Author: Linda Griffiths
Season: 2022-23

It’s 1885: a time of great passion, great confusion. In filthy, smoggy, turbulent London, ex-militant suffragette Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries with her lover and protégé Rhoda.

The school’s invasion by a trio of spinster sisters and a charismatic cad named Everard creates a catalyst for political, sexual, and emotional revolution, as each character confronts their own ideals and learns what it means to be a New Woman—or a New Man. Sexy, startling, and imaginative, Age of Arousal is a modern look at forbidden Victorian desires on the brink of explosion.