Also, this is shallow, but she had a really unflattering hairstyle for most of the series.
It’s kind of hard to see why Gilbert falls for her. But Tara Fitzgerald just takes it too far. Helen in the book was afraid to let people get too close to her because of her bad experience and fear of being found out. Way out of place! And in the later scenes, she is a bit too cold. This was especially jarring in the flashback diary scenes to when Helen was young and naive. For one, she sounds like she smokes a pack a day. I do think she’s a fine actress, but she’s not how I pictured Helen. I have to say I wasn’t that fond of Tara Fitzgerald as Helen. I was so confused- I thought they just cut the rest out! But then Gilbert finishes reading it and it made sense. Gilbert has not yet finished reading the diary when he finds out that Helen has gone back to her husband. Then, the end timeline is fudged with a bit. There are also flashbacks throughout that can be kind of confusing. We begin with Helen as she flees with her son in the early morning to Wildfell Hall-so we know right away that she is not what she seems. The series changes the structure of the novel somewhat. It’s a real shame, because the book is so brilliant and this version is also really good. Part of this may be because it was so hard to get until recently but I think it’s mostly because Anne Bronte and the book itself aren’t that popular in comparison with the other classic authors I listed. At least, it’s not up there with any of Jane Austen, Dickens, or other Bronte adaptations. Elton from Beckinsale Emma) as Lord Lowborough, for example.ĭespite the cast, this adaptation doesn’t seem to be that well-known. Markham, Paloma Baeza (Hetta Carbury from The Way We Live Now) as Rose Markham, James Purefoy as Frederick Lawrence, and Dominic Rowan (Mr. Many of the supporting cast are also big names or at least well-known in period dramas- Pam Ferris as Mrs. Apparently it wasn’t even on DVD in the UK yet! This version is a three part miniseries which has some pretty famous actors in it- just pictured are Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham, Tara Fitzgerald as Helen Huntingdon, and Rupert Graves as Arthur Huntingdon. I bought it last year but before that I had a version from the Netherlands- English with Dutch subtitles. Heck, even this version, from 1996, was not available in the US until 2008. Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has actually been adapted for the BBC twice, but the 1968 version is not available.
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