![]() Marina, an outsider country cousin of the Featherington family and the show’s most prominent young Black female character, is particularly intriguing. Many writers have considered Bridgerton’s depiction of a racially diverse upper class in England in 1813, writing about the show’s depiction of a Black Queen Charlotte and the characters’ knowledge (or lack of knowledge) about sex, among many other topics. I am specifically interested in Marina’s encounter with a physician in the aftermath of her attempted abortion and the ways this encounter obfuscates women’s knowledge about herbal abortifacients. On the eve of Bridgerton’s second season, this essay revisits the show’s representation of herbal abortifacients. ![]() This scene memorably depicts an attempted herbal abortion, and Marina’s subsequent arc includes a conflict about medical authority. ![]() In the first season of Neflix’s period fantasy Bridgerton, Marina Thompson enters the kitchen of the wealthy house in which she is temporarily living, rummages among the jars shelved along the far wall, and brews herself an herbal tea. ![]()
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