Age of Innocence

Society scion Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is engaged to May Welland (Winona Ryder), but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

( Written by Marg Baskin IMDB)

Based on an Edith Wharton novel

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Won 1994 Oscar for Costume Design

Authors and their Works

Some authors who have had their novels made into films or miniseries:

ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, La Reine Margot

ANTHONY TROLLOPE
The Way We Live Now, He Knew He Was Right, The Pallisers, The Barchester Chronicles

BRONTE SISTERS
Jane Eyre, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights

CATHERINE COOKSON
The Fifteen Streets, The Black Velvet Gown, The Cinder Path, The Dwelling Place, The Tide of Life, The Gambling Man, The Mallens, The Black Candle, The Man Who Cried, The Glass Virgin, The Girl, The Moth, The Rag Nymph, The Wingless Bird, Colour Blind, The Round Tower, Tilly Trotter, A Dinner of Herbs [read more]

CHARLES DICKENS
Bleak House, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist

EDITH WHARTON
The Age of Innocence, The Buccaneers, House of Mirth, Ethan Frome

ELIZABETH GASKELL
North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford

GEORGE ELIOT
Daniel Deronda, Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede

HENRY JAMES
Portrait of a Lady, Wings of the Dove, Washington Square, Golden Bowl, The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Heiress (same story as Washington Square)

JANE AUSTEN
Pride and Prejudice,Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger abbey and Persuasion

JOHN GALSWORTHY
Forsyte Saga, A Summer Story

LUCY MAUDE MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables, Road to Avonlea, Emily of New Moon, Lantern Hill

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women, Little Men, The Inheritance, An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, An Old Fashioned Christmas

OSCAR WILDE
Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance

THOMAS HARDY
Jude, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Under the Greenwood Tree, The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Claim, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders, The Scarlet Tunic, The Return of the Native, The Day after the Fair, The Withered Arm

VICTOR HUGO
Les Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre Dame de Paris)

WILKIE COLLINS
The Woman in White, The Moonstone



Lesser known...

ANN HOWARD CREEL -Magic of Ordinary Days

AUDREY NIFFENEGGER -The Time Traveller's Wife

ELIZABETH GOUDGE -The Little White Horse (The Secret of Moonacre)

ELIZABETH VON ARNIM -Enchanted April

JOHN BUCHAN -The 39 Steps

LUCY M. BOSTON -Children of Green Knowe (From Time to Time)

MORRIS WEST -The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Buccaneers

Because of their "new money" background, four American girls have difficulty breaking into the upper-crust society of New York. Laura Testvalley, the governess of one of the girls, suggests a London season and thus the young women set sail for England and the unsuspecting English aristocracy. In England, all the girls soon find eligible husbands and the youngest girl, Nan, seems to land the best husband of them all: the handsome and very wealthy Julius, Duke of Trevennick. Nan and Julius meet for the first time in a ruin, which is an indication of where their marriage is soon heading. After the nuptials, Julius seems more interested in clocks and stable boys than Nan's happiness, and all the girls soon discover that English upper-class men are not at all what they expected and hoped for.
Based on a novel by Edith Wharton. (synopsis : IMDB)
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Nan St. George
(Carla Gugino)
The story's main heroine;
she has a strong sense of romance
and a real passion for England.

Virginia St. George

(Alison Elliott)
Beautiful, self-assured and adventurous elder sister of Nan,
whose exuberance sweeps all before her on her arrival in English society.

Conchita Closson
(Mira Sorvino)
Half-Brazilian beauty, outrageous and unconventional,
whose charms capture the attentions of Lord Richard Marable

Lizzy Elmsworth
(Rya Kihlstedt)
Ambitious, intelligent friend of Virginia and Nan,
who knows how to get what she wants

Lord Seadown
(Mark Tandy)
Richard Marable's philandering elder brother already has a lover, Idina,
but his wandering eye is captured by the visiting Americans Virginia and Nan

Lord Richard Marable
(Ronan Vibert)
Renegade son of Lord and Lady Brightlingsea who marries Conchita in America
and returns with her to his family seat. Once had an affair with Laura.

Lady Brightlingsea
(Rosemary Leach)
Very proper, staid woman who sees in Virginia the perfect match for her elder son

Lord Brightlingsea
(Dinsdale Landen)
Archetypal aristocrat with financial troubles,
whose family residence Laura arranges for Virginia and Nan to visit

Guy Thwaite
(Greg Wise)
Young, politically ambitious but poverty-stricken. Aged 28,
his sense of honour forbids him to marry for money.

Sir Helmsley Thwaite
(Michael Kitchen)
Guy Thwaite's father and a notable rogue and a womaniser,
given to fits of rage. Has squandered Guy's inheritance

Idina Hatton
(Jenny Agutter)
Lord Seadown's mistress who, older and of lower social standing than he,
is threatened by the arrival of the American women

Julius -Duke of Trevenick
(James Frain)
The Duke is slight and reserved, but considered a great catch.
Lives under the iron rule of his match-making mother

The Dowager Duchess of Trevenick
(Sheila Hancock)
Very influential, the dowager duchess has formidable presence and a sense of duty

Laura Testvalley
(Cherie Lunghi)
Worldly-wise English governess to Nan St. George; intelligent and passionate,
she advises the sisters and their friend Lizzy to try a season in England
when they fail to enter New York society

Miss Jacqueline March
(Connie Booth)
Becomes a friend to the girls and confers the title of "Buccaneers" on the new arrivals.
As a former lover of Lord Brightlingsea, she has much experience to offer

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