South Riding (2010)
Movies & TV / DVD
Movies/TV › Television: British Mystery/Drama
UPC: 883929173662 / Publisher: BBC Home Entertainment, May 2011
A woman serves as a headmistress in an all-girls school in Yorkshire, and attempts to create the best school that she possibly can in the midst of the Great Depression.
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From acclaimed writer Andrew Davies comes the lush series based on Winifred Holtby’s most acclaimed novel. When Sarah Burton returns to her hometown as headmistress she is full of ambition, determined to create a great school and inspire her girls to take all they can from life. But in the aftermath of the First World War, the country is in depression and ideals are hard won. Lydia Holly, the scholarship girl from the shacks, is the most brilliant student Sarah has ever taught, but when her mother’s health fails, her education must be sacrificed, - there is nobody else to care for the children. Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall stands for everything Sarah despises: his family has farmed the South Riding for generations, their position uncontested. Yet Sarah cannot help being drawn to this proud, haunted? And almost ruined? Man. South Riding is a rich, panoramic novel, bringing vividly to life a rural community on the brink of change.
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