Elizabeth Spriggs of Charles Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit" and was Mrs Cadwallader in "Middlemarch" by George Eliot. She continued to work on television, in series like "Heartbeat", "Midsomer Murders" (playing a murder victim in the pilot episode of the series in 1997 and returning in 2006 as the character's identical twin sister) and "Poirot". Her early film appearances included "Work Is a Four-Letter Word" (1968) and "Three into Two Won't Go" (1969), both directed by Peter Hall. Her later character roles included Mrs Jennings in Emma Thompson's Oscar-winning adaptation of "Sense and Sensibility" (1995), a role for which she was nominated for a
Sense and Sensibility of inheritance. Gene Ruoff's book "Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility" explores these issues in an entire book-length discussion on the novel. Ruoff's first two chapters deal extensively on the subject of wills and on the discourse of inheritance. These topics reveal what Ruoff calls "the cultural fixation on priority of male birth." According to Ruoff, male birth is by far the dominant issue in these legal conversations. Ruoff observes that, within the linear family, the order of male birth decides issues of eligibility and merit. When Robert Ferrars becomes the eldest son, Edward is no longer appealing to his "opportunistic