The Go-Between (2015 film) Marian and her estranged grandson; Marian persuades him to act as a go-between one last time. Reviewing "The Go-Between" for UK daily newspaper "The Daily Telegraph", Jasper Rees gave the adaptation five stars out of five, writing: "Where the BBC’s fresh take on "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" hollowed out the original and injected its own up-to-date agitprop, "The Go-Between" (BBC One) kept faith with LP Hartley’s devastating story of love denied. This was what creative fidelity is meant to look like". He added that, "Pete Travis’s roving camerawork revealed the gilded paradise of Brandon Hall [sic - Brandham Hall] in impressionistic
The Woman Who Did promote women's rights. It certainly created an immediate popular sensation - Flora Thompson for instance describing how, in small-town Hampshire, "copies were bought and handed round until practically everyone of mature age in the village had read and passed judgement on it". However, the novel was also controversial right from the start, with conservative readers as well as feminists criticizing Allen for the heroine he had invented. For example, Victoria Crosse wrote her novel "The Woman Who Didn't" (1895) as a response to Allen's book and Mrs. Lovett Cameron wrote "The Man Who Didn't". Whereas Herminia Barton questions the institution