What was the screenplay novelist, Caroline Thompson, base in an Victorian era village for Victor and Emily?
Caroline Thompson Caroline Thompson (born April 23, 1956) is an American novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer. She wrote the screenplays for Tim Burton's films "Edward Scissorhands", "The Nightmare Before Christmas", and "Corpse Bride". She co-wrote the story for "Edward Scissorhands" and recently co-adapted a new stage version of the film with director and choreographer Matthew Bourne. Thompson also adapted the screenplay for the film version of "Wicked Lovely", a bestselling fantasy series, in 2011, but the production was put into turnaround.
Emilia Marryat Emilia Marryat (later Emilia Marryat Norris; 1835?–1875) was a British author. The daughter of author Capt. Frederick Marryat and his wife Catherine, she was known as a children's author who wrote adventure novels infused with moral lessons in the style of her father. Some of her novels, including "Amongst the Maoris" (1874), are set in the Pacific and New Zealand. "Amongst the Maoris" is the first novel to take the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island as a setting. Though two of her novels have Australian content, she is not known to have ever visited the country.