The Eustace Diamonds
should be to please both himself: and the widest possible circle of readers-that was what Anthony Trollope thought. And he saw no reason why a writer should not do this and at the same time produce good work, if he set himself certain standards of craftsmanship and did his best to keep to them. H. Oldfield Box, who adapted Trollope’s novel The Eustace Diamonds for broadcasting. mentioned these points in introducing the serial to readers of the BBC Radio Times, and he "quoted Trollope as saying: "It becomes ... a matter of deep conscience to the novelist how he shall handle those characters by whose words and doings he hopes to interest his readers. . How shall he teach the lessons of virtue, and at the same time be a delight to ‘his readers? ... If a novelist can so handle his subjects as to teach wholesome lessons, the good that he does will be very wide." These elaiints Trollope followed in his own writing, says’ Mr. Oldfield Box, and he quotes The Eustace Diamonds as an excellent example of how "he managed to do so, while at the same | NOVELIST’S first object
time producing an extremely entertaianing story. In. this Story two young women, Lizzie Greystock and Lucy Morris, are orphaned and left penniless in their late ‘teens. Beautiful and unprincipled, Lizzie captures and marries Sir Florian Eustace, a dying baronet of great wealth, and is soon left a rich widow. Lucy, less beautiful, but with charm and sweetness of character, earns her own living as a governess. Lizzie’s cousin, Frank Greystock, a rising young barrister, falls"in love with Lucy, but is swayed by his ambition, Will he, after all, marry Lizzie, whose wealth he covets to help his career, and who is’ determined to take him away from Lucy? Listeners will discover the answer to that question when the BBC transcription of The Eustace Diamonds is breadcast from National stations of the NZBS, starting from 1YC on Saturday, September 12, at 7.30 p.m., and from 3YC on September 23, They will also hear how Lizzie’s greed leads her to refuse to restore to the trustees of the Eustace estate the diamonds which she lyingly asserts her late husband had given her. In this production of The Eustace Diamonds Lizzie and Lucy are played by Belle Chrystall and Patricia Field, and Frank Greystock by Lewis Stringer.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19530904.2.28
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 14
Word count
Tapeke kupu
397The Eustace Diamonds New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 14
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in