AURORA LEIGH

feature. period drama. 108 pages. WGA Registered
adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A young woman in mid-19th Century England struggles against gender servitude in the person of her rich and handsome cousin. Unwilling to acknowledge her love, she rejects his proposal of marriage to forge a life as an independent woman and a career as a poet. Only after the success of her epic and the failure of his utopian commune can she express and fulfill her love.