• 1994
  • 3h
A Skirt Through History

Summary A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history. View more details

  • 1994
  • 3h

A Skirt Through History

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Lesley Manville Anna Massey Dearbhla Molloy Paola Dionisotti

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Genres : Drama Family History Biography

Release date : May 5, 1994

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : BBC Bristol, Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol, England, UK

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Bristol) BBC Education

Summary A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama Family History Biography

Release date : May 5, 1994

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : BBC Bristol, Broadcasting House, Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol, England, UK

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC Bristol) BBC Education

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • May 05, 1994
A Marriage
"Anne Lister, an outwardly conventional gentlewoman living in Halifax at the beginning of the last century, had a secret life that would have shocked local society. Her diaries, written in such a complex code that they were not deciphered until the 1980s, reveal that she was really a lesbian Don Juan." (Radio Times, 30/4-6/5/1994).
Episode 2 • May 12, 1994
A Lady's Portion
"The drama documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parks founded the first newspaper run by women for women. Fifty years later, Emilie Peacocke became one of the first women reporters to work in Fleet Street". (Radio Times, 7/5-13/5/1994).
Episode 3 • May 19, 1994
An Experiment
"The remarkable story of two women who became the subjects of experiments by men. Dr James Barry was born a girl but lived most of her life disguised as a man. And Hannah Cullwick, a working class woman turned into a high-class lady". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994).
Episode 4 • May 26, 1994
The Wreckers
"In 1912 Sarah Benett, aged 52, and 54-year-old composer Ethel Smyth shared neighbouring cells in Holloway Prison. Their crime was breaking windows - a tactic used by suffragettes to draw attention to their fight to win votes for all women. Sarah Benett's recently discovered diary sheds light on their remarkable tale". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994)
Episode 5 • Jun 02, 1994
A Reputation
"Seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi has been remembered more for being a loose woman than a talented artist. At the age of 17, she was raped, and the record of the trial reveals how her reputation as a woman and a painter was ruined." (Radio Times, 14/5-20/5/1994).
Episode 6 • Jun 09, 1994
The Two Marys
"The only two British women to write first-hand accounts of slavery: Mary Prince, who was born into slavery in 1788 and left her owners after moving to London, and Lady Maria Nugent, the wife of a slave owner in Jamaica in 1801'. (BBC Active, video synopsis, 2005).

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