{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65201f827bacb400113a13b0/6572ed98af7508001262be71?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"8. Normal women...are married, divorced and single","description":"<p>The marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert set the template for how we imagine a wedding should be but it wasn’t always about big white frocks. Philippa Gregory explores how married women became the property of their husbands - along with everything they owned and produced. She considers the hidden history of wife sales and female husbands and shines a light on the difficulty women had accessing divorce.</p><p><br></p><p>Joining Philippa to consider the institutions of marriage, divorce and single life through time are:</p><ul><li>Laura Bates, writer, activist and founder of the Everyday Sexism project</li><li>Rachael Lennon, writer, social history curator and author of <em>Wedded Wife: A Feminist History of Marriage</em></li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/normal-women-900-years-of-making-history-philippa-gregory-1?variant=40255372230734\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History</a> is Philippa Gregory's radical retelling of our nation’s story – not of the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen, but a history of the millions of women missing from the record: wives and workers, viragoes and angels, female husbands, priests and pirates.</p><p><br></p><p>Music: When Adam Was First Created - performed by Andy Turner.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Philippa Gregory"}