1 Season
3 Episode
Tipping the Velvet - Season 1 Episode 2
Alone and devastated by her betrayal, Nan cannot return to her family in Whitstable so takes to the streets to survive. In her guise as a male impersonator, she finds a niche in the Victorian sexual underworld and is also drawn into the web of a rich Sapphic society widow who offers sex, excitement and luxury but at a perilous price.
- Year: 2002
- Country:
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: based on novel or book, victorian england, lesbian relationship, miniseries, period drama, 19th century, male impersonator, dramatic, brisk, euphoric
- Director: Andrew Davies
- Cast: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Jodhi May