A Respectable Trade
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| File:A Respectable Trade.jpg First edition (publ. HarperCollins) | |
| Author | Philippa Gregory |
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Publication date | 1 February 2007 |
| Pages | 512 |
| ISBN | Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). |
A Respectable Trade is a 1995 historical novel by Philippa Gregory set in the Bristol docks in 1787.[1][2][3]
Adaptation
[edit | edit source]Gregory adapted her work into a four-part TV serial which was broadcast by the BBC in 1998 and by the PBS in the United States in the fall of 1999. The series was partially filmed on site in Bristol, utilising the former house (and now museum) of plantation and slave owner John Pinney.[4]
Reception
[edit | edit source]A Respectable Trade was nominated in several BAFTA categories, including best serial, winning one BAFTA for Frances Tempest's historical costumes.[5]
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Warren Clarke, Josiah Cole a trader in sugar, rum and eventually slaves
- Emma Fielding, Frances Scott, his new aristocratic wife
- Ariyon Bakare, Mehuru, an educated African slave
- Grahame Fox, John Bates Slave driver
References
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- ^ Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace - The British Slave Trade and Public Memory 2013 0231510314 Page 67 "Philippa Gregory's A Respectable Trade (1995), ... Gregory adapted her work into a drama broadcast by the BBC in 1998 and later by PBS in the United States in the fall of 1999.
- ^ Jerry Roberts Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors 0810863782 - 2009 -Page 314 "A Respectable Trade was nominated for best serial or special by the British Academy of Film and TV Arts, and won the BAFTA for Frances Tempest's costumes.."
Categories:
- 1995 British novels
- British novels adapted into television shows
- Novels about slavery
- 1990s British drama television series
- BBC television dramas
- Television shows based on British novels
- 1998 British television series debuts
- 1998 British television series endings
- Fiction set in 1787
- Novels set in the 1780s
- Novels set in Bristol
- HarperCollins books
- 1990s historical novel stubs
- BBC stubs
- Novels set in Georgian England