Northanger Abbey 1987
Northanger Abbey ★★½ 1987
Catherine is a young woman whose head is turned by her romance readings of dark secrets, sinister castles, dashing heroes, and helpless women. When the handsome Henry Tilney invites her to visit his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, it seems all her fancies have come to life. A somewhat tepid adaptation of Jane Austen's parody of the popular Gothic romances of her day. 90m/C VHS, DVD . GB Peter Firth, Katherine Schlesinger, Googie Withers, Robert Hardy; D: Giles Foster; W: Maggie Wadey; C: Nat Crosby; M: Ilona Sekacz.
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Chretien De Troyes , Chrétien de Troyes
ChrÉtien de Troyes
c. 1130–1190
Poet
A Writer of Romance.
Chrétien de Troyes is the best known of the writers of Arthurian quest r… Romance Languages , Romance languages, group of languages belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Italic languages). Also called… Jane Seymour , Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour (1509-1537) was the third wife of King Henry VIII of England. She is remembered as being a good, quiet and con… Ann (ward) Radcliffe , Radcliffe, Ann
English novelist Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) wrote a series of Gothic tales in the 1790s just as the literary genre was reaching its pea… Amadis of Gaul , Oriana •Alana, Anna, bandanna, banner, Branagh, canna, canner, Diana, fanner, Fermanagh, Guyana, Hannah, Havana, hosanna, Indiana, Joanna, lanner, Lo… Edmond Rostand , Rostand, Edmond
BORN: 1868, Marseilles, France
DIED: 1918, Paris, France
NATIONALITY: French
GENRE: Drama, poetry
MAJOR WORKS:
The Romancers (1894)
C…
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