Poor old soul, blimey what a joke

[venta]

Public Service Announcement, in case anyone else has been suffering vague confusion when reading film reviews of late:

The Arthur Kipps who features in The Woman In Black bears absolutely no relation to the Arthur Kipps who features in the HG Wells novel (subsequently adapated as Half a Sixpence).

I did wonder how I'd managed to watch a stage production of The Woman In Black without realising that the protagonist was a character I'd met in a book before. I didn't. He's a completely different character, written by a different author, 80 years later. He just has the same name.

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[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Well, yes (several, including The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen and The French Lieutenant's Woman - GCSE and A level respectively). But I am probably - and happily - an exception.