Normal Women: Making history for 900 years

DESCRIPTION :

The bestselling, critically acclaimed womens history from blockbuster author Philippa Gregory adapted for teen readers!

Today, when we think of women of the past, we often think of the 1800s and 1900s crinolines and stage coaches, bonnets and balls a time when women were told they were naturally inferior to men, and must stay at home while men went out to work and have fun.

HUGE MISTAKE! There is so much more to womens history than bonnets and big dresses! Ordinary women have been doing extraordinary things FOR EVER it just didnt make the history books (written by men!).

Join multi-award-winning author Philippa Gregory as she tells the story of ordinary English women, making history for 900 years. Meet farmers, highwaywomen, pirates, female husbands, slaves, soldiers, criminals, writers, inventors, rioters and more protesting, working, playing, taking risks, getting rich (and getting even!). Their story is one of ingenuity, diversity, rebellion, survival and sisterhood.

Illustrated throughout by award-winning printmaker Alexis Snell.

PRAISE FOR NORMAL WOMEN (teen edition):

Impressively researched, by turns inspiring and chilling brilliantly told Cressida Cowell

This book is redemption for unsung female heroes. Prepare to feel aghast, proud and inspired Geri Halliwell

Uplifting and empowering Edwina Dunn, The Female Lead

PRAISE FOR NORMAL WOMEN (main edition):

A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

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

‘Philippa Gregory uses all her bestseller skills to weave a narrative with pace’ ANTONIA FRASER

Youll lose count of the number of things you learn about women and their skewed place in history the book reframes the past an essential read INDEPENDENT, FIVE-STAR REVIEW

PRODUCT DETAILS :

DIMENSION : 221 mm x 153 mm
WEIGHT : 300 g

PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Childrens, Teenage & Educational