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Philippa Gregory

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

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Philippa Gregory's "Normal Women" is a ground-breaking book that tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the first time, women are not invisible in this history of England. She uses research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists to find highway women, beggars and shepherdesses, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. They went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They built our society to be as diverse and varied as the women themselves.

Format: Hardback
Length: 688 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers


THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Normal Women

A lasting work of social history

THE TIMES

A genuinely new history of our nation

DAN JONES

This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history

SPECTATOR

Philippa Gregory uses all her bestseller skills to weave a narrative with pace

ANTONIA FRASER

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFES WORK

Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?

That the Peasants Revolt was started and propelled by women,protesting a tax on women?

Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that theyd evolve to become ever more inferior?

These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregorys

Normal Women

In this ambitious and ground-breaking book,she tells the story of our nation over 900 years,but for the very first time women – some fifty per cent of the population – are no longer invisible in this history of England,but are at its beating heart.

Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists,Gregory trawled through court records to find highway women,beggars and shepherdesses,through newspapers and diaries to find murderers and brides,housewives and pirates,female husbands and hermits.

The ‘normal women you will meet in her pages went to war,ploughed the fields,campaigned,wrote,and loved.

They rode in jousts,flew Spitfires,issued their own currency and built ships,corn mills and houses as part of their everyday lives

They committed crimes,or treason,worshipped many gods,cooked and nursed,invented things and rioted.

A lot.

They built our society to be as diverse and varied as the women themse.

Weight: 1056g
Dimension: 241 x 161 x 47 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008601706

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