The Glass Virgin is a British three-part television serial, or long TV movie, first broadcast in 1995, starring Emily Mortimer and Brendan Coyle, directed by Sarah Hellings, based on a novel by Catherine Cookson.
Producer Ray Marshall bought the film rights to several of the period works of Catherine Cookson, beginning in 1989 with The Fifteen Streets, which had been turned into a successful stage play.
[2] Reviewing The Glass Virgin for The Independent, Jasper Rees commented that it "might have been sponsored by the Northumbrian tourist board, as it gives the impression that the region endlessly basks in sunshine.
Annabella Lagrange (Emily Mortimer), the daughter of upper class parents, finds her life crumbling when she discovers a terrible secret.
She runs away from home, then meets Manuel Mendoza (Brendan Coyle), a young Irishman she remembers as her father’s departed groom.