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How would you translate this from English to Dutch: This exquisitely made film is a Victorian genre painting come to life.Mary Lennox is Thomas Cooper Gotch's "The child enthroned".The late 19th century middle and upper classes were obsessed by the idea of children and childhood,a preoccupation encouraged by the high infant/mother mortality rate due to paucity of medical knowledge and the lack of what today would be considered even the most basic hygienic practices. Despite the Industrial Revolution and the consequent leaps and bounds of technological progress childbirth and womens' health was very much a side issue in a patriarchal society.Colin's father has no interest in his son's upbringing despite - or,arguably,because of the fact that his wife,whom he clearly loved had died giving birth to the boy.He is an intelligent man and knows that such an attitude is not reasonable,but it is the status quo for a man of his position .That he loves and understands children is made clear by his attitude towards Mary and his defence of her against Mrs Medlock,but his gender and his own upbringing are not easy forces for him to overcome. And Mary is not an immediately attractive child.Orphaned by an earthquake in India,she is sent to England,where she has never been,to live with her uncle,bereaved husband of her dead mother's late sister. So spoilt and mollycoddled that she is unable even to dress herself,she soon comes into conflict with her cousin's governess/nurse/minder Mrs Medlock,and her cousin himself,an apparently sickly boy,bedridden,self-pitying and petulant.How she changes the lives of the boy,her uncle and Mrs Medlock is told in "The Secret Garden".
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Deze voortreffelijk gemaakte film is een victoriaans genreschilderij dat tot leven is gekomen. Mary Lennox is Thomas Cooper Gotch' 'Het kind op de troon'. Aan het eind van de negentiende eeuw waren de midden- en hogere klassen geobsedeerd door het idee van kinderen en jeugd, een obsessie die werd aangemoedigd door het hoge sterftecijfer onder kinderen/moeders als gevolg van een gebrek aan medische kennis en het gebrek aan wat tegenwoordig zelfs als de meest elementaire hygiënische praktijken wordt beschouwd. Ondanks de Industriële Revolutie en de daaruit voortvloeiende sprongen en grenzen van de technologische vooruitgang was de opvoeding van kinderen en de gezondheid van vrouwen een belangrijk bijzaak in een patriarchale samenleving.