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{{quote|'''Violet''': First electricity, now telephones. Sometimes I feel as if I was living in a [[H. G. Wells]] novel.}}
* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]
** [[Outdated Outfit]]: In the first season, her outfits are more in line with the 1900s than the 1910s, and by the time she starts wearing the high-waisted, uncorseted looks of 1912-4 in the second season, it's [[World War OneI]] and the other ladies are moving on to barrel skirts and proto-flapper looks.
* [[Graceful Ladies Like Purple]]: It's her signature colour - she even shares her name with a shade of purple.
* [[Grande Dame]]: She provides a definitive example.
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==== Ethel Parks, a Housemaid (Amy Nuttall) ====
* {{spoiler|[[False Widow]]}}: How she explains away her {{spoiler|illegitimate child}}. Luckily, this is the late 1910s, the era of [[World War OneI]] and the Spanish flu - both providing good excuses for the existence of {{spoiler|husbandless young mothers. Ethel chooses the latter}}.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]
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