"Which English novelist and poet, wrote the 19th century novel, ""The Woodlanders""?"
The Woodlanders the performance was also taken to London that year and to Weymouth in 1914. The BBC made the novel into a film in 1970, starring Felicity Kendal and Ralph Bates. This was followed by Phil Agland's "The Woodlanders" of 1997, starring Emily Woof and Rufus Sewell. The novel was adapted as an opera by Stephen Paulus and premiered by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 1985. "The Woodlanders" was read on BBC Radio 7 during the Thomas Hardy classics series in 2009. Later, two dramatic adaptations of the novel went on tour in the West Country. In 2013 the New
English novel characters of low social standing, not nobility. Another significant late 19th-century novelist is George Gissing (1857–1903) who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best known novel is "New Grub Street" (1891). Important developments occurred in genre fiction in this era. Although pre-dated by John Ruskin's "The King of the Golden River" in 1841, the history of the modern fantasy genre is generally said to begin with George MacDonald, the influential author of "The Princess and the Goblin" and "Phantastes" (1858). William Morris was a popular English poet who also wrote several fantasy novels during the latter part of