The fourth episode in this Yorkshire Television series in which presenter Marylyn Webb speaks with important and influential women who are associated with Yorkshire. In this edition she speaks with Bradford born romantic novelist Brenda Jagger. Title: Yorkshire Television Production A montage of still images featuring guest Brenda Jagger over the opening title. Title: One Woman In the Yorkshire Television studio presenter Marylyn Webb introduces novelist Brenda Jagger. As she holds up a...

The fourth episode in this Yorkshire Television series in which presenter Marylyn Webb speaks with important and influential women who are associated with Yorkshire. In this edition she speaks with Bradford born romantic novelist Brenda Jagger. Title: Yorkshire Television Production A montage of still images featuring guest Brenda Jagger over the opening title. Title: One Woman In the Yorkshire Television studio presenter Marylyn Webb introduces novelist Brenda Jagger. As she holds up a copy of ‘The Clouded Hills,’ the first of the Barforth Trilogy, Brenda talks about what it was like to become a bestseller and the challenges of writing the trilogy explaining that she wanted to write about the industrial revolution from the point of view of the women. She talks about the characters in the novels who are partly based on her own family background in weaving and is asked if she believes the lives of working women have changed for the better. As Marylyn shows Brenda a series of photographs she talks about her upbringing and education, her early working life in France and her two marriages and the challenges raising her three daughters. Marylyn holds up a copy of Brenda’s first published novel ‘Antonia’ and Brenda provides details on her writing process from then until now. She talks about her love of travelling and the sea, being part of the literary world and also provides details on her latest novel which she has nearly completed which is set in rural Yorkshire and its themes of both the Suffragette movement and immigration to the region in the 1840s of people from Ireland and the South of England. Credit: One Woman was presented by Marylyn Webb Researcher Susan Pape Director Paddy Russell Executive Producer Graham Ironside Title: © YTV Limited 1984 End title: Yorkshire Television Production