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I've been working on my paper for @AdventurousWiv1 while also watching #Bridgerton. I got to thinking about the singer's image. In an outrageous memoir Mrs Billington was depicted as a lusty Syren, always having affairs. Little truth to the claims but it tied into assumptions...
about pro female singers from the wider public. In #Bridgerton, Siena is likewise a skilled pro singer, who is in a secret relationship with Sir Anthony. She is also seen in a relationship with other men all to stay living in some luxury. Her depiction, though, seems quite...
sad (at least to me). More like Satine in #moulinrouge, who is forced to lure in men in the hopes of securing a better future. She is still a depicted as a prostitute, but one we can sympathise. Can't we move away from the "singer is a whore trope"? What about a story about an...
18th-century female singer who was celebrated, talented, who excelled during a time when women were not supposed to appear, let alone excel, in a professional, public-facing world. You know, like Billington, Mara, Storace, Mountain and countless others!
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