Several newspapers publish obituaries of Professor David Nokes (1948-2009), writer and scholar of the 18th century, who enters the Brontë story as he was the co-adaptor (with Janet Barron) of the successful 1996 BBC adaptation of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
Professor David Nokes, who has died aged 61 after several years of ill health, contributed a distinguished and distinctive voice to 18th-century scholarship, particularly though his biographies of Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson, the last published to mark the tercentenary of Dr Johnson's birth this year. He had a gift for vivifying stretches of this period in his work as a university lecturer and as a writer of screenplays and a novel; he brought some of its most challenging fiction to new audiences via film and television. (Clare Brant in The Guardian)
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Several newspapers publish obituaries of Professor David Nokes (1948-2009), writer and scholar of the 18th century, who enters the Brontë story as he was the co-adaptor (with Janet Barron) of the successful 1996 BBC adaptation of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:
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