Roaring Girls

Name: Roaring Girls
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Holly Kyte
ISBN: 9780008271701

Author: Holly Kyte

Narrator: Helen Keeley

Unabridged: 14 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HQ

Published: 11/28/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Women, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Religion, Sexuality & Gender Studies

Synopsis

‘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 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jo on September 21, 2022

Eight women who did not subscribe to society's expectations, who fought to be heard or just set out to live their lives as they pleased. I was familiar with most of the women's stories but there were a couple I'd not come across before. A well-written and engaging read.......more

Goodreads review by Marguerite on September 26, 2023

4.5 Stars A roaring girl is 'a noisy, bawdy or riotous woman or girl, especially one who takes a masculine role' and that is what all of the Roaring Girls in this brilliant book do. They refuse to be put in a box, they refuse to conform, they live their lives their own way, and in every case that me......more

Goodreads review by Alannah on November 17, 2019

Thank you to netgalley.co.uk for giving me a free copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review. I don't know what I was expecting when I requested to read this book through NetGalley, but I am glad I did. This book taught me about amazing women i didn't know about. I hope this is a book......more

Goodreads review by Missymo on January 26, 2020

I was very much looking forward to this book as it is right up my street. Historical, biographical, informative. But alas I was very disappointed. Firstly I don’t think it downloaded correctly to my Kindle and a lot of content repeated itself, making reading difficult. Also there was far too much in......more

Goodreads review by Siobhan on November 21, 2019

Roaring Girls is an account of the lives of different 'forgotten' women who made an impact on British history. They are figures who lived from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, some more likely to be known or heard of than others, and they all defied rules or conventions in various ways. St......more

Quotes

'An extraordinary, vivacious account of eight remarkable invisible women whose stories were crying out to be heard.’ ‘Extraordinary’ ‘Brilliant…Gung-ho girl power’ ‘Terrific!’ ‘Joyful, energetic, meticulously researched’ ‘A really fascinating book that delves deep and proves that history is populated by unconventional women who’s stories often go untold.’ ‘Pulls back the curtain on women’s history to tell eight extraordinary tales of courage and determination over 300 years’. ‘A bold and thought-provoking read’ ‘Roaring Girls is a slice of inspiration from pre-20th century Britain’