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The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles. The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love.
Meryl Streep dressed in a black cloak staring out to sea from the end of a windswept Cobb remains an iconic image from the 1981 five-time Oscar-nominated film The French Lieutenant’s Woman based on the novel by John Fowles. Set in Victorian Lyme Regis, the story follows unconventional Sarah Woodruff, shamed and abandoned by a French sea ...
The French Lieutenant's Woman film location: The Cobb, Lyme Regis, Dorset. A box office smash but a not too successful filming of John Fowles ’ novel, as Harold Pinter ’s Oscar winning screenplay ingeniously replaces the literary commentary with a present day parallel relationship.
Sep 9, 2024 · There Charles Smithson and his intended bride, Ernestina Freeman, see the French lieutenant’s woman, Sarah Woodruff, staring longingly out to sea, evidently trying to find something more...
His latest novel, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, brought readers an ingenious twin portrait of the seaside town of Lyme Regis, on the Devon–Dorset border, until then most closely associated in the literary mind with Jane Austen.
Destitute and rejected by most of the Lyme Regis society, Sarah is taken in by the pious Mrs. Poulteney, who plans to “save” the young woman in order to assure her own status as a worthy ...
The French Lieutenant’s Woman opens with its three primary characters all out walking on the Cobb, a stone breakwater that forms the manmade harbor of Lyme Regis. Charles Smithson and his fiancee, Tina Freeman, banter affectionately about Charles’s acceptance of “the Darwinian position” and fondness for fossils until Charles notices ...
