- Publisher: HQ
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 472pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9780008423148
- Product code: 538785
Roaring Girls
The Extraordinary Lives of History's Unsung Heroines
Holly Kyte New Paperback Illustrated
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‘Gentleman Jack’ with her extensive diaries recording a remarkable life; ‘Moll Cutpurse’ whose public penitence verged on pantomime; Charlotte Charke, ‘actress, cross-dresser, vagabond’ – this volume profiles eight trailblazers who challenged what it meant to be a woman in pre-20th-century Britain.
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'Extraordinary' Woman&Home
A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'.
Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules.
Roaring Girls tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and radical unconventionality saw them defy the odds to forge their own paths.
From the notorious cross-dressing thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to rebel slave Mary Prince and adventurer, industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these diverse characters redefined what a woman could be and what she could do in pre-twentieth-century Britain.
Bold, inspiring and powerfully written, Roaring Girls tells the electrifying histories of women who, despite every effort to suppress them, dared to be extraordinary.
A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'.
Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules.
Roaring Girls tells the game-changing life stories of eight formidable women whose grit, determination and radical unconventionality saw them defy the odds to forge their own paths.
From the notorious cross-dressing thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to rebel slave Mary Prince and adventurer, industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these diverse characters redefined what a woman could be and what she could do in pre-twentieth-century Britain.
Bold, inspiring and powerfully written, Roaring Girls tells the electrifying histories of women who, despite every effort to suppress them, dared to be extraordinary.
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‘Gentleman Jack’ with her extensive diaries recording a remarkable life; ‘Moll Cutpurse’ whose public penitence verged on pantomime; Charlotte Charke, ‘actress, cross-dresser, vagabond’ – this volume profiles eight trailblazers who challenged what it meant to be a woman in pre-20th-century Britain.
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