tell me to read". She has presented television shows including Essential Poems (To Fall In Love With) (2003) and Reader, I Married Him (2006). Jane Thynne, in The Independent, described her as proving to be "triumphantly telegenic" in the former which was Goodwin's front of camera television debut. Goodwin is the author of the novel Victoria (2016), and creator and writer of the TV series Victoria which was broadcast in the UK by ITV from 2016 to 2019 and in the U.S. by its co-commissioners, PBS/Masterpiece from 2017. Mike Hale, reviewing the series for The New York Times in early 2018, preferred Victoria over The Crown, the series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. In a 2019 interview with the Radio Times, she claimed that repeats of Dad's Army were influencing Brexit. Personal life Goodwin is married to Marcus Wilford, a television executive; they have two daughters. She appeared in the BBC television documentary Public School about Westminster directed by Jonathan Gili, and as part of the winning Trinity College, Cambridge team on the Christmas University Challenge BBC2, 27 December 2011. In 2012, she appeared on a Children in Need episode of "Only Connect" alongside Charlie Higson and Matthew Parris. Production credits BBC The Bookworm (1994) Looking Good (1997) Homefront Talkback Between 1998 and 2005 Goodwin worked as a producer or editor on shows including: How Clean Is Your House? (Channel 4) Jamie's Kitchen (Channel 4) Would Like to Meet (BBC2) House Doctor (Channel 5) Grand Designs (Channel 4) Other People's Houses (Channel 4) Your Money or Your Life (BBC2) Property Ladder (Channel 4) Life Doctor (Channel 5) Life Laundry (BBC2) Fame, Set and Match (BBC2) Escape to the Country (BBC2) She's Gotta Have It (Channel 4) Don't Look Down (BBC2) Lipstick Years (BBC2) Silver River Pulling (2006) Bringing Up Baby (2007) I'm Running Sainsbury's (2009) The Supersizers... (2008-2009) Off By Heart (2009) Grow Your Own Drugs (2009) Kevin's Grand Tour (2009) If Walls Could Talk: The History of the Home (2011) ITV Victoria (2016–2019) Acting credits Victoria (2016–), a cameo role as Lady Cecilia Underwood, Duchess of Inverness, episode 6: "The Queen's Husband" Publications Prose The Fortune Hunter (2014) My Last Duchess (2010), published in the U.S. and Canada as The American Heiress (2011) Off by Heart (2009) Silver River (2007) Bringing Up Baby: The New Mother's Companion (2007) The Nation's Favourite: Love Poems (1997) Victoria (2016) Victoria