But could the appearance of a stream of promising suitors – notably wealthy, dashing kindred spirit Harry Beecham and uptight dullard Frank Hawdon – knock her off course?
This version may well do the same for Philippa Northeast, Christopher Chung and Jake Dunn, each of whom is on the cusp of the big time. Dunn will soon take centre stage as Peter Guillam in the BBC’s upcoming John Le Carré epic Legacy of Spies, but here does excellent work as Frank, a strait-laced traditionalist who may not be the antediluvian boor he first appears.
As for Chung, Harry represents the sort of gallant romantic hero-cum-chiselled sex god his best-known character – the absurd Roddy Ho from Slow Horses – wrongly believes himself to be, complete with a wet shirt moment that can only be a nod to you-know-who.
View Green Video on the source websiteAnd then there’s Northeast, last seen in the UK in The Newsreader and here every bit the star-in-waiting. She is perfect as Sybylla, "spirited" (as the argot of the times would put it), self-regarding and occasionally entitled, but also overflowing with a joie de vivre that extends to al fresco weeing, a relentless curiosity for life and a resilience that just about holds firm as misogyny and glass ceilings curb but never quite quash her instincts and desires. During the series she becomes a governess to an unruly brood, makes a convenient if ill-advised match and overhears life-changing revelations on more than one occasion. All these potential setbacks, though, are turned to her advantage, giving her fresh ideas in both life and work.
Doran’s production bears the heavy influences of Bridgerton and Apple TV’s underrated Dickinson, both in its use of contemporary-ish music in period settings (Young Turks, Born to Be Alive and Atomic are among the modern classics to get the treatment) and its embrace of the proto-feminist figure at its heart; the language, too, blends past and present effectively.
As a love story, it wrong-foots; as a coming-of-ager, it delights; as a portrait of creative frustration, it works. As a whole, it’s perilously close to brilliant.
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