The Rag Nymph

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Orphaned at a tender age, Millie Forester is adopted by "Raggie Aggie" Winkowski, and she suffers misfortune and misplaced love as she grows to adulthood side by side with Aggie's son, Ben, whose love for Millie increases over the years. Anyway, Bug-eyed Bingley in the background there has come to ask her to marry him, for real this time, and she’s like, “Oh, gosh, you just missed me, now I’m engaged to someone who doesn’t SUCK EGGS, sorry!

Rag Nymph (TV Mini Series 1997– ) - IMDb

By now, of course, he’s in love with Millie because she’s adorable and has all her teeth, and so he’s been trying to get an education and better himself mostly for his own peace of mind, but let’s face it, he’s a smitten kitten. This nun accused her of blasphemy for embellishing a Biblical story, and chopped her hair off; Millie struck back and ended up slicing the nun’s hand open with the scissors.

It gives good insight into the social structure of Victorian Britain - the grinding poverty of many and the relative wealth of businessmen. In January 2023, Weeks was again banned from driving, this time following an incident in which she reversed into a parked vehicle whilst more than twice the legal limit for alcohol. Throughout the novel, we watch Millie grow into womanhood and the trials she faces on the street, at school and in her relationships at her first job. The Black Velvet Gown (1991) with Janet McTeer, Bob Peck, Geraldine Somerville won the International Emmy award for best drama. It was interesting to have so much more details of the 'actual state' of affairs of the time, during the height of the industrial progress and the failings it brought with it.

Catherine Cookson - Wikipedia

A dark family drama that begins in 1968 and spans 15 years, The House of Women is the most recent British import from the late Catherine Cookson (The Bondage of Love; A Ruthless Need; etc. The plot is based on a girl who barely escapes the life of a child sex slave where pimps are powerful and untouchable in a poor, industrial English community. Hatred and duty and their effect on an English family in 1960 are the themes of Cookson's 14th novel (after The Maltese Angel). Raggie Aggie takes in an abandoned Millie Forester after her mother leaves her on the street while running from the law. Honeysuckle Weeks (You may recognise her from Foyles War where she played Sam because it took me ages to work out where I had seen her) was great as the lead.Like with the rest of them, the two will meet when he's 20-odd and she's 10, and no one says "err, bit weird what you're doing mate"? But it’s a scare for Aggie, who quickly goes through the paperwork to become Millie’s legal guardian (Aggie is no dummy) and then ships her off to a Catholic school out in the woods somewhere, which Aggie hates (things Aggie does not like: cops, Catholics, pimps, and Ben), but at least it’s hard for a pimp to wheedle his way into a convent, so. It shows you the harsh reality of the filthy streets of 19th Century Newcastle and the difficult lives that the working class had to live in. She is a vegetarian and has a small scar on her lip where her Tibetan Mastiff puppy Kensal jumped on her. In 1992 the inaugural Catherine Cookson Prize took place and was won by author Val Wood and her debut novel, The Hungry Tide, which subsequently went on to become a best-seller.