Welcome

Our Mission

To conserve, advance and disseminate the early British novel.

Our Aims

To do this, we will ...

• Adapt for the screen, as many British novels from the golden age as we can.
• Make these adaptations to the highest artistic standards to which we are capable, using British period music and British period fine art, where we can.
• Ensure that these adaptations embody the feelings and ideas, the very breath, of the original authors.
• Ensure as wide a possible distribution of these features, as we can, so that as many people as possible can benefit from these stories.
• Produce educational content for use in British & foreign schools & universities.
• Work with British Literary societies, at home, and abroad,
• Help young people's / early careers in the TV & film industry.

We will help these masterpieces to resonate through both the UK and the rest of the world.

Why the PBLF?

The 19^th and the late 18^th centuries saw the Golden Age of the Great British novel. Authors include Charlotte Brontë, Sir Walter Scott, Anthony Trollope, Maria Edgworth, Charlotte Smith, Mrs. Oliphaunt and more. These authors' stories retain their relevance today, but this amazing corpus of works is, however, falling into obscurity.

These authors are infrequently taught in British schools, and, indeed, most of the British universities do not include these authors in their syllabuses. The fact that many people today are unfamiliar with the 'Standard English' of these 18^th and 19^th century texts is not a good reason for these authors to be forgotten.

It is true that cinematic adaptations of a few of these novels are occasionally made, but, they are usually decades apart, and, anyway, often deal with novels that have already been adapted (e.g. Dickens, Austen and Eliot)

It is to reverse this alarming, on-going loss of Britain's cultural heritage that our charity (the PBLF, or Period Brit Lit Films) has been founded.