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From manners to mud - two women recall coming of age in Victorian
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In this excerpt from the BBC documentary Yesterday's Witness: Two
Victorian Girls (1970), a pair of women in their 90s recount coming
of age in London in the late-Victorian era. Berta Ruck, who relocated
from Wales and went on to become a successful romance novelist, and
Frances 'Effy' Jones, one of the first women to be trained to work as
a typist, prove charismatic storytellers as they recount the clothes,
manners and mounds of mud that defined London at the time. What
emerges is a portrait of the city as a place of widespread poverty
and conservative values, but also excitement and new opportunities
for women.

via Open Culture

Video by BBC Archive

20 September 2022
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