Offers a collection of designs and patterns for women's dresses from the nineteenth century, with comments on the changes in fashion through the years and sewing and fabric hunts for costume makers

This is the long-awaited memoir from BBC/Masterpiece Theatre actor Robin Ellis, the original Captain Ross Poldark in the BBC's classic television series Poldark. Includes a new chapter with recent photos highlighting Robin’s return as Rev. Hulse in the new series, with Aiden Turner as the new Poldark. First broadcast in the 1970s, this saga of thwarted love, passion and swashbuckling adventure set against hard times in 18th century Cornwall became an international sensation, popular in over 40 countries around the world. The memoir also describes the behind-the-scenes story of the original BBC/Masterpiece Theater series, the ongoing effect of ‘Poldark perks’ on Robin’s life, and his transformation into a cookbook author.Making Poldark is also available as an audiobook, read by the author.

This collection addresses the social and political contexts that have shaped the British TV costume drama as well as the changing historical contexts in which such programs are viewed again and again (in syndication, on DVD, youtube, etc.) and are reinterpreted by a thriving twenty-first-century global fan

Historians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In "Rival Queens," Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the