About Christy…
I’m a 20something native New Englander stuck in Texas. I’ve been a fan of period films and books for as long as I can remember. I’ve just always loved the costumes and customs. I can’t remember my first period film, but I know it had to a Jane Austen adaptation. I love anything set in between the Georgian to WWII eras and I can’t help but watch a film adaptation of a book I just read, even if I know it’s horrible. I just love the visual.
Affinity is the 2008 adaptation of the 1999 novel by Sarah Waters.
Affinity is my favorite of all Waters’ novels and I just loved this film adaptation. It stars Anna Madeley – who you may have seen in the latest adaptations of Sense and Sensibility and Brideshead Revisted – as Margaret Prior and Zoe Tapper as Selina Dawes.
Set in 1870s, Prior, an unmarried woman of an upper class family in England, has lost her father and set outs to become a ‘lady visitor’ of the local women’s prison to fill the time.
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