Northanger Abbey (1986)

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Northanger Abbey (1986)

• A BBC production
• directed by Giles Foster (TV)
• Main characters
• Catherine Morland -
• Katharine Schlesinger
• Henry Tilney -
• Peter Firth

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• Catherine (17) is interested in reading Gothic
  novels
• She imagines all sorts of cruel happenings e.g.
  getting caught by a man who looks like a vampire,
  Cathy victim
• She is invited to Bath with Mr and Mrs Allen
• At a ball she meets Mr Tilney and is head over
  heels in love
• Her brother is in love with Isabella Thorpe, a
  false-faced woman
• Isabellas brother tells lies about Catherine
• Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey
• She suspects Mr Tilneys father to be a murderer
• Mr Tilney catches her spying in the abbey
• Though they like one another, they are separated
  by Mr Tilneys father (due to lies by Mr Thorpe)
• At the end Mr Tilney is allowed to propose to
  Catherine

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Persuasion (2007)

• directed by Adrian Shergold (TV, actor)
• broadcast on ITV in April 2007
• main characters
• Anne Elliot
• Sally Hawkins
• Captain Frederick Wentworth
• Rupert Penry-Jones

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• Anne fell deeply in love with handsome young
  naval officer Frederick Wentworth when she was 19
• She was persuaded not to marry him (no
  rank/fortune)
• 8 years later she still loves him and regrets her
  decision
• They meet again see each other quite often in
  Bath
• He is now a wealthy man and is interested in
  women much younger than Anne
• Frederick notices that he still has feelings for
  Anne
• Anne receives a proposal by Mr William Elliott
• Frederick thinks he is too late to propose to her
  himself
• see what the ending is (and have a look at the
  beautiful Royal Crescent of Bath)!

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