Georgiana Podsnap's journal

Heard the news? P.D. James is writing a sequel to Pride and Prejudice! A sequel and a crime story to boot. What's extraordinary about t...

I still wonder why the Andrew Davies TV adaptation of "Little Dorrit" was not such a smash hit with the public as his earlier adap...

The new "Jane Eyre" film with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender does most things right. It doesn't mess around with the st...

I've finally got round to watching Sofia Coppola's film about Marie Antoinette, and I must admit I quite enjoyed it. I had no high h...

You'd think, wouldn't you, that sooner or later a girl would tire of Tudor era gossip? And yet, recently, I spent my leisure hours d...

I realise that my blog entries about books have been thin on the ground lately. The reason is my current Ambitious Book Project, which leave...

Now, don't get me wrong. I always enjoy ogling Julian Rhind-Tutt, and even when he's saddled with oversized Fifties glasses and a sc...