Normal Women: The Sunday Times Bestseller – 900 Years of Women Making History - Couverture souple

Gregory, Philippa

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ISBN 10 : 0008601712 ISBN 13 : 9780008601713

Editeur : William Collins, 2023

Synopsis

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘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

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE’S WORK

• Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?
• That the Peasant’s 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 they’d evolve to become ever more inferior?

These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory’s 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 themselves. They are there in the archives – if you look – and they made our history.

‘You’ll lose count of the number of things you learn about women and their skewed place in history as you read Philippa Gregory’s stunning Normal Women … the book reframes the past … an essential read’ INDEPENDENT, FIVE-STAR REVIEW

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Philippa Gregory is a historian and novelist renowned for combining rich research with powerful storytelling. Through her writing, she reveals the women history tried to forget – and whose stories are more relevant today than ever. Her novels have sold millions of copies worldwide and been adapted for stage, television and film.

In 2023 she published her critically acclaimed non-fiction book Normal Women, a new social history of women in England for 900 years. It has also been adapted as a podcast, teen edition and children's edition.

In 2021 Philippa Gregory was awarded a CBE for services to literature and charity.

www.philippagregory.com

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER?'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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Collins
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0008601712
• ISBN 13: 9780008601713
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 688
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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