Alan Bleasdale made a name change in his adaptation - Mrs. Mann in the television dramatization is based on Mrs. Corney in the novel.

Julie Walters plays workhouse matron Mrs. Mann:

"Mrs. Mann does feel that Mr. Bumble is rather beneath her, but at the same time she has a little bit of lust for him - so she decides that he'll do, he's better than nothing. But on her wedding day, she overhears him saying that he's not in love with her, he's just after her housekeeping and believes she is lucky to have him. She can't believe it. But she still goes ahead with the wedding. But from then on she makes his life an absolute misery, and he never quite knows why."