a 1981 British romantic drama film directed by Karel Reisz, produced by Leon Clore, and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter

The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a 1981 British romantic drama film directed by Karel Reisz, produced by Leon Clore, and adapted by playwright Harold Pinter.

on a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by author John Fowles

Filip Remunda position themselves as businessmen and locate a public relations and... A beguiling and intellectually nimble feat of filmmaking, The French Lieutenant’s Woman film is based on a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by author John Fowles.

a 1981 British romantic drama film directed by Karel Reisz and based on the 1969 novel of the same name by John Fowles

The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a 1981 British romantic drama film directed by Karel Reisz and based on the 1969 novel of the same name by John Fowles.

a metafictional novel and

In Ten 1/2 Chapters, 1989The French Lieutenant Woman is a metafictional novel and a metafictional novel's narrator claims the invention of the story.

Victorian romantic fiction

In brief, The French Lieutenant’s Woman is a sort of pastiche of Victorian romantic fiction, told in a stylized prose of pitch-perfect accuracy that falls just this side of parody.