Published in 2019
14 hours and 2 minutes
Holly Kyte is an author of women’s social history, specialising in the forgotten stories and neglected aspects of women’s lives – particularly those who flouted the social conventions of their day. She also works as an editor and journalist, and has been a literary critic for the Sunday Telegraph and the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book, Roaring Girls: The Forgotten Feminists of British History, was published in 2019.
What is this book about?
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.
