''Fanny by Gaslight'' is a

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drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

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, which originally aired on

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between 24 September and 15 October 1981. It was an adaptation of the 1940 novel '' Fanny by Gaslight'' by

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, which had previously been adapted into a film '' Fanny by Gaslight'' in 1944. The series was adapted by

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, directed by Peter Jefferies and produced by Joe Waters. Chloe Salaman plays the title role of Fanny Hooper, a young woman who is orphaned and faced with hardship in

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Partial cast

* Chloe Salaman – Fanny Hooper *

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– Harry Somerford *

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– Lord Manderstoke *

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– Lucy Beckett

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