 Despite her success in such roles, Brown was unhappy with the relative paucity of significant parts for women in television drama.She expressed her dissatisfaction to the BBC and was told to identify a series she would like to be in.Discussions followed between Brown and script editor Midge Mackenzie, and the pair devised the idea for a drama chronicling the struggle for women's suffrage in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain.