Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History - Philippa Gregory
Category: History
Tags: History, Misc. Non-fiction, Teen & Young Adult
Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants 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 theyd evolve to become ever more inferior?, These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from listening to Philippa Gregorys Normal Women. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing womensome fifty per cent of the populationcenter 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 normal women you will meet in this book went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They
