Roaring Girls

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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...