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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A romantic comedy about oppression and hypocrisy in 19th century England, starring Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Felicity Jones, and Jonathan Pryce.It starts with our male protagonist Mortimer Granville (Dancy) working as a doctor at a hospital. He gets fired for believing in silly new fads such as germ theory, the idea that doctors should wash their hands before surgery, that soiled bandages should be replaced and the idea that diseases and infections are caused by tiny invisible monsters that are not spiritual in nature.As he finds a new job at a clinic for hysterical women, he quickly run into a woman (Gyllenhaal) who is just as crazy as he is: she actually believes in equal rights, or at least rights at all, regardless of class and gender, stirring up all kinds of trouble with outlandish demands such as the ideas that women ought to be allowed to vote and that even poor people should get education and healthcare.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Oh, and the whole thing is supposedly based on a true story note The idea of Victorian psychiatrists masturbating women (or that they did so with mechanical vibrators) was entirely invented by Rachel Maines in her 1998 book The Technology of the Orgasm. Later peer review of the book has found that most of her sources were either fabricated or purposefully misconstrued, and that the entire book was one step shy of full-blown academic fraud.. It's also about the invention of a medical tool that is still very popular, although all claims about its medical usefulness have long since been debunked: the vibrator. | |
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Troubled Sympathetic Bigot | |
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Troubled Sympathetic Bigot: Dr Dalrymple - father of the female protagonist, and a firm believer in the inferiority of women... along with sciences such as phrenology. | |
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A Date with Rosie Palms | |
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A Date with Rosie Palms: The film describes the invention of a vibrator. At the end of the movie, Emily is shown seizing one of those and seeking a private place. | |
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Weekend Inventor | |
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Weekend Inventor: Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe, son of Mortimer Granville's noble benefactors and his sometime roommate, is highly interested in electrical devices and spends much of his time puttering around with them as a hobby. What he intended to be an electric feather duster winds-up saving Mortimer's career and makes him independently wealthy to boot. | |
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Proper Lady | |
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Proper Lady: Deconstructed. Emily Dalrymple channels this Victorian ideal of a properly feminine woman. She is a rather capable mistress of her widowed father's household, and agrees to marry her father's young assistant so that his successful medical practice could stay in the family even though she loves him more like a friend or a brother. Later she admits that she behaved like her father had expected her to behave, and she wants to be more true to herself and behave more freely. | |
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Born in the Wrong Century | |
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Born in the Wrong Century: From her socialist political views to her formal attire (specifically an absolutely scandalous shoulder-baring strapless gown worn more than forty years before it was supposedly invented), Charlotte Dalrymple gives the impression of a radical 20th or 21st century feminist born too early. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Edmund St. John-Smythe is notorious enough to appear in the newspapers, but what got him there is less than clear. | |
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No Mere Windmill | |
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No Mere Windmill: The following "windmills" are in fact real threats or real inventions. Neither claim is ever proven within the actual movie, the narrative counts on the audience possessing basic education. Germs do exist. The general public doesn't believe in the germ theory and neither do several important, high-class doctors. Giving women the right to vote is actually a good idea. The cure for hysteria. While it doesn't cure any medical condition per se, the device still turns out to be jolly good. | |
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Spirited Young Lady | |
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Spirited Young Lady: Charlotte Dalrymple, Up to Eleven, and she actually crosses a line to an early feminist. She is very rebellious, fights (at times rather aggressively) for a better society, tries to improve the sad situation of the poor, helps prostitutes (and does not blame them for what the society forces them to do, neither is she condescendingly compassionate to them) and is unapologetic about her progressive opinions. Her appearance is very feminine though, and at the ball she enchants almost everybody with her beauty and charm. Some narrow-minded and illiberal people do not consider her a lady, but the more sympathetic characters do. Her Proper-Lady-like sister Emily admires her very much. | |
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Thanks for the Mammary | |
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Thanks for the Mammary: Mortimer is distracted and accidentally runs into Charlotte who is riding a bicycle and they are both knocked down. He ends end up lying on top of her and accidentally touches her breast. It happens again a moment later when he helps her up. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: This comic exchange: | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
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"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: An opening title asserts that the movie is based on true events and then continues... Really. | |
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Straw Feminist | |
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Straw Feminist: In-universe audience reaction to the female protagonist, Charlotte, who endlessly tries to improve the situation of the poor and also women's position in the society. Her acquaintances consider her laughable and embarrassing, but she is very self-assured and knows she does the right thing. The real life audience is not encouraged to agree with those vile Victorians. | |
