GEORGIAN ERA STORYTIME | Jane Austen's Aunt Philadelphia's Scandalous Life

[Subtitulada en español] In the Georgian Era, Jane Austen had an aunt named Philadelphia who went from poverty in London to the royal courts of Versailles. And she managed to create quite a bit of possible scandal for future historians to debate over traveling from London to India to Paris. Watch now to learn what it took for a young orphan to survive in the 18th century.
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🕰 Watching Guide
00:00 STORYTIME: Philadelphia Austen's Scandalous Georgian Era Life [Intro]
00:51 Meet Jane Austen's Aunt
01:51 Hard Life of a Milliner Apprentice
04:05 Scandalous Rumor No 1
10:40 Going to India and Eliza De Feuillide
13:34 Scandalous Rumor No 2 and Warren Hastings
17:18 Fashionable in London
20:42 Widowhood and Versailles
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[@ameliecarre4783]

"They were called prostitutes because they were not living up to the ideals of not having money and starving to death." Oh the romantic era.

[@DeclanMBrennan]

Funded by gentlemen who expected their wives to be pure and chaste while still indulging in their own extra-marital recreations.

[@cmm5542]

People seem to forget that while you are starving on the streets, reprobate men will prey on you anyway. So, you might as well get paid for it! I think for myself I would rather starve and at least not be complicit in my own abuse (I'd probably try to murder my first 'client' and end up hanged anyway), but I have no idea how I would actually handle starvation - I don't even handle skipping lunch well! But I could never look down on other girls more practical and less sensitive to ways and means in a desperate situation. At this point, the question is: which is more morally justifiable in an impossible situation which is actually the moral fault of other people: suicide by starvation or forced prostitution? Kind of a moral toss up here anyway.

[@lightningbug3189]

​@@cmm5542Even beyond being preyed on, you would also just be outside as soon as the rent money ran out. Depending on the time of year, you might die from exposure before your food money ran out. Frost bite or infections from constant dampness would also be a problem if you can't change clothes.

[@dolorescordell129]

@@DeclanMBrennan Not surprising. given the lack of contraceptive. I also suspect that many wives were perfectly happy with their husbands having mistresses or other sexual outlets rather than getting them pregnant every 11 months. The "tyranny of the bedroom." After all, two of Jane Austen's sisters-in-law died shortly after giving birth to their ELEVENTH (!) child.

[@gingerhalo]

How could gossip from centuries past, about people we didn’t even know existed a short while ago, be this interesting?

[@sitcomsTV]

gossip is gossip

[@valbea9958]

@@sitcomsTV good point, I love gossip

[@ellewelle401]

Hahaha, exactly what I thought 'Oooh, hot gossip about a famous writer's family!' even if that gossip is two hundred years old, it is very new to me.

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

Read history books, it’s full of stuff like this!

[@karaamundson3964]

...and yet IT IIIIIIIS

[@johnjones_1501]

I've worked in law enforcement in a community that had a lot of human trafficking. I learned a couple of things about prostitution. Girls who go off to towns where they don't know anyone, to pursue any line of work, especially in a foreign community are especially vulnerable to exploitation, including as sex workers. That said, the belief that certain women, especially migrate women, who are suspected of being prostitutes is far greater than the number who actually engage in such practices. The vast majority of women who are exploited are exploited by employers who rip them off in their house keeping and waitress jobs, and the most common form of exploitation is wage theft, especially with overtime, which the victim is often convinced by her employer does not imply to them, because they are doing contract work. This is why the vast majority of exploited immigrants work for outsourced contracting companies that work multiple properties and clients, like housekeeping, because it is an easier way to rip them off. Most sexual exploitation of these girls does not happen as a result of being forced to work prostitution, but by managers and business owners who threaten to have the girls terminated from their contracts if they do not perform sexual favors to the management. These girls, and many immigrant boys, take out huge loans in their home country in order to pay for travel and the legal fees that come with applying for temporary immigration status, and if they lose their employment they now have massive amounts of debt that they have very little hope of paying off, often in countries where you can be imprisoned for being in debt. This is why so many of them are so vulnerable to exploitation, and such exploitation also makes it extremely difficult to pay off their debt, even with all their long hours, and hard work, and so victims of financial exploitation are much more likely to chose to remain in the States far past their expiration date of their work VISA, in the hopes that they can make enough money to send home that they can pay off their debt. You would actually cut the number of illegal immigrants in the states if you did two things, reduced the government fees that immigrants have to pay to enter the US by about half, and have stronger enforcement and prison sentences for employers who exploit migrants.

