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The actress starred with David MacCallum in the excellent 1989 BBC/PBS miniseries "Mother Love"; starred with Angela Lansbury in the 1992 CBS telepic "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris"; co-starred in the excellent "The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders," starring Alex Kingston; and starred in the BBC/PBS series "The Mrs Bradley Mysteries" in 1998.

Between 12 and 16 I eagerly looked for any books that had a woman’s name in the title: Moll Flanders, Jane Eyre, Tess of the d’Urbervilles , Effi Briest, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina.

Some claim the title for Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur; others insist it is Robinson Crusoe, but there are also camps for Moll Flanders and Pamela.

She steps past boxes of curlers and books on shelves — “A Clockwork Orange,” “Moll Flanders,” “Beowulf” — and descends to the basement.

In his last decade, he also wrote a handful of groundbreaking novels, including the racy “Moll Flanders” and “A Journal of the Plague Year,” the latter an exceptionally realistic, albeit fictive, description of London’s bubonic plague epidemic of 1665-1666.