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Arranged Marriage | |
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Arranged Marriage: Dr Dalrymple arranges a match between his younger daughter Emily and his employee Dr Granville. It has zero chemistry and only very small potential for happiness. Emily knows this from square one, but goes along with it anyway because her father told her to. | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Dr Dalrymple rightfully observes that many women in Victorian London suffer greatly, and his treatment does offer relief, but hysteria is not to blame. We come to see Emily Dalrymple's Phrenological assessment of Dr Granville's characteristics (wise, sympathetic, and fated to be famous) are completely accurate, if only by accident. | |
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The Suffragette | |
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The Suffragette: Charlotte is the example from the late Victorian period who argues her case and tries to convince people with discussion and argument. She believes in equal rights regardless of class and gender. Some characters consider her demands that women should to be allowed to vote beyond crazy. | |
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Activist-Fundamentalist Antics | |
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Activist Fundamentalist Antics: Some of the more illiberal characters try to portray Charlotte, the female protagonist, in this light and view her progressive opinions and activism as wrong or harmful to the society, and they consider Charlotte rude, unladylike or downright crazy and hysteric (in the medical sense of the word). | |
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Victorian London | |
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Victorian London: London in the late Victorian period is the setting of the film. The characters come mostly from the rich, upper-middle-class background, so the audience might enjoy the gorgeous clothes, beautiful furniture and lavish dinners or balls, but the ugly side appears as well (poor conditions and dirt at the hospital, Charlotte's charitable school for poor children or her settlement house). | |
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Wealthy Philanthropist | |
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Wealthy Philanthropist: Charlotte comes from the upper-middle class and her family is comfortably rich. She uses her dowry to help the poor and sets up a school for poor children. She also tries to get charity money from other wealthy people. | |
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Unproblematic Prostitution | |
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Unproblematic Prostitution: While uneducated and rather crude, Molly is portrayed as an okay person with an okay life. The audience isn't given any excuses to pity her or otherwise look down on her. However, she is extremely lucky that Charlotte helped her out. Other street girls were not as lucky. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Most of the film's characters consider the idea of women's suffrage amusing at best. | |
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Windmill Political | |
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Windmill Political: The concept of "hysteria". Treated as a dangerous condition that harms almost every woman, but modern medical science does not recognize it as a valid diagnosis. There are more modern concepts in psychiatry and psychology that would cover the obsolete umbrella term. | |
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Lie Back and Think of England | |
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Lie Back and Think of England: One of the poor hysteria sufferers at the beginning seems to get no pleasure at all from sex with her husband, going so far as to imagine "splitting his fat, bald head with a great large axe" when he comes to her at night. Dr Dalrymple is actually a bit more progressive on this point than some of his contemporaries, granting that female sexual pleasure is possible, but only with the penetration of the male organ (in spite of all evidence to the contrary). | |
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Rich Kid Turned Social Activist | |
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Rich Kid Turned Social Activist: Charlotte Dalrymple. She's a young daughter of a rich medical doctor from the upper-middle class who used her dowry to help the poor. She runs a settlement welfare house and personally teaches poor children. She helps prostitutes (for example, Dr Dalrymple's maid Molly is a former prostitute) and is unapologetic about her progressive opinions. She also tries to raise more money from other rich people of her acquaintance. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Fortunately for Charlotte Dalrymple, Victorian London doesn't lack good judges. Finding the Crown's case for hysteria wanting, he remarks that if they were to "lock-up every female in whom whimsy and logic collide" they would have to imprison most of the women in England (his wife included). Charlotte is still punished for striking a policeman in the performance of his duties, but she is remanded into ordinary criminal custody instead of being committed to an asylum where she would have lost her uterus. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Dr Mortimer Granville existed in the late 19th century, and invented a vibrating electrical device based on an existing invention, initially for the purpose of orthopaedic self-treatment (this is given a nod in the film, where he applies the vibrator to his aching hands). He called it the Hammer. While Dr Granville did have an interest in hysteria, he did not apply his invention towards treating it; he used it for physiotherapy in men. Granville didn't invent the vibrator, as such; he invented the electric massager. The rest is fiction. Furthermore, the entire concept of Victorians masturbating woman to cure hysteria is not actually described in any contemporary records, the only source we have of this is from Rachel Maines's book The Technology of Orgasm. Independent reviewers later went to find her supposed sources and noted that none of them actually supported her claims. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: When Doctor Dalrymple arranges for Charlotte's settlement house to be shut down, she yells at him "These are the actions of a villain!" | |
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