I didn't like all the coloured people
I know that they didn't have positions of prominence in the 1900s, and were extremely rare.
Therefore this is cultural appropriation.
And Enola herself was browner than she ought to be for the time and for what her ancestry would allow. She should have been lily white.
Not sure if you're joking, Millie is white and British as are both of her parents. She looked "lily white" to me in this, any "brownness" was probably a tan which worked for her character who wasn't brought up a proper lady and spent a lot of time outside.
shareMillie was born and lived in Spain until she was four. She is white but she always either has a pronounced tan in summer or a fading tan in winter. My point was that getting a tan wasn't a thing for English girls back in Victorian times.
That's dumb. If I was born in Spain and lived there until I was 4, I'm more prone to get tans and be tan for the rest of my life? Neither of her parents are Spanish, they're all white regardless of where they lived briefly.
Also, as I said, Enola isn't a typical Victorian English girl. They show her spending a significant amount of time outside growing up. So the "tan" she barely has still works for her character.