Normal women : 900 years of making history
(2024, original release: 2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
942.0099/GREGORY,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2024
©2023
©2023
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
678 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063304321, 0063304325 :, 0063304325, 9780063304338, 0063304333, 9780008601713, 0008601712, 9780063304321
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction -- 1066-1348: Doomsday -- 1348-1455: Women rising -- 1455-1485: Women at war -- 1485-1660: Becoming a weaker vessel -- 1660-1764: Locked out and locked in -- 1765-1857: Making a lady -- 1857-1928: Separate spheres -- 1928-1945: Into the world -- 1945-1994: A woman today
"A history of England from the Norman Conquest through the twentieth century, told through the stories of ordinary women"--