Let’s talk about women’s lives in the medieval era, did you know that they wrote books under their own names? They had a sense of humour? Let’s talk of those women who lived lives on their own terms…

We’re sitting down with Hetta Howes, who has recently published her first book with Bloomsbury, called Poet Mystic Widow Wife. Welcome, Hetta!

Get Poet Mystic Widow Wife:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/poet-mystic-widow-wife-9781399408738/ (UK)

https://www.waterstones.com/book/poet-mystic-widow-wife/hetta-howes/9781399408738 (UK)

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/poet-mystic-widow-wife/hardcover (USA)

Find Hetta:

https://x.com/HettaHowes

https://www.city.ac.uk/about/people/academics/hetta-howes

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/articles/interviews/although-they-were-living-hundreds-of-years-ago-these-women-were-in-many-ways-just-like-us/

If you would like to join Natalie on her Royal London Walking Tour, please see:

https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011/

For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/

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