We’re kind of hoping this Brontë sister bio-drama comes across the pond. Keep your fingers crossed…
BBC to dramatise the lives of the Brontë sisters
Sally Wainwright will write and direct a new BBC drama about the literary sisters
By PA and Telegraph reporters | 1:01PM BST 18 May 2015
The difficult home life of the Brontës will be brought to life in a new BBC One drama about the literary sisters, written and directed by Last Tango In Halifax author Sally Wainwright.
The one-off, two-hour drama will follow Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë’s relationship with each other and their brother Branwell, who in the last three years of his life was plagued by alcoholism and drug addiction.
To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters will be filmed in and around Yorkshire, where the most famous sisters of English literature lived.
Casting is yet to be announced for the drama, which has been described as “an original perspective on the Brontë sisters”.
BBC One controller Charlotte Moore said: “The Brontë sisters have always been enigmatic but Sally Wainwright’s brilliantly authentic new BBC One drama brings the women behind some of our greatest literary masterpieces to life.
“It’s an extraordinary tale of family tragedy and their passion and determination, against the odds, to have their genius recognised in a male 19th century world.”
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