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
Emma (novel) school for girls in which Harriet Smith is one of the students. She is also a frequent companion to Mr. Woodhouse along with Mrs. Bates. Mr. William Larkins is an employee on the Donwell Abbey estate of Mr. Knightley. He frequently visits the Bateses, bringing them gifts, such as apples, from Mr. Knightley. "Emma" was written after the publication of "Pride and Prejudice" and was submitted to the London publisher John Murray II in the fall of 1815. He offered Austen £450 for this plus the copyrights of "Mansfield Park" and "Sense and Sensibility", which she refused. Instead, she published