A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.

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Frances O'Connor
Emma Bovary

Greg Wise
Rodolphe

Eileen Atkins
Marie Louise

Hugh Bonneville
Charles Bovary

Keith Barron
L'heureux

Jessica Oyelowo
Felicite

Trevor Peacock
Rouault

David Troughton
Homais

Stanley Lebor
Binet