Northanger Abbey

This is Jane Austen’s classic story of Catherine Marland, a young girl whose head is stuffed full of romantic and melodramatic notions about the world. Through her adventures, she comes to learn that marriage in the society of her day is determined less by true love and more by mundane matters such as wealth and social status. The high point of the story comes when Catherine visits Northanger Abbey, the ancestral Gothic home of Henry Tilney - the young man she hopes to marry and believes loves her - and finds terrifying evidence that points to a dark secret involving the Tilney family. Rated: G

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Credits

producer

Louis Marks

production company

BBC

director

Giles Foster

Duration

01:30:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324164

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Adaptations

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain

Literature → Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

Literature → English literature - Film and video adaptations

Literature → Literature

People → Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United Kingdom, 1988

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