Enchanted Serenity of Period Films: felicity jones

Filming has begun for 'Cheerful Weather For The Wedding' based on the 1932 novella by Julia Strachey, starring Luke Treadaway (Clash of the Titans) and Felicity Jones (Northanger Abbey) with Elizabeth McGovern and Mackenzie Crook also featured. Directed by Donald Rice.
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This sardonic and beautifully written novella about a family in Forster territory was first published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1932. 'As delightful and perceptive today as it no doubt was seventy years ago: on her wedding day a girl knows she is about to make a serious mistake' (the Bookseller); 'a brilliant, bittersweet upstairs-downstairs comedy' wrote Shena Mackay in the Guardian. (Persephone Books)

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Persephone Books publishes neglected classics by 20th century (mostly women) writers. They also published Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

Slated for release - late 2011

Thanks to ms_geekette for mentioning!

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If you would like to see the movie, find it here...
>>Northanger Abbey - Movie on Youtube

For interviews with the cast etc...
>>Northanger behind the scenes -part 1

>>PBS: Masterpiece Link

Fan videos:

>> JJ Feild / Henry Tilney Fan Video

>> Northanger Abbey (2007) - "As I Lay Me Down"

Synopsis:
Catherine Morland, who comes from the comfortable family of a village clergyman, is invited to Bath for the season by her wealthy friends, Mr. and Mrs. Allen. In Bath she meets Isabella Thorpe, a sophisticated young woman whose brother John is a friend of Catherine's brother, James Morland. Isabella encourages Catherine's interest in romantic fantasies and "horrid" fictions. After Isabella becomes engaged to James Morland, she tries to promote a romance between Catherine and her irresponsible brother, John Thorpe, but Catherine is more interested in a young clergyman she has met, Henry Tilney, the son of General Tilney of Northanger Abbey. Under the illusion (fostered by John Thorpe) that Catherine is wealthy, General Tilney invites her to stay at Northanger Abbey. There Catherine's imagination runs wild: she becomes convinced that Northanger Abbey is like the setting of a gothic novel and that General Tilney had murdered his late wife. She is humiliated when General Tilney returns suddenly from London and orders her to leave the abbey. This action is based on another false report from John Thorpe, who claims that Catherine is totally without wealth and has deceived the general.

Northanger Abbey was written in the later 1790s but not published until 1817. Begun as a satire on the improbable plots and characters of the typical gothic novel, such as Mrs. Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), Northanger Abbey developed into a treatment of Jane Austen's favorite theme, the initiation of a young woman into the complexities of adult social life.