Tuesday, 9 June 1 airing
21:00
BBC Four
S3 E3 · The Empire of Good Intentions
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The historian investigates the changing role of women in the Victorian era, looking at the work of novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, whose fiction highlighted the plight of needy factory workers. Simon also examines the ground-breaking efforts of doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, health campaigner Mary Seacole and political activists Harriet Stuart Mill and Annie Besant