Nick Dear

Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family estate to Admiral Croft, Anne is thrown into company with Frederick, because his sister is Mrs. Croft.(imdb)

A young woman, Anna, in desperate need of money, takes a job as a stenographer for Fyodor Dostoyevsky--forty-five, epileptic, and in debt. The terms of her employment are extraordinary: she must stay at his apartment during the next month while he dictates a new novel to her. As the novel unfolds, Anna goes through a passage of discovery, a shedding of innocence and convention, as she comes face to face with her own eroticism. (Amazon)

Known for both his self-indulgent lifestyle and his celebrated poetry, 19th-century British writer Lord George Gordon Byron scandalizes upright sensibilities with his sexual exploits. (tvguide.com)

A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor. (imdb)

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. (ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk)

Eroica is a BBC television film that dramatises the first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, 'Bonaparte', to his patron Prince Lobkowitz and his guests, including Joseph Haydn. Later, Beethoven and Ries visit an inn, where they learn that Bonaparte has declared himself the French emperor. Beethoven loses respect for Napoleon and changes the symphony's title to 'Eroica'.