The House of Eliott is a British

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 television series produced and broadcast by the BBC

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 in three series between 1991

1991 in television

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 and 1994

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. The series starred Stella Gonet

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Stella Gonet is a Scottish theatre, film and TV actress.- Career :Gonet trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and is known for playing Beatrice Eliott, one of the two lead roles, in three series of the television drama, The House Of Eliott and Chief Executive Officer Jayne...

 and Louise Lombard

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 as two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking

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 business and eventually their own haute couture

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 fashion house

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. It was created by Jean Marsh

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Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh is an English actress, occasional screenwriter, and co-creator of the television series Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott....

 and Eileen Atkins

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, who had previously devised Upstairs, Downstairs

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. The series was written by several writers including Jill Hyem

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, Peter Buckman

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, Deborah Cook and Ginnie Hole.
In series one Beatrice (30) and Evangeline (18, known as Evie) Eliott are left orphans by the sudden death of their tyrannical father, Henry Elliot.