[@incisivecommenter5974]

Long,but this☝️☝️!!!

[@bofhzerozero777]

Amen

[@Beepbopboop19]

Wow thank you for this comment.

[@isabellearaujo8991]

Amazing comment, very informative. Thank you so much for enlightening us in this topic.

[@gurutruecrimeguru1405]

Sad that those things should be easy to do but the US govts both Repuke and Demo won't do it because they don't want to spend the money on more policing or cut the fees.

[@DipityS]

Philadephia's husband seems an absolute dear, and she suggested coming out to him when her daughter was twelve - so she wasn't living it up big in London without a thought for him - she actually wanted the family to be together. As for your question - I'd have been on that boat before my rich uncle had finished asking me - packed valise and all - running up the gateway plank without a look back.

[@carolinaceci8817]

I totally agree!

[@Hfil66]

Very easy to say, but modern notions of travel would have been very different from the risks of travel at that time. But then I suppose the closeness of death in everyday life at that time made them less risk averse than we might be today.

[@kenna163]

Strange how one sibling has an ordinary name like George and the other is named Philadelphia. It's like when Catherine De Medici named her son Hercules.

[@EllieDashwood]

😂 Their parents were just feeling extra creative the day she was born. 😂

[@edithengel2284]

People in that period were more likely to give a child a name with religious or spiritual meaning than they are now. Philadelphia comes from the Greek words for brotherly love. George and Philadelphia Austen had a half-niece who was also named Philadelphia (Walter).

[@katrinaquezada42]

In my town it was a dry cleaners on Main Street that was never open and all the clothes on the racks in the front windows were covered in cobwebs and dust and clearly from the 80s.

[@clareyzhbk7]

😯😯 that’s incredibly odd yet mysterious

[@mikakestudios5891]

I want this as the next glorius, period costumed drama miniseries.

[@phoebeyang8134]

Totally! I'm only 7 minutes in to the video but I wonder if the aunt became a famous fashion designer / dressmaker and that's why she was invited to court.

[@floraposteschild4184]

For an alternate view, there's A Harlot's Progress (2006), for a story about a woman in not as advantageous a position, in a slightly earlier era.

[@ellewelle401]

Shame that 'Becoming Jane' left all this out, ain't it? ;-)

[@ExploreWinnipeg]

The dislike is from the lady who spread rumours about Warren Hastings and Philadelphia.

[@bookmouse2719]

lol!

[@VelociQueen]

She has survived these odd 250 years through malice alone

[@rbck8826]

@@VelociQueen evil never truly dies...

[@VelociQueen]

@@rbck8826 exactly how I am still around, even after 480 years. Or was it 580? I can't remember anymore.

[@daisukidatotoro]

That last question was like the worst "Choose your own Adventure" option ever: Do you choose to ruin your health and toil away in the bondage of millinery? If so turn to page 76. Or do you choose to sail to India for the prospects of marriage and a better life? Turn to page 14. Like what masochist says "I'm gonna go with option 1? Life is a trap of dark misery, but at least I can make a hat."

[@iloveprivacy8167]

Not necessarily masochism: 6 months on a boat would have it's own risks, India has malaria and other illnesses that she would be unprepared for - & she was basically unaccompanied, right? (Thus, higher risk of rape.) It had a higher potential upside (& I'm glad it worked out for her!), but lots of people would choose millinery. Better the evils you know.

