Filming British romance is all about location

From moors to manors, the key to adapting 19th-century romance on film is in Great Britain’s epic landscapes.

Readers and audiences have been falling in love with British romance stories for centuries. Books by authors like the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen still fly off the shelves, and they’ve been adapted for the big and small screen dozens of times. Wuthering Heights alone has been adapted over 30 times, and director Emerald Fennell’s blockbuster film is having a major moment. And Netflix just released a teaser for a new take on Pride and Prejudice, coming in fall 2026.

British romance is loaded with big juicy themes like forbidden love,........

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