Jane Austen
42) Northanger Abbey
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
In 18th century Bath, a girl bursting with freshness and passion for macabre Gothic novels experiences intrigue, adventure, and romance, espeically when the romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home.
43) Emma
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.
45) Emma
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
46) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
48) Emma
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
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...
Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2004], ©2003
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Bennet (Kam Heskin) is determined to ignore the follies of dating and focus on her friends and studies in this modern makeover of Jane Austen's classic tale. Will Darcy (Orlando Seale) is an attractive and sensible young businessman who would be the perfect match for Elizabeth, if not for a disastrous first impression. Will the most daunting obstacle to romance be his pride or her prejudice?
50) Emma
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with Mr. Knightly.
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 19th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and very conscious of the manners of the day, represents sense. Outspoken, impetuous, emotional Marianne represents sensibility. Attracted to a man already promised to another, Elinor suffers silently to keep scandal away from her family. Marianne enjoys a flirtation with a handsome scoundrel that could lead...
Author
Series
Amish classics volume 4
Publisher
Realms
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When Henry Detweiler dies unexpectedly, he leaves his second wife and three daughters--Eleanor, Mary Ann, and Maggie--in the care of John, his oldest son from a previous marriage. John and his wife, Fanny, inherit the farm but make it clear Mrs. Detweiler and her daughters are not welcome. After the Detweiler women move to a nearby cottage, the spirited Mary Ann catches the eye of an older bachelor but is openly infatuated with a younger man set to...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters in nineteenth-century New England; a spirited young woman copes with the romantic entanglements of her sisters and her feelings for a brooding gentleman; the wife of a country doctor seeks happiness through romantic affairs and social climbing in nineteenth-century France; a woman abandons her child and husband for a handsome young officer, but soon she believes the officer has grown tired...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The story of the five Bennet sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.
57) Sanditon
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tom Parker is obsessed with turning the sleepy seaside village of Sanditon into a fashionable health resort, enlisting the backing of local bigwig Lady Denham. Through a mishap, Tom makes the acquaintance of the Heywoods and invites their eldest daughter, Charlotte, for an extended stay at Sanditon. Meanwhile, Lady Denham, a widow, is playing matchmaker for her destitute nephew, Sir Edward, who is determined to seduce Lady Denham's ward, Clara.
58) Persuasion
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
When Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, she allowed herself to be persuaded by her snobbish family's conviction of his unworthiness. But now, after a separation of eight years, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are to meet again and the tables have turned. Her former lover's fortunes have prospered and he is now returned from a career at sea both eligible and affluent. Anne's father, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall,...