Normal Women
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on Normal Women by Phillipa Gregory
In
Normal Women,
Gregory draws on an enormous archive of primary and secondary sources
to rewrite British history, focusing on the agency, persistence, and
effectiveness of everyday women throughout periods of social and
cultural transition. She sweeps from the making of the Bayeux
tapestry in the eleventh century to the Black Death in 1348—after
which women were briefly paid the same wages as men, the last time
for seven centuries—to the 1992 ordination of women by the Church
of England, when the church accepted, for the first time, that a
woman could perform the miracle of the mass.
Through
the stories of the female soldiers of the civil war, the guild widows
who founded the prosperity of the City of London, highway women and
pirates, miners, ship owners, international traders, the women who
ran London theatres and commissioned plays from Shakespeare, and the
"female husbands" who married each other legally in church
and lived as husband and wife, Gregory redefines "normal"
female behaviour to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason,
money-making, and sainthood. As she makes clear, normal women make
history.
Normal Women Goodreads page
Normal women was published on October 26th 2023 and I received the book as a Christmas present. I've read most of the book and I do appreciate reading about the history of normal, everyday people, and as such I give it a 9/10.
Author Phillipa Gregory was born on January 9th 1954 in Nairobi, Kenya the second daughter of Elaine and Arthur Gregory. The family moved to Bristol, England when Gregory was two years old. Gregory obtained her education up to A-0levels at Colston's Girl's school where she was considered a “Rebel”, Gregory went onto journalism college in Cardiff before spending a year as an apprentice at the Portsmouth newspaper and gaining a place at the University of Sussex in an English literature degree (this was changed to a history degree later on). Gregory worked with BBC radio for two years before heading to the University of Edinburgh to earn a doctorate in 18th century literature. During this time Gregory wrote her first novel Wideacre (published in 1987). Gregory has taught at both the university of Durham and the University of Teesside as well as the open university and in 1994 was made a fellow of Kingston University whilst writing several popular novels as well as children's books on the side, she also has a pen name, that of Kate Wedd.
Phillipa Gregory has been married three times (twice divorced), she has two children of her own and four stepchildren and currently lives in North Yorkshire, England. Gregory also has her own website the link is in the bibliography down below.
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