Ruth Wilson stars in BBC One drama The Woman In The Wall, but how closely is it based on the true story of the Magdalene Laundries?
Summer might be coming to an end, but that means it's the perfect time to curl up on the sofa and binge a new TV drama. And the BBC’s chilling new psychological thriller, The Woman In The Wall, has got everyone talking.
One example is the way that many women were forcibly separated from their children. In The Woman in the Wall, we see Lorna’s baby being taken away from her shortly after she has given birth in the laundry. While preparing for her role, Wilson researched the Magdalene Laundries and told the BBC she was ‘shocked’ to discover that in some cases of girls giving birth in the laundries, ‘they’d have to nurse their child for two years, and then their child was taken away from them.
The women were expected to do gruelling physical labour for long hours and no pay. Most famously, this included commercial laundry and domestic tasks such as scrubbing the floor. While the Magdalene laundries were almost entirely run by Catholic nuns, the Irish government helped pay for them in exchange for these laundry services.
The institutions were first hit by scandal in 1993, when the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity sold a former Dublin laundry to a property developer. After the sale, they discovered a mass grave of 155 women, some of which had not been declared dead to the state. In 2013, the Irish Government finally issued an official apology on behalf of the state for its role in the Magdalene Laundries.
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