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2) Persuasion
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about lost and found love. Anne is persuaded to reject a proposition of marriage from the man she loves due to his lack of fortune. Years later she is made the offer again.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set in the early 1840s, this is the original BBC miniseries of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic tale of a fictional Victorian country village in which the genteel ladies of Cranford struggle to face an uncertain future with dignity and 19th Century decorum.
7) Emma
Publisher
Marketed and distributed in the US by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
"Emma is the story of a rich, clever and beautiful young woman who can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives. As her romantic plans go ridiculously wrong, however, it's Emma herself who risks missing out on her perfect match!"--Container.
8) Emma
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find...
Series
Publisher
A and E
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Emma: A rich, clever and beautiful young woman can't resist orchestrating other people's love lives. As her romantic plans go ridiculously wrong, however, it's Emma herself who risks missing out on her perfect match.
Jane Eyre: Young governess Jane Eyre falls in love with Mr. Rochester, but they must overcome the dark secrets of his past before they can truly find happiness.
10) Cranford
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of the people in the English town of Cranford over the course of a year.
1842. Cranford, a market town in the North West of England, is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness in Cranford, and her demurring sister Matty, the town is a hub of intrigue where little goes unnoticed. Everyone from charming rogue Dr. Marshland to...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of the five Bennett sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennett, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.
Series
Criterion collection volume 775
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young Edwardian-era girl's first visit to Florence turns out to hold surprises in impropriety, confusion, and passion.
Publisher
Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1972, 1975
Language
English
Description
"Epifania is glamorous, clever-- and also the richest woman in the world. After yet another row with her spendthrift husband, Epifania meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor. But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only marry a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 pounds within six months"--Container.
In the bonus play, set 40 years in the future, the king must match wits with an unruly mistress...
14) Venus
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a nightmare for Ian, especially since she is a hard-drinking,...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follows the relationship of two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, a small hamlet gently holding onto the past, and Candleford, a neighboring market town bustling into the future. When young Laura Timmins leaves Lark Rise for a job at the Candleford post office, she discovers an eye-opening, exciting new world. In the face of scandals and feuds, she must leave her childhood behind.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Georgian England, where affairs of the heart are an exquisite game, and marriage the ultimate prize. But Elizabeth Bennet spirited, independent, and one of five unmarried sisters, is determined to wed for love, not money or privilege. Featuring over an hour of never-before-seen bonus features
19) Northanger Abbey
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Romance addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. There she forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short.
"In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger...
20) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An orphaned young girl, Jane Eyre, suffers humiliation and abuse at the hands of her aunt and is subsequently banished to a strict boarding school for several years. Upon her release, the adult Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, caring for the child of Mr. Rochester. She soon finds herself in a passionate romance with the handsome and mysterious Mr. Rochester. Swept up in the possibility of a happy new life, Jane is shattered when terrible,...
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