That Netflix and feminist detectives in the 19th century fit together, the two Enola Holmes films have recently shown. Unlike Sherlock Holmes’ little sister, the protagonist of the new Netflix hit Lidia Poët really existed.
Lidia Poët was an amazing women’s rights pioneer, and the most important part of the series actually happened that way. Here you read spoiler freewhich is true.
The most important thing about the Netflix series is true: Lidia Poët was Italy’s first lawyer and was not allowed to practice
Since February 15, 2023, thriller fans have been streaming the six entertaining episodes of the Italian series The Law According to Lidia Poët on Netflix. In this we follow trained lawyer Lidia Poët (Matilda De Angelis) in 1883 on her cases, her love affairs, and her rebellion against patriarchy.
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The real Lidia Poët and her serial version
The series tells an excerpt from the life of the pioneer for women’s rights as a mystery thriller. The main historical data coincide with the series: Lidia Poët was born in Perrero in 1855 and graduated in Turin in 1881 study of law away.
your request Admission to the State and Bar Association was granted in 1883 despite much opposition. There was (still) no law against women as lawyers. That Lidia Poët had the audacity to even propose this was taken as an insult by many.
As in the series, many of the purely male colleagues did not want a woman in their profession at the time. Three months after admission, she became in a misogynous act especially explicitly because of her being a woman thrown out of the chamber.
The press at the time took a keen interest in Lidia Poët’s unfair treatment and largely sided with her, writes feminist platform Dol’s Magazine. In the series, the approval of the Italian press embodied by the fictional character Jacopo Barberis.
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Lidia Poët and Jacopo Barberis in The Law According to Lidia Poët
Also that you older brother Giovanni Enrico Poët was a lawyer with whom she subsequently worked corresponds to the truth. Meanwhile, in real life, Lidia Poët made plans to fight for her rightful place in the state and bar association.
The Netflix series clarifies the astonishing historical key data of the courageous pioneer in the first episode. Some exciting murder cases and sexual encounters have been added to the series for entertainment purposes.
Was Lidia Poët ever allowed to work as a lawyer?
Yes, Lidia Poët was able to thanks to her tireless work for women’s rights 37 years later finally practice as a lawyer. In 1919, a law was passed in Italy that gave women access to almost all professions. The following year, the now 65-year-old was again admitted to the state and bar association and this time she stayed in.
Even if the murders in Lidia Poët’s The Law were fictitious, the tendency of her interests is recognizable. She campaigned her whole life for the rights of the marginalized. Above all, they support prisoners and minors in any way they can.
Lidia Poët was one of the most important European figures fighting for women’s rights. With the new series hit, Netflix turns the long overdue spotlight on the forgotten pioneer.
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