Bio

[CosmicCavalcade]

-Became a pathologist because she has no bedside manner
-Admires Julia greatly and has helped try to set up an illegal contraception clinic
-Was engaged to Jerome Bradley but broke it off. He tried to rekindle things with her only to get attacked by George who was apparently hanging in the rafters like batman. Needless to say, she decided to date him afterwards.
-Due to her relationship with Jerome was a member of the Toronto Athletic Society(?) Is extremely good at croquet and could have gone to the Olympics in Paris
-Believes in the after life and has been involved in experimentation with Near Death states in order to visit it. She herself never has.

[randomkiwibirds]

-Her father is still alive as of "Murdoch Appreciation Society", and is quite a "colorful character".
-He often says the phrase "It is certainly a dosey one"

[snacky]

Nov 19, 2014 20:45:58 GMT randomkiwibirds said:

-Her father is still alive as of "Murdoch Appreciation Society", and is quite a "colorful character".
-He often says the phrase "It is certainly a dosey one"

The Americanism would be "doozy" meaning fantastic/large.

Didn't we get some other bio on Emily way back in Season 6 claiming she was from a middle class background (yet somehow she was able to go to medical school as a woman - who paid for that???!!!!).

[bookworm1225]

Nov 19, 2014 21:06:31 GMT snacky said:

Nov 19, 2014 20:45:58 GMT randomkiwibirds said:

-Her father is still alive as of "Murdoch Appreciation Society", and is quite a "colorful character".
-He often says the phrase "It is certainly a dosey one"

The Americanism would be "doozy" meaning fantastic/large.

Didn't we get some other bio on Emily way back in Season 6 claiming she was from a middle class background (yet somehow she was able to go to medical school as a woman - who paid for that???!!!!).

Both Jerome Bradley and the snooty croquet player dismissed her as working-class/middle-class.  Given the sources, though, I don't know how accurate they are.  Maybe it's something more like looking down their noses at the nouveau riche?

[snacky]

Nov 19, 2014 21:54:51 GMT bookworm1225 said:

Nov 19, 2014 21:06:31 GMT snacky said:

The Americanism would be "doozy" meaning fantastic/large.

Didn't we get some other bio on Emily way back in Season 6 claiming she was from a middle class background (yet somehow she was able to go to medical school as a woman - who paid for that???!!!!).

Both Jerome Bradley and the snooty croquet player dismissed her as working-class/middle-class.  Given the sources, though, I don't know how accurate they are.  Maybe it's something more like looking down their noses at the nouveau riche?

Oooh could be! Perhaps her father is another mad scientist/inventor!

[CosmicCavalcade]

Nov 19, 2014 22:56:51 GMT snacky said:

Nov 19, 2014 21:54:51 GMT bookworm1225 said:

Both Jerome Bradley and the snooty croquet player dismissed her as working-class/middle-class.  Given the sources, though, I don't know how accurate they are.  Maybe it's something more like looking down their noses at the nouveau riche?

Oooh could be! Perhaps her father is another mad scientist/inventor!

That would certainly qualify as colourful...I'm liking this idea. It's making me think of someone eccentric and amazing like Walter Bishop.

[snacky]

Nov 19, 2014 23:58:29 GMT CosmicCavalcade said:

Nov 19, 2014 22:56:51 GMT snacky said:

Oooh could be! Perhaps her father is another mad scientist/inventor!

That would certainly qualify as colourful...I'm liking this idea. It's making me think of someone eccentric and amazing like Walter Bishop.

I'm hoping he's the Professor from Back to the Future!

[randomkiwibirds]

Nov 19, 2014 21:54:51 GMT bookworm1225 said:

Nov 19, 2014 21:06:31 GMT snacky said:

The Americanism would be "doozy" meaning fantastic/large.

Didn't we get some other bio on Emily way back in Season 6 claiming she was from a middle class background (yet somehow she was able to go to medical school as a woman - who paid for that???!!!!).

Both Jerome Bradley and the snooty croquet player dismissed her as working-class/middle-class.  Given the sources, though, I don't know how accurate they are.  Maybe it's something more like looking down their noses at the nouveau riche?

In "Murdoch Night in Canada" Jerome Bradley says "I offered to bring a lowly working class girl up to my station!"

Emily could have gotten a scholarship of sorts or had a wealthy aunt or other family member who had money who paid for her education.

[Hodge]

Nov 23, 2014 1:13:57 GMT randomkiwibirds said:

Nov 19, 2014 21:54:51 GMT bookworm1225 said:

Both Jerome Bradley and the snooty croquet player dismissed her as working-class/middle-class.  Given the sources, though, I don't know how accurate they are.  Maybe it's something more like looking down their noses at the nouveau riche?

In "Murdoch Night in Canada" Jerome Bradley says "I offered to bring a lowly working class girl up to my station!"

Emily could have gotten a scholarship of sorts or had a wealthy aunt or other family member who had money who paid for her education.

It could be that Jerome Bradley would consider anyone lower than his station working class regardless of their actual class.

[snacky]

Nov 23, 2014 3:16:00 GMT Hodge said:

Nov 23, 2014 1:13:57 GMT randomkiwibirds said:

In "Murdoch Night in Canada" Jerome Bradley says "I offered to bring a lowly working class girl up to my station!"

Emily could have gotten a scholarship of sorts or had a wealthy aunt or other family member who had money who paid for her education.

It could be that Jerome Bradley would consider anyone lower than his station working class regardless of their actual class.

He might consider experimental physicists or surgeons working class merely because they work with their hands.

I just started reading Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune. There is a great line near the start where some men question the use of chloroform during childbirth because women are supposed to bear the "curse of Eve". A woman retorts that the curse of Adam was to toil by the sweat of his brow, but every man in the room was making his living off the sweat of others.