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Publisher: HarperOne
Author: Philippa Gregory
ISBN: 9780063304321
Non Fiction, Historical
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
by
Philippa Gregory
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History by
Philippa Gregory
Reviews
"You’ve devoured her novels, but now Gregory shows off chops as a historian... An amazing read."
The Los Angeles Times
Summary
The #1 New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus—a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history.
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 “normal women” 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.