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While on a visit to the manufacturing towns of the north, aristocrat Charles Egremont encounters beautiful Sybil Gerard singing in the grounds of Marney Abbey. Graceful and angelic, Sybil Gerard is a symbol of religious purity. He also meets her father, a working-class radical, who tells him about the division of England into two nations: the rich and the poor. Moved by the episode, Egremont investigates the conditions of the working poor and witnesses the disturbing after-effects of the Industrial Revolution.

Benjamin Disraeli’s powerful, polemical story of love across the class divide Chosen by The Guardian as one of the best 100 novels of all time, Disraeli’s classic 1845 ‘condition-of-England’ novel exposes the inequality and exploitation endemic in 19th century Britain, and the vast gulf...

Sybil Productions presents our new collection of musical fairy tales, Feather & Fable. Traditional stories reimagined with immersive soundtracks for the whole family to enjoy.

Il sottotitolo di questo romanzo lo descrive come "Un seguito immaginario ai romanzi di Jane Austen". In effetti Sybil Brinton, nata più di mezzo secolo dopo la morte della Austen, e autrice di solo questo romanzo, realizza il desiderio di molti appassionati lettori della Austen e dà vita a molti suoi personaggi, facendoli incontrare a Bath, a Londra, e nelle varie residenze di campagna così affascinanti dei romanzi della famosa scrittrice inglese.

Ausgerechnet zum großen Fest in Haus Tide – Inge Boysen wird 80, ihre Enkelin 18 - hat sich Komet »Fortune« über der Nordseeinsel angekündigt. Eine ungewöhnliche Festgesellschaft versammelt sich im alten Haus hinter dem Deich: Familie Boysen, geladene und ungeladene Gäste, Glücksritter, Spinner und Sternengucker. Die einen hoffen, »Fortune« verheiße Fülle und Freuden, andere sehen den Weltuntergang nahen, Inge stellt für alle Fälle Champagner kalt.

Old Friends and New Fancies is the first ever Jane Austen fan fiction and was originally published in 1913. Sybil Brinton imagines an entirely new story of romantic entanglements using a mashup of characters from all of Austen's major novels. Have you ever wondered what happened to Georgiana Darcy and Kitty Bennet from Pride and Prejudice or Mary Crawford and Tom Bertram from Mansfield Park? Find out in this delightfully comic homage to Austen's beloved characters.

Wives and Daughters follows the daily life of a widowed county doctor, Mr. Gibson, and his daughter, Molly. During our time with the Gibsons, Mr. Gibson decides to marry a woman who has a daughter near Molly's age, Cynthia. Molly and Cynthia grow up together, fall in love, and spend their days with the many characters in Hollingford.

Hedda Krause, a young widow in search of a new rich husband, checked into the Menger Hotel in 1915 with a case full of jewels - and never checked out. In 2017, Dini Blackstone gives ghost walk tours in San Antonio. Her favorite is the tale of Hedda Krause who, in Dini's estimation, perpetrated the world's longest con, dying old and wealthy. Hedda adamantly claimed a ghost apparition lured her into a long, dark hallway, and when she returned to her room, her precious jewelry had been stolen. Can Dini see another side of the story that is worth God's grace?

Experience three novellas about the joys and trials of sisterhood.

Struggling to remain independent in the 1800s, four women reluctantly open up to help from lumberjacks - and love.

The mysteries enjoyed in books come to life, threatening four businesses. Amber's new bookshop and tearoom draws rare book collectors, but when one ends up dead in the mystery section, the shop's future is questionable. Lilly's pirate themed bookshop fits right into Harbor Inn, Maine, but she never expected to find a young pirate dead on her shop's floor.

A lovely full-cast, family-based saga by Catherine Czerkawska. It follows Alison, as she discovers a yacht which belonged to a family of boat makers whose lives were tinged by turbulent love, sorrow and death. She finds the lady the boat was named after and discovers the history of the boat she has fallen in love with, and the family behind its excellent craftmanship.

Euripides's play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and their remaining families taken away as slaves. It serves as an anti-war narrative as it highlights the suffering of the women left behind. The tragedy also calls attention to how women were treated as commodities in the past by showing how they were divided among the remaining men as spoils of war.

This abridged performance of the last of Shakespeare's plays founded on English history was recorded in 1952. Henry VIII was first published in the 1623 folio edition of Shakespeare's plays. This performance stars Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Lewis Casson & Ralph Truman (as King Henry VIII).