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Author F. Tennyson Jesse, photographed before 1922

A Pin to See the Peepshow is a 1934 novel by F. Tennyson Jesse, based on the 1922 Thompson–Bywaters murder case.[1][2][3][4]

Plot

Julia Almond grows up in suburban poverty in Edwardian London. She longs for a better life, but makes an ill-advised marriage during the First World War.

Reception

Sarah Waters has praised A Pin to See the Peepshow, writing "rarely, it seemed to me, had I been plunged by a piece of fiction into an emotional world so vivid, so complete, so convincingly untidy."[5]

Adaptations

A Pin to See the Peepshow was adapted into a play by Jesse and H. M. Harwood in 1951. It was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain and so premiered at a drama club.[6] In 1953 it showed at the Playhouse Theatre, Broadway.[7][8]

In 1973 it was adapted into a four-part TV series by the BBC, written by Elaine Morgan and starring Francesca Annis.[9][10][11]

In 2007 it was made into a short radio drama on BBC Radio 4 by Scott Cherry.[12]

References

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