Normal women : 900 years of making history / Philippa Gregory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregory, Philippa, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--History.

Women.

Women--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain--History--1485-.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--1066-1687.

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain--Social conditions.

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

678 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First HarperOne hardcover [edition].

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024.

Summary:

"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women"-- Provided by publisher.

"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 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 groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women--some fifty per cent of the population--center 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 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. A lot. A landmark work of scholarship and storytelling, Normal Women chronicles centuries of social and cultural change--from 1066 to modern times--powered by the determination, persistence, and effectiveness of women" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1066-1348: Doomsday

1348-1455: Women rising

1455-1485: Women at war

1485-1660: Becoming a weaker vessel

1660-1764: Locked out and locked in

1765-1857: Making a lady

1857-1928: Separate spheres

1928-1945: Into the world

1945-1994: A woman today.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-632, 641-649) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Gregory, Philippa. Normal women

ISBN:

9780063304321

0063304325

OCLC:

1411815034