Married Love (Upstairs, Downstairs)
| "Married Love" | |
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| Upstairs, Downstairs episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 2 |
| Directed by | Raymond Menmuir |
| Written by | Alfred Shaughnessy |
| Original air date | 1973 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Charles Gray ( Sir Edwin Partridge ) |
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Charles Gray ( Sir Edwin Partridge )
Ian Ogilvy ( Lawrence Kirbridge )
Dorothy Frere ( Mrs. Fellowes )
Brian Osborne ( Pearce )
James Woolley ( Hinton )
Peter Myers ( Smethurst )
Tony Aitken ( Mulligan )
Edward Harvey ( Tomkins )
"Married Love" was the third episode of the second series of the British television series, Upstairs, Downstairs. The episode is set in 1903.
The impulsive Elizabeth defies her parents and marries a poet, Lawrence Kirbridge, but he turns out to have no interest in sex and arranges for his publisher to make love to Elizabeth, and a child is conceived In Winter 1908, she becomes involved with a group of socialist poets, and upsets her parents by inviting them to tea. She also, under the influence of one member, Evelyn Larkin (Georgia Brown), accrues a bill of over £4 on shoes for street children, then refuses to pay for them. Her father intervenes, and pays for the shoes. After one argument with her parents, she runs away from home to stay with her friend Henrietta Winchmore, and is only discovered after Rose is forced to tell Hudson where Elizabeth is staying. Her father visits, and shortly after, Elizabeth and fellow poet Lawrence Kirbridge have tea at Eaton Place.
While Elizabeth is reluctant to marry, the head housemaid and friend Rose, persuades her it is the right thing to do. She and Lawrence Kirbridge, the Cambridge-educated maternal grandson of a Dorset baronet, marry in June 1909. They take their honeymoon in Vienna, and set up home in Greenwich.
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