A Woman's World
Description
This episode offers an insight into the ways women's roles in society changed through the first five decades of the 20th century. Joyce Grenfell and Dame Edith Evans are the narrators and the archive footage features suffragette protests, including Emily Davison at the 1913 Derby; working women during the First World War; Suzanne Lenglen playing tennis; and a sample of 1920s and 30s fashions.
Runtime
30 min
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Date of Publication
[2014], c2011
Database
Films on Demand
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