'Bramwell' Season 2 / Episode 8 / Part 3 of 4 * JEMMA REDGRAVE as Dr E Bramwell

From the PBS Masterpiece Theatre series first aired far too many years ago. From Season 2, Episode 8, Part 3.

Jemma Redgrave's Dr. Eleanor Bramwell displays many admirable qualities as she struggles to become a physician/surgeon in the male-dominated world of Victorian England, yet her Bramwell also shows some very human foibles, tool, giving the audience a more interesting, credible and sympathetic character. The re-creation of clinical scenes is also quite accurate (and occasionally not for the squeamish!).

SYNOPSIS :
In the finest tradition of period costume drama, BRAMWELL follows the fortunes of public health heroine Dr. Eleanor Bramwell (JEMMA REDGRAVE) as she takes on the medical establishment in Victorian-era London. Feisty and unconventional, Eleanor fights to take health care out of the dark ages, and the stories depicted in BRAMWELL are based on documented cases from the 1890s.

Season 2.
In the second season of BRAMWELL, Eleanor finds her private practice failing and faces tough choices ahead in her encounters with a case of spousal abuse, pre-teen prostitution, an outbreak of cholera, and a mysterious aunt with a secret to hide. Along the way, she falls in love with her handsome and charismatic new partner at work, Dr. Finn O'Neill (ANDREW CONNOLLY).

CAST :
Eleanor Bramwell . . . Jemma Redgrave
Robert Bramwell . . . David Calder

Written by Lucy Gannon
Directed by David Tucker and Laura Sims
Produced by Tim Whitby and Harriet Davison

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SEASON 2
EPISODE 8
After Robert leaves Eleanor at a seaside hotel following their break from the rigors of work at the Thrift, she is joined by Finn O'Neill. While masquerading as cousins of the residents, the two become lovers. Back in London, Eleanor is delighted by the new improvements at the Thrift, but clandestinely she and Finn have to decide how to broach the subject of their romance to Robert, never one of the young Irishman's greatest admirers. But before they can face him together, Robert gets the truth from his daughter about her night at the seaside, and apologising for causing him shame, she prepares to quit the family home.

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[newbeequilter]

Dr. O'Neil is a such cad. Eleanor is better off without him. They wouldn't have much a marriage anyhow -- his career would always mean more to him than a wife and family. There were red flags about him from when she first met him during the interview at the hospital. Eleanor would've just been a sort of an intellectual trophy wife for him amongst his peers. And then I could just see him being jealous of her for any medical accomplishments she made.

[mrspopp123]

Poor poor Eleanore. She so wants to give her heart to a man who wil let her be an equal partner in love, life and work and she keeps getting disapointed.