Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History -- Philippa Gregory

<p><strong>"Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart." --Dan Jones, <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>The Plantagenets</em></strong></p><p><strong>"Stunning. . . . Full of surprises. . . . A brilliant, essential read." --<em>The Independent</em> (UK)</strong></p><p> <strong>The #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling historical novelist delivers her magnum opus--a landmark work of feminist nonfiction that radically redefines our understanding of the extraordinary roles ordinary women played throughout British history and "should be included in every history lesson" (<em>Glamour </em>UK)</strong></p><p>Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior?</p><p>These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's <em>Normal Women</em>. In this ambitious and groundbreaking book, she tells the story of England over 900 years, for the very first time placing women--some fifty per cent of the