[La Lydia]

Okay, I sit down Sunday night with my hot cocoa and popcorn to submerge myself in one of my favorite Dickens' novels, Little Dorritt, expecting a cozy, understandable-values story with a great plot and memorable characters like Flintwitch, and the Circumlocution Department, which must have inspired Kafka. Everything is going fine the first several minutes, until we get to Miss Wade, who, when I read this book, was not a raving lesbian set on luring away and seducing Tatttcoram. Very maddening, I can't even sit down to watch Masterpiece theater without having someone's sexual agenda pushed during a dramatization of Dickens. And these weren't "strong implications," as the reviewer writes. There was simply no other way to take it. Dickens is fabulous. Why can't they leave well enough alone.

[JoeProBono]

Miss Dorrit and Little Dorrit by Phiz (Halbot K. Browne). Illustration for Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit, 1855.

[squarebarb]

I never did understand the family secret.

And it seemed to me that Miss Wade was indeed a lesbian in the story though of course Dickens wasn’t explicit about it.

[skr]

I watched Little Dorrit and only saw a woman who may be a procurer for the sex-slave trade. Lesbianism didn’t even enter my mind. I have yet to read the book so don’t know how the actual character should be played. What is Miss Wade’s role in the book?

[12Gauge687]

I have noticed that with the remakes (as well as the original television productions) of Agatha Chritie’s Miss Marple novels.

[mountainfolk]

If Direct TV had an all British channel we would sure try it for awhile. We have gotten several English period movies lately and are listening to an early P.D. James audio while driving. It is getting really hard to find good American novels or movies. The TV shows are so larded with homosexual, in your face, characters and scenes that my resentment overcomes my interest in an otherwise decent performance or script. The lesbian overtures of Miss Wade were unmistakable. Last nite was a treat with Little Dorritt and I hope it is on next Sunday, PBS 9 to 11 CST.
First time I have watched PBS in ages. They just said see you next time.

[bimboeruption]

Why can't they leave well enough alone.

Because they are reprobates, pushing a perverted way of life on people who don't know any better.

Dickens has been my favortite author since reading Great Expectations in the 7th grade.

I've read his novels many times and I know for a fact that he NEVER introduced a homosexual or a lesbian character.

Who next? Will Peggotty be portrayed as a lesbian because she loved Clara Copperfield?

How about Ada Clare and Esther Summerson? They loved eachother too. I could go on and on.

Leave it to the libs to distort his wonderful works. Mr. Dickens is whirring in his grave.