'Bramwell' Season 2 / Episode 7 / Part 2 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 7, Part 2.

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 7
A young woman pedestrian injured in an accident with a carriage is rushed into the Thrift after being found by Charles Sheldon, surgical equipment supplier to the infirmary. But Eleanor is dumbfounded when she parts the patient's dress to reveal a hairy masculine chest. It is left to Marsham to educate her as to the true nature of 18-year-old Frederick Hackett, but she defends his right to stay on the ward despite the covert suspicion of her staff, and the open hostility shown by a fellow patient, the hard-drinking Beamish.

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[tokifan18]

Poor man... he seems so sweet, too bad he was with that awful supplier! Thanks for posting, this is one of my favorite episodes of the whole series!

[mrspopp123]

The  actor who plays Elizabeth was , I believe, cast as the sensible aunt in the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice.

[mannixisle]

I admire Eleanor's courage best of all!