The 1990s were a golden age for feminist TV - Kathryn Janeway was captaining Voyager, Buffy was slaying vampires and Eleanor Bramwell was single-handedly bringing medicine and women’s rights to the East End of Victorian London. 

I was a thirteen-year-old baby feminist when I first encountered Eleanor, coaxed in front of the television by my mother, keen to find her teenage daughter a role model that wasn’t one of the Spice

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