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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.
ISBN: | 9780008423148 |
Publication date: | 3rd March 2022 |
Author: | Holly Kyte |
Publisher: | HQ an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 464 pages |
Genres: |
True stories of heroism, endurance and survival Feminism and feminist theory LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Biography: historical, political and military Biography: adventurers and explorers Social and cultural history Political activism / Political engagement History of other geographical groupings and regions |