I've been thinking a little more about this, and have to admit that when I was a girl, my interest was caught by such films as 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' , 'Oliver Twist', 'Great Expectations', 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' and 'The Winslow Boy' etc. They were a bit 'watered down', but nevertheless were digestible for a small girl, and must have awakened a great pleasure in literature, because I went on to study it up to A level and Uni.