May not have been in the original book?
Went to see The Limehouse Golem last night.
Okay, I can see why the British Museum Reading Room, approached via the well-known Great Russell Street facade, looked nothing whatsoever like the famed Round Room, no longer in existence in its former glory. But I am still a bit 'huh?' about the layout and the rare volumes available on open shelves. (Not to mention nobody noticing that somebody was defacing a book on a regular basis.)
A copy of the holograph playscript would (or should) have been sent to the Lord Chamberlain's Office for approval for production - but those records were not transferred to what became the BL Department of Manuscripts until the late C20th.
But the notion that there would be only four readers on any given day (and a separate ladies' gallery) - please! George Gissing is a character in the movie! A lot of New Grub Street takes place in and around the BMRR, and it was a humming hive of activity, and, we also note from biographies of e.g. Olive Schreiner, a place where a lot of intellectual heterosexual flirtation went on.
In British practice, criminals who received the death sentence were not executed the very next morning; giving time for appeals, pleas for clemency, etc.
That was an incongruously posh dress Lizzie was wearing when Kildare was interviewing her in gaol. Why was she not in prison uniform? And would there not have been a hovering wardress somewhere about? This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2655988.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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