[@daisukidatotoro]

@@iloveprivacy8167 I had more meant who would choose option 1 based on the way she had *phrased* the choices. Personally, I don't know that I would have wanted to go be a stranger in a strange land.

[@AdrianColley]

Millinery had its own special health risk: mercury poisoning. The dangers of handling mercury weren't appreciated at the time. The phrase "mad as a hatter" emerged from the sad consequences.

[@gkelly941]

The threatof mercury poisoning, as in "mad as a hatter," had to do with making hats from fur felt, particularly men's hats, and may not have been particularly dangerous for milliners, but as noted, he work was poorly paid drudgery.

[@TooLateForIeago]

"Apprenticeship:" it never fails to amaze me how often slavery was tolerated even after its ban in 1833.

[@jediping]

FYI the sound on this appears to have ended up all on the left side. Was wondering why I couldn’t hear anything with just the right ear bud in. :)

[@josephlim6854]

I noticed the same thing!

[@kmbrlyj7051]

Yeah, I was about to cry about having to buy a new headset.

[@artesiandifferent]

Haha, the left ear on my headphones is broken... I will forever wonder what this video would have been like. :(

[@JimCullen]

@@artesiandifferent you could switch from headphones to external speakers. Or use the settings to set your audio to "mono" so that it automatically sends both channels to both ears.

[@kcjd8659]

I thought it was just me and my ancient earbuds!

[@InThisEssayIWill...]

Not to be a Debbie downer, but... If no one cared enough to ensure she had an education to provide her with governess work... And they were willing to put her into indentured servitude... At the very least that had to be quite the blow to her self esteem. And there's never any shortage of people willing to take advantage of the vulnerable. Tldr; people are trash, poor young Philadelphia.

[@EllieDashwood]

It really must have been hard. ☹️ I think it is more likely the relatives she was staying with didn’t have the financial resources to give her that education. Just because a family is of a certain class doesn’t mean they’re necessarily wealthy. (Think of Miss Bates trying to raise Jane Fairfax in Emma.) So other relatives stepped in to try to help her in the way they could by paying for an apprenticeship (which was a form of education still rather than just servitude. It did teach a marketable skill. Which is why it cost the family money, it was an educational investment. It would be similar to teaching a boy to be a blacksmith so that he could support himself later.) or a trip to India (perhaps they saw that Philadelphia hated millinery and wanted to give her a way out). Philadelphia was always close and fond of her family, so it doesn’t seem like she blamed them with any negligence for doing the best they could.

[@dorothywillis1]

Yeah. I never thought much of that uncle.

[@julijakeit]

never was, never will stop to be... unfortunately. Victim-blaming before it was named so.

[@cmm5542]

As a teacher in the UK where apprenticeships are still quite popular, I'd like to offer an alternate view here. Not everyone enjoys or is capable of excelling in academia: I have known so many students who feel absolutely tortured in school and cannot WAIT to get out and learn a manual trade. Their self-esteem is absolutely in the gutter for the whole of their school life, pressured to achieve in a field they hate: and then when I meet these students again a few months into their apprenticeship, they are so much happier and their self-esteem radically improved. So there is the possibility that Philadelphia was just not academic and would have PREFERRED a trade. And her family cared enough about her to see that she was at least on track to excel in her own way? Sure, conditions were not always good for apprentices, but they also weren't reliably good for students and governesses either. No one would have thought it was in the least equivalent to indentured servitude - at least not any more than Jane Fairfax thought being a governess would be! And this is coming from a super-academic teacher who would have LOVED being a governess!

[@dorothywillis1]

@@cmm5542 I agree, but I want to comment on your final sentence. Whether a governess was happy in her work depended on many things, including the personality of the governess. For a quick look at the life of a governess, I would recommend Charlotte Bronte's letters to her friend Ellen where she gives specifics of her life as a governess. I would also recommend Charlotte's sister Anne's "Agnes Grey." We are told that Anne was relatively happy when she was a governess, but "Agnes Grey" tells a shocking story.

