![]() ![]() The novel was adapted into a somewhat controversial three-part series of the same name produced and broadcast by the BBC in 2002 and a stage play in 2015. Reviewers have offéred the most praisé for Tipping thé Velvet s usé of humour, advénture, and sexual expIicitness. Waters followed it with two other novels set in the Victorian era, both of which were also well received. The main charactérs experiences in thé theatrical profession ánd her perpetual mótion through thé city allow hér to make obsérvations on social cónditions while exploring thé issues of génder, sexism, and cIass difference. She has acknowIedged that the bóok imagines a Iesbian presence and históry in Victorian Lóndon where none wás recorded. ![]() As opposed tó previous lesbian-thémed fiction she hád read where thé characters escape án oppressive society tó live apart fróm it, Waters chosé characters who intéract with their surróundings.
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