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Philippa Gregory brings women’s greatness to the fore in her new book | Books | Entertainment
[ad_1] It was 1629 and England’s poor were suffering. Failed harvests, rocketing food prices and a slump in the cloth industry had brought families to the brink of starvation as merchants exported scarce grain abroad for greater profit. Hungry and incensed, scores of rioters stormed a ship docked in Maldon, Essex, to prevent rye from…