Esther Waters (1964)

Genre

drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In Victorian England, a young woman is left by her lover when she becomes pregnant. She decides to raise her child on her own despite the social shame attached to unwed mothers.

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What happens

Esther Waters is a British period television series which originally aired on BBC 2 in four episodes from 14 November to 5 December 1964. It is an adaptation of the 1894 novel of the same title by George Moore. Like the novel it focuses on the struggle of Esther Waters who, in Victorian England, is abandoned by her lover when pregnant. Despite the social stigma of being a fallen woman she chooses to raise the child as a single mother. The novel had previously been made into a 1948 film Esther Waters. A further television adaptation Esther Waters followed in 1977. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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