Trivia
- 1862: Elements of the case were used by Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Lady Audley's Secret (1862).
- 1868: Elements of the case were used by Wilkie Collins in The Moonstone (1868).
- 1870: Charles Dickens based the flight of Helena Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) on Kent's early life.
- 1945: The film Dead of Night, UK Ealing 1945, included in its 5 separate stories, a section called "Christmas Party" with Sally Ann Howes. This story is loosely based on the Constance Kent case; "Christmas Party" was an original screenplay based on an original story by the screenplay author Angus MacPhail. While playing hide and go seek in an old house, Howes hears a child sobbing and comes into a bedroom where she meets a little boy named Francis Saville Kent whose sister Constance is mean to him. Howes comforts the child, and then leaves him when he is asleep. Then she finds the others from the party and learns that Francis was killed by Constance over eighty years before.
- 1980: The case was dramatised for television by the BBC over 8 episodes, starring Prue Clarke as Constance Kent, and Joss Ackland as Samuel Kent, as one of three cases that comprised the series A Question of Guilt (1980) about female murderers;
- 1980: The Constance Kent case plays a central role in William Trevor's novel Other People's Worlds (1980)
- 1983: Francis King's 1983 novel Act of Darkness is a fictional re-imagining of the Constance Kent case, transferring the setting to 1930's India.
- 1989: James Friel's novel Taking the Veil (1989) is inspired by Kent's life.
- 1991: Sharyn McCrumb's 1991 novel Missing Susan refers to this case.
- 2008: Kate Summerscale's book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher about this case was read as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week from 7 to 11 April 2008. It won Britain's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008
- 2010: An episode of the Investigation Discovery channel series Deadly Women, "A Daughter's Revenge", features a segment on Constance Kent.
- 2011: The case featured as a drama on ITV under the title The Suspicions of Mr Whicher on 25 April 2011.
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