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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Color • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 01 January, 1991 DVD Release : 22 November, 2005 |
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The Black Velvet Gown description In the spirit of Thomas Hardy and revisiting the countryside of D.H. Lawrence, The Black Velvet Gown is a classic tale of overcoming impoverished means. Set and filmed on location in Northumberland in northeastern England, the countryside and stark gray sky provide the dramatic backdrop for this story, which takes place in the 19th century. A widowed mother and her three children become servants in a reclusive man's household. The family brings the lonely academic joy and laughter and in exchange he bestows upon them his knowledge of books. It was unheard of for servants to be educated and literate, however, and after the master dies it's up to the mother and her daughter to overcome the narrow-minded prejudices held by society and create a liberated life on their own terms. Based on the bestselling novel by Catherine Cookson, The Black Velvet Gown is an entertaining watch. --Samantha Allen Storey |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | a review on Catherine Cookson |
| I adore all of Catherine Cooksons books, and this one is no exception..
The mood and feelings of total lack and abject poverty are captured so well, especially for a single mother with children trying to do her best for her children and serve the master... In order to completely understand Catherine Cookson, you have to know about her amazing life story, it was incredibly cruel and she lived in such poverty. Her mother was employed in these large country homes, cleaning these houses and being very underpaid and overworked [also the ''work houses'' in England were dreaded by the working classes..Charlie Chaplans fans will remember only too well] so her description was from not only what her mother told her but from first hand accounts and seeing the plight of so many who were employed under the worst conditions that she came to know about these things first hand... It was shocking, very sad and must have been totally depressing for the many who had to endure under horrendous conditions not only to feed themselves and their children, but having to put up with loathsome owners who abused them in so many ways... I am from Northumberland in England, [the cold frozen north] I grew up there and already knew a lot of the stories which my mother told...stories first hand and stories passed down...[there was such incredibly poverty..Miss Cookson and her mother were a part of that] There is also a great deal of written information about Miss Cookson, and the area which is called ''Cookson Country''... I have always thought of the intolerable conditions and situations that she and her mother had to endure.. It is so amazing that in later life [my family knew her] she was so incredibly kind and generous, and I feel a credit to her generation... I have been thrilled with the adaptations of her books...and highly recommend them... Amazingly, she knew how to write and her stories I think are an incredible witness to the horrendous conditions for those 'domestics' during that period.. |
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