Normal women
CD Audiobook |
Unabridged. |
Harpercollins Publishers,
[United States] :
2024.
- 1 of 1 Copy Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimsby | AUDIO 942.009 GRE 22 DISCS | Audiobooks - Non-fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
Philippa 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, highwaywomen and pirates, miners, ship owners, international traders, the women who ran London theaters 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 behavior to include heroism, rebellion, crime, treason, money-making, and sainthood. As she makes clear, normal women make history.
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Details
- ISBN: 9780063304369 :
- Physical Description: 22 sound discs (1635 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.sound discsound recording
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Harpercollins Publishers, 2024.
- General Note: 02/27/2024Compact disc.
- Participant or Performer Note: Read by Philippa Gregory, Clare Corbett, Tania Rodrigues, Nneka Okoye, James Goode, Joe Jameson.