Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
Drama, Romance
- ITV
United Kingdom
English- 1 Season (2 Episodes)
- 1998 - 1998
- Ended
A free-spirited yet naive country girl is caught between her wealthy, manipulative "cousin" Alec and the handsome, educated farmer Angel Clare in this Victorian tragedy from novelist Thomas Hardy.
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Storyline
Young country girl Tess Durbyfield goes to work for her aristocratic relatives, the D'Urbervilles, in an attempt at helping her family to raise some money. Her cousin Alec falls in love with her and seduces/rapes her.
Country: United Kingdom
Type: scripted
Status: Ended
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 1998
Also Known As: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Tessin tarinaТэсс из рода д'Эрбервилей, 黛絲姑娘, Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Egy tiszta nő | See more »
Plot Keywords
romance
prologue
scene during opening credits
dancer
dancing
horse
horseback riding
horse and carriage
man uses a walking stick
father daughter relationship
kissing cousins
corrupting an innocent young woman
male cousin female cousin sex
girl loses virginity
losing virginity to rape
male cousin attracted to female cousin
16 year old girl
older man teenage girl kiss
cousin cousin sex
noble family
girls dancing together
victorian england
poverty and wealth
poor relative
child in a bathtub
horse killed
teenage daughter
mother daughter relationship
innocence
horse drawn wagon
horse and buggy
horse drawn carriage
stolen kiss
coming of age
sexual awakening
strawberries
seduction
blind woman
chickens
wild party
pregnancy out of wedlock
teenage mother
breast feeding
hay
death of a child
christening
sorrow
consecrated ground
voice over narration
burying a child
tv mini series
siblings share a bed
milkmaid
milking a cow
milk
mutual attraction
man carries a woman
piggyback ride
writing a letter
sliding a note under a door
marriage proposal
wedding
honeymoon
confession
woman with a past
time jump
two years later
sleeping on a couch
burning a letter
secret
romanticism
honesty
betrayed ideals
double standard
judgmental
woman wears a nightgown
victim blaming
in love with female cousin
marriage between cousins
estranged husband
farm labor
hard labor
husband wife separation
low self esteem
return home
leaving home
abandoned house
husband and wife reunited
bad cousin good cousin
true identity revealed
cousins living together
woman stabs a man
breaking point
on the lam
love across social classes
sleeping outdoors
squatters
constable
surrounded by police
true love
executed for murder
sunrise
family relationships
tragedy
1800s
dorset
trial
social climber
rival
rape
loss of innocence
farm hand
class differences
ancestor
fatalism
murder
cow
strawberry
stonehenge
farming
based on novel
character name as title
forename in title
Company Credits
Production Co: A+E Networks, London Weekend Television (LWT)
