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The Bostonians is a 1984 romantic drama period film directed by James Ivory. The screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is based on the 1886 American novel The Bostonians by Henry James. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter, and Jessica Tandy .
"The Bostonians" is a novel with a lot of asides, and hundreds of pages of hints. We can summarize it boldly: It is about a sweet and somewhat inconsequential young woman who has inspired crushes in two of her admirers.
Based on Henry James' novel, Merchant-Ivory's The Bostonians tells the story of Olive Chancellor, a 19th-century Boston woman dedicated to the suffrage movement who...
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The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi ; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a ...
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Dec 1, 2018 · Less lonely and less hollow was the queer world Ivory built a little earlier that decade, an adaptation of Henry James’ The Bostonians that is seeing a 4K restoration this week.
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Jun 2, 2011 · Brief Synopsis. A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attentions of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.
