The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton (2006)

Just goes to show how silly the BBC really are. they play all their usual silly sitcommy crap on their main channels BBCs 1 + 2 but any decent dramas like the Secret Life of Mrs Beeton get shunted off to BBC4 - a dead cert as only about 3million people at most have these channels, let alone watch it regularly.

At age 28 it is time for the funeral of Isabella Beeton (nee Mayson). Leaving behind her husband and small group of friends, Isabella takes the opportunity to look back at her life, commencing the story with her first adult meeting with publisher (and future husband) Samuel, the trials of her children, the publishing of her famous book of household management and, full circle, her death from puerperal fever.

This is one of those strange movies where you can tell that someone who wanted to put in the effort could have done a much better job. Instead, the filmmakers went ahead with a really awful script and decided not to bother themselves with too many historic details.