[@theguest3389]

My grandfather was in a situation like that with a cobbler. He was badly abused and starved. In fact he never ever spoke to his mother again because of it. Before that he loved his mother deeply. That's how bad that was. So that something aweful could have happened during that time is completely plausible. Take care and have fun!!! 😷😎😷

[@austen253]

This is SOO fascinating, I had never even heard of Philadelphia Austen before this! Thank you Ellie for always providing the DEEP Georgian/Regency cuts, I wish I had found your channel two years ago when I was dramaturging a Pride and Prejudice stage adaptation. So many good references, and such great, elegant explanations of the craziness that was social life in the 18th and 19th centuries! I also find the language around prostitution from this time so fascinating as an artifact of historical misogyny... "addicted to prostitution" in particular is such a mind-blowing turn of phrase.

[@AdrianColley]

Right? It's as if the writer feared that the word "prostitution" didn't carry enough intrinsic moral condemnation, so it needed some emphasis. It's Victorian outrage in embryo.

[@cmm5542]

I wonder if the 'addicted' word was actually meant to draw a distinction between girls who HAD to become prostitutes and girls who WANTED to become prostitutes? This is total speculation, but I've always felt there's such incomprehensible unreasonable stigma against prostitutes, even today, when they have no other CHOICE in making a living. Can EVERYONE in an entire society be unaware of this? Or was their moral outrage directed more at the women who DIDN'T need to become prostitutes, who had other options of making a living and were just into or 'addicted to' casual sex? The type of girls who nowadays would just sleep around and have a bunch of one-night stands for fun WITHOUT even getting paid for it? Of course the only way you could do that back then WAS to become a prostitute - a 'gentlewoman' could have a discreet affair or a working woman become a kept mistress, but it was still committment to one person for an extended time; only prostitute women could really sleep around. Again, pure speculation and not that it matters anyway: either way, the idea of women 'addicted' to prostitution, whether it had any basis in fact or not, hurt a lot of innocent abused girls who were only prostitutes because they had no choice. It's beyond cruel.

[@foxcat6811]

Have you read Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens? His sister is sent to a milliners to be a apprentice and finds herself in a situation that's surprisingly frank about sexual harassment and bullying in the work place of a milliner's. It's very similar to what you were talking about.

[@laurapalmer7759]

I was thinking about that while listening to this video👍 nice spotting

[@cmm5542]

Dickens was very vocal about calling out social wrongs and hypocrisy of his era. We probably owe more to him than we realize.

[@mbeebaker6749]

They settled in Paris in the late 1770's and were looking for a husband for Elizabeth amoung the French aristocracy. Oh, that's not good! 😳😬 With the gift of historical hindsight I hope that doesn't work out and they go back to England before May 5, 1789. France wasn't a very healthy place for aristocrats around that time. With all the guillotine related deaths happening and all. Very interesting video Ellie, I hadn't heard this story before.

[@ElizabethJones-pv3sj]

I think having connections in England should hopefully make it easier to get out in the early part of the revolution but yes, I did think the late 18th century is not a healthy time to be in France if you have any sort of connections to wealth and/or power.

[@angelatheriault8855]

Uh yeah, you may want to stay tuned!

[@josephlim6854]

@@ElizabethJones-pv3sj yup made me think of SCARLET PIMPERNEL!

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

I don’t know how this goes but married to the aristocracy doesn’t seem likely for her class. Aristocracy married aristocracy, even in Austen’s books nobody who marries to a bigger fortune marries aristocracy. But there would be other eligible gentlemen available.

[@giuseppemassari9970]

Eliza has a Wikipedia page, though I should tell

[@spokenme08]

Most internships today are unpaid and it's not uncommon to have to pay to be in one (usually through classes). I'd go to India.

[@allangibson2408]

Unpaid internships are illegal in Australia… You have to be paid at least minimum wage.

