Roaring Girls: The forgotten feminists of British history

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A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, masculine when she should be feminine.

Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules.
Roaring Girls tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and radical unconventionality saw them defy the odds to forge their own paths.

From the notorious cross-dressing thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to rebel slave Mary Prince and adventurer, industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these diverse characters redefined what a woman could be and what she could do in pre-twentieth-century Britain.

Bold, inspiring and powerfully written, Roaring Girls tells the electrifying histories of women who, despite every effort to suppress them, dared to be extraordinary.

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'An extraordinary, vivacious account of eight remarkable invisible women whose stories were crying out to be heard. Paula Byrne

Extraordinary Woman&Home

BrilliantGung-ho girl power Simple Things magazine

Terrific! Diane Atkinson

Joyful, energetic, meticulously researched Professor Vivien Gardner, University of Manchester

A really fascinating book that delves deep and proves that history is populated by unconventional women whos stories often go untold. RED Online

Pulls back the curtain on womens history to tell eight extraordinary tales of courage and determination over 300 years. S magazine

A bold and thought-provoking read CANDIS

Roaring Girls is a slice of inspiration from pre-20th century Britain Tatler

Author Bio

Holly Kyte read Classics and English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and has since worked in publishing and journalism as an editor and literary critic. She has written for numerous newspapers, magazines and websites, including the Times Literary Supplement and the Sunday Telegraph, and after many years in London, now lives by the sea in Margate. Roaring Girls is her first book.