A Skirt Through History
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The Two Marys
1994-06-10
In 1801 Lady Maria Nugent was "playing governor's lady to the blackies" in Jamaica. She described her 39 slaves as "so good-humored and merry that it is quite comfortable to look at them".
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A Reputation
1994-06-03
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.
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The Wreckers
1994-05-27
In 1912 Sarah, age 52, and 54-year-old composer Ethel Smyth shared neighboring cells in Holloway Prison. Their crime was breaking windows - a tactic used by suffragettes to draw attention to their fight and win the vote for all women.
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An Experiment
1994-05-20
The remarkable stories 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.
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A Lady's Portion
1994-05-13
The drama-documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parkes founded the first newspaper run by women for women.
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Marriage
1994-05-06
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.
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A Skirt Through History is a series categorized as a . Spanning 1 seasons with a total of 6 episodes, the show debuted on 1994. The series has earned a no reviews from both critics and viewers..
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Dearbhla Molloy, Lesley Manville, Anna Massey
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