No Job for a Lady: Series 1 [DVD]

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The story focuses on a 28 year old woman named Violet in 1898. Violet’s Mother disappeared 10 years prior and she now lives with her Father, who expects Violet to run the household and to marry. Violet is very strongly against this whole premise and continuously fights against female stereotypes, focusing more on what she would like to do for herself. While this story delves more into the disappearance of Violet’s Mother, Violet meets a number of new people and discovers a lot about herself along the way. Much of the three series involves Jean going into bat for her constituents and finding barriers that the system has in place to stop her getting through any of her motions or helping her voters. Combined with the sexism, courtesy of the ‘old-boys club’ feel around parliament, Jean must battle for every win and break many walls to claim the slightest victory in such a fundamentally blinkered and institutionalised environment.

Its 1896 and Violets mum disappeared ten years ago and Violet now has the opportunity to hire a private detective to find her.. but it’s not going the way she has envisioned. A brilliantly funny historical with a unique heroine, I adored every word of this book. Violet Hamilton's mother disappeared a decade ago when Violet was 18, leaving her naive, young for her daughter with her emotionally repressed father. When a private detective's leaflet falls onto her mat, Violet decides it's time to find out what happened to her mother and by doing so takes her first step into independence. The further she gets on her quest, the more she realises her ignorance and how unworldly she is, the more determined she is to learn not just what happened to her mother, but about the world, a world that prefers its women ignorant and dependent on men.If you decide to read this book, give it a few chapters to find the pace and discover the humor and quirkiness in Violet’s character. She is truly an original and even though this book was pretty light-hearted what she went through made me think about her and women in her situation in the hours following my finishing the book. The mystery was secondary to a story that was entirely character driven but once it was solved it did explain quite a few things about the mystery that was Violet. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ When Violet embarks on a mission to solve the mystery of her mother’s disappearance, the adventures that follow make for a rumbunctious romp of a read, involving a quirky cast of characters and all manner of shenanigans

I very much enjoyed this book! The characters are interesting, the plot intriguing, and the setting gives for an interesting insight of what turn of what life would have been like for a woman towards the end of the Victorian period. Violet holds an interesting role in that of a dutiful daughter both to her father with whom she still lives (and is continually trying to arrange a marriage for her) and that to the memory of her mother, as well as wanting to stay true to her own wants and desires away from expectations. Finding the missing is no job for a lady, but when Violet hires a seaside detective to help, she sets off a chain of events that will put more than just her reputation at risk.This is such a wholesome read, set in a time where being a women meant all that was expected of you was to marry well, keep house and have children. It is near the anniversary of her mother’s disappearance, and she decides to hire a private detective Frank Knight to solve the mystery of her missing mother. But hiring him causes all sort of trouble for Violet, even bring her reputation into distribute. Is her mother alive or dead? Only time will tell. No Job for a Lady revolves around Jean Price, the newly elected, somewhat rebellious Labour MP for an inner-city constituency, and her life in the House of Commons. She is married to Geoff Price, who is a public defender and takes care of many of the household chores so that Jean pursue her new career. The show follows Jean while she balances her personal life with parliamentary duties, including "woman's issues," which Jean alternately fights for and is frustrated by, as other MPs think she cares about nothing else as she's a woman. She often is surprised by other MPs duplicity and hypocrisy, holding them to a higher standard. Violet is an amazing and lovable character - full of curiosity, humor, resilience, aspirations, and determination. Would love to read a series about Violet thriving as the best detective in town! Violet is a 28 year old, unmarried woman in 1896 but rather than searching for a husband she’s searching for answers about her mothers mysterious disappearance 10 years ago.