[@spokenme08]

@@allangibson2408 Interesting. In the U.S. we do have some paid ones and Co-Op's usually paid for full time. Many are part of an educational program or class.You get class credit and hand on experience while they get extra bodies.

[@scottlang7271]

One thing which remains true in all eras of human history: do not live beyond your means. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." - Charles Dickens

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

It’s always *fascinating* to learn more about the Austen’s, because I learnt a couple of years ago that I’m a descendant of one of Jane’s brothers... Love your work!

[@ranikster9955]

Wow that's incredible 😮 do you know which one of the brothers? I am reading about her family

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

@@ranikster9955 I don’t have the folder to hand, unfortunately...

[@AdrianColley]

Did you find out when you inherited a distant property in fee tail?

[@OcarinaSapphr-]

@@AdrianColley No- just my mother’s interest in family history...

[@dorothywillis1]

I enjoyed the video and agree with your conclusions. I do think you should read Austen's juvenile work, "Catharine, or The Bower." In the first part of that work we are given the history of one of Catharine's friends. The account of Cecilia Wynne's being sent to India to find a husband I think gives a pretty fair picture of what the Austen family thought of Philadelphia's situation, and it is only the featherbrained Camilla Stanley who thinks of it as an adventure.

[@YueshiYang]

“Have an awesome day cuz you are awesome’🥺🥺 this always cheers me up!!!! Love your videos so much!!!!

[@EllieDashwood]

Aw! I’m so glad!!! Thank you so much! 😃😊

[@vbrown6445]

Great video! Always fun to get a glimpse of the life of a woman in the past. And what a great name- Philadelphia! The life of women was so precarious, especially if they didn't have the protection of family/community/connections or money. Glad that things worked out for Philadelphia and it really seems that she lucked out when it came to finding a husband and father for her child. Looking forward to part 2, to see what happened once she and Eliza went to Paris.

[@karicorvidae]

Anyone think of Irene Maloy in the movie "Hello Dolly"? Her conversation with Minnie Fay about being "suspected of being wicked woman" and owning a millinery shop is sad.

[@princekrazie]

OMG your outfit is sooooo cuuuuute!

[@sarahrosen4985]

"Addicted to prostitution" 🤨😡 Women get Addicted to prostitution?! Someone confused the client's drive with the service provider's desperate need for money.

[@a35362]

I've heard that in some places where the cost of housing is ridiculous, some people will rent out a storefront and live there... which is illegal if it's zoned for business. Paper over the windows and make sure nobody finds out you're living in there!

[@anghac93]

I understand the "no one's ever there, must be a drug front" mindset. We have this restaurant in my town that has been opened for well over 20 years and yet, there's never any car there. "how is this place still open?" "must be a drug front". so funny, now I don't feel as bad having these conversations

[@Doritstudio]

Parts of Philadelphia's story reminds me a lot of the book The House of Mirth. I wonder if Wharton was inspired by it, or if it was simply a common occurrence for young poor women at that time (even almost a century later)

[@karun_vv7190]

You are always for excited about history and literature. Always feels nice seeing your soo energetic. why my teacher sound so bored out of her mind when she teaches us British literature. And you helped me a lot thank you . Your videos are great. 👍

[@janetkizer5956]

I remember years ago when I worked at a hairdresser's, that the next door shop went out of business. Someone else started up a business there, or so we thought. They hung a blanket up in the window, and we all waited with baited breath to see what they had been doing behind it. An art gallery, maybe? Months went by. Nothing. I began to jokingly speculate that the place was secretly a drug den. But some took me seriously, so I had to stop my speculations. I told everyone that just because I made up stories to pass the time, it didn't mean I was right. The business never did open, and we never found out what the new place was intended to be. 😉

[@tannhauser7584]

What were you hoping to catch with your "baited" breath.

[@janetkizer5956]

@@tannhauser7584 Well, it was the business next door to us. It didn't look very appealing with a blanket over the window. We were hoping for something interesting to open right next door, which might make the area more attractive to customers, rather than less. That's what we were hoping to catch. Okay?

[@tannhauser7584]

@@janetkizer5956 look up "baited" and "bated" I was making a joke.

[@janetkizer5956]

@@tannhauser7584 I knew that. So what? If there is anything I despise it is internet spelling and grammar nazis who do nothing but comment on mispellings in words, in an attempt to make themselves look so much smarter than someone else. My apologies for using a word that apparently ruined your entire week -- or even more since you're still on about it. A joke? Maybe. But you could have been nicer about it.

[@billyb7852]

@@janetkizer5956 what were you hoping to catch with your bait? It’s a joke about fishing. Clearly it’s touched a sore spot for you regarding your spelling, but spelling mistakes in KZbin comments is nothing unusual, I find autocorrect is just as likely to make my comment nonsensical as it is to fix it. Having said that, Tannhauser isn’t bullying you by making a joke about fishing.

[@honnaleigh]

That was so interesting! Can’t wait for part 2!

[@DaisyNinjaGirl]

Are you going to do a video on Warren Hastings? Edmund Burke spent _seven years_ trying to impeach the guy. By the time the trial was finished, a full third of the original House of Lords had passed away, and a bunch of the rest hadn't heard all the evidence so couldn't vote on the final decision anyway. Plus Hastings was keen on learning the languages of India and getting on with the natives and stuff like that.

[@douginorlando6260]

It appears you found one of Jane Austin’s sources of inspiration! ... For example, the letter describing the danger if young Betsy goes to India sounds so Wickham!, including details of circumstances behind Lydia going to Brighton. Perhaps P&P rings true and relatable throughout generations because it is based on truths in the lives of people Jane cherished in her heart.

[@frigginjerk]

Philadelphia Austen reminds me of my great-aunt Hoboken Phillips.

[@mch12311969]

This answered some questions that I have since I am currently reading a biography of Jane Austen

[@norgefier]

Brilliant video - I really love your content. Just as a heads up though, your subtitles are running faster than you're speaking. While they do match up to what you say, they're about 3-4 sentences ahead.

[@RR-wm9us]

I feel the same about a bakery in my neighborhood. You never see any one go in or out. It has very weird hours to be open. But it’s mostly closed. I look at it when I pass by and think 🤔 yup they are money laundering. So I don’t blame you for thinking that.

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It might just be me but I only hear the video on the left side of my headphones! It's a bit distracting though I'm looking forward to watching it!

[@captainjaneway80]

Once again superbly done.

[@EllieDashwood]

Aw! Thank you!!!

[@ZackRekeSkjell]

Philadelphia lived such an interesting life! I am looking forwards to part two!

[@EllieDashwood]

It recently came out! It’s titled: “Regency Story Time: Eliza, Comtesse de Feuillide's Exciting Life | Jane Austen's Cousin.” For some reason YT isn’t letting me post a link to it. I hope you enjoy it though!

[@dolorescordell129]

Another wonderful video by Ellie! She's a treasure :)

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Definitely for a part two!! ❤️

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Can't wait for the next one!

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I di love learning all this stuff from you! You're presentation blends formal and casual perfectly!

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I'm excited for the next installment!

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I wanna see part 2 so bad x.x I'm so addicted to your channel!

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I really appreciate your channel a lot. You pick interesting topics and you have a lovely aura

[@Squossifrage]

One explanation I've heard for those niche dusty shops that never seem to get any customers is that they're the landlord's day job - so they don't pay rent and they don't need to make much of a profit.

[@uglyhairygirl7067]

Excited for the pt. 2 :)

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Love your hair and all your videos! Keep up the great work, wishing you all the success!

[@marietgagliardi]

Wow, Philadelphia had a wild life. I would have definitely gone to India. No question. Can't wait to here about Eliza

[@lizhart901]

I watched this quite awhile ago, but I think I enjoyed it even more this time. Great information, thanks.

[@claireconolly8355]

Is there a 2nd video on this!? I absolutely love this- sooo fascinating to hear her life

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Can't wait for the 2nd video!! :)

[@mrs_mothra547]

Listening while working out ❤️ love this vid.

[@EllieDashwood]

Aw, thank you so much! 💕

[@valitaandreita]

Amo que tus videos estén subtitulados, muchas gracias por la consideración

[@charlieenriquez]

Wonder why it's just Audio going thru only left earbuds. I love your posts thank you.

[@MyCozyChronicles]

OMG! This was so interesting! I am looking forward to the next video!😍 I think dont't know what I would choose😯, both options are frightening.

[@Becky_Theroux_Gockel]

That was so interesting. Can't wait for part 2.Yes, I would go to India if I were her. At that age, I loved to travel. I wish I could have traveled more. My mom and dad traveled when more I was growing up than we were able to take my children on trips. I think our children missed out on a lot because my husband didn't like to travel.

[@sydneyallen5788]

Can you talk about Howl’s Moving Castle? Wasnt Sophie a Milner/hat maker?? Interested in this

[@shannatura]

Hi, love the vid! Where is part 2?

[@sarasolomon4812]

Where's part two?! I'm on the edge of my seat here! I could just Google it, but I want to hear it from you. Please post the second video ASAP!

[@Felixia33]

All of your videos are so Interesting! (I laughed out loud when you talked about weird businesses being drug fronts, because I think EXACTLY the same)

[@jerrykitich3318]

Excellent explanation.

[@laurahill9643]

"Addicted to prostitution." What the actual hell?

[@mdiddio]

Even back then leaving out the male part of the equation. The part that actually IS "addicted to prostitution".

[@AdrianColley]

I generally dislike the grime and sleaze of Dickens, and the title of this video brought that to mind. It was highly interesting, especially the way in which the exploitation of India changed the limited opportunities for Regency women. But, I'll admit, it was those captivating eyes in the thumbnail that induced me to start watching.

[@nodrarb140]

Women were push to their limits and they had to be innovative when it came to life and living. So yup, I would go to India. India then I imagine was lush with forest and beautiful. I would love reading a book about this mother and daughter duo. Seems they had it tough.

[@eshchory]

So interesting and so much fun. Thanks

[@redalcock4704]

Really interesting. I knew about Eliza but not much about Philadelphia. Thank you for this exploration of her life. I looked for part two on your subscription list but could not find it. Has it not been filmed yet?

[@rattlergirl101]

Is part 2 going to up!?? ☺️☺️☺️

[@k.castillo2692]

Very informative. I haven't read the book but I plan to this weekend.

[@aygul386]

Can't wait for the part 2. Would be also interesting to learn about foreigners living in England at that time and Englishmen in Europe.

[@mahtra2372]

India and a daughter called Eliza.... I sincerely hope that there is no Willoughby in her future.

[@Midorikonokami]

Oh boy, her aunt was one HECK of a character, I swear. I love her, she lived her best life.

[@Jill-jb1jg]

I think your hair and clothes look really good in this video.

[@sunsetwinds]

So... when are you posting part 2?

[@karaamundson3964]

I adore all your videos! New fan here and I'm binging *hard* ... I'm an English major, MEd in English Literature, and teacher (guess what!) and my only superpower is reading. You're throwing light in every which way on these people and times...thank you! I must say that the videos about Jane's family are really fascinating and unexpected. Grabbin' me by the feels! Keep them coming! Do you have one out about her brother? 📗 💛 📚 💛 📚 💛 📖

[@BasicMystic]

This was great! Thank you! Did I miss Part 2?? Can’t find it.

[@jeanettemullins]

There's a Jigsaw shop in my town that is rarely open and when it is it's empty. They've been there for at least 30 years, probably a lot more. I have no clue how it's still there.

[@EllieDashwood]

😂😂😂 That is 💯 suspicious!

[@megwilcox9774]

Philadelphia sounds like a great character for a novel!

[@ljcl1859]

I can't wait to hear the rest of the story! I'm on pins and needles.

[@josephlim6854]

Your mention of milliner reminded me of Irene Molloy in HELLO DOLLY .... where she states people think she's a "wicked woman" because of her profession. I know i know that's set in late 19th century in NYC and not regency area but it did pop into my head. Great video as always and am now curious to hear part 2!!!!!! I really really hope Eliza won't get guillotined!

[@helenatesarova5631]

Ellie, you look so beautiful in this video! I always imagined that if I was a poor gentry girl in the 18th/19th century that I would become a governess (teaching is kind of my thing). But I never wondered what the girls who didn't have the skills or education to become governess did for a living. Thanks for this video. Extremely interesting.

[@IceCream-hp7mm]

So interesting!

[@claireconolly8355]

Still having out for 2nd video... I have been left seriously hanging..... 🙈

[@ellyvaughan1938]

some brick and mortar stores don't rely on in-person customer visits to their store - some places like this may have one large wholesale buyer who is their bread and butter, and maybe they do online orders as well?

[@strngenchantedgirl]

Milliners and other women in the fashion trades in Paris anyway were known to often be the kind of escorts or party girls of their era. They didn’t pay these young women enough to support themselves so they had to take dates from men with money to feed themselves. The same is true for women in the arts. This is where courtesan culture comes from in 19th century France. Like Cosette’s mother in Les Mis.

[@WayToVibe]

The drug fronts in my town are all the psychic joints that can somehow manage to pay rent by downtown prices yet never, EVER have customers.

[@matthewbrick7539]

Amazing costume!

[@WardNightstone]

Philadelphia Austin a Georgian England 5 and an India 10 apparently

[@davidponseigo8811]

I really love your hair in this video.

[@SF-ru3lp]

Great content, Ellie. Lovely dress and hairstyle. Very jn keeping with the era. I'd love a chair and curtain of the era as a backdrop instead of modern utilitarian office furniture because your presentations are so immersive and atmospheric! XG Ire

[@lucianeedgington9421]

I am in love with your Chanel

[@akronam2]

I just want you to you almost gave me a heart attack 😂. Idk why but this video only plays on one side of my earbuds. So I thought I broke them 😩😩 . They work fine on any other video

[@disneydesi1496]

I just scrolled through all of your videos trying to find part 2. I need to know what happened to Philadelphia and Eliza!

[@justysiaa.h.9175]

Is Part 2 alredy online? I woul love to heare more. Thank you for your super interesting chanel ❤

[@EllieDashwood]

Aw! Thank you! Part 2 just came out today!

[@robertgerrity878]

Note the key phrase in hubby's letter to P: as you well know, re English gentleman in Inja as debauched coxcombs. Meaning: she arrived to be sponsored by hubby as uncle's friend with a goal to marry well, looking for the next Warren Hastings. The lads were cads. Her intimacy with 2B hubby as confident grew into safe marriage.

[@BionicOffice]

In the mid19th century one of my gt gt grandmothers was a dressmaker and, as we would say, entrepreneur. She had her own shop in London and would go to Paris to see the latest fashions and then race back to be the first to make them in London. She got pregnant and a man agreed to marry her. From what i understand he was not the father but a salesman. I have always wondered who the father was and what was offered for him to marry her. She had a girl and i think someone settled something on her. The man became my gt gt grandfather when they had another girl. My gt grandmother hated him bc he apparently drank away all her mother's money and the shop. Thats a story from my father. Id love to research more about my gt gt grandmother. The whole story both fascinates me and reverberated through the generations.

[@irondiver2034]

Oh my talk of prostitution and drugs in an episode by Ms E Dashwood? Just wait until Lady Catherine de Bourgh or Lady Darlrimple hear of this! Scandalous I say. Seriously I had no idea about the aunt what a story so far. The wife and I are enjoying how you are weaving historical facts with the main story. Well done.

[@kathleenwiens6763]

WOW. did not know this story!!!