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The Duchess of Duke Street
1976 • 0h 50m • 2 Seasons • 31 Episodes • ★ 8.0 (12 votes) Ended
The Duchess of Duke Street is a British television period drama created and written by John Hawkesworth, loosely based on the real-life career of Rosa Lewis, and produced by the BBC and Time-Life Television Productions for BBC One. The programme ran for two series from 1976 to 1977. In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.
Rating
8.0
Runtime
50 min
Episodes
31
Production
BBCTop Billed Cast
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Keywords
london, englandgamblinghotelculture clashworld war imarriage of convenienceforbidden loverags to richesworkplacevictorian englandfamily relationshipsfemale protagonistperiod dramabritish high societybattle of the sexeshigh societycostume drama1920s1910sculinary artsedwardian england1900s20th centuryfemale chefsocial dramabased on real personhotelierdomestic dramasocial hierarchy
