Normal Women: Making history for 900 years

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The bestselling, critically acclaimed womens 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 womens history than bonnets and big dresses! Ordinary women have been doing extraordinary things FOR EVER it just didnt 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.

PRAISE FOR NORMAL WOMEN (adult edition):

A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

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

Youll 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, FIVE-STAR REVIEW

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DR PHILIPPA GREGORY studied history at the University of Sussex and was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009. She holds an honorary degree from Teesside University, and is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff. Philippa is a member of the Society of Authors and in 2016, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers' Association. In 2018, she was awarded an Honorary Platinum Award by Neilsen for achieving significant lifetime sales across her entire book output. In 2021, she was awarded a CBE for services to literature and to her charity Gardens for the Gambia, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.