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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.
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.
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 Christian. Mrs. Poulteney is a a cruel old woman, who takes great delight in harassing her domestic staff.
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 than...
Charles and Sarah meet secretly in the Lyme Regis Undercliff and eventually have sex in an Exeter hotel. During the affair, Sarah’s hymen breaks and that’s how Charles learns Sarah never had sex with the French Lieutenant at all, and he forgives her for lying to him. This leads to Charles's breaking his engagement, but then Sarah disappears.
Complete summary of John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The French Lieutenant's Woman.
