Stella Duffy
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463 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
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And they always want to call a woman with power bad.
And so I started doing this reading about her.
And there's very few facts.
There's some stuff about what happened when she was in power, where she did amazing stuff.
She created the first halfway house for ex-prostitutes.
She brought in a law to give women back their dowry when they'd just been dumped by their husbands, divorced, because the Christian church hadn't decided against divorce by them.
She brought in first anti-rape laws.
I mean, she's amazing.
And she had a lot of power.
Yeah, she's phenomenal.
But there's very little about her own childhood.
So I did a lot of reading around what it might have been like at the time, what it would have been like for people from poverty, because she is talked about a lot as being lower class.
Absolutely no idea.
But we do know her father was the bear keeper in the Hippodrome and that he died when she was five.
See, I figure if your dad's the bear keeper in the Hippodrome, you're not that high up on the pecking order.
What we know, and this is part of the subtitle, Actress Empress Whore, I used to work in theatre and I, for a very long time, we didn't, we weren't happy with being called actresses because actress only ever meant whore.
You know, it definitely didn't mean female actor when women weren't allowed on stage.
So it is likely that if your father dies and you're the bear keeper, probably killed by a bear.
We don't know for sure.
If your father dies when you're five, you're going to have to go to work because there's no welfare state.
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