A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired. It stars Helen Morse in the lead role of Jean Paget, with Bryan Brown as Joe Harman and Scottish actor Gordon Jackson as the aging lawyer and trustee Noel Strachan. The series won an International
Alice James I knew neither hope nor peace.” Anna Robeson Brown Burr wrote a biography, "Alice James, Her Brothers – Her Journal" (1934). Jean Strouse published what has become the standard life ("Alice James: a Biography") in 1980. Strouse steered something of a middle course between Alice-as-icon and Alice-as-victim. Ruth Yeazell published James' correspondence in "The Death and Letters of Alice James" (1981). Susan Sontag wrote a play about James, "Alice in Bed" (1993), which seems to waver between sympathy and impatience with its subject. More recently, Lynne Alexander wrote a sympathetic novel about Alice James, "The Sister" (2012). Alice James Alice