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Normal Women
Nine Hundred Years of Making History
Author: Philippa Gregory
Narrator: Philippa Gregory, Clare Corbett, Tania Rodrigues, Nneka Okoye, James Goode, Joe Jameson
Unabridged: 27 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/27/2024
Category: History - Women
Synopsis
âLively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britainâs past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart.â âDan Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The PlantagenetsâStunning. . . . Full of surprises. . . . A brilliant, essential read.â âThe Independent (UK) The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opusâa landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history and âshould be included in every history lessonâ (Glamour UK)Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasantsâ Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that theyâd evolve to become ever more inferior?These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregoryâs Normal Women. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing womenâsome fifty per cent of the populationâcenter stage.Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records, newspapers, and journals to find highwaywomen and beggars, murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The ânormal womenâ you will meet in these 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. They committed crimes or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things, and rioted. A lot.A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural changeâfrom 1066 to modern timesâpowered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women.