How would Cleopatra, Mary Magdalene, Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo, Julia Gillard, Billie Jean King, and Malala Yousafzai sound if we heard them sing their thoughts?
Well-Behaved Women, by Carmel Dean is a musical feast where legendary women are brought to life through powerful and often hilarious songs, that celebrate the ways in which their behaviour helped them make history.
After all, as Pulitzer-Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said, ‘Well-behaved women seldom make history’.