original 1970s series with Eileen Atkins and appears in both, believed Downton Abbey was a deliberate spoiler for their new version, which had been in difficult preparation for some three years. ‘It might be a coincidence. And I ... ”