The Making of a Lady (2012) / full movie

LoveLives – full episodes The Making of a Lady (2012) / full movie The Making of a Lady is a television film based on the 1901 novel “The Making of a Marchioness“ by Frances Hodgson Burnett that uses a screenplay adaptation by Kate Brooke. Storyline: Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria, Emily’s employer. It is an arrangement for them both - in James’ case to stop the family home passing to James’ cousin Alec Osborn and his Anglo-Indian wife Hester. However affection soon grows between them. Directed by Richard Curson Smith, the film stars Lydia Wilson as Emily, Linus Roache as Lord James Walderhurst, Joanna Lumley as Lady Maria Byrne, and James D’Arcy as Captain Alec Osborn.