"Tipping the Velvet" - Sexy and Taboo! Quiz

Answer: Sarah Waters

Sarah Waters is a highly regarded writer having had great success. Waters has also written "Affinity" (1999), set in a women's Victorian prison, and "Fingersmith" (2002) about petty thieves in the 1800s in London.

Answer: Andrew Davies

Davies is well established in TV and film adaptation and screenplay writing. Davies other titles include, "Wives and Daughters" (1999), "Bridget Jones' Diary" (2001), "The Chatterley Affair" (2006).

Answer: Rachael Stirling and Keeley Hawes

Kitty Butler (Hawes) was streetwise and hungry for fame. She had an act in the theatre and was doing well. Nan Astley (Stirling) was a quiet, more naive young oyster girl who became infatuated with Kitty and her act. It was Nan's voice we heard narrating throughout the series and Nan's story the audience followed.

Answer: She played a young man and sang, a rose

Kitty played a young man and sang songs about meeting women and his sweethearts. At the end of her act, Kitty would throw a single red rose into the audience for a young woman to catch.

Answer: Yes

Nan was trying on one of Kitty's suits from the act when Kitty came in and caught her. They decided to add Nan to the show as she looked very convincing as a young man.

Answer: Kitty became engaged to her manager, Walter Bliss.

Nan went back home to visit her parents and brother and sister. When she returned she found Kitty and Bliss in bed together and was informed that they were going to be married. Nan ran away, ending the double act. Bliss was played by John Bowe.

Answer: Diana Lethaby

Nan had been selling herself, dressed as a boy, to the men of London. Diana saved Nan from being attacked by one of the men and immediately moved her into her mansion where Nan was kept as a love slave and used as a possession to make all of her friends jealous. Diana was played by Anna Chancellor.

Answer: She was caught in bed with the servant girl.

Nan and the servant girl were caught in Diana's bed. They were both thrown out in the middle of the night. The servant girl later made off with the small amount of money they had between them, leaving Nan penniless and all alone.

Answer: Zena Blake

Zena was played by Sally Hawkins, who played the lead character Sue Trinder in "Fingersmith" (2005), the TV adaptation of another of Sarah Waters books.

Answer: Florence Banner

Nan had briefly met Florence (played by Jodhi May) before she had gone to live with Diana Lethaby. Nan remembered her to be kind and so went to look for her.

Answer: Her brother, Ralph

Florence lived with her brother, Ralph (played by Hugh Bonneville), who was a very nice and open minded man. They also had a baby who had belonged to their previous lodger, but when she died Florence and Ralph had decided to keep him and raise him.

Answer: Yes

Nan was singing a song in a pub she and Florence had gone to one evening, when she was heard by a theatre owner (one she knew from when she had worked with Kitty). He said he would happily have her back on stage and so she went and began her career again.

Answer: True

Kitty showed up at the theatre and told Nan that her marriage was not exactly all she thought it would be and that she wanted to see Nan again.

Answer: Florence Banner

Having shown up at the theatre during Nan's rehearsal, Kitty went to the evening performance, as did Florence. At the end of the show Nan had to choose a young girl from the audience to give a rose to. Nan seemed torn between her first love/infatuation and the woman she had come to love, trust and rely on. Nan made the right decision and threw the rose to Florence. Kitty left the theatre looking very unhappy.

Answer: Standing on Whitstable beach, Nan's home town.

Having chosen to stay with Florence, Nan took Florence home to meet her family. We are left to make our own minds up as to how the meeting went.