Normal Women
900 Years of Making History
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Philippa Gregory
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
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the statistics were great
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A staggering achievement!
This history book shows us the amazing ‘ordinary lives’ and achievements of woman for 900 years.
Much of it is quite hard to hear/read especially as men start in the 17th century, “the enlightenment” to crush & belittle woman.
They weren’t crushed, while it took 300 plus years to gain back ground & it continues today, this books shows loud & clear what everyone actually knows, is that woman have always been and are remarkable in the very normality of their place in the world.
If only men hadn’t been fearful of woman, if only men & woman had always been equal parts of humanity, each with a part to play in the world .. but now I’m entering the realms of fiction!!
Long time coming .. finally, a full history about the female population!
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The deliberate subjugation of women
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Everyone should read this
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The narration can be hard going but this is mostly a reading of record not storytelling. The quotes are often read with a patronising tone which while often justified I found it off-putting and would've preferred that the words speak for themselves.
The afterward provides a neat summary.
So women did exist in our history!
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