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A programme about Jonathan Swift from the ‘Famous Authors’ series of documentary biographies. Using film, archive documents, portraits, music and commentary, the programme presents not only a factual...
This 2-part DVD set explores the life, times and work of George Eliot, a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian...
Film based on the story of the life of Iris Murdoch as seen through the eyes of her husband, John Bayley. Begins when the couple meets at Oxford and follows them as they struggle with the deterioration of...
Andrew Davies’ adaptation of the Jane Austen romantic novel, filmed in English stately homes and country cottages. The DVD includes a short ‘behind-the-scenes’ documentary.
Six presentations on the work of Jane Austen, which were filmed in 1997 at a conference in the Dept of Continuing Education, University of Oxford. On 2 videocassettes with three lectures on each. The...
Actor Mace Richards visits Batemans, the Sussex home of writer Rudyard Kipling, picking up some clues about Kipling’s first, seemingly unpublished, novel. The film mimics a favoured story form, with a...
Presents a wide range of views about the importance and possible meaning of the Creature in Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein’. Identifies the mythic status that the work seems to have acquired in...
Tells the story of Byron as romantic hero - how he constructed himself and how he influenced later artists including the French painter Delacroix and the composer Giuseppi Verdi. Romanticism is thus shown as...
CD-ROM containing the complete works of Samuel Johnson and many of the writing of James Boswell, including his ‘Life of Johnson’. Includes journals, letters and essays, reflecting a wide range of...
Charlotte Brontë was thought to have died unphotographed, but in recent years, photographs allegedly of her have apeared. Her biographer, Dr Juliet Barker, claims that the new image of a formidable woman is...
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