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The 18th-century represents a period of advancement for women at the highest level of society, though often at the expense of the poverty-bound populace. Her inroads into the world of power and influence, unmatched until the present day, are profiled in The Eighteenth Century Woman. Featuring Marisa Berenson, Diana Vreeland and Stella Blum, this program offers a dazzling array of gowns and costumes, accessories, and jewelry, as well as paintings and music from the period, evoking the lives of the century's most important women, and the age of enlightenment in which they lived.—Anonymous imdb.com