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-->'''Played by''': Hannah Dodd

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-->'''Played by''': Hannah Dodd
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-->'''Played by''': Daisy Head

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-->'''Played by''': Daisy Head
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* SilverVixen: A rare [[EvilIsSexy villainous]] [[invoked]] example, she's noted to be highly attractive despite her age. She even has the new head judge sleeping with her in season 2.

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* SilverVixen: A rare [[EvilIsSexy villainous]] [[invoked]] villainous example, she's noted to be highly attractive despite her age. She even has the new head judge sleeping with her in season 2.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He's a SocialDarwinist to the extreme and sadistically abuses women due to his misogyny.


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* VillainousIncest: [[spoiler:The fact that he raped his younger sister Isabella and still gloats about it years later is used to underscore his depraved and amoral personality. It shows that no woman is safe around him, not even if she's part of his own family]].
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%%* TheBeard: For one of the gay men who frequents her mollyhouse.

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%%* * TheBeard: For Lucy pretends to be the mistress of one of the gay men who frequents her mollyhouse.mollyhouse. [[DeliberateValuesDissonance Being gay is a capital crime]] in Georgian England, so she helps him hide his sexuality for his own safety. He's actually in a relationship with Lucy's business partner, Fredo, which she is aware of.
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TRS has defined The Beard as "fake straight relationship to hide being LGBT". Examples that don't fit this go in Fake Relationship or one of its other subtropes. This sounds like an example but is low context as is.


* TheBeard: For one of the gay men who frequents her mollyhouse.

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* %%* TheBeard: For one of the gay men who frequents her mollyhouse.

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* NiceGirl: Sophia's significance to the story comes from being the illegitimate daughter of Isabella and [[spoiler:her brother Harcourt]]. Sophia was conceived when the latter raped the former, and her existence was kept a secret for many years. She is unwittingly brought into the power struggle between her parents, with her mother trying to keep her safe and her father trying to use her as a pawn once he finds out about her.

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* NiceGirl: Sophia is always extremely polite and well-mannered. She also doesn't care much for class distinctions, seeing as she [[spoiler:falls in love with a servant and then elopes with him]].
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Sophia's significance to the story comes from being the illegitimate daughter of Isabella and [[spoiler:her brother Harcourt]]. Sophia was conceived when the latter raped the former, and her existence was kept a secret for many years. She is unwittingly brought into the power struggle between her parents, with her mother trying to keep her safe and her father trying to use her as a pawn once he finds out about her.
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* NiceGirl: Sophia is always extremely polite and well-mannered. She also doesn't care much for class distinctions, seeing as she [[spoiler: falls in love with a servant and then elopes with him]].

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* NiceGirl: Sophia's significance to the story comes from being the illegitimate daughter of Isabella and [[spoiler:her brother Harcourt]]. Sophia is always extremely polite was conceived when the latter raped the former, and well-mannered. her existence was kept a secret for many years. She also doesn't care much for class distinctions, seeing as she [[spoiler: falls in love is unwittingly brought into the power struggle between her parents, with a servant her mother trying to keep her safe and then elopes with him]].her father trying to use her as a pawn once he finds out about her.
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-->'''Played by''': Edward Hogg

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-->'''Played by''': Edward Hogg
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* IllGirl: Becomes bedridden after weeks of standing outside Margaret Wells' brothel condemning her to the public. In addition to that, she went blind many years ago.
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-->'''Played by''': Lesley Manville

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-->'''Played by''': Lesley Manville
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* AdultFear: After her husband's death her children were enslaved by their half-brother and she's trying to earn money to buy their freedom. He also nearly deports them to America where they will be enslaved for life.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She tends to wear colored wigs.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: She tends to wear colored wigs.
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* BeautyMark: She has one under her eye.
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* MixedAncestry: He has a white mother and a black father.
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* TactfulTranslation: Provides one to his mother in the first episode, after Marie-Louise says to him (in French) "Why don't I jump in the river and take your damned mother with me?" He 'translates' it to Lydia as "She says that from now on she'll be the very spirit of joy."

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* TactfulTranslation: Provides one to his mother in the first episode, after Marie-Louise says to him (in French) "Why don't I just jump in the river Thames and take pull your damned bitch of a mother down with me?" He 'translates' it to Lydia as "She says that from now on she'll be the very spirit of joy."
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* ThePastorsQueerKid: Amelia, the daughter of a locally prominent street-preacher, falls in love with Violet. She's very worried about how her mother would react, not only because they're queer, but because Violet is a sex worker to boot. A gay man named Prince Rasselas helps Amelia come to terms with her sexuality, as shown in this exchange:
-->'''Amelia''': Do you fear death more because you are sinners?
-->'''Rasselas''': Love's not a sin.
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* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:A twisted misogynist to the bitter end, his last words are, "You fucking whores." Lydia and Lucy, the whores in question, laugh in his face.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After everything she's been through, she's ultimately reunited with her baby son at the end. And though she can no longer be a sex worker because of her scar, as the mother of the current, infant Marquess of Blayne, she is set for life in any case.


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* ScarsAreForever: Is given a nasty one on her right cheek courtesy of Harcourt, who has one of his minions brutally slash her in the face in an alley, while taking back the 500 pounds she received from Harcourt in exchange for handing her baby back to him, so that she can never again ply her trade as a [[HighClassCallGirl courtesan]].

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