Maggie seems to be going up in the world. Compared to living with her large and impoverished East London family and watching her mother being worn down by life and childbearing, working as a maid is a big improvement. When she meets and begins 'walking out' with a handsome police officer, it seems like a whole new horizon has opened up for her.
Maggie seems to be going up in the world. Compared to living with her impoverished family, working as a maid is a big improvement. Her new life allows her to enter a completely different world, the world of the suffragettes and, more than that, the Pankhursts - icons for a generation of women in search of justice, equality and the right to vote.