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Yara Kaas

I'm commenting as I go so I don't forget things, so forgive me if any of this is addressed at a later point - I'll delete this comment if that is the case. So, first of all, you agreed with the Featherington housekeeper Varley that Marina only has herself to blame for being confined to her room, but I want to defend Marina on this. One big topic of season one is how the girls and young women of the ton are kept ignorant of a lot of things, especially all things sexual. Penelope and Eloise have no idea how a woman gets pregnant - neither do any of the other society women looking for husbands. They are never taught any of it deliberately - it is imperative that they stay pure so the purity of the noble bloodline is guaranteed (not saying I agree, but that was the culture back then). It is very likely that Marina had no idea about what sex was before she fell in love with George, let alone how it could get her pregnant. A young woman like her would take blame for something they were never properly informed about - remember how Lady Featherington warned her daughters that Marina's condition was catching like a contagious disease? At one point Penelope genuinely believes that eating a piece of cake might be enough to get the job done. Marina may have been told that being intimate with a man was improper and scandalous, but not about the physical consequences it could have. As for Eloise telling Daphne that she must be exhausted from maintaining her society mask... Look, I'll be the first to say that Eloise is flawed, but she is also a sheltered teenage girl who is trying to figure out how to keep her own integrity whilest navigating the many rules and regulations of the upper class society they have been raised in. At this point, Eloise cannot fathom how anyone could not want to rebel and maybe even find satisfaction within it. When she has her conversation with Penelope about the fictional maid and how she might reunite with her love in the country and get married, Eloise is not relieved and hopeful for this girl's future - her immediate response is "oh no she'll be TRAPPED BY A MAN this is horrible." She is very set in her own convictions and the thought that other people might not agree does not even occur to her. Do I think she needs to listen more to people like Daphne and consider different points of view? Yes, absolutely. I also think she's a headstrong teenager trying to break out of a gilded age, as she sees it. I believe it's not malice or deliberate disrespect for Daphne in this moment - just the ignorance of youth. In her mind, Eloise was reaching out to Daphne, telling her that she was safe to express her *real* opinions with her. Eloise's heart is in the right place, I reckon, but she has some growing up to do. Side note: I haven't read Eloise's book, but I think I remember reading that she was genuinely traumatised by that night her mother gave birth to Hyacinth and it has given her a deep, deep fear of childbirth. Can anyone confirm/deny that? I'm not sure. (That was a long comment, but I think about this show a lot more than I probably should.)

Yara Kaas

You're right - opera singers were considered... loose, if you will. Any kind of actress was at the time. Actresses finding wealthy men to take them on as a mistress, keeping them in fine clothes and jewelry, paying for a place to stay - that was something that happened all the time. They would not be respected as a lady by members of the ton. They were women to have affairs with - not to marry.