FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES
THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE’S WORK. Normal Women is a radical
reframing of our nation’s story, told not with the rise and fall
of kings and the occasional queen, but through social and cultural
transition, showing the agency, persistence, and effectiveness of
women in society – from 1066 to modern times. Did women do
nothing to shape our country’s culture and traditions during nine
centuries of political turmoil, plague, famine, prosperity,
religious reform? Philippa Gregory answers this question by telling
stories of the soldiers, guild widows, highwaywomen, pirates,
miners and ship owners, international traders, theatre runners,
social campaigners and ‘female husbands’ who did much to build
the fabric of our society and in ways as diverse and varied as the
women themselves. This is not another book about heroines. Instead,
it is a book about millions of women, not just three or four. The
‘normal women’ you meet in these pages rode in jousts, flew
Spitfires, issued their own currency and built ships, corn mills
and houses as part of their daily lives. They went to war, tilled
the fields, campaigned, wrote and loved. They committed crimes, or
treason, worshipped many types of gods, cooked and nursed, invented
things and rioted. A lot. A landmark work of scholarship and
storytelling, this is a history not a call to action. It looks back
at facts and the past lives of some 50% of the population without
the judgmental eyes of the present. It cannot be a celebratory
account about women’s ‘rise’ because women are not equal yet.
But by highlighting the drive, ingenuity and vast contribution
made, it puts women back where they belong in our history –
centre stage.
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