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Great Period Movies! ~ Romance Edition

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Pride and Prejudice (Special Edition) DVD ~ Colin Firth
$19.96 Used & New from: $19.95
Jane Austen: A Must Have for all period movie lovers! Colin Firth & Jennifer Ehle are enchanting!

North & South DVD ~ Daniela Denby-Ashe
$22.76 Used & New from: $22.75
Elizabeth Gaskell: I think the best BBC series since P&P...very well done!

Pride & Prejudice (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Matthew Macfadyen
$17.66 Used & New from: $11.97
Jane Austen: A recent re-make of the classic story: I loved it & thought it was pretty well done (you can read my full review for more info)...an excellent adaptation!

Persuasion DVD ~ Amanda Root
$19.96 Used & New from: $19.88
Jane Austen: Slow moving, but one of my favorite Jane Austen adaptations! The subtle way Anne's family puts her down is brilliant: well written by Jane Austen.

Sense and Sensibility DVD ~ James Fleet
$9.66 Used & New from: $7.99
Jane Austen: Loved Emma Thompson in this! She wrote the screenplay, starred as Elinor Dashwood, and won an Oscar!

Emma DVD ~ Gwyneth Paltrow
$14.99 Used & New from: $8.70
Jane Austen: Gwenyth Paltrow was great in this movie! Fun & light, sweet & airy, touching & romantic!

Jane Austen's Emma DVD ~ Kate Beckinsale
$11.97 Used & New from: $11.00
Jane Austen: A&E is so good at their adaptations! Has a darker feel, but is so good overall.

Mansfield Park DVD ~ Hannah Taylor-Gordon
$14.99 Used & New from: $8.69
Jane Austen: Although a bit modern, it is much better than BBC's older version. Although there are some strange undercurrents throughout the film.

Jane Austen Collection (Sense & Sensibility / Emma / Persuasion / Mansfield Park / Pride & Prejudice / Northanger Abbey) DVD ~ Irene Richard
$44.86 Used & New from: $40.00
A collection of 70's and 80's BBC versions of Austen's classic stories! Pride & Prejudice is great and Mansfield Park is much true to Austen's intent!

The Charles Dickens Collection (Oliver Twist / Martin Chuzzlewit / Bleak House / Hard Times / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend) DVD ~ Ben Rodska
$47.99 Used & New from: $39.44
A collection of BBC versions of these great Charles Dicken's classics!

Middlemarch DVD ~ Juliet Aubrey
$9.99 Used & New from: $8.77
George Elliot: Great series, wonderfully filmed and acted! The ending scenes are so touching...

Washington Square DVD ~ Jennifer Jason Leigh
$9.99 Used & New from: $4.88
Henry James: A sad, difficult-to-watch movie (Catherine is so socially inept), but it is so good and the story ends the way it should!

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre DVD ~ Deborah Findlay
$14.99 Used & New from: $9.60
Charlotte Bronte: I think I almost like this one better than the 1996 version: Ciaran Hinds plays a volatile Rochester, like the he is portrayed in the book!

Jane Eyre (1996) DVD ~ Anna Paquin
$14.99 Used & New from: $8.68
Charlotte Bronte: A great touching tale! Sweeter and mellower than the Samantha Morton/Ciaran Hinds version...

William Thackeray's Vanity Fair DVD ~ Danielle Hawley
$35.99 Used & New from: $17.00
William Mackpeace Thackeray: Another Great A&E Adaptation! (Also check on the newer one with Reese Witherspoon)

Wives and Daughters DVD ~ Justine Waddell
$29.99 Used & New from: $26.95
Elizabeth Gaskell: Justine Waddell is great in this! A touching tale of love found...

Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now DVD ~ Matthew Macfadyen
$20.99 Used & New from: $20.50
Anthony Trollope: Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive

He Knew He Was Right DVD ~ Oliver Dimsdale
$26.99 Used & New from: $22.95
What a sweet and touching tragic kind of tale! The title is perfect...Anthony Trollope.

Daniel Deronda DVD ~ Hugh Dancy
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George Eliot: Wonderful story and superbly acted!

The Importance of Being Earnest DVD ~ Rupert Everett
$14.99 Used & New from: $7.50
Funny and amusing! A great Oscar Wilde play...

An Ideal Husband DVD ~ Cate Blanchett
$19.99 Used & New from: $7.83
Oscar Wilde: A great movie! Rupert Everett and Cate Blanchett are great!

Nicholas Nickleby DVD ~ Stella Gonet
$12.99 Used & New from: $4.11
Anne Hathaway and Charlie Hunan are great in this classic Dickens tale!

Victoria & Albert DVD ~ Victoria Hamilton
$35.99 Used & New from: $24.25
This is a great A&E adaptation! Victoria Hamilton plays Queen Victoria so well!

The House of Mirth DVD ~ Gillian Anderson
$26.99 Used & New from: $18.77
Edith Wharton: Gillian Anderson played this part well! Sad and touching...

Tenant of Wildfell Hall VHS Tara Fitzgerald
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Anne Bronte: Tara Fitzgerald is great as always! What a sweet/sad and great tale! (Official Region 2 DVD release available)

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