Normal Women Synopsis
The bestselling, critically acclaimed women's 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 women's history than bonnets and big dresses! Ordinary women have been doing extraordinary things FOR EVER - it just didn't 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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780008622985 |
| Publication date: |
27th February 2025 |
| Author: |
Philippa Gregory |
| Publisher: |
Red Shed an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
288 pages |
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Philippa Gregory Press Reviews
Praise for Normal Women (adult edition):
'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
'You'll 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
About Philippa Gregory
Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the international bestseller The Other Boleyn Girl, which became a major film starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson. Several books later, she is looking at the family that precedes The Tudors in the The Cousins' War series, which was televised by the BBC as The White Queen.
Philippa's other great interest is the charity that she founded nearly twenty years ago: Gardens for The Gambia. She has raised funds and paid for several hundred wells for the primary schools of this poor African country. A former student of Sussex University, and a PhD and Alumna of the Year at Edinburgh University, her love of history is the hallmark of her writing. She lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire.
Author photo copyright: Johnny Ring.
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