Philippa Gregory: Normal Women, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Normal Women
- 900 Years of Making History
- Verlag:
- Harper Collins Publ. UK, 10/2023
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780008601713
- Artikelnummer:
- 11104828
- Umfang:
- 678 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 270 g
- Maße:
- 234 x 153 mm
- Stärke:
- 42 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 26.10.2023
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Weitere Ausgaben von Normal Women |
Preis |
|---|---|
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 20,21* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 11,17* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 14,89* |
Klappentext
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
Biografie
Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period.§Her other great interest is the charity that she founded nearly twenty years ago: Gardens for The Gambia. She has raised funds and paid for 140 wells for the primary schools of this poor African country. A former student of Sussex university, and a PhD and Alumna of the Year 2009 of Edinburgh University, her love for history and commitment to historical accuracy are the hallmarks of her writing. She lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire.
