I am a fan of the period drama, but I guess we have a tainted view of the nicer side of the time period enjoying the crinoline skirts, candles, carriages and parties that are often shown in historical movies. This movie is a bit more of the grim reality of what it is like to be married to a man twice your age,who has little love for you, trapped in a grand house in the rural English countryside and to be told you are unable to leave , with no friends except the servants. Katherine then has little choice but to befriend a maid as her only friend and finds love with one of the grooms, until she is found out by her stern father in law. 3/5
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This seems like a bit of an extreme example of how bad it could be in Victorian days. I suspect that most families then were as happy as most are today. But then, people don't like making movies about happy families.
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I recently watched a film on Versailles. So gorgeous,beautiful. The stuff dreams are made of but then they said there were no lavatories. People would just use the floor behind those wonderful drapes. Once a year they would spend a week raking and cleaning. Can you imagine how it smelt. Give me today any time. Less glamour but sooo clean
That bit about Versailles seems odd. By that time, the English had been using chamber-pots for centuries. While the French have had, historically, a poor reputation for hygiene, you'd think they could have caught up with chamber-pots by then.
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