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Plot summary. In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is ...
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26 de nov. de 1993 · With Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Kevin Smith, Lisa Chappell, Cliff Curtis. In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Stewart Main, Peter Wells
- 1993-11-26
Carefully researched and compulsively readable, Desperate Remedies is a definitive account of America’s long battle with mental illness that challenges us to rethink our deepest assumptions about who we are and how we think and feel.
Movie Info. In 19th-century New Zealand, Dorothea (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) hires brooding hunk Lawrence (Kevin Smith) to use his charm to forestall a marriage between her sister and her no-good...
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- Peter Wells, Stewart Main
- R
- Drama, Lgbtq+
Compre online Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, de Scull, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus Andrew na Amazon. Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime.
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Set in "Hope, New Britannia", an overwrought nineteenth century New Zealand community seemingly on the edge of destruction, Dorothea Brooke (Ward-Lealand) is a shopkeeper and dress designer with a troubled past. She strives in vain to keep her feckless, opium -addicted sister Rose out of the clutches of her former lover, Fraser (Curtis).
3,345 ratings277 reviews. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldclyffe's fascinating, manipulative steward Manston.
