'Bramwell' Season 2 / Episode 3 / 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 3, Part 3.

This remains one of my favourite Masterpiece Theatre offerings ever! 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 3
A mysterious woman arrives at the Bramwells' who turns out to be Robert's estranged sister, Emily. She ran off 20 years before with a married man, fleeing to India and taking with her a sizeable selection of the family jewels. Robert wants nothing to do with her but Eleanor persuades him that Emily has changed. Emily is fresh and fun and amused by her careerist niece. Eleanor also deals with real emotion and crisis when Dr Marsham's two-year-old daughter Molly is admitted to the thrift with diphtheria.

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