In Fiction
She appears in Tony Harrison's play Fram, played in the premiere by Sian Thomas. Here she is resurrected from the dead to play herself in one of Gilbert Murray's plays.
She appears in Nicholas de Jongh's play Plague Over England, played in the premiere by Nichola McAuliffe.
Her name is also used in Muriel Spark's novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, citing her as "a woman of noble mien."
In the film My Week with Marilyn, she is played by Judi Dench.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)