by Vera Colebrook
This is the story of a remarkable Victorian woman whose ideas were so much in advance of her time that when she published them in a book her family destroyed every copy they could find. But Vera Colebrook found one that had been overlooked and from it, in five instalments, reconstructs the life and experience of her indomitable relative.
This first episode deals with Ellen's childhood and her trials and tribulations at a Seminary for Young Ladies.