Helen Carr

Ordinary women make just as thrilling history as great men

Philippa Gregory investigates the lives of English women over 900 years – in sickness, health, business, war, prayer and prostitution

An English prostitute, 1780. [Getty Images]
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  • Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

    Philippa Gregory

    William Collins, pp. 688